Conversion Between Grams and Cups

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Convert flour, sugar, butter, and many other common baking ingredients between grams, cups, ounces, and milliliters with ease.

FOLLOW THIS: The UK/US standard for a tablespoon is 15ml, so keep that in mind as you make your conversions. The standard volume of a cup is 240ml.

Please read on for details about how to use this converter and the reasoning behind the conversions that have been provided.

  • This calculator's background
  • The correct way to measure liquids into baking cups.
  • If you're wondering whether scales or cups are better to use in the kitchen, I've got a long list of reasons why scales are better.
  • A scant cup of what?
  • How does the calculator decide where to round off numbers?
  • Select Ingredient Conversion Tables
    • Water
    • Caster, Granulated, Granulated, Powdered, Confectioners', Brown, and Powdered Sugars
    • Different types of flour: white, whole wheat, spelt, and self-rising
    • Animal fats, vegetable oils, and margarine
    • Lactose and Casein Free Milk & Cream1
    • Dusted with Cocoa
Baking weight conversion title image. Easily convert between grams, cups, ounces and millilitres.

Isn't it inconvenient when you come across a recipe calling for US cups but you only have scales?

I think I finally figured it out. my Online Conversion Tool for Metric and Imperial Units

Since those are the most frequently requested conversions, I've dubbed it "grams to cups / cups to grams," but it can also convert between grams, cups, ounces, and milliliters for a wide variety of baking ingredients. You can freely convert between grams and cups, cups and grams, milliliters and ounces.

Just choose your ingredient, input your desired and actual conversions, and the calculator will spit out the exact measurements you'll need.

The current version of the calculator includes the following ingredients:

  • Water
  • Caster sugar, granulated sugar, icing/powdered sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, runny honey, golden syrup, and black treacle are all types of sugar and sweetener.
  • Ingredients: Various Flour Types (including Self-Rising, Plain, Spelt, Wholemeal, and Cornflour)
  • Vegetable oil, butter, and margarine are all examples of fats and oils.
  • Ground Almonds, Chia Seeds, and Linseeds/Flax Seeds
  • Buttermilk, Light Cream, Heavy Cream, Whipping Cream, Half & Half, Single Cream, Double Cream, and Buttermilk are all types of milk and cream.
  • Cocoa powder, chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, popping corn, raisins, cream cheese, desiccated coconut, pudding rice, nutella, custard, and skim milk powder are among the other ingredients.

I'll always be spicing things up with new additions. Please let me know in the comments if there is a song that you feel should be included but isn't.

Charlotte's Lively Kitchen has a free printable gram to cup and cup to gram conversion chart for 12 common baking ingredients if you sign up for their mailing list.

On social media, I enquired as to the preferred method of filling cups among my audience. For my calculator, I followed the standard practice of scooping dry ingredients like flour or sugar out of the bag and then leveling the top. In addition, before opening the bag, I like to give it a quick squeeze to remove any large lumps.

1 cup of flour is typically equal to 120 grams, according to many conversion charts. The only way I've found to get it that low, though, is to sift the flour before spooning it into the cup. Not sure about you, but I find it easier to sift flour after measuring it. Because of the way I fill a cup, the weights I use for flour will seem off.

To measure out ingredients that come in smaller containers, I simply pour them straight from the bag into the cup and then smooth the surface.

To ensure that the cup is completely full of soft ingredients like butter or cream cheese, I use the back of a spoon to push them into the cup and then level the top.

A levelled cup of flour

There is no substitute for precision in baking, which is why you should always use grams if possible when following my recipes.

It's much more accurate to use grams instead of cups, but there are other good reasons to do so as well:

How full your cup is affects the conversion.

While figuring out all of the conversions for this tool, I noticed that the amount of an ingredient I could fit in a cup depended heavily on how I filled the cup.

Both cups appear to be full of flour in the image below. In spite of my best efforts to pack the flour in as tightly as possible, the one on the right is over 40% heavier than the one on the left.

The difference between filling a cup of flour with a spoon or packing flour into the cup. The spoon filled cup weights 127g, the packed cup weighs 181g

You can't always put a cup in a cupboard.

A standard US cup measures 236 milliliters. The calculator I use assumes a volume of 240 ml, but most commercially available cups hold 588 ml. Some manufacturers, however, offer cups that hold 250 ml (but maintain a 1/2 cup size of 120 ml). )

As long as you know which is yours, this shouldn't be too much of a hassle. The fact that not all commercially available cups are of extremely high quality also presents a problem.

Both sets of measuring cups that I own don't accurately reflect the actual volume The 14 cup I use holds 65 ml when it should be 60 ml, and the full cup holds 225 ml when it should hold 240 ml (don't worry, I've made the necessary adjustments so the measurements are correct for a standard-sized cup).

It can be difficult to get some ingredients into the cup.

How do you measure cold butter from the refrigerator for a recipe that calls for it, like scones or shortcrust pastry?

You can't put everything in a cup.

Imagine trying to quantify walnuts. They won't fit as many if you throw them in whole, but if you mince them up first.

Now that the ingredient is inside the cup, how do you remove it?

After being filled, some ingredients, like Nutella or Black Treacle, can be difficult to remove. You probably won't get back as much as you put in, so you could reduce the amount of ingredients in your mixture.

Why interrupt your baking to do the dishes?

To continue measuring ingredients into one bowl, many sets of scales have a tare button that resets the scales to zero. This is convenient because it eliminates the need for using a plethora of separate measuring tools.

Consider a recipe that calls for one cup each of butter, flour, maple syrup, and Nutella. ) Either have a lot of cups on hand or wash the one you're using after each measurement if you want to be precise.

