no
baking soda makes cookies bigger
Baking powder is a rising agent, designed to make breads and cakes soft and fluffy. This is usually not desired in cookies.
Cookie dough recipes generally call for either baking soda or baking powder, which create gas that expands and causes the dough to rise while baking.
The original Nestlés Toll House cookies (chocolate chip cookies) recipe calls for baking soda, not baking powder. There is no substitute for baking soda or baking powder in a recipe. You have to have it.
don't think you can, they wont rise .There are cookies that have no leavening.
Baking powder is used as leavening in baked goods such as cookies, cakes, quick breads, biscuits and pancakes. It creates gas in the batter that causes the product to rise.
The recipe that I use calls for baking soda.
no
One is not better than the other. Baking soda will make the cookies crisper, and make them rise more. Baking powder will make them softer. Take your pick. I baked cookies with baking soda and it made the cookies look more like sticky bread than cookies. You absolutely can NOT use baking soda at all. Baking powder is for cookies, baking soda is for stuff you want to rise (like bread). The answer above is false.
Baking powder and baking soda both act as a leavening agent. They would do the same thing
They are chemical (non-yeast) leavening agent usually used in quick breads, cakes and cookies.