Cake Flour is a “softer” flour with a little less gluten that when used, makes a lighter fluffier texture. You can make a Cake Flour Substitute by mixing ratios of 1 3/4 cups regular Flour with 1/4 cup Cornstarch. -sift together and then use.

All Purpose Flour is just that – regular old all purpose Flour.

You do not want to use Bread Flour in these cookies, doing so produces a heavy cookie that has a terrible chew. Also, you do not want to use Self Raising or Self Rising flour either, as that type of flour has leavening agents already mixed in and will adversely affect the recipe.

Hope this helps :)

I used up some old (unliked flavor) instant oatmeal packets to make oatmeal raisin cookies last week, and those came out really good. Have to make more of those too. They were so good, I didn’t even get a chance to photograph them