Choc-chip Blueberry Chocolate

Ingredient Measured in muffins muffins Cupcakes cake DF chocolate cake

Baking powder tsp 3 2 1
Baking soda tsp 1
Blueberries g 125
Brown sugar g
Butter g 75 125 125
Caster sugar g 250 125 125 75 175
Chocolate chips g 100
Cocoa powder g 50 15
Eggs 2 2 2 2
Honey tbsp 2
Icing sugar g 225
Margarine g 125
Milk ml 250 300 150
Plain chocolate g 75
Plain flour g 400 275 200
Salt tsp 1
Self-raising flour g 125 150
Vanilla essence tsp 1 1
Vegetable oil ml 125 75
Vinegar tsp 1
Water ml 225
Number of ingredients in each recipe:

Total number of ingredients listed in column A:

Instructions & tips

Your task is to use functions to fill in the shaded cells above.

Maximum
For and minimum:
each ingredient, what is the biggest amount any of the recipes need of it (use the MAX function), and what is the
smallest amount (use the MIN function)?

Total
the Total column, work out how much of each ingredient they need for doing that.
Will 1 litre be enough milk? What about 1kg of caster sugar and 1kg of plain flour?

Number of ingredients (row 24)

Below
Use theeach recipe,
column usenotation
range the COUNTA function to count
with COUNTA fill in how many
the total ingredients
number the recipelisted
of ingredients uses.in the Ingredient column
(column A).
DF chocolate DF choc-chip
cupcakes cookie bars Maximum Minimum Total

148

175
175
30
3 2

175 165

75
355
1
150
1 2
 Quantity in
Ingredient Measured in Quantity grams
Chocolate chip muffins
Eggs 2 Instructions
Vegetable oil ml 125 You are going to compare the proportions of
Semi-skimmed milkml 250 The comparison will be according to weight
Caster sugar g 250 Step 1
Flour g 400 Choose one of the recipes to work with.
Baking powder tsp 3 Step 2
Salt tsp 1 In the right-most column, convert each meas
Chocolate chips g 100 Step 3
Then make a pie chart of the quantity in gr
Blueberry muffins Questions
Flour g 275 Which ingredient makes up the biggest prop
Baking powder tsp 2 Which ingredient makes up the smallest prop
Caster sugar g 125 Did you know?
Butter, melted g 75 Ingredients lists on food packaging usually l
Eggs, beaten 2 Have a look the next time you've got packag
Milk ml 300
Blueberries g 125

Cupcakes
Self-raising flour g 125 Measurement conversion table
Margarine g 125 Ingredient
Caster sugar g 125 Baking powder
Eggs 2 Baking soda/bread soda
Butter g 125 Brown sugar
Icing sugar g 225 Chocolate chips
Cocoa powder
Chocolate cake Dairy-free margarine
Self-raising flour g 150 Eggs
Plain chocolate g 75 Flour
Honey tbsp 2 Honey
Butter g 125 Milk
Caster sugar g 75 Salt
Eggs 2 Sunflower oil
Cocoa g 50 Vanilla essence/extract
Baking powder tsp 1 Vegetable oil
Vanilla essence tsp 1 Vinegar
Milk ml 150 Water

Dairy-free chocolate cake

Flour g 200
Caster sugar g 175
Cocoa powder tbsp 2
Bread soda tsp 1
Sunflower oil tbsp 5
White or cider vinegtsp 1
Vanilla essence tsp 1
Water ml 225

Dair- free chocolate cupcakes

Self-raising flour g 150
Cocoa powder g 30
Caster sugar g 175
Dairy-free margaring 175
Eggs 3
Vanilla extract tsp 0.33
Dairy-free dark chocg 75

Dairy-free choc-chip cookie bars

All-purpose flour cup 2.5
Baking soda tsp 1
Salt tsp 1
Dairy-free margarincup 0.75
Brown sugar cup 0.75
Eggs 2
Vanilla extract tsp 1
Dairy-free chocolatecup 1
 compare the proportions of each ingredient in a particular recipe.
will be according to weight, which means you first need all the measurements to be in grams.

e recipes to work with.

column, convert each measurement into grams according to the conversion table shown below (hint: use a formula!)

chart of the quantity in grams of each ingredient in the recipe.

t makes up the biggest proportion in your recipe? Does that surprise you?
t makes up the smallest proportion?

on food packaging usually list the ingredients from most to least, according to weight.
next time you've got packaged food and see if the ingredient order is what you expect for that food!

onversion table
Amount Equivalent in grams
1 tsp 4
1 tsp 6
1 cup 198
1 cup 175
1 tbsp 7.38
1 cup 220
1 egg 50
1 cup 142
1 tbsp 21
1 ml 1
1 tsp 5
1 tbsp 15
1 tsp 4.2
1 ml 0.9
1 tsp 4
1 ml 1
be in grams.

shown below (hint: use a formula!)

ight.
pect for that food!
 Servings Price for one Quantity Number of
Item per pack pack to buy servings Cost
Soft drink 8 1.50 3 24 4.50
Bag of jellies 9 0.97 4 36 3.88
Crisps multipack 6 1.50 3 18 4.50
Pack of biscuits 12 1.00 2 24 2.00
Fun-size bars 14 2.80 2 28 5.60

Instructions Make a pie chart comparing how much money will be spent on the
Task 1 different items on the list.

Task 2 Make a bar chart showing how many of each item will be purchased.

Below the shopping list, add in a row showing the total cost of the
Task 3 shopping (use a function to work out the cost).

Explorer
Will there tasks
be enough of each item so that everyone in the group can have at least one
serving of
Do you thinkeverything?
there will be too much or too little of anything? Change the values in the
"Quantity to buy" column so that you end up with the right amounts.
Can you find how to format the total so that it includes a pound sign?