Is the cup used to measure flour is same with to measure sugar?

Question

I tried to cook cupcake using a recipe from magazine. The measurement was pretty weird. 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour, 3/4 cup granulated sugar. I used the same cup to measure flour and sugar. The cake turned up very sweet and I had to throw it away. Can someone advise if there is special cup to measure sugar? Many thanks

Answer 1

Please take the measuring cups and put them on a high shelf where you cannot see them. Maybe you will forget about them-which would be good for everyone- you should notattempt to cook again.

Go buy cupcakes!

Answer 2

1 1/2 cup is NOT ONE1/2 cup, but rather one AND one half cups. So essentially, you put more sugar in the recipe than you did flour. You need to fill up the cup, level off, and then fill the cup again up to the 1/2 mark, or use a 1/2 cup measuring cup. So that is why your cake was so sweet. You did not know how to read a recipe. You will learn. AND...Of course, you can use the same measuring cups. How ridiculous, all of these people telling you to buy two different sets. The only difference is fill the liquid to almost overflowing (when the top looks like it is slightly higher than the edge of the cup), and dry ingrediants should be scraped level with the back of a butter knife. Same for measuring spoons. Liquid to overflowing and dry scraped level. The other people who answered are purists but it is not necessary. Enjoy yourself and don't make it any harder than it has to be. Only thing is READ THE RECIPE AND FOLLOW EXACTLY, and in the order it tells you to do things. Do not skip ahead or add everything at once unless it tells you to. It is chemistry, afterall.

Answer 3

A cup is a cup. For measuring dry ingredients like sugar and flour it is best to use cups that can be filled to the top and leveled off. A set of cups in 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, and 1 cup would work for most recipes. To get 3/4 of cup use the 1/2 and then the 1/4 cup. Fill the cup till the ingredient is piled above the rim and then level it off with the back of a dinner knife or spatula. Do this over a clean bowl so you can return the excess to it container for the next recipe.

Answer 4

There is no special cup to measure sugar. There are dry measuring cups and liquid measuring cups. Did you scoop the flour up tap the measure 1 cup and then level off? and then use a 1/2 cup measure and then level off with a knife. And then do the same with the 3/4 cup of sugar? If you did all of that then it may be that it is just a really sweet recipe. If that is the case then I would try it again and just reduce the amount of sugar and see how it goes.

Answer 5

The "cup" refers to one measured cup, which is part of a measuring cup set you need to buy. It comes with4 pieces: 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup and 1/4 cup.

Another way to look at it is, that recipe calls for 1 part sugar for every 2 parts flour, as someone else already pointed out.

Answer 6

no!!!
remember flour is measured by weight. if you look on your measuring cup it will have a weight too. get a scale and go by that. or a good cook book will tell you how much a cuo weighs.
also remember flour tends to act differently according to humidity. if your dough looks a little thin you need to add more flour.
I learned this the heard way.
ALSO...
there are different types of flour. I am willing to bet if you went and got some "SWAN CAKE FLOUR" you would be blown away.
there is a lot more to flour than most people think.
happy cooking.

p.s.
throw away that recipe!!! there should have been a lot more flour than that. just get a better homes and gardens cook book. look up cake. just poor that batter into paper cups.
walt

Answer 7

There's dry measure and wet measure cups. Wet measure cups are usually glass pyrex. Dry measure cups are usually plastic and you keep in a drawer. They measure flour and sugar equally. Maybe you just didn't like the cupcakes? But if you used dry measure cups that's how it was supposed to turn out.

Answer 8

Well you need to watch your measurements. You need half the sugar as the flour (in your recipe) so that is why it was to sweet. Baking is an exact science unlike just regular cooking you have to be careful that you don't over/under measure or you will just have something gross.

Answer 9

first of all have two measuring cups, second of all if its too sweetfor you, cut back on the sugar by a 1/4 of a cup and try that and see if its too sweet for you

Answer 10

No. A measuring cup (US) is about 237 ml. A metric cup is 250 ml. I can find no cups that are 150 ml. If you mean grams instead of ml (grams and ml are not the same thing) that is pretty close.