Many recipes call for baking powder, but who bakes enough to use a whole can before it expires? In fact, I learned the hard way about best-use-by-dates when we tried baking a cake with an old can of ...

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 ...

Whether I’m whipping up a batch of pancakes, a tin of muffins, or a single cake, I can almost guarantee that the recipe will call for baking powder. This staple pantry ingredient is one every baker ...

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 ...

These biscuits, eaten fresh out of the oven with butter and some honey or jam, are unforgettable. I’ve been making them for years, mostly because their ingredients’ list is so simple that I always ...