Oops

[rootofnewt]

I screwed up. My carrot cake recipe calls for 1tsp of baking soda. I used baking powder (featherweight). Ah well. One of the primary ingredients in my baking powder is bicarbonate of phosphate or whatever that is which makes a good substitute for baking soda. These layers might be a little airy. It's aluminum-free baking powder, so it shouldn't affect flavor too much. Nothing a little cream cheese frosting can't handle.

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In other news, there's a leak somewhere along my windshield washer fluid line... or the motor itself is upset. I filled the damn thing full at WalMart, tried to use it coming home--nothing. I figured the line might be frozen with a bit of summertime fluid (though there shouldn't be any of that in there). I checked on it when I came home--nearly empty again. Ugh.

I wish the parts for these things were easy to get to so I could fix it myself, but it's a pain in the arse. Damn Buick.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

baking soda is the bicarbonate you mentioned. Baking powder is the same stuff with an anhydrous citric acid or something in it, so that it supplies it's own acid to react with the baking soda in it when it gets wet. Carrot cake will be a little different, possibly slightly denser since the leavening cycle will be off, but certainly edible.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Baking powder is usually bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid (cream of tartar). I love this:

Tartaric acid is a brownish-red acid powder (potassium bitartrate) that is precipitated onto the walls of casks used to age wine. When refined into a white acid powder, ‘cream of tartar’, it is used in baking.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Can I claim half-credit, ma'am?

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

But of course! :)

[ismene.livejournal.com]

Citric acid, the stuff of wonders: it goes in food, it makes bath bombs fizzy, it's used in printmaking, it hurts like hell if you breathe in a huge cloud of it.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. i was substituting an aluminum-free, sodium-free baking powder which contained bicarbonate phosphate, cream of tartar, and something else.

it all turned out perfect.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!