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As a dry powder, baking powder is quite stable and the acid and the sodium bicarbonate don't react.

In order for baking powder to react and for your cakes to rise, the baking powder has to first come into contact with water. Easy peasy! This classic vanilla cake with milk chocolate frosting is a great example of a cake made with just baking powder. All you have to do is whisk (or sift) the baking powder with the rest of your dry ingredients. So, while when you add baking soda to a cake recipe, you'll notice that you also have to add an acidic ingredient (like vinegar, sour cream, buttermilk, etc), when you bake with baking powder, the acid is already present in the commercial powder. It's sold in grocery stores and bulk food stores.īaking powder is an easy way to get your cakes to rise without having to whip egg whites or without worrying about adding an acid to react with baking soda because everything you need to make a cake rise is in baking powder.

Expiration dates and testing if it's still goodīaking powder is a chemical leavening agent that combines sodium bicarbonate ( baking soda) and an acid (or even two acids!) in one single dry, white powder.

What happens if you add too much to a recipe?.

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