But on my way home, I had a last-minute panic ― hang on, I thought, the dense, heavy cake used a LOT of baking powder. Is ...

You're preparing the ingredients for the cake, and suddenly you realize you don't have any baking powder. Who hasn't been ...

Baking powder has baking soda in it, but it has additional ingredients that make it react differently when mixed into batters or doughs. Baking soda is a base that when mixed with acids bubbles.

Students are guided to design a test to determine which two of the three ingredients in baking powder react to make it bubble when water is added. (The answer is baking soda and cream of tartar.) ...

Students help design an experiment to test whether baking soda and baking powder, similar-looking powders, are made up of the same chemical. Students will observe that baking soda produces more ...

You can make your own baking powder by combining 15ml/1tbsp bicarbonate of soda with 30ml/2tbsp cream of tartar. Measure carefully as too much or too little can upset a recipe’s balance.

This would help my confidence in making recipes that I currently put aside thinking they may have made a mistake. Jenna There really isn’t a hard and fast rule for the amount of baking powder to ...