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 ...

Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Getty Images Baking powder is essential for all sorts of baking projects, serving as a leavening agent that helps give loft to all ...

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 ...

Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Baking powder is a blend of a base — sodium bicarbonate, also known as baking soda — mixed with an acid — often cream of tartar — and ...

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.