Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook called "Big ...

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The Perfect Homemade Pancake Recipe is easy to make with ingredients you probably already have on hand. This recipe can ...

Almost every cook has faced this scenario: You're following a recipe that requires baking powder but you only have baking soda. What do you do? Can you substitute? Or this one: You haven't baked for a ...

Baking soda and baking powder are both common leavening agents for quick breads, cakes, cookies, and more. Both are critical in making doughs or batters rise, but they are not the same thing and ...

When you're cooking with baking powder, the first and most important thing to be aware of is that it's a completely different ingredient from baking soda. While some cookie recipes do call for baking ...

You only need two ingredients to make this baking staple. It happens to the best of us. You're at the grocery store buying ingredients for a baked good recipe, and you assume you have all the staples.