Baking Cupboard and Flour Tea cups!

With the realization that our baking cart wouldn't work for us I decided to re-organize our baking cupboard. I used the Ikea Korken jars, I love that they are glass. I know that most food storage plastic is safe (especially if it's not going to be heated) but I like the extra security of glass.

The jars are really well priced, at $2.99 for the bigger jars you see and $1.99 for the smaller ones. Which put our grand total at $45 for the cupboard.

We store our nuts in the small jars, I know that nuts keep longer in the freezer but we only buy small amounts at a time and use them fairly quickly.
The small jars also hold, our dried fruit, our chocolate chips, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa, etc . . .
The larger jars hold, our different sugars, bread crumbs and things like that. 

That's all well and good but what about the big bags of flour and sugar???
We use to store the flour and sugar in plastic containers from Ikea . . . seen here.  They looked great all lined up, but it was really difficult to get a measuring spoon in (in fact the 1 cup spoon wouldn't even fit in). As well as you couldn't fit in an entire bag of flour into one container, so we were having to store the container and a half bag of flour . . . not very efficient.
I found 3 large glass containers at Homesense. They are elegant but also super functional because the flour container can hold two 5 lb bags of flour easily, and the sugar container can hold almost as much!

I wanted to find super cute measuring spoons to store in the jars but I had a really hard time finding cute ones (after all they'll be on display inside the glass container). I found three bone china tea cups at our local antique store. I got them for $1 each because there was only 3 and they didn't have saucers.

I took one cup and filled it with sugar then I dumped out the sugar into a measuring cup, it measured exactly 1 cup. So I know each tea cup is One Cup. I still use measuring cups or spoons when I bake but sometimes in cooking you just need a sprinkling of flour, and having a little cup inside is super handy! As well, if a recipe calls for a cup of sugar I can just dump in a cup without getting the measuring spoons out.

I was really enthralled with the idea of a baking cart, but I can't lie I am really happy with our baking cupboard and new containers!