Mix up this baking essential — or a good substitute — in minutes. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook called "Big ...

Almost every cook has faced this scenario: You're following a recipe that requires baking powder but you only have baking soda. What do you do? Can you substitute? Or this one: You haven't baked for a ...

You only need two ingredients to make this baking staple. It happens to the best of us. You're at the grocery store buying ingredients for a baked good recipe, and you assume you have all the staples.