Levening agents give sturucture and porosity to baked products.
No, baking powder is a levening agent that makes baked goods rise.
It's when you use more than one type of levening agent. Like baking powder and baking soda. Each one causes the baked goods to rise in a different way.
If you are using it as a levening agent, you can substitute baking powder. One teaspoon of baking powder replaces 1/3 tsp of baking soda AND 2/3 tsp cream of tartar.
Use a cake-like dough that uses baking powder for levening.
Baking soda is only a leavening agent in recipes that contain some kind of acetic ingredient such as vinegar, citrus juice, or sour cream. Baking soda is simply bicarbonate of soda, a chemical that is always the same substance. Baking power is more commonly used as a leavening agent because it contains cream of tartar (or some other acidic compound) to cause the production of carbon dioxide.
Two things could make a cake turn out heavy. To much liquid or not enough levening agent.
YES IT IS A JEWISH MEAL AT PASSOVER Answer No, there is no religious significance to matzoh balls. At Passover, the command is no levening in your house. You may have new flour (matzoh), but you can't bake bread because the definition of bread is flour and levening. The combination of matzoh and water yeilds unleavened bread. Matzoh balls are wheat dumplings which are boiled in chicken broth until done. Matzoh balls are made of eggs, oil, and matzoh meal, refrigerated, then boiled. Other than they fullfill the command for no levening in the house, there is no religious significance.
I've been having the same problem, so I scouted around to try and find the answer. Apparently it's on the Splenda website. The general consensus seems to be that Splenda doesn't do so well in baked goods like cookies and cakes because the additional levening agent adds a salty taste to it. Splenda suggest adding milk powder and baking powder to combat the salty effect. But if you are making things like cheesecakes and fruit pies, Splenda works amazingly well on its own. So it depends on the levening in the recipe. I'm going to try adding milk powder and baking powder next time to see what happens.
Basically bicarbonate of soda or baking soda makes the cake rise while baking using little air bubbles to expand the cake.
No. Baking soda is a levening. (makes muffins or pancakes rise) If it is used in a bean dish, it reduces the amount of gas produced in the digestive tract. It has no flavor and inhances nothing.
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