Baking soda and baking powder, what is the difference?

In the past few weeks I receive a lot of question, about what is the difference between Baking Soda and Baking powder? So I decide to write a short blog about the difference between the Baking soda and Baking powder.

Baking soda and Baking powder are both leavening agents. When included in a batter, the leavening agent causes air bubbles to expand when cooked. This causing it to rise.

Baking soda is a pure leavening agent. It needs to be mixed with moisture and an acidic ingredient for the necessary chemical reaction to take place to make food rise. Because it needs an acid to create the rising quality, it is often used in recipes where there is already an acidic ingredient present, such as lemon juice, chocolate, buttermilk or honey. For example you use baking soda to bake a Red Velvet cake. One of the ingredients to make  Red Velvet cake is buttermilk.

Baking powder, which contains bicarbonate of soda, comes pre-mixed with the acidic ingredient for you – so all you need to add is the moisture. The acidic ingredient most often used in baking powder is cream of tartar. Baking powder has a neutral taste and is often used in recipes that have other neutral-tasting ingredients, such as milk.

With cream of tartar you can make your own baking powder. Simply mix two parts cream of tartar with one part bicarbonate of soda and you have baking powder.

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