If an American cookie recipe states 'sugar'... is it caster or granulated????

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

help!

Tricky, but would say probably not caster as this would be icing sugar

Obviously brown sugar is brown sugar.

So, I'd go with granulated sugar

What type are they?

If americans call caster sugar icing sugar, what do they call icing sugar?

I'm American. It means granular.

And katy icing sugar is confectioners sugar in the US!

Sugar - Grandular
caster - Icing
Icing - Confetioniers

HTH!

chocolate peanut butter chip cookies

Brilliant thanks!

fwiw caster / granulated makes very little difference in most recipes

I'm American, but caster sugar apparently isn't icing sugar...

here's a translation

urgent - half cookies made but just seen the time and have to dash out - do i leave the mixture at room temperature or in the fridge - will be an hour and a half!

fridge

ta

one more thing (or maybe I should start a new thread ):

If i decide to make them without cocoa in the future, would I just substitute with flour?

Currently 220g flour and 85g cocoa

yep if it is Self raising flour you may need to reduce the baking powder a bit

it's plain flour but add 1 tsp baking soda

ah now hold on - it says baking soda so i put in baking powder. should it have been bicarb? what do each of them do anyway

Umm not sure sorry

Good lord, I appear to have made 48 biscuits and eaten 4

give them to me, i'll look after them

[snatches]