Baking Powder/soda Recipe Troubleshooting
Baking By kenzers624 Updated 19 Sep 2018 , 5:32pm by -K8memphis
Hi all,
I have been using Bon Appetits best carrot cake recipe, but it has recently been coming out dense, dry on the edges and a bit of a spongy, gummy texture.
thinking this had something to do with the ratios of baking powder, baking soda and acidic ingredients, I took it upon myself to tinker a little bit.
The original recipe has 1 cup of buttermilk, 3/4 teaspoons of baking soda, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 2 1/2 cups of flour, along with some brown sugar. I reduced the baking soda to 1/2 a teaspoon, and replaced a 1/4 cup of regular sugar with brown sugar. The cake browned nicely, due to the extra brown sugar, surely, and had an lovely fluffy, moist texture. But it was fragile, like a chocolate cake, and it was flat, with no peak. I’m not sure if this is entirely a bad thing, but, I’m also concerned that my ratios of baking powder to flour to baking soda aren’t correct.
Could a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda really make a huge differences in the cake texture or is it something else entirely?
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