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This is how to half a recipe when you are baking or cooking dinner at home. Plus we included a free printable with all the measurements you need to keep handy in your kitchen.

Ever wanted to cut recipes in half and make a smaller sweet bread or casserole because there are only a few of you at home. How to half a recipe can be confusing sometimes. SO since we have had a few of those huh moments myself, we created this free printable for all of us to keep handy!

How to Cut a Recipe in Half

We mean you can likely figure out what half of one cup is, but 1/3 cup of sugar cut in half?? Yeah sometimes it's too early to figure that out when you want a few cookies! Many times this comes into play in our house. If the kids are gone and our husband and we want a small batch of brownies, or maybe homemade spaghetti sauce.

Now there are a few things that can be a lot trickier than dry ingredients. When cutting a recipe in half that has an odd number of large eggs, we have an answer for that too!

How do you half an egg?

If you must halve a recipe like our popular corn casserole recipethis is a bit tricker when 3 eggs are needed. Remember that 1 large egg is equivalent to 1/4 cup so 1/4 cup cut in half would be 2 Tbsp. You'll find this on the chart below.

SO you'd use 1 normally, then whisk the 2nd egg in a liquid measuring cup and remove 2 Tbsp. of that, adding it into your bowl.

What can we use to substitute for half an egg?

Some people aren't into doing this, or may need an egg free recipe. In this case there are a few things you could use instead for the 2 Tbsp. your recipe calls for like:

Pressure cooker applesauce or store bought works, mashed bananas are great, yogurt – we'd use Greek or one with whole milk, even mashed avocado works

Dry ingredients listed in the recipe like sugar, baking soda, vanilla, flour etc….are easy using the printable though. One thing you should also remember is that is is important to measure flour properly.

If not you'll get that “uh oh” dense unappetizing baked goods coming out of the oven. Now that we have that out of the way let's get down to why you are here. In order to cut a full recipe in half you'll want this printable below.

Half Recipe PDF

Here is your half a recipe PDF printable here. You can print and use a magnet to hang it on your fridge. Laminate it and put it there so it doesn't fade or get food on it. Or slid it into your recipe book next to the original recipe you typically want to cut in half.

How do you adjust baking time when cutting a recipe in half?

You will want to use the same oven temperature. The cooking time will not be cut in half as you might think, you'll need a bit longer. For example if your cook time was 40 minutes, you'd need between 25-30 minutes.

Check after 5-10 minutes beyond half the time and add 5 minutes beyond that until it is solid. Then make a note on your recipe card what the ideal timing is.

Now when it comes to pan size, you'll want that to be smaller too. If we typically use a 9×13″, instead we usually choose a square 8×8″ or 9×9″ (whatever is clean really, either is fine).

And there you have it y'all!! We have even created a printable kitchen measurement conversion chart for you to keep handy for this. Now when you're scratching your head over what half of 3/4 cup is you can look at this list and keep moving along!