How does baking soda affect cookies?

Answer 1

NO!!!

Answer:

Not directly but you can make your own baking powder from baking soda.

• Ingredients: baking soda and cream of tartar (The cream of tartar increases the acidity of a mixture.)
• Mix 2 parts cream of tartar with 1 part baking soda.
• Use the amount of this homemade mixture as the baking powder called for by the recipe.

Answer 2

No, baking soda is a raising agent, meaning it should prevent your cookies being as flat as a pancake.

However sometimes in cookie recipes baking soda is used in a way to make the cookie "rise and then fall", resulting in a crunchy exterior but a soft/chewy interior. But still, the cookie should not be wafer thin as a result of this...

Answer 3

Yes, if you use baking soda because it makes if spread. But this can also depend on how much dough you put on and the time you cook it for. For example if you mounted on a heap of dough and cooked it for a few minutes it would flatten, but not to a crisp. Hope this helps :)

Answer 4

Baking soda will make them rise, they flatten out from the shortening or other ingredients that melt when baking.

Answer 5

It makes it rise. Baking soda is a leavening agent that releases carbon dioxide bubbles into the batter, making pancakes light and fluffy.

Answer 6

Baking soda is added to a recipe to neutralize the acids in the recipe along with helping to level out the cookies. it also helps them rise a little bit so they are not extremely flat.