Conversions…

Following up on the importance of accuracy from last week we’re providing some simple conversions. A great source of confusion and frustration comes when baking cupcakes, cookies and cakes because the product at most markets comes in mass equivalents (grams, Kg and Oz) but, recipes are written for the most part in volume (cups, teaspoons, and table spoons). I’m not even going to attempt to go into a high school chemistry lecture as it wasn’t my forte to begin with and I don’t want to bore anyone. Simply put, great care needs to be used when converting volume (i.e. cups, litres) into weights (oz, lbs, gm, Kg) because of the differences in densities of ingredients. As an example a gram (gm) of liquid will take up less volume than a gm of flour which is light and fluffy. Even dry ingredients differ greatly in their densities (i.e. sugar, flour).

I’ve provided a simplified table that might help you when taking your recipe to the market to purchase your products or even reading recipes that where written in English versus Metric. Remember that there are 1,000 grams in a Kilogram. If you need to use grams instead simply multiply 1,000 by the Kg ratio. 

Happy Baking!