I don't have any baking soda or powder. It's 2:30 and my husband will be home soon...so I could feasibly go get some from the store...but, I don't want to go out this early today. I guess I'm just being lazy! But, I'm also really curious. :D
2006-09-11 20:31:05 · 5 answers · asked by sasha_corleone_25 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
You certainly can, sugar! You can make a shortbread cookie called MELTING MOMENTS. They bake up so tender, they melt in your mouth and they use no leavening at all. I bake them for my jewish friends for passover.
And I'll even post the recipe
1 1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. cornstarch
1 c. powdered sugar
3/4 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
In bowl, stir together the flour, cornstarch, salt and powdered sugar. In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat butter until smooth. Beat in vanilla, then flour mixture until well blended. Refrigerate 1 hour. Shape into 1-inch balls. Place about 1 1/2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with lightly floured fork. Bake in 350 degree oven 9 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Chocolate Melting Moments: Follow basic recipe. Sift
1/4 cup cocoa and 1/4 teaspoon salt with dry ingredients.
2006-09-11 20:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by HyperBeauty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Can I make decent sugar cookies without baking soda/other levener? Will they just be flat?
I don't have any baking soda or powder. It's 2:30 and my husband will be home soon...so I could feasibly go get some from the store...but, I don't want to go out this early today. I guess I'm just being lazy! But, I'm also really curious. :D
2015-08-18 16:34:30 · answer #2 · answered by Garey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without baking powder or soda your cookies will be thin, flat, hard and heavy, instead of light and/or crunchy. Baking powder is relatively slow acting, especially when compared to baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Baking powder is a mixture of baking soda, a base, and cream of tartar, an acid, when mixed with a liquid the two combine and a gas, carbon dioxide,CO2, is released. The tiny bubbles make the dough rise. The liquid is usually added last thing before baking so the bubbles don't just dissipate into the air. The cookies go into a hot oven so the dough begins to set up and the bubbles separate the small particles of firm dough instead of just being baked as bubbles into the otherwise hard cookie.
In a bread dough yeast, a one celled plant, is used, as the yeast grows in the dough it releases CO2, in bread you want the big bubbles and that is why you let the dough rise before baking. Without the baking powder you are going to wind up with sweet hard tack and I don't care how sweet it is hard tack is still hardtack.
2006-09-11 20:32:49 · answer #3 · answered by Kitia_98 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Levener
2016-12-16 19:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar Cookies.
2016-03-22 15:35:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, buy the cookie dough and its easy to make. I guess.
2006-09-11 21:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by dark^wishy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes you can , and check out paula dean's cookbook.."Just Desserts"
2006-09-11 22:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by mike h 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