Baking powder is used in cakes since it is relatively 'taste free' and a quick/easy to use leavener. But baking powder is rarely used in breads - yeast is used as the primary leavener in breadmaking. (Yeast is what gives bread it's bread taste plus irregular air bubbles).
Baking powder and yeast help in the rising of a bread or cake. If it is expired, then it won't be as "active" and therefore decreasing it's ability to rise which makes for a poor bread or cake.
Because baking powder has a rising ability
If a recipe calls for self-rising flour, your recipe will not turn out if you replace it with unbleached flour only because unbleached flour does not rise. You would also need to add baking powder to the recipe (about three teaspoons per cup of flour) if you were making this substitution in order for your recipe to rise.
Follow the recipe for the amount of baking powder to use whether your using regular flour or cake flour. Neither of them have baking powder, unless it is "self rising" which means leavening is included.
Yes, yeast can be used instead of baking soda and baking powder in zucchini bread, but it will alter the texture and flavor. Yeast requires time to ferment and rise, resulting in a denser, more bread-like consistency compared to the quick, cake-like texture achieved with baking soda or powder. Additionally, you'll need to adjust the recipe to allow for the yeast's rising time and possibly add a bit of sugar to feed the yeast.
Cake flour is a finer grained powder than all purpose. Self rising means it already has the baking powder added. All purpose may be used for either, but you would have to add baking powder, and the end product would not be quite as delicate.
Yes, you can use self rising flour to bake a cake. Just leave out any baking soda, baking powder or salt called for in the recipe, as these are already included in self rising flour.
you add 1 teaspoon of baking powder to every cup of plain flour
it just does. there is special items put in baking powder to do that. if u don't add it, the cake is hard and rocky. carbon dioxide gas is produced when baking powder NaHCo3 is heated in the oven ,this gas evolution makes the cake spongy and fluffy
No, cake is not considered a type of bread. While both are baked goods made from similar ingredients like flour, sugar, and eggs, they have different textures, flavors, and methods of preparation. Bread is typically leavened with yeast, while cake is leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
Self raising flour makes the cake rise, but if you don't have any you can use plain flour and baking powder which has the same effect. 225g plain flour and 4 teaspoons baking powder, will transform it into self raising flour.
it may not just be baking soda if it has baking soda baking powder salt and all-purpose flour in it that is just like using self rising flour sometimes it does not have to have baking powder in it for you to improvise self rising flour instead.