Is boxed pancake mix usually made out of Allpurpose flour, or cake flour?
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Not really. If you mix up normal cake batter with the directions, and microwave it, it will cook. It doesn't taste like a baked cake, but its certainly edible.
Actually, specifically, you add Angel Food cake to other cake mixes. The reason is that angel food cake mix usually contains powdered egg whites. The other option is indeed powdered egg, but angel food cake mix is more common in these recipes.
Mainly its about expectations. Many things 'work' in the sense that they're edible, but they may not resemble the product you think they should.
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Most pancake recipes call for all purpopse flour. I assume boxed mixes do the same, or a mix of all purpose and cake flour for a lighter texture.
The difference between them is 'hard' and 'soft' flours. Hard flours (AP, Bread, semolina, etc.) have more gluten/protein in them, which contributes a chewier texture. Soft flours such as cake are a finer grind and give cakes a crumblier (word?) and lighter texture. If you used AP for an angel food cake, it would be dense and chewy, rather than light and airy.
AP is generally a mix of hard and soft flours, and can be used for many cakes, breads, and of course pancakes. Since pancakes tend to have a chewier texture than many baked goods, they probably use an AP-type flour.
Since pancakes are reletively cheap to make, experiment with it. Try bread, AP, cake, and varioius combinations. There is a recipe in Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything where you separate the eggs, whip the whites into a foam, and fold it into the batter before cooking. I imagine this would go well with cake flour.
Wheat Flour (wikipedia)