Only substitute baking soda for baking powder if the cookie dough will be baked within 30 minutes of mixing. Baking soda begins to lose potency as soon as it gets wet so baking powder is used when the dough will be allowed to sit for a long time before baking.
Yes, you can. watch out for too many air pockets though as those could ruin the cookie
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No, sugar cookies and shortbread cookies are not the same. Shortbread cookies have more butter than sugar cookies and do not have eggs or a leavening agent (such as baking powder) in them.
The basic ingredients for baking cookies are flour, baking powder, butter, sugar, and vanilla extract. If you wan't more elaborate ingredients, go to http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Desserts/Cookies/main.aspx.
== == Not sure, but perhaps it is because sugar cookies have fewer ingredients, and the baking powder acts faster. More important than "Why?" is that you recognize the difference in baking times. Otherwise, you would end up with very hard sugar cookies.....or very soft hockey pucks.
the difference between melting sugar in water or baking cookies with sugar in them is that if you bake cookies with sugar in them you making sugar cookies and melting sugar on water is mixing things together
The basic ingredients for all types of cookies, chocolate chip cookies just add the chocolate chips, are... *Flour *Sugar *Butter *Water *Oil / Milk *Eggs *Baking Powder / Baking Soda *Vanilla Extract *Salt
If by "thicker" you mean raised higher, then yes, perhaps. Baking powder and baking soda are both "leavenings," which cause cookies and other baked goods to rise. But there are many possible reasons that cookies bake up too flat and chewy: Too much liquid Too much fat (butter) No acidic ingredient to react with baking soda. Too much baking soda or baking powder. Not enough egg. Not baked long enough Baked at the wrong temperature. All these possibilities depend on the specific recipe. Some cookies contain nothing more than flour, butter and sugar. Other cookies have long lists of ingredients. And some cookie recipes are MEANT to produce flat, chewy cookies.
For a basic recipe, the ingredients that are included is soft sugar cookies are as follows; sugar, butter, flour, eggs, baking soda, salt, vanilla, brown sugar, and baking sheets.
There are many different types of cookies, but most include flour, eggs, butter, sugar and some type of levening (baking soda or baking powder). The other ingredients from recipe to recipe involve different flavoring like chocolate, nuts, spices, etc.
yes you can
Of course! There are many recipes that don't contain raising agents, it just depends what type of cookies you are making. Shortbread has no raising agents, and neiter do sugar cookies and the kind that you cut shapes out of and ice with frosting. You probably could but they would be really flat because baking powder and baking soda makes them rise.
Sugar helps the cookies taste sweeter and helped them spread out a little when baking.