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I love this recipe. I did however, add more powered sugar to this recipe...about a cup more. My husband loves the icing sweet. Thank you for the recipe and I absolutely love your shows.....I have been watching since 'THE NAKED CHEF". Before the babies came. Have a wonderful life.<br />

Not only do you have google available to you, I also have scales in my kitchen which do both ounces and grams... <br /> <br /> Also cooking isn't always an exact science - use what you know, adapt and make it work.... <br /> <br /> If I am making an American recipe (I am in NZ) I just use my standard cup sizes and measurements, in the end the ratio is correct and I haven't had a failure yet! <br /> <br /> For those of you who are confused by using a tablespoon as a measurement for butter is usually around 15grams. <br /> <br /> Also a cup is 250g.

I made this today, i only had half a container of cream cheese so i made a half batch. There was still plenty to do the top of the cake and the sides. Also was very tasty!

I hate the fact that many people say they always bake with the recipes memorized, and when you ask for the recipe, they'll say they don't remember exactly, and if you manage to get the recipe from them, you'll notice they don't even follow that same recipe. Also they'll tell you that you cannot bake with a recipe because you need to have gut feeling about how much you use the ingredients.. <br /> <br /> In reality, they are jealous about their unique recipe, and they have NO CLUE how to measure the ingredients, and they keep tasting the dough and adjusting the taste.. <br /> <br /> It leads to the fact that you cannot succeed in the first trial of such recipe as you don't have the gut feeling. I hate failing with new recipes, and I hate the trial&error -method of baking and cooking.<br />

I googled "cream cheese frosting" looking for a recipe and came across this one, which looks delicious. So then I scroll down to the comments to see if others enjoyed the recipe or not... and all I see are ridiculously idiotic comments about the measurements. Are you people kidding me??? If you read this recipe, then you must be using a computer connected to the Internet, so please, for the love of God, google "measurement conversion chart" and find a conversion. you can even type in "cup to ml" and google will provide the answer. I mean really, are people that daft? Don't even get me started on the last poster who said they "can't do this recipe no as I have no idea what a measurement of 'cup' is". Good grief, I'm surprised that this person was even able to find this website at all.<br /> To the recipe poster, thank you very much, I look forward to trying it this Monday and I expect it will turn out nicely as I've compared it to a few others on the web and this seems to have a better ratio of similar ingredients.

Why hasn't anyone commented on how fantastic this frosting is!! Two words: YUM. YUM. It is so chocolately and delicious! Thank you Jamie!<br /> <br /> Ps. Here is another word IPhone. There is a conversion app that has liquid, mass, length, etc.<br /> :)

I'm not keen on the mixing of meausurements. Stick to one kind - metric, imperial or cups, but not a combination!

In Australia, 1 cup = 250ml. I'm not sure if an American cup is the same.

One word: Google.

Finding conversions for cups is incredibly easy online.

Most British recipes are published with both metric and imperial measures, and DON'T use 'cups' - that's American. But how can Swedes (or Americans) measure solids like meat, veg, cheese and especially butter, in ml (or cups)? The weight is essentual, surely? A volumetric measurement is so naccurate, even for sugar and flour, becuse it depends on how much air space is left, and how level the top is.

You can get measuring cups pretty much anywhere for cheap. Or you can find a conversion easily online. In some places, this is the only kind of measurement used so get used to it!

I know, In Sweden we use ml in all recepies, basically 100 ml = 0.1 of a litre and we call this 1 decilitre. Every single recipe uses decilitre measurements for both liquids and solids and every household has a decilitre and 0.5 of a decilitre measurement cup at home which comes in a set w a teaspoon and tablespoon measurement too. Don't know why this isn't used anywhere else, it's so much easier than cups, ounces, grams etc. that the Americans and British seem to favour.
I often use American or British recipes which I find on-line and then I search on-line to find the conversions into ml - it's quite easy so don't give up.
Maybe Jamie can introduce the Swedish much easier system in the UK to make cooking and baking easier?

why do people put on 'cups'!! lots of people dont use them! cant do this recipe now as have no idea what a measurement of 'cup' is!