As we discussed last week in our Milly's Baking 101, there are many things that can go wrong with baking one of the key things being weighing and measuring your ingredients. With baking it's essential you have all the ingredients at the perfect measurements, keeping the ratio correct for successful results everytime.

Here's our guide to converting your ingredients where necessary for accurate measuring everytime.

Liquid Conversions; 

In NZ, SA, USA and UK 1 tablespoon = 15ml however in Australia 1 tablespoon = 20ml

Spoon	Metric
1/4 teaspoon	1.25ml
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml
1 teaspoon	5ml
1 Tablespoon	15ml
1 Tablespoon (Australian)	20ml

Cup	Metric	US Metric
1/8 cup	30ml	30ml
1/4 cup	65ml	60ml
1/3 cup	85ml	80ml
1/2 cup	125ml	120ml
2/3 cup	170ml	160ml
3/4 cup	190ml	180ml
1 cup	250ml	240ml
1 1/2 cups	375ml	360ml
2 cups	500ml	480ml
4 cups	1L	960ml

 

The metric cup (1 cup = 250ml) is used in most countries with the exception of the USA where 1 cup = 240ml.

1 breakfast cup	10 fl oz
1 tea cup	5 fl oz
1 coffee cup	3 fl oz