4,711 baking soda recipes

Mother's Oh and Ah! cake is a vintage red velvet-style chocolate sour cream cake with deep cocoa flavor and a tender crumb. Cake flour and sour cream make it pillow-soft. A drop of red food coloring gives it that signature reddish hue.

Whole wheat cranberry bran bread folds chopped cranberries, raisin bran cereal, and orange juice into a moist, high-fiber quickbread loaf. Freezes well, perfect for breakfast or snacks.

Peppernuts cookies with ground raisins, coconut, and nuts in a brown sugar-buttermilk dough, rolled into ropes and cut into bite-sized pieces. A Mennonite holiday tradition.

Sour cream pound cake bakes a tall, dense Bundt-style cake with a tangy crumb from a full cup of sour cream. Vanilla and lemon extract carry the flavor, with optional coconut for chew.

Creamy Reuben soup: corned beef, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese melted into a half-and-half base for everything you love about a Reuben sandwich in a bowl. Serve with rye croutons.

Slice and bake chocolate chip cookies with a make-ahead freezer dough. Shape four logs, freeze for up to 6 months, and bake fresh cookies anytime in 10 minutes.

Old-fashioned drop cookies made with real sorghum syrup, buttermilk, and warm spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Topped with raisins and ready in 20 minutes.

Roll-out molasses cookies with eggs and cream of tartar that chill overnight before baking into soft, pillowy rounds. The baking soda foams in the molasses for extra lift and tender texture.

Fast roll-out molasses cookies without eggs that bake in 12-15 minutes. Baking soda dissolved in warm water or tea creates tender texture with ginger spice and rich molasses flavor for same-day baking.

Vinegar cake is an old-fashioned chocolate layer cake leavened with baking soda and vinegar instead of baking powder. Sour milk and unsweetened chocolate create a moist, tangy, deeply chocolatey crumb.

Wacky cake (Depression-era chocolate cake) made with no eggs, no milk, no butter. Vinegar and baking soda lift it to fluffy chocolate perfection in one pan.

Favourite shoofly pie with baking-soda-aerated molasses filling, ginger and cinnamon spice, and lard-and-butter crumbs. The Lancaster County classic with extra lift and warm spice.

Fudgy brownie cake baked right in wide-mouth canning jars and sealed hot for gift-giving or storage. Cocoa, buttermilk, and walnuts make a rich, moist crumb that keeps beautifully in the sealed jar.

This cake won me First Prize at the county fair last year. It is very chocolaty.

When you taste these homemade gingersnap cookies, you will fall in love with them, and never buy the store-bought bagged or boxed stuff any more. They are so delicious.

Classic gingerbread people cookies with molasses, brown sugar, and warm spices. Makes 30 crisp-tender cookies, perfect for decorating with kids for Christmas baking.