Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (2024)

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Here is our easy self-rising flour recipe. Some recipes call for self-rising flour, but there’s no reason to go out and buy it pre-made. It’s super easy to make your own self-rising flour in just a few minutes using regular all-purpose flour and a few other ingredients! Here’s the easy recipe!

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Most people don’t think to make your own self-rising flour, but it is easier and cheaper than buying it pre-made at the store. Self-rising flour can be used to make a lot of different recipes, but if you keep a lot more on hand than you use, the baking ingredients can get old and it can lose its potency.

If you make your own self-rising flour, you can save money and also only make the amount you expect to use. This easy self-rising flour recipe uses simple ingredients you already have at home!

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Here is our easy self-rising flour recipe. Some recipes call for self rising flour, but there’s no reason to go out and buy it pre-made. It’s super easy to make your own self rising flour in just a few minutes using regular all-purpose flour and a few other ingredients! Here’s the easy recipe!

  • Author: Tawra Kellam
  • Yield: 4 cups

Ingredients

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4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. baking powder

Instructions

  1. Mix the ingredients well.
  2. Store in an airtight container.
  3. Use in recipes calling for self-rising flour.

Notes

You just adjust the self-rising flour recipe to make more or less for the amount you need. For example, if you just need one cup of self rising flour, just mix:

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

Here are some of our recipes that use self rising flour:

  • 2 Ingredient Pizza Dough
  • 2 Ingredient Biscuits
  • Read about the difference between self rising flour, cake flour and all purpose flour.

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  1. Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (7)Anne M

    Could you use gluten free flour for this recipe?

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    • Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (8)Jill

      For each cup of flour add 1 1/2 tsp. of baking powder and 1/4 tsp. salt. As I usually tell people with most gluten free recipes they will not be exactly the same as using regular flour. Sometimes close but not the same.

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  2. Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (9)Donna

    How important is salt to self rising flour? Could the amount of salt be cut down, and if so by how much, or could the salt be eliminated entirely?

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    • Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (10)Jill

      You can cut it down but remember if the recipe that you use it in calls for 1 tsp. salt if you use the self raising flour you don’t need to add the salt. I know seeing 2 tsp. of salt in this recipe seems like a lot but remember many recipes call for 2 cups flour usually which means you are only using 1 tsp. in the recipe. Sometimes people see a recipe with a lot of salt or sugar and say that is way to much and bad for me but if you divide these things down into servings the amount you are getting will often be 1/8 to a pinch of salt or 1 tsp. of sugar. For example if you make muffins with 2 cups of flour and the recipe makes 12 you divide that 2 tsp of salt by 12 and as you can imagine each serving will have a very small amount.
      You can eliminate it but if you take the salt out of most recipes they will loose their flavor and often taste nasty.

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Homemade Self-Rising Flour Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How to make your own self-rising flour? ›

Just use this basic formula: For every 1 cup of all-purpose flour, add 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon fine salt. Whisk the ingredients thoroughly in a large bowl or put them in a glass jar and shake well. Store your self-rising flour in an airtight container in the pantry.

How do you make 2 cups of plain flour into self-raising flour? ›

You can use this method to make the exact amount of homemade self-rising flour that you need for a specific recipe. For example, if a recipe calls for 2 cups of self-rising flour, you would mix together 2 cups of all-purpose flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, and ½ teaspoon salt.

What can I use if I don't have enough self-raising flour? ›

“It is fairly easy to make your own self-raising flour. Just add 2 teaspoons of baking powder for each 150g/6oz/1 cup plain flour.

What is the ratio for self-raising flour? ›

Self-raising flour has a specific ratio of flour to baking powder. To replicate self-raising flour the proportion is approximately 1 tsp baking powder: 150gm (1 cup) of plain flour. However, many recipes require a different proportion of baking powder to flour in order to achieve the desired leavening.

What are the ingredients in self-raising flour? ›

Self-rising flour is flour with the baking powder and a bit of salt already added. It's a staple in many Southern recipes; it's traditionally made from a softer, lower protein version of all-purpose flour, which is what grows there.

How to make self-raising flour with plain flour and baking soda? ›

To create self-raising flour from plain flour - for 150g/1 cup plain flour use half-teaspoon baking powder and half-teaspoon of bicarbonate soda (also known as baking soda).

How much baking soda and baking powder per cup of flour? ›

A good rule of thumb, according to Corriher, is that 1 cup of flour can be leavened by ¼ teaspoon baking soda or 1 to 1¼ teaspoons of baking powder. Corriher says you can neutralize 1 cup mildly acidic ingredient (sour cream, buttermilk) with ½ teaspoon of soda.

How much baking powder for 2 cups of all-purpose flour? ›

General Guideline

As a general rule of thumb, you'll want to use about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder per cup of all-purpose flour.

Does self-raising flour need yeast? ›

This raising agent helps dough to rise without having to add yeast. You should only use self-rising flour as a substitute for other types of flour very carefully, due to the leavening effect. If you aren't careful, you may not end up with the desired result.

What can I add if I dont have enough flour? ›

11 best flour substitutions
  1. Chickpea flour. Often confused with besan (see below), chickpea flour is made from ground white chickpeas. ...
  2. Almond flour. Almond flour is an excellent alternative to have in your kitchen cupboard. ...
  3. Gluten-free flour mixture. ...
  4. Coconut flour. ...
  5. Gram flour (besan) ...
  6. Rice flour. ...
  7. Buckwheat flour. ...
  8. Oat flour.
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What happens if you use all-purpose flour instead of self rising? ›

If a recipe calls for self-raising flour it is doing so because it is relying on the raising agents in that flour to make the baked good 'rise'. If you use plain flour instead and don't add any raising agents you will most likely end up with a very flat, dense bake!

What happens if you add baking powder to self-raising flour? ›

It's important to note that you shouldn't add baking powder to self-raising flour since self-raising flour already contains baking powder.

How to make self-rising flour from all-purpose? ›

To turn all-purpose flour into self-rising flour you just need to add baking powder and regular old fine table salt. You'll need 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of salt for each cup of flour.

Is Bisquick self-rising flour? ›

A: Bisquick is a premixed baking product. It contains leavening (baking powder) and salt as same self rising flour does but also contains shortening.

What makes self-raising flour rise? ›

The leavening power of the baking powder is mixed evenly throughout the flour, so you will automatically get that nice rise out of your baked goods every time you use self rising flour.

Why not use self-raising flour? ›

Self raising flour should only be used for its specific purpose. The leavening agents in self raising flour are only right in specific recipes with specific ingredients combinations. Baking is all about the interactions of the ingredients, so substituting the wrong type of flour can be catastrophic to the final result.

How much baking soda for 1 cup of flour? ›

A good rule of thumb, according to Corriher, is that 1 cup of flour can be leavened by ¼ teaspoon baking soda or 1 to 1¼ teaspoons of baking powder. Corriher says you can neutralize 1 cup mildly acidic ingredient (sour cream, buttermilk) with ½ teaspoon of soda.

Is baking flour the same as self-rising flour? ›

Once again, self-rising flour is not the same thing as all-purpose flour nor is it the same thing as cake flour, bread flour, or pastry flour. Self-rising flour is almost exactly like all-purpose flour, but it has added salt and leavening mixed into it.

Is self-rising flour worth it? ›

Anyone who bakes with self-rising flour regularly knows that it can be the secret to softer, more tender baked goods. It's also a brilliant baking shortcut, cutting out steps and streamlining your recipes.

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