PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheat flour composition superior in spreading property of dough, having unprecedented palate feeling with crispy taste, by which confectionery having a good melting feeling is obtained and suitably used especially as wheat flour for confectionery.SOLUTION: There is provided a wheat flour composition which is wheat flour, obtained by a usual method of milling raw material wheat, consisting mainly of soft-base wheat flour and comprising the wheat flour having an average particle diameter of 10-40 μm and contains 33-100 mass% of the wheat flour having protein content of 4.5-6.8 mass%. Preferably, the wheat flour has a particle size distribution of ≥75 mass% of a ratio of the wheat flour having particle diameter of 5-55 μm.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】生地のスプレット性に優れ、かつ従来なかったサク味のある食感で、口溶けが良い菓子類が得られる、特に菓子類用小麦粉として用いて好適な小麦粉組成物を提供すること。【解決手段】主としてソフト系小麦からなる原料小麦を常法により製粉して得られた小麦粉であり、平均粒径が10~40μmの小麦粉で構成され、蛋白含量が4.5~6.8質量%である小麦粉を、33~100質量%含有する小麦粉組成物。好ましくは、前記小麦粉は、粒径が5~55μmの小麦粉の割合が75質量%以上の粒度分布を有する小麦粉である。【選択図】なし
