Better for cookies: Unbleached All-Purpose Flour

Flour is flour, right? Wrong! These days the thing most flours have in common is that they’re enriched, which means they have added vitamins. That’s the good news. But white flours can be naturally bleached or aged so that they bleach over time and naturally, or they can be bleached with added chloride which saves on time. What does bleaching flour do, btw? It strengthens the flour, and engenders consistent quality performance. Can you tell the difference? I can! Smell a mound of chemically bleached flour and a naturally-aged, bleached flour and you’ll get it in one sniff. But more than that, naturally aged flour is perfect for cookie baking, helping them bake just so!