King Arthur cake Flour

[GoingNuts]

Produced on shared equipment with tons 'o tree nuts.

No bold statement. I almost missed it; it is several rows beneath the ingredient list. 

[maeve]

It's not just King Arthur.  I think Wondra is no good.  I haven't been able to find a safe cake flour.

[YouKnowWho]

Granted I don't buy wheat flour but I am in the aisle..

Not seeing warnings on Swans Down.

I was checking SOAK for another product and saw this thread.

[nameless]

...yeah...it's the packaging equipment

Me being less than 2 miles from KAF Baking-Center-of-Awesome (and some  of the packaging facilities, etc.)  I asked...b/c a lot of their products have a same equipment warning. They label this way with many things b/c it's the same equipment or the same facility (room or another room in the facility) and they feel that although very very minor (b/c they do state of the art cleaning and testing, run non-nut items first through, etc.) that they want to inform the customer b/c inherently it's not 100% certain.

That being said - the KAF baking & education center is VERY allergy aware and have been GREAT for me. I can't eat anything they make    HOWEVER --- for the class I took (and any future class) they will make it nut free. Meaning, I took the croissant class and one thing they do is bear claws...well they told everyone there was a nut allergy and we wouldn't be having almonds cooking in the ovens (it's the larger baking ovens) so that I could partake of what I made. Their regular flour was safe and I brought my own safe chocolate for the chocolate croissants.  They also took care in extra cleaning, gave me super clean pans and things to work with, lined my baking sheet (though it looked very very clean) with foil and then the parchment (for any oil bleedthrough).  THEY. WERE. FABULOUS! And I didn't even really have to ask   ...and b/c I brought my own chocolate (they use a gourmet chocolate...) I was compensated with free iced coffee...all I could drink while there

Anyhoo...I think I've bough the pinkbox kind in the past...Soft As Silk?

Adrienne

[GoingNuts]

I've used both SofttasSilk and Swans Down in Tyne past, but was so thrilled to see a KAF cake flour that I grabbed it immediately.  I must write to them and suggest a bold warning.  With the layout and typeface I truly almost missed it.

[paparenttoo]

I use Swans Down; I called about 5-6 years ago, no nuts in the plant and the labeling has been good every time I buy it - so I haven't called again.

[alliedhealth]

We have used Swan's Down on a very regular basis for years (DS is PA).