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  • Food Science and Technology
  • Cereal Science
  • Baking Science

Background:

  • Cookies and crackers share major ingredients but differ in formulas and processing.
  • Sugar concentration is a key differentiator: typically <30% in crackers and >30% in cookies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the functional differences between cookie and cracker baking.
  • To highlight the roles of flour and sugar in biscuit production.
  • To compare the impact of sugar concentration on dough properties and final product quality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of ingredient functionality, particularly flour and sugar.
  • Evaluation of dough rheology and baking performance.
  • Application of the solvent retention capacity (SRC) method (AACC 56-11) for flour characterization.

Main Results:

  • Lower sugar in crackers facilitates gluten development, requiring strong soft wheat flours.
  • High sugar in cookies acts as an antiplasticizer, inhibiting gluten development and delaying starch gelatinization.
  • Both products benefit from flours with low water absorption, low damaged starch, and low water-accessible arabinoxylans.

Conclusions:

  • Flour quality is critical for both cookie and cracker production, with specific requirements dictated by sugar content.
  • The SRC method is a superior diagnostic tool for predicting flour functionality in biscuit baking compared to traditional rheological or baking tests.