As someone who, well, has had her fair share of kitchen mishaps (my last attempt at frosting became frosting soup, and I had to substitute Nutella!), I am always happy to see that I'm not the only one these things happen to. Yes, I'm a cupcake blogger, but that doesn't mean I'm a pro in the kitchen.
Here's what happened to blogger A Mingling of Tastes: (click through for the whole story)
It turns out that there are some very important guidelines when it comes to the amount of leavening in recipes. Each cup of flour in a recipe can handle up to 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder OR just 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda (Of course other factors may come into play and some recipes may require a combination of the two.). The presumably reliable recipe I used as a blueprint called for 1/2 tsp. baking powder AND 1/2 teaspoon baking soda with just 1 cup of flour.
I can't really comprehend why it would ever call for so much baking soda. But, it was really fun to do some sleuthing and figure out how to fix my recipe. I ended up omitting the baking soda completely, resulting in perfectly level cupcakes, just like I wanted. I should also not that the one on the left is not as tall as the sunken one because I used less dough--not because it failed rise.
Here's what happened to blogger A Mingling of Tastes: (click through for the whole story)
It turns out that there are some very important guidelines when it comes to the amount of leavening in recipes. Each cup of flour in a recipe can handle up to 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder OR just 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda (Of course other factors may come into play and some recipes may require a combination of the two.). The presumably reliable recipe I used as a blueprint called for 1/2 tsp. baking powder AND 1/2 teaspoon baking soda with just 1 cup of flour.
I can't really comprehend why it would ever call for so much baking soda. But, it was really fun to do some sleuthing and figure out how to fix my recipe. I ended up omitting the baking soda completely, resulting in perfectly level cupcakes, just like I wanted. I should also not that the one on the left is not as tall as the sunken one because I used less dough--not because it failed rise.
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