Ever want to bake a few cookies without making an entire recipe? Dividing measurements isn't as ever as easy as cutting one cup in half. Sometimes a recipe calls for 1/3 loving cup or fifty-fifty worse...1 egg. There are a couple ways to divide measurements that will make dividing a recipe much easier and will let you bake your cake and eat it too.

Pause It Down

A lot measurements in recipes are easy to carve up and breakdown, especially when only dividing a recipe in one-half. Half of ane cup is 1/2 cup, half of 1/ii cup is 1/four cup, and half of 2/iii cups = i/3 cup.

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Others aren't as elementary. Take iii/4 cup for example. To divide information technology in half, it'due south helpful to break it downwards. Half of 3/four loving cup would be 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons, or half-dozen tablespoons. Half of 1/3 cup is even trickier. 1/3 loving cup equals 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon and so, half of one/3 loving cup would exist 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons.

Breaking everything down into tablespoons and teaspoons makes dividing measurements a little easier and helpful to know what cup measurements are made of.

  • 1 cup = 16 tablespoons
  • iii/4 loving cup = 12 tablespoons
  • ane/2 loving cup = viii tablespoons
  • 1/3 cup = five tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon
  • 1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons
  • 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons

Counterbalance It

Interruption out your kitchen scale and your calculator because the easiest way to split up a recipe in half is to weigh it then split. This is particularly helpful when you want to divide a recipe in half with a recipe that calls for an odd number of eggs.

Knowing how much ingredients weigh will allow you to separate them much more hands and much more accurately! When it comes to baking, kitchen scales are extremely useful and will give yous more consistent success in the kitchen. They're as well relatively cheap. Hither are how much common ingredients weigh in grams.

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour = 125 grams
  • i cup dark-brown carbohydrate = 220 grams
  • i cup granulated sugar = 200 grams
  • one cup powdered sugar = 115 grams
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa pulverization = ninety grams
  • 1 large egg (without shell) = roughly 50 grams (eggs can vary past a few grams)

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