Help...Cake making but scales have broken. I only have dessert spoons

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So not sure how to measure flour sugar butter etc! Any advice. Just making fairy cakes

Or just found this...never used it before to measure

Saying 2.7oz so that's ok for flour sugar but not sure about measuring block of butter

Can you guess it from the pack size? So, if it's a block of 250g of butter and you need 100g, then cut about 2/5 of the block.

Maybe look for an American recipe as they tend to give measurements in cups?

Make an equal quantity sponge ? So a cup of eggs, flour, sugar and butter ?

Also our butter wrappers tend to have lines on one side as you unfold the wrapping at 50g intervals so you can cut off pieces fairly accurately.

Yes butter has markings...who needs scales!!! Rhanks folks

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Dont do equal volumes of flour &sugar. It doesn't work like that.
Find an American recipie, and follow that - but use Google to convert the butter into grams, and estimate from the packet.

Cooking with cups is good, but you need a volume based recipie, not a weight based one.

Check your measuring jug, I have one with markings to measure sugar and flour.

In the US, 1234 sponge cakes are popular.

1 cup of butter
2 cups of sugar
3 cups of flour
4 eggs

It makes a basic sponge cake.

@winterheatwave that’s interesting I’ve been making equal quantity sponges for years and they always come out perfect

Sugar is denser than flour so the weight of one cup of flour isn't the same as the weight of one cup of sugar.

British recipes usually rely on weight, American recipes use cups and rely on volume. They aren't equivalent.