Baking Powder Troubles!?!
Baking Powder Troubles!?
Im making cookies, and I only have Baking powder. The recipie calls for baking soda. IS it the same? or is there a way that I can substitute the baking soda?
Answers:
Baking soda is four times as strong as baking powder ― so if your recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of baking soda, you would need four teaspoons of baking powder to produce the same amount of lift. Unfortunately, though, it’s not that simple.
Baking powder is made of baking soda and exactly the right amount of acid to react with the soda (it also includes corn starch to keep the ingredients from prematurely reacting in the privacy of their container). So if your recipe already has acidic ingredients that were going to neutralize the baking soda called for, you are adding other ingredients that may not sit well with them.
Substituting for a lack of baking powder is very easy: 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda plus 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar (ignoring the cornstarch) for each teaspoon of baking powder required.
We’ve looked in dozens of books to be sure, but no one provides information for the reverse procedure ― substituting baking powder when you don’t have soda on hand. To do so, you would have to consider the acidic ingredients in the recipe, and perhaps reengineer the recipe to replace them with more neutral ingredients (using whole milk instead of buttermilk, perhaps). But at that point, you would see, it would be easier and probably a lot more successful to pick up a box of baking soda.
completely different. You need both! No subs for baking soda!
no, do not substitute baking soda and powder are both differant.......
nope, it will come out different and taste different
You can substitute baking powder in place of baking soda (you'll need more baking powder and it may affect the taste), but you can't use baking soda when a recipe calls for baking powder.
I was told this...I haven't tried it. Good luck.
You might try using cream of tarter as this is mostly made from baking soda.Let me know how this works,i've never tried it.