Any bakers on? Pastry flour v. regular...

sara1014

I'm making some breakfast cookies that sound really good...and hopefully my kids will eat them since they'll be perfectly portable for daycare breakfast.

They call for whole wheat flour.  I have whole wheat pastry flour on hand.

Will that work?  I'd hate to buy new stuff when what I have will be just fine! (Plus I need to use that pastry flour...I can't even remember why I bought it!)

 

Thanks! 

OrangeSmoke

Is it cake flour?  If it's cake flour, it's not the same as all purpose flour.  Cake flour is basically AP flour plus cornstarch.

Have fun baking!

sara1014

It doesn't say cake flour, just "pastry flour".  The recipe calls for regular.  

Hmm...I'd just try it if I had made the recipe before...but being the first time I don't like to get too creative!   

rakin1423

pastry flour will work just fine.  it actually works best for cookies, pie crust, pancakes, etc.  pastry flour and all purpose flour will usually give you the same results.  cake flour is the one you want to watch out for.

amanda31H

Pastry flour is great for cookies.  That's one of my "secret" ingredients for my chocolate chip cookie recipe.

The difference between pastry, all purpose, cake, bread flours (etc.) is the amount of proteins in them.