How to Make Self Rising Flour

There’s something so satisfying about making homemade pantry ingredients. Self-rising flour is called for in so many baking recipes and if you don’t have any on hand, you can easily and quickly make some with this recipe and simple ingredients you most likely already have.

How to Make Flour into Self Rising Flour

Your recipe calls for self-rising flour and there’s none to be found in your pantry. What to do? Instead of running to the grocery store, use this easy recipe with common ingredients to make this self-rising flour substitute. It’s as easy as 1-2-3!

What is self-rising flour?

Store-bought self-rising flour is a combination of plain white flour, baking powder, and salt – it’s a 3-in-1 ingredient. It’s often used in recipes without an added leavening agent such as baking powder or baking soda and reduces the number of extra ingredients that you need to include. 

What type of flour can I use to make homemade self-rising flour?

The most common flour to use in making your own self-raising flour is all-purpose flour or plain flour. You can use pastry flour (which has a lower protein content than other flour) wheat flour, or bread flour. If you want a gluten-free option, try almond flour or rice flour.

Ingredients for Self-Rising Flour Recipe

For complete ingredients and instructions scroll to the bottom of this post for the full printable recipe card. 

• All-purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt

Instructions for How to Make a Self-Rising Flour

Gather your ingredients.

In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

Use in any recipe that calls for self-rising flour. Scroll down for some delicious recipes to try!

Love it? Pin it!

If you love this recipe for Self-Rising Flour make sure that you don’t lose it! Pin it to your favorite Pinterest recipe board before you go!

“How To” by An Affair From the Heart

If you love this how-to post, make sure that you check out the whole collection! I have an entire “How To” Section on my website where you will learn all sorts of things.

I have all sorts of seasoning recipes like making your own chili seasoning, pumpkin pie spice, apple pie spice, and homemade taco seasoning. But I also have things like how to blind bake a pie crust, how to freeze ripe bananas, how to make your own Bisquick, and how to make a buttermilk substitute/

Check out all of my How To’s Here.

Substitutions

All-purpose flour is the flour of choice, but you can use other types of flour such as wheat flour, bread flour, cake flour, or a gluten-free option. You can also experiment with different types of salt such as sea salt or pink salt.

Tips & Tricks

• Use a flour sifter to thoroughly mix ingredients.
• If you anticipate that you will need more than 1 cup of flour you can make a bigger batch. Be sure to store it in a cool, dark place in an airtight container and use it within six months as the baking powder can lose its potency.

More Recipes to Love

Now that you have made self-rising flour, here are some wonderful recipes to use it in! Self-rising flour works great in these cheesy drop biscuits, apple dapple cake, homemade moon pies, sweet potato coffee cake, and this southern chicken and dumplings casserole, too!