I have always wanted to learn the science behind baking and why cake or cookies rise. I do love to bake! I have watched a video about why baking soda or baking powder makes stuff rise. And other exciting stuff behind baking!
Here is the video!
So when you put cake or cookies in the oven, it rises because when you put baking soda with water, and vinegar, or any type of acid together, boom!
This is what happens!
It has a big reaction and starts to rise a lot! And that is what causes a cake to have air bubbles. It's crazy that it has that reaction! And interesting too!
He makes biscuits, a cake, and bread in the video. Yeast makes the bread rise because you can use yeast to make the carbon dioxide (which is basically the air), and then it stretches the gluten through tiny air pockets and basically makes it a nice and sort of spongy texture. And basically, the same thing happens with the cake, but you don't, of course, use yeast, but you do use baking powder, and that also makes it a pleasant and spongy texture to it! It's just so interesting and amazing that all of those little things can really change it in all of these different ways!
Well, see you next time! Bye!