If you've gone to all the trouble of baking a homemade cake or batch of cookies, only to find they came out flat or dense, your leavening agent might be to blame. While baking powder and baking soda ...

It's a magic ingredient! Chocolate chip cookies, muffins, quick breads, and cakes—many of our favorite baked goods have baking soda to thank for their light and fluffy texture. Also known as sodium ...

While staying at my grandparents’ house last weekend, I was craving pancakes—until I opened the baking cupboard and found a jar of baking soda with a label from the early 2000s. Could it still work?