Baking soda is just an element that is to be added to the cake....when baking soda added to the cake mixes with the baking powder,carbon di-oxide is released which gives the cake a spongy look!!!and a fluffy tase to it
Quick breads such as muffins, unlike yeast breads, can be baked immediately after the ingredients are mixed. In other words, there is no need to wait for leavening to occur before baking the muffins because they rise during baking. Therefore, they are relatively quick to make. Yeast breads on the other hand require a lot of time for leavening before baking and are much more time consuming.Source: "Understanding Food" by Amy Brown
A well-made quick bread should be moist and hold together well. Not too dry, and not too moist or heavy.
Quick bread is a type of bread that is leavened with baking powder or baking soda instead of yeast. It is called "quick" because it does not require the time-consuming process of proofing and rising that yeast bread does. This makes quick breads faster and easier to make.
because breads require flour to make it a bread.
The quickest way to make bread without the need for rising time is to make a type of bread called "quick bread." Quick breads use baking powder or baking soda as leavening agents instead of yeast, so they can be baked immediately after mixing the ingredients.
Yes, baking powder is used in preparation of cakes, but few breads. Baking powder and baking soda are leavens, which cause them to rise. Three to four teaspoons of baking powder is used in making biscuits. But most breads have yeast, in some cases salt, to make them rise.
It is possible to make bread from self-rising flour. It is perfect for quick breads and other products that call for baking powder or baking soda for leavening. Self-raising flour is not recommended for yeast breads.
Leavening agents are the ingredients that make the baked goods rise so they are light and airy. It could be yeast, baking soda, or baking powder. Sometimes in cakes, the eggs are whipped into a froth to add air to the cake and this acts as a leavening agent.
Baking powder is a rising agent, designed to make breads and cakes soft and fluffy. This is usually not desired in cookies.
To create a chemical reaction using baking powder and vinegar, simply mix the two together. The baking powder (sodium bicarbonate) reacts with the vinegar (acetic acid) to produce carbon dioxide gas, which causes bubbling and fizzing. This reaction is commonly used in baking to make cakes and breads rise.
You can make dough products rise three ways: 1) The aforementioned yeast. 2) Chemical leavening (baking powder, for example). 3) Mechanical leavening (usually steam from water boiling away and expanding inside the dough). Mechanical leavening is most frequently used to make things like cream puffs, because if done right it usually produces one large bubble in the middle of the puff. "Quick" Breads are called "quick" because they use baking powder to rise, instead of yeast, so there's no "rising" period; it does its rising in the oven.
OK, there are two different kinds of breads quick breads and yeast breads. Yeast breads are leavened, made to rise, by yeast. There are a couple different kinds of yeast fresh, instant dry active and one more I can't remember. Quick breads are leavened by what are called chemical leaveners. Ex. baking powder and baking soda. Biscuits can be leavened by the acid in buttermilk. Then there is steam. A popover is leavened by the steam created when it is put into a very hot oven. Cakes are mainly leavened by baking powder or baking soda. A Genois is leavened by the air incorporated during mixing. The only ingredients in a Genois are eggs, sugar, and flour. Sometimes salt. The eggs and sugar are heated over a water bath and then whipped until they triple in volume. It is the air formed when the eggs are whipped that causes this cake to rise.