Hi, it is my daughters birthday and she wants fairy cakes which would be very simple if we wernt living in Portugal on my husbands work contract and have no scales!! I normally use 125g of flour, butter & caster sugar & 2 eggs (plus a bit of milk) Can anyone please either help me convert that, or give me a different recipe please. I am from the UK so if you are a kind US reply I have no idea what a cup is??? Thank you so much!
Cooking & Recipes - 6 Answers
Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
1 :
125g flour is generally equal to 1 cup (8 oz). Even though weight is a better way of baking, most American recipes are reflected in volume measurements for ease.
2 :
a cup of flour is about 110 grams.
3 :
Well, I am US and I do try to always be kind - so here is my answer: One pound of flour is roughly 3 1/2 cups and one pound equals 455 grams. So 455 divided by 3 1/2 = 130 grams per cup. Roughly. Here is more: All-purpose Flour and Confectioners' Sugar U.S. Cups Grams 1/8 cup 15 grams 1/4 cup 30 grams 1/3 cup 40 grams 3/8 cup 45 grams 1/2 cup 60 grams 5/8 cup 70 grams 2/3 cup 75 grams 3/4 cup 85 grams 7/8 cup 100 grams 1 cup 110 grams This is from a "Continental Cooking" Cookbook I often use.
4 :
Do you mean convert it to oz? I'm not sure what you need converting, esp. if you aren't using cups... but anyways, one ouce is equal to 28.35 g. Seems like a small cake recipe...
5 :
It should be easy to get the weight of the butter approximately right, just estimate the weight going by the overall weight of the butter in the pack (eg half a 250g pack). Then you could improvise a set of scales with eg a ruler, some string and some plastic bags. adjust the amounts of sugar and flour until they weigh the same as the butter and each other. good luck!
6 :
I know it probably a little to late, but there is a website that has very a very accurate weight/volume conversion program: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com Just click "conversions" on the menu bar at the top and the rest is self-explanatory.
