What is it:
Dr. Oetker Baking Powder with Cream of Tartar 15 g is a dry chemical raising agent designed for baking cakes, tarts, sponge cakes, muffins and other types of dough, which helps the dough to rise and become lighter and fluffier thanks to the release of gases during baking.

🌿 Key features

✔️ Contains tartar (potassium bitartrate): potassium bitartrate is a natural ingredient produced during winemaking; in baking powder, it reacts with sodium bicarbonate to release carbon dioxide, allowing the dough to rise beautifully without the use of phosphates.
✔️ Starch content: the addition of maize starch ensures the even distribution of the raising agents throughout the dough.
✔️ Easy to use: the powder is mixed directly into the flour and added to the dough in the same way as standard baking powder.
✔️ Phosphate-free: the formula uses cream of tartar instead of phosphates, which may be preferred in some home baking recipes.
✔️ Small 15 g pack: ideal for everyday home baking following recipes.

🧾 Ingredients

• Raising agent (potassium bitartrate – tartar, ~50 %)
• Maize starch
• Raising agent (sodium bicarbonate)
(May contain traces of cereals containing gluten, milk, eggs and lupin flour due to the manufacturing process.)

🍰 How and where to use it

✔️ Direct use: mix the baking powder into dry flour and then add to the batter as per the recipe – it works just like standard baking powder.
✔️ Why: a chemical reaction between an acid (tartar) and a base (sodium bicarbonate) produces carbon dioxide, which forms bubbles and causes the dough to rise.
✔️ Quantity: the whole 15 g packet is sufficient to add to the amount of dough specified in the recipe (usually for half a kilo of flour), but always follow the specific recipe.

📊 Nutritional information (approximate – per 100 g)

• Energy: ~937 kJ / 240 kcal
• Fat: ~0.2 g
• Carbohydrates: ~64 g (of which sugars ~0 g)
• Protein: ~0 g
• Salt: ~15.6 g
(Nutritional values are approximate and apply to 100 g of the raw ingredient; the packet contains 15 g.)

📦 Storage

✔️ Store in a dry place at room temperature.
✔️ The sealed packet protects against moisture, which could cause the raising agent to activate prematurely.

📌 Summary in one sentence

🍰 Dr. Oetker Baking Powder with Cream of Tartar 15 g is a chemical raising agent containing cream of tartar and sodium bicarbonate, which helps dough to rise during baking and become lighter and fluffier, and is used in the same way as standard baking powder when making cakes, sponge cakes and other baked goods.

💡 Tip: If a recipe calls for standard baking powder, you can use this as an alternative without any worries (it also works as a versatile powder for light and fluffy baking).