Help - Going From Unbleached Flour to Bleached Flour

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Feastingmadeeasy

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Everytime I baked cookies in the past I always used unbleached all purpose flour to using regular unbleached all purpose flour, but the problem I have now, when I bake cookies with the regular all purpose flour they are coming out super thin! Like a piece of paper, when I used the unbleached all purpose flour it didn't do that. Does anyone have any tips on how I can fix this problem, I don't want 50 pounds of flour to go to waste :(
 
There is no difference between unbleached and bleached AP flour except bleached flour is whiter and has less vitamin E than unbleached. However, AP flour is a blend of hard and soft (high and low protein) flours - and the ratio changes between mills and areas of the country ... so you could be having problems because of using different brands of AP flour - assuming NOTHING else in your recipe, ingredients, technique, baking sheets or oven has changed.

You might pay a visit to Baking911.com - especially the Cookies: What Went Wrong? page.
 
That's odd, because I heard that bleached flour was ideal for cookies, as the cookies remained 'puffier'. What happened to me is the exact opposite of what happened to you. I had switched to unbleached AP flour about a year ago, and I found my super, moist, chewy, thick and PUFFY chocolate chip cookies were no longer keeping the thick puff after cooling. They turned into flat, albeit still tasty, disks. I switched back to bleached and the thick puff returned. Baking is a science, so things like this never cease to surprise me.
 
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