This can't really be corrected without starting all over with your recipe. In baking, there's a chance the baking powder will only cause your food to rise a little more, maybe give it a slight salty taste, but otherwise won't hurt much.
Baking powder in a recipe helps your item rise when baking.
Yes it aids in the rising. When a recipe contains baking powder and baking soda, the baking powder does most of the leavening. The baking soda is added to neutralize the acids in the recipe plus to add tenderness and some leavening.
yesMore information:Although the purpose of adding baking soda to cookie dough is to help the cookies rise, adding baking soda to a recipe that does not call for it could have the opposite affect. Too much baking soda, or adding baking soda in addition to baking powder, might also ruin the taste of the cookies.
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It's very doubtful it will make you sick. However, the baking powder will be useless in the recipe if it has reached (or surpassed) the expiration date.
The recipe that I use calls for baking soda.
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Baking soda will cause things to rise also. Muffins are smaller so there is not as much need for lift. Baking powder will give more rise than soda. Whoever created the recipe chose to use soda instead of baking powder.
Baking powder and baking soda are often used together in recipes in order to add lift to the final product. Because baking soda is a base and commercial baking powder is generally slightly acidic, they are often used together to neutralize both each other the other ingredients of the recipe. Yes baking powder and soda can both be used in the same recipe.
If you have too much baking powder, the muffin will look and taste different. If you have too little baking powder, the muffin will be all flat and taste different.
You can use self-rising flour in any recipe that also calls for baking powder. When you do use self-rising flour be sure to omit baking powder, salt and baking soda if in the recipe.
The original Nestlés Toll House cookies (chocolate chip cookies) recipe calls for baking soda, not baking powder. There is no substitute for baking soda or baking powder in a recipe. You have to have it.