Baking Powder, Too Much Or Too Little?
Decorating By cakelove2105 Updated 2 Feb 2014 , 1:27am by cakelove2105
I made a cake today, I just needed it a little bit of batter so I cut the recipe. I came up with the amount of butter, flour, sugar (171g. each) and the rest of the ingredients with no problem; however, I was't able to come up the the exact amount of baking powder by doing math. So I decided to guess a little, and I used 1/2 tsp, which i thought was too much but I decided to try it that way.
Long story short, the cake did not rise at all. It was spongy and tasty but did not rise. My question is, is there any chances that bigger amount baking powder could prevent the cake from rising? or even thought I thought it was too much, it ended up being too little amount?
Thank you :)
Too much baking powder will raise you cake, but due to the weaker structure, it may collapse before it is baked, or just after.
Working in the dark ...
Depending on your baking powder [check the packaging], the "usual" US ratio is 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder to raise 1 US cup [125g] flour..... 171 g flour would require an extra 1/3 teaspoon ....
As previously stated, this does not take into consideration any eggs or liquids.
Recipe ??
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Too much baking powder will raise you cake, but due to the weaker structure, it may collapse before it is baked, or just after.
Working in the dark ...
Depending on your baking powder [check the packaging], the "usual" US ratio is 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder to raise 1 US cup [125g] flour..... 171 g flour would require an extra 1/3 teaspoon ....
As previously stated, this does not take into consideration any eggs or liquids.
Recipe ??
Thank you auzzi , the original recipe called for 1 tbs of baking powder.
butter, sugar, and flour were 400g,
1 cup of milk, and 6 eggs
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No Dayti, I dont know how, but both thread became about the same topic. On this one i asked "is there any chances that bigger amount baking powder could prevent the cake from rising?" and on the other one I asked "how much baking powder you guys use and for what size cake?"
If the original recipe
400g butter
400g sugar
6 eggs [360g]
400g flour
1 tb baking powder
1 cup of milk [240ml]
works for you:
then the reduced recipe - on your numbers - would be
171g butter
171g sugar
2 eggs [120g] plus 1 egg white [30g]
or just use 3 eggs [180g]
171g flour
1 1/3 ts baking powder.
100ml milk
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