I just looked up 250 grams of butter. It equals 17.43 tablespoons (US) of butter, or just over 2 cubes (each cube is 8 tablespoons). Also, soda bicarbonate is just another name for baking soda. Castor sugar is sold as "superfine" sugar in the US. It is more fine than regular sugar but less fine than powdered. Apparently you can make your own by grinding granulated sugar in a food processor.

Thanks for looking that up Traci, I was a bit confused!

thx traci:)

250 grams of butter is also 1 1/2 cups. And one cup of self rising flour can be substituted one cup of all purpose flour + 1 1/4 tsp of baking powder + 1/8 tsp of salt. Thanks Traci for the other info :)

Cool! Thanks Traci and Samantha xD :)

Do you just cream the butter and sugar then add the rest of the ingredients?

soda bicarbonate is NOT the same as baking powder!!!

What would you recommend for soda bicarbonate?

Soda bicarbonate is baking soda...

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