Making biscuits, no scales 😩

[runnerblade95]

Literally this, DD is driving me mad, rainy day, nothing to do, so we’re making biscuits. But just realised that I let my sister borrow our scales a few weeks ago and still not got them back. What do I do?! Can I use one of DD’s old milk bottles (with ml measurements) to measure grams?? Please don’t laugh. Or just laugh silently if need be. 🤣😩

Do you have American cups? Google a similar American recipe and there will be loads for cookies!

American cups? How do you mean? Size-wise? I don’t think so unfortunately. I’m based in UK 😔

You can follow a US cup recipe by volume, cup = 240ml

And some measuring jugs show flour, sugar, rice etc measurements and butter has markings of 50g on packaging.

Equal measurements of peanut butter and sugar (whatever cup you have or small ramekin/yogurt pot). Mix together with one egg. Put teaspoon amounts of the sticky mixture on a baking tray - roughly 9 to a tray Bake for 10 mins has mark 4.

no scales or fiddly measuring needed.

1 heaped tablespoon of flour = approx 1 oz = 30g
butter you mark off the pack, so if your pack is 250g then 125 is half a pack etc.
sugar - you can guess similar to the flour

and that should be all you need for biscuits

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-cookies/

As a PP said, an American cup is 240ml.

Thank you all so much for your answers! I think I did it 🥴

Most of it by eye but fingers crossed they come out ok!?

DD will eat them anyway since she is a literal hoover when it comes to food!

Fingers crossed!

Will let you all know how they turned out!

I was taught to bake by using a rounded tablespoon = 1oz (or roughly 25g). Use hard butter so you can mark off the pack.

Well done for getting something in the oven! I’m sure they will taste great.

My dd made cookies in food tech yesterday and one of the other girls didn’t measure out her ingredients properly but the cookies turned out okay!

I have American cup measurements at home because I use quite a few US recipes but they are really useful to have anyway for baking with kids.

Yes, I love this idea! Thank you!

Thank you!

I hope they turned out okay with my estimated weight of the ingredients!

What do you all think? Hope I did okay?! DD loved them to be fair! She’s eaten all of them if you can believe that? Diarrhoea impending me-thinks 😅

Yay! She’s done brilliantly

Star baker 😋

Haha thank you guys, much appreciated 😊

American, Australian or New Zealand recipies should all be in cups 😁