Baking soda and baking powder are both leaveners, but baking soda requires an acid to activate, and baking powder already ...

Baking soda and baking powder are both common leavening agents for quick breads, cakes, cookies, and more. Both are critical in making doughs or batters rise, but they are not the same thing and ...

Has this happened? You're getting ready to bake a few dozen cookies. You’re pulling out the ingredients, and you see it calls for baking powder and baking soda. But you only have one. Now you’re ...

Baking powder and baking soda are two of the most important ingredients on the baker’s shelf. Baking powder and baking soda are two of the most important ingredients on the baker’s shelf. The advent ...

Their names are similar, they look alike, and they’re next to each other on the grocery store shelf, but baking soda and baking powder are not interchangeable. Like bread flour and all-purpose flour, ...

Baking powder and baking soda are two of the most important ingredients on the baker’s shelf. Scott Suchman For The Washington Post Baking powder and baking soda are two of the most important ...

Folks making stir-fries and boozy steak marinades are allowed a certain freedom as they create their appetizing fare that bakers can't enjoy. Any ingredient that seems like it would elevate the dish ...

There is something special about sharing baked goods with family, friends and colleagues. But I’ll never forget the disappointment of serving my colleagues rhubarb muffins that had failed to rise.

You don't want to accidentally use the wrong one. There are two items that most of us have in our pantries that can be easily confused for each other. Not only are their names similar, but they look ...

I was recently asked about the difference between baking powder and baking soda. Attempting to recall this topic from my food science class some 30 years ago failed and a little research was in order.

A key ingredient in baking is a leavening agent (Photo: Shutterstock) I’m not a big baker and the confusion between whether to use baking powder or baking soda just adds to my distaste for this ...

I’m not a big baker and the confusion between whether to use baking powder or baking soda just adds to my distaste for this cooking method. Maybe this has to do with my cooking preferences; I’m not ...