Ratio and Proportion

Gingerbread
Serves 10 – Ingredients:
350g/12oz plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
130g/4 ½oz butter
175g/6oz brown sugar
1 free-range egg
5 tsp golden syrup
Questions:
1. How many teaspoons of golden syrup would be needed
to make 2 servings?
2. If 1 tsp contains roughly 5ml of liquid, how many ml of
golden syrup does the recipe contain?
3. The recipe uses 130g butter. How many grams would be
needed to make 1 serving?
4. What fraction of an egg would be in each serving?

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Cupcake Questions:
Serves 12 – Ingredients: 1. How many grams of butter would be in each cupcake?
120g/4oz butter or margarine
2. How many grams of caster sugar would be in 3 cupcakes?
120g/4oz caster sugar
2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten 3. How many eggs would be needed to make 24 cupcakes?
1 tsp vanilla extract
4. How many grams of icing sugar would
11 0g/4oz self-raising flour
be needed to make 48 cupcakes?
1-2 tbsp milk

For the buttercream icing

140g/5oz butter, softened
1-2 tbsp milk
250g/12oz icing sugar

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Biscuit Questions:
Serves 12 – Ingredients: 1. How much of each ingredient would I need to make
150g/6oz plain flour 6 biscuits?
100g/4oz butter
5Og/2 oz sugar
2. How much of each ingredient would I need to make
18 biscuits?
For decoration
sprinkles
3. I used 1 tsp of sprinkles to decorate each biscuit. Each
teaspoon weighed about 5g each. How many grams
of sprinkles did I use in the recipe?

4. I used a fifth less sugar than stated in the recipe. How

much sugar did I use?

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Chocolate Cake Questions:

Serves 10 – Ingredients: 1. How many ml of vegetable oil would be in each serving?

220g/8oz plain flour
2. How many grams of caster sugar would be in 4 servings?
350g/12oz caster sugar
85g/3oz cocoa powder 3. How many eggs would be needed to make 4 cakes?
2 tsp baking powder
4. If 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder weighs 5g, how
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
many teaspoons of cocoa powder are in a cake?
2 eggs
250ml milk
120ml vegetable oil
2tsp vanilla extract
250ml boiling water

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 Ratio and Proportion Answers

Gingerbread
Answers

1. 1 teaspoon of golden syrup

2. 25ml of golden syrup

3. 13 grams of butter

4. One tenth (1/10) of the egg

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Cupcake
Answers

1. 10 grams (or approximately

22g, including the
buttercream icing)

2. 30 grams of caster sugar

3. 4 eggs

4. 1000 grams of icing sugar

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Biscuit
Answers

1. 75 grams/3 oz plain
flour, 50 grams/2 oz
butter, 25g/1 oz sugar

2. 225 grams/9 oz plain

flour, 150g/6 oz butter,
75g/3 oz sugar

3. 60 grams of sprinkles

4. 40 grams of sugar/0.4
oz sugar

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Chocolate Cake
Answers

1. 12ml of vegetable oil

2. 140 grams/4.8 oz
caster sugar

3. 8 eggs

4. 17 teaspoons of cocoa powder

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