What is the best flour to use for cookies?

Answer 1

My preference is organic whole wheat pastry flour. Some people prefer white flour. It will give you a lighter cake, with less character. If you want to use white flour, you can use cake flour, if you check and make sure there are not any weird ingredients in it.

Do not use whole wheat gluten flour or baking flour. You want pastry flour, which comes from white wheat berries. Baking flour comes from red wheat berries, which have a higher gluten content, good for making bread, but is too grainy and gritty for cakes.

Some people do a mixture of whole wheat pastry flour and white flour. If you can use organic, that is better, because the chemicals that are used on wheat are pretty bad - it's cheaper than cleaning up the storage facilities, and if they don't put the deadly chemicals in the wheat silos, there are too many insects. So it's better to buy organic, because they have to keep the bugs out by having better storage facilities, rather than by poisoning the food.

Answer 2

If your only going for taste then plain all-purpose flour will be great.

If you want to make a healthy alternative you could do half whole-wheat and half all-purpose flour. Or you could always do Full wheat, my mom grinds her own wheat and it's not hard and actually doesn't taste half bad, but if your doing that grind your wheat into very fine powder.

Have fun baking!

Answer 3

Buy a high quality flour, like King Arthur, Gold Medal or Pillsbury. But as to type of Flour it really depends on what you are baking.

High-protein flours (bread flour, semolina) are recommended for breads, pasta and other baked goods that require a lot of structural support.

Lower-protein flours, (cake flour, pastry flour) on the other hand, are recommended for soft-textured baked goods, like biscuits or cakes.

Most recipes will call for all-purpose flour. The protein of all-purpose flours are lower than bread flour, making it acceptable for most cookies and brownies.

This is assuming you want a white flour, as opposed to a whole-wheat flour -- wheat flour made from the whole grain kernel (bran, germ, and endosperm.)

Plus there are flours made from other vegetable products, such as almond flour, rice flour and rye flour. If your recipe calls for one of these flours, you shouldn't substitute, as each flour has specific properties.

Answer 4

For buttermilk biscuits it is best to use self rising flour because of the dairy products that are used in them. For regular, cheddar or specialty biscuits general all purpose flour works the best. Wheat flour can be used for diabetics but the dough can become hard to work with if it is over mixed.

Answer 5

All purpose flour is the best to make sugar cookies

Answer 6

The type of flour best for cookies, sort of depends on what type of cookie you'll be making, but generally, using either pastry flour or all-purpose is your best bet.

Answer 7

All Puropse Flour is best for cookies

Answer 8

cane sugar