# Cake from scratch: need help to make lighter, less dense

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-from-scratch-need-help-to-make-lighter-less-dense/473991>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 22, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-from-scratch-need-help-to-make-lighter-less-dense/473991 "2008-11-22T14:40:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-from-scratch-need-help-to-make-lighter-less-dense/473991/21 "2008-12-01T22:11:30Z")

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> [@crazyjoe](#):
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> I’d venture to say that the recipe somehow got things reversed. Baking powder contains a good deal of baking soda to begin with, and you’re adding a load more of it with all that soda.

Dingdingding! we have a winner, I sent my mom a link to this and after consulting her copy of the recipe, they are transposed. So my grandmother at some point had written it down backwards. But the texture on Thursday’s cake ended up lighter, if a little dry. After it was iced, I didn’t taste the soda at all.

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