Additives for Beginners in Baking

       Delicate desserts🍥 have become a must-have for everyone's life. Eating desserts can usually stimulate the secretion of dopamine, which can bring a good mood. Many people are not only satisfied with the taste, but also willing to bake by themselves. Therefore, home baking is the future development trend.

The most important thing in baking is the recipe. To make bread🍞, you need to use baking high-gluten flour, not regular flour. High-gluten flour is used for bread, and low-gluten flour is used for cakes and cookies. All-purpose flour is made into pancakes, dumplings, noodles, and steamed buns.

So let's take a look at what additives are commonly used in baking:

①Baking powder, a white powder, can be bought in general supermarkets.

②Soda powder is also a kind of white powder. Its ingredient is sodium bicarbonate. The aqueous solution is weakly alkaline. It will start to decompose when the temperature is above 65 degrees, and carbon dioxide will be released.

③Cream of tartar, an acidic white powder, the main component is potassium tartrate. When making cakes, it is used to neutralize the alkalinity of egg🥚 whites, help eggs foam and beat, and make cakes whiter.

④Vanilla extract is a pure natural additive that increases the fragrance.

⑤Cake oil is a kind of cake bubble emulsifier, which is mostly used to make sponge cakes, and also used to make some biscuits.

⑥Yeast, pure biological leavening agent.Food grade Sodium acid pyrophosphate is the acidic component of the leavening agent commonly used in the baking industry.In the process of reproduction, the yeast will release a large amount of carbon dioxide gas, thereby achieving the effect of expanding the dough. Moreover, when the yeast is fermented, substances such as alcohol and lactic acid will be produced. These substances will generate esters with aroma at high temperature, so that the baked West Point has a unique flavor and aroma. Yeast is generally necessary to make bread.

These are the most commonly used additives in the baking process, do you know it?👆