To make baking powder, mix two parts cream of tartar with one part baking soda. Use the same amount of baking powder called for by the recipe. Otherwise, there are cookie recipes that just require...
you use baking powder Another answer: No, there are some cookie recipes, such as shortbread, that do not use any leavening. But most cookies require either baking soda or baking powder, or in some...
Baking powder is a leavening agent or rising agent. Some others are baking soda, yeast, beaten egg whites and other things. With out it your cookies will be thin, flat, hard and heavy, instead of...