Cookie Leavening

Learning Objective:

• You will know what leaveners are used in cookie baking.

• You will understand the rules of creaming ingredients.

Learning Goal:

• You will explain how chemical and mechanical leaveners work together to make a cookie rise.

It's a Team Effort!

Chemical Leaveners (Baking Soda or Baking Powder) work with Mechanical Leavening (Creaming Butter and Sugar). Read the following articles to see how it works.