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You're desperate. Someone special is coming home, and you really wanna impress 'em with fresh baked goods. In the recipe, there's mention that you need some eeny amount of this baking powder stuff - a teaspoon or so. What difference could

that make to this huge cake? You don't have any on hand, so you leave it out, and bung the cake in the oven.

Bad move, baby. If you want to avoid cooking solid bricks and instead have light fluffy goodness, baking powder is what makes self raising flour do it's job, and gives loft to cakes and other scrummy stuff. A little amount can do a lot.

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