Alrighty, so here's my issue. I have a really important cake sampling tomorrow and I just finished baking my sample white cake (I use the Cook's Illustrated white cake recipe.) but I used a whole grain pastry flour cause the market didn't have regular pastry flour. Lo and behold, my white cake is friggin' yellow.
Now I'm at a bit of an impasse. Do I remake the cake with regular flour, and risk it being dense, or do I rock the yellow white cake? It tastes glorious but I really don't want to mess up this tasting.
What do you guys suggest?
What does the customer want - a white cake? Will they be interested in a wholegrain cake? Whole wheat pastry flour is a totally different product from white pastry flour. If I were in your position, I would also make the white cake using conventional pastry flour (what makes you think it might be dense?) and offer both for tasting.
I think it'll be dense because I don't have white pastry flour, I have AP flour.
The tasting is for a caterer that I'm working out a contracted wedding cake wholesale dealio. I don't really know if there's a professional term for it.
AYou could try a substitution http://frugalliving.about.com/od/makeyourowningredients/qt/Pastry-Flour.htm
AYou can make your own pastry flour by mixing 50/50 AP flour and cake flour (3/8 AP + 5/8 cake flour if you want to be more precise). You may want to consider remaking with pastry flour and offering the whole grain version as an option.
http://frugalliving.about.com/od/makeyourowningredients/qt/Pastry-Flour.htm
Thanks for all the input guys! I think I'm gonna cave and drive to the store (in the 8 degree weather, ugh) and pick up some up. I'm really nervous about this tasting and I just want to make sure I do everything right.
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