401 cake flour purpose flour recipes

Half-whole-wheat apple nut cookies with diced fresh apples, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. Cake-like, soft-textured drop cookies that taste like apple pie filling baked into a cookie. Makes 48.

Devil's food refers to a dark, dense, chocolate concoction that is usually baked. It is so named because since it is so rich and delicious it must be "sinful." Devil's food usually has a greater proportion of chocolate than regular chocolate cake. This recipe comes from Lynne , a chef who owns the Victoria House Bed & Breakfast in Spring Lake, NJ. For a gourmet B&B check them out at .net.

A lightly spiced breakfast cake made with applesauce and bran for natural moisture, studded with raisins and nuts for texture.

Cheddar squares made from a savory biscuit dough with sharp cheddar, chopped onion, and pimento, baked in a pan and cut into warm, flaky squares. A quick cheese bread side.

Cheddar fan biscuits made from layered biscuit dough stacked with sharp cheddar and butter, then baked in muffin tins. Flaky, pull-apart cheese rolls in 30 minutes.

Treat yourself every morning with these scrumptious bran muffins that will instantly satisfy your hunger!

Sweet-savory quick bread with chopped dates, shredded cheddar, and walnuts baked into a moist loaf. Slice it thin for tea time or toast it with butter. Even better the next day.

Red, white, and blue striped slice-and-bake cookies for the Fourth of July. Simple sugar cookie dough tinted with food coloring, stacked, chilled, and sliced into patriotic treats.

Chocolate cake made with pureed red beets and melted unsweetened chocolate. Incredibly moist, deepens in flavor overnight, and finished with a simple powdered sugar dusting.

Apricot drop cookies fold chopped dried apricots into a quick brown-sugar batter brightened with orange juice and zest. Soft, chewy drops with bursts of fruit in every bite.

Soft, cake-style pumpkin spice cookies built on egg whites and pumpkin puree with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves, baked tender for a lighter holiday cookie tin.

Bizcochos are traditional New Mexican holiday cookies creamed with lard, scented with orange zest, baked golden, then rolled in cinnamon sugar. The state cookie of New Mexico for Christmas and weddings.

Checkerboard clam crunch: crispy pan-fried clam patties bound with Rice Chex cereal and egg, topped with sour cream. A retro mid-century appetizer with surprising texture.

Andagi are Okinawan doughnut balls, crisp and golden outside with a dense, cake-like center. This deep-fried treat is a Hawaiian festival favorite made from a simple sweet batter dropped straight into hot oil.

Orange-almond biscotti, the crisp Italian twice-baked cookie scented with fresh orange zest and almond, studded with slivered almonds. Made for dunking in coffee, tea, or a glass of vin santo.

Honey chicken muffins are savory cornmeal-flour muffins packed with cooked chicken, buttermilk, applesauce, dry mustard, and a drizzle of honey. A protein-rich grab-and-go lunch or snack from the muffin tin.