Can you substitute baking powder for baking soda?

I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe I have to make that calls for baking soda. I have none of that, so could I use baking powder? If not, what else can I substitute baking soda for? ------

i would definitely go get some baking soda, if you use powder, the cookies will get big and not taste so great. I tried that once, my husband is still laughing at me...........trust me, get the soda lol ------

Baking soda is four times as strong as baking powder — so if your recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of baking soda, you would need four teaspoons of baking powder to produce the same amount of lift. Unfortunately, though, it’s not that simple.Baking powder is made of baking soda and the right amount of acid to react with the soda (it also includes corn starch to keep the ingredients from prematurely reacting in the privacy of their container). So if your recipe already has acidic ingredients that were going to neutralize the necessary baking soda, you are adding other ingredients in the baking powder that may not sit well with them.Substituting for a lack of baking powder is very easy: 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda plus 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar (ignoring the cornstarch) for each teaspoon of baking powder required.We’ve looked in dozens of books to be sure, but no one provides information for the reverse procedure — substituting baking powder when you don’t have soda on hand. To do so, you would have to consider the acidic ingredients in the recipe, and perhaps reengineer the recipe to replace them with more neutral ingredients (using whole milk instead of buttermilk, perhaps). But at that point, you would see, it would be easier and probably a lot more successful to pick up a box of baking soda.http://www.ochef.com/364.htm ------

No if you use baking powder it does something totaly different than baking soda. If your recipe calls for baking soda than go get some at the grocery store it is only 2 bucks. I work in an italian restaurant (my moms) and our recipe for our Italian Walnut Rum Cake calls for baking powder and my mom used baking soda instead and the cake came out completely different. It was a different color or much dryer. So i reccommend you use what the recipe calls for. ------

No, you can not substitute one for the other, you just have to go to the store or borrow from your neighbor. ------

There is no substitute for baking soda. Sorry.Bert ------

Dont bake em You are not bigger than science. ------