I'm about to make cookies and need to know?!
I'm about to make cookies and need to know?
can you substitute baking powder for baking soda. Additional Details
1 day ago
so could i just double it, and just have a little cream of tarter taste
Answers: 1 day ago
so could i just double it, and just have a little cream of tarter taste yes you can do that. No.
Baking Powder is 50% baking soda and 50% cream of tartar.
Baking soda is just plain sodium bicarbonate.
Run out to your local grocer and buy a box of baking soda for 50 cents. i don't think so, usually you need both for it to rise, unless u have self rising flour no
baking powder contains cream of tartar powder, baking soda and cornstarch No. Not at all.
NOTE: Before baking or cooking up a storm, I line up all the ingredients I will use, and then go ahead and bake if all are present.. Saves a lot of headache if I don't have it. No, no, no!!!! You'll be sorry! 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. Substituting for a lack of baking powder is very easy: 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda plus 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar for each teaspoon of baking powder required.
Note: If you can substitute buttermilk for the liquid in the cookies, the chemical reaction will make better tasting and tender cookies.
Also, the substitute may work for cookies, but won't work with cakes. No, it's not the same thing. Baking powder is 2/3 cream of tartar and 1/3 baking soda.
If you are desperate, you can try this: use 3 times the amount of baking powder to achieve the proper amount of baking soda, then you may want to reduce the flour amount slightly to compensate for the extra bit of dry ingredients. The cream of tartar has no taste and should not adversely affect the outcome of your cookies. Actually can make yr own baking powder
Baking powder is sodium bicarbonate and potassium bitartrate. If you don't have baking powder, you can't substitute baking soda, but you can make baking powder using two parts cream of tartar and one part baking soda. For example, two teaspoons of cream of tartar plus one teaspoon of baking soda would give you three teaspoons of baking powder. Unless the recipes states otherwise, begin baking as soon as you have finished mixing the ingredients, since the chemical reaction that causes the rising starts as soon as wet and dry ingredients are mixed