Cake is made from batter not dough, which does not contain yeast, it does however expand when baking.
Your cake would not rise. Or your cookies would not spread. Probably a Denser cake, or tougher cookie would be the case in those two instances..
yes without flour the cake wont rise.
The cake will not rise properly.
Yeast.
the cake will NOT rise, stay flat.
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Cakes rise when baked, whereas flapjacks do not. So, a flapjack is not a cake.
It either helps whatever you're baking rise or make whatever you're baking soft and fluffy.
It comes under the heading of pie, because cakes rise, cheesecake does not.
Not every recipe calls for baking soda, but for the ones that do it interacts with the flour to rise and expand the cookies or cake.
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