A Note on Cake Flour

The pastry dough recipes given here include a percentage of cake flour to decrease the overall gluten in the flour. Some brands of flour, such as Heckers and White Lily, are already low in gluten and can be used alone, without combining with cake flour. If you experiment with the brands available in your area, you’ll get to know which have more gluten by the amount of liquid your dough absorbs and by the texture of the dough after baking. Once you find the flour with the lowest gluten content, you may be able to dispense with the cake flour.