It likely calls for baking soda.
Most home made cookie recipes require the basic ingredients which are eggs, sugar, butter, flour, baking soda, and a pinch of salt. A good recipe can be found in many cookbooks or on websites such as the Food Network.
Soda companies do not share the recipes a lot, but Jolt Cola would be a good candidate for high sugar. Their motto was "All the sugar, and twice the caffeine"
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A basic sugar cookie recipe includes flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla. Other ingredients, such as nutmeg or cinnamon, are also often added.
it is a combination of flour sugar brown sugar margarine vanilla extract eggs baking soda salt and chocolate chips and is then rounded into a ball and baked in the oven
A snickerdoodle is a type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Eggs may also sometimes be used as an ingredient, with cream of tartar and baking soda added to leaven the dough.It is the favourite cookie of Tony DeNozzo on the NCIS detective show. His dad cooks them.
Some examples of leavening agents include yeast, baking powder and eggs. Leaving agents chemically react to add air and make the food rise.
Most basic cookies contain flour, sugar (white and/or brown), eggs, butter, salt, baking soda and vanilla
Most cookie recipes will usually include one or the other in a small proportion, because if the cookie rises slightly it becomes less dense and more crumbly. However some cookies need to be dense, so these ones will usually omit the leavening agents (the baking soda and/or bicarb). Cookies don't actually need to rise as much as other baked goods (such as muffins) need to, so even if a leavener is included, it is usually in a tiny proportion.
There are many types. Search up "Cupcake Recipes" in Google. For sure you will need baking soda/powder, all purpose flour, sugar, little salt, some butter, and, if with icing, icing sugar. But, please search up the EXACT recipes.
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.
you use baking powder Another answer: No, there are some cookie recipes, such as shortbread, that do not use any leavening. But most cookies require either baking soda or baking powder, or in some cases, whipped egg whites.