Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Baking powder is a blend of a base — sodium bicarbonate, also known as baking soda — mixed with an acid — often cream of tartar — and ...

Whether you're one of those people who only bakes for special occasions like birthdays and holidays or the sort who bakes just about daily, you probably have a stash of baking powder somewhere in your ...

Years ago, I was at a friend’s house and I wanted to make some chocolate chip cookies. When I went digging in her pantry, I found baking powder that had expired many, many years earlier. I tossed it, ...

Almost every cook has faced this scenario: You're following a recipe that requires baking powder but you only have baking soda. What do you do? Can you substitute? Or this one: You haven't baked for a ...

Baking soda and baking powder are both chemical leavening agents that give height to baked goods through acid-base reactions that release carbon dioxide, but they do so in slightly different ways. To ...