Listen, I’m not here to judge you. If you want to eyeball it and tell yourself, “That looks about right,” go for it. Half of 1 cup and 3/4 is essentially a cup minus a little bit. It’s like a full cup that’s been on a diet for a week.
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Some folks just dump a full cup of flour, then eat a spoonful of it out of the bag. Problem solved! Is it accurate? No. Does it taste good? Probably, because flour is just a vehicle for butter and sugar anyway.
When You’re Baking for Show
If you’re baking a cake for a birthday, you might actually care. In that case, use the scale. A digital scale weighs flour in grams, which is the lazy person’s secret weapon. Half of 1 cup and 3/4 (all-purpose flour) is about 95 grams.
That’s roughly the weight of a slightly overfed hamster. And you can trust a hamster more than a measuring cup, honestly. Hamsters don’t lie, and they don’t judge your uneven pancake stacks.
