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Why might you check your baking powder or yeast before beginning to bake bread or a cake?
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.
Why will the cake become a big flat tough cookie if you do not add baking powder?
Because baking powder has a rising ability
Can you use self rising flour instead of bread flour for bread?
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.
When you use plain flour instead of cake flour do you not have to add baking powder?
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.
Self-rising cake flour is it the same as cake flour or self-rising flour and can you use all purpose flour instead?
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.
Can self rising flour be used to bake a cake if you do not have plain flour?
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.
How do you make enriched cake flour self rising cake flour?
you add 1 teaspoon of baking powder to every cup of plain flour
How does baking soda help to make cake and bread soft and spongy?
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
Is cake considered a type of bread?
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.
How does self raising flour help cake rise?
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.
Why don't muffins rise if you don't put baking soda or powder?
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.
Why is my dough not rising when I use baking powder?
Because baking powder is designed to release carbon dioxide in the presence of moisture and heat. When you add baking powder to a cake recipe the batter does not begin to rise until after you begin to bake it in the oven. Proving refers to the way a bread dough rises under the influence of yeast. This is an organic process with the yeast organism feeding on the sugar in the flour, multiplying and releasing gas.The gas is captured by the stretchy sheets of gluten in the dough, gluten that has been stretched and spread during the kneading process - that is why bread need time to rise BEFORE baking. If you want to make a bread using baking powder you need to use a recipe for Baking Powder Bread, or you could make Soda Bread, Scones, or unleavened bread. Sourdough bread can be made without adding any yeast but in that case you must first create a starter by causing the natural yeasts in Rye flour to multiply. There is no proving or rising time required for baking powder or baking soda breads, that all happens in the oven. They are quick breads. You can have Irish Soda Bread on the table 30 minutes after you begin mixing it.
