Can you use wheat flour to make baklava, you can use wheat starch to make baklava. The main reason for making tartufo coated with starch is to lock in the moisture, as long as it is starch can be. Baklava is a very popular classic dish to make baklava, you don't have corn starch at home, you can use home made flour instead. To make pulled sweet potatoes you can use flour instead of starch. This is because sweet potatoes are starchy in themselves. Add sugar and flour mixed together. The plucked silk is also very long, and sitting plucked sweet potato tastes good.