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In a bakery, baking powder was not added while preparing cake. The cake obtained was hard and small in size . What is the reason for this.

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The reason for the hardness is absence of banking powder. Baking powder when added releases carbon dioxide gas, which gets trapped in the wet dough and bubbles out slowly making the cake to rise and hence soft and spongy
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