Hee! I bookmarked these the other day, too...might make them over the weekend.

Those look can't-miss. Might try soon if I remember to buy the morsels.

See, I posted this so that y'all would try them and tell me if it was worth the morsel-buying. So, please.

ooooh they look good. Ignorant Brit question - how do you measure a tablespoon of butter accurately? We measure it in grams (or ounces) here... Is a stick a standard measure that you buy? (here butter comes in 250g packs)

Yes, in US recipes, "a stick of butter" means 8 tablespoons or (equivalently) 1/2c, as you can infer from the recipe. Often the wrapper the butter comes in has tablespoon markings printed on it so you can slice off 1 Tbsp or 3 Tbsp or whatever. In general you measure it like any other shortening, by filling a tablespoon (or in this case, more expediently, a 1/4 cup measure) with butter.

(One stick is also 1/4 of a pound.)

Thanks Wolfdog. I get cup measurements, although they're not commonly used here, and I have a set of cup measures and tablespoon measures for use with American recipes. My problem, though, is that while 1tbsp of sugar will all make its way into the recipe via the spoon, 1tbsp of butter is liable to stick.

I guess the tablespoon markings help a lot. Butter is marked out into 50g (or 25g, can't remember) portions here. One day perhaps I'll work out how many tablespoons are in one of those.

Looks like 1 tablespoon of butter = 14.2g. So a shade more than half of a 25g portion.

1tbsp of sugar will all make its way into the recipe via the spoon, 1tbsp of butter is liable to stick.

Wet the tablespoon in water before you pack it. Doesn't make a difference in most recipes and lets the butter slide out more easily as the fats repel the water.