Less than a cup, or a scant cup. It's not the most precise measurement tool. In a similar vein, the amount that can be crammed into a heaped cup varies greatly from one cup to the next. Consequently, I never write a recipe using either of these terms (I always use a flat cup, tablespoon, or teaspoon instead).

A heaped cup of flour and a scant cup of flour.

I've rounded the numbers off to make the conversions more suitable for use in the kitchen.

  • To the nearest gram
  • Milliliters, rounded to the nearest milliliter
  • One and a quarter ounces to the ounce
  • Up to the nearest cup!
    • a quarter teaspoon (representing a measurement of less than one teaspoon)
    • Spoonful for less than a quarter cup
    • A table spoon if the volume is more than a quarter cup

I figured it would be useful to provide some conversion tables for some of the more common ingredients in addition to the main calculator.

Water

Converting Grams to Cups of Water Grams Cups 50g The proportions are: 3 tbsp / 1 tsp 100g 3 tablespoons (1/4 cup) 200g 1/2 a cup plus 1 tbsp 250g 1-1/2 tablespoons 300g 1¼ cups 400g 3 Tablespoons and 112 Cups 500g Measurement: 2 ounces plus 1 tablespoon   CUPS TO GRAMS OF WATER Cups Grams 1 tsp 5g 1 tbsp 15g ¼ cup 60g ⅓ cup 80g ½ cup 120g 1 cup 240g  
HOW MUCH SUGAR IN CASTERS IS IN THREE CUPS? Grams Cups 50g ¼ cup 100g ½ cup 200g 1 cup 250g 1¼ cups 300g 1½ cups 400g 2 cups 500g 2½ cups   How Much Caster Sugar Is in a Cup: in Grams Cups Grams 1 tsp 4g 1 tbsp 13g ¼ cup 51g ⅓ cup 67g ½ cup 101g 1 cup 202g   CONVERTING GRAMS OF SUGAR TO CUPS Grams Cups 50g 1 cup 1 1/2 tsp 3 tbsp 100g 1/4 cup + 3 tablespoons 200g one-third a cup plus three tablespoons 250g 1/3 of a cup plus 2 tablespoons 300g Amount: 112 tbsp 2 tbsp 400g 1 & 14 cups + 2 tablespoons 500g 2 and a quarter cups plus 1 tablespoon   CUPS OF GRANULATED SUGAR IN GRAMS Cups Grams 1 tsp 4g 1 tbsp 13g ¼ cup 54g ⅓ cup 72g ½ cup 108g 1 cup 215g  
GRAMS TO CUPS: Icing, Powdered, and Confectioners Sugar Grams Cups 50g 14 cup + 12 tbsp 100g 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons 200g 114 cups + 2 tsp 250g 1-1/2 cups + 3 tablespoons 300g 1 quart plus 2 tablespoons 400g 2¾ cups 500g The correct amount is 314 cups plus 3 tablespoons.   SUGAR (ICING, POWDERED, OR CONFECTIONERS) - CUPS TO GRAMS Cups Grams 1 tsp 3g 1 tbsp 9g ¼ cup 37g ⅓ cup 49g ½ cup 73g 1 cup 146g   PACKING GRAMAGE FOR BROWN SUGAR IN CUPS Grams Cups 50g ¼ cup 100g ½ cup 200g 1 cup 250g 1¼ cups 300g 1½ cups 400g 2 cups 500g Two and a half cups plus three tablespoons   PACKAGED BROWN SUGAR CUPS TO GRAMS Cups Grams 1 tsp 4g 1 tbsp 13g ¼ cup 51g ⅓ cup 68g ½ cup 102g 1 cup 203g  
GRAMS TO CUPS FOR WHITE FLOUR Grams Cups 50g 1/32 cup 2 tsp 100g 1/2 mug 2 tsp 200g 1¼ cups 250g 1-1/2 cups + 1 tablespoon 300g 1 mug + 2 teaspoons 400g 2½ cups 500g 3.2 tablespoons   How Many Grams Are in a Cup of White Flour Cups Grams 1 tsp 3g 1 tbsp 10g ¼ cup 40g ⅓ cup 54g ½ cup 81g 1 cup 161g   GRAMS TO CUPS: BROWN FLOUR Grams Cups 50g 1 tbsp = 1/4 cup 100g The equivalent of a half cup and two tablespoons 200g 1 & 1/4 cups + 1 tablespoon 250g One and a half tablespoons 300g 1 mug + 3 tablespoons 400g 2 and a half cups plus 1 tablespoon 500g 3¼ cups   GRAMS TO CUPS: BROWN FLOUR Cups Grams 1 tsp 3g 1 tbsp 10g ¼ cup 39g ⅓ cup 52g ½ cup 78g 1 cup 155g  
GRAMS TO CUPS: CORNFLOUR/CORNSTARCH Grams Cups 50g 3 tablespoons (1/4) 100g 34 cup + 1 tbsp 200g 112 cups + 2 tsp 250g Measurement: 2 ounces plus 1 tablespoon 300g 3 tablespoons and 214 cups 400g 3¼ cups 500g 4.2 tablespoons   CUPS TO GRAMS: CORNFLOUR / CORNSTARCH Cups Grams 1 tsp 3g 1 tbsp 8g ¼ cup 31g ⅓ cup 41g ½ cup 61g 1 cup 122g  
Grams to Cups: Butter and Margarine Grams Cups 50g 3 TB + 2 TB 100g a quarter cup plus three tablespoons 200g 2 tablespoons and a third of a cup 250g 1-1/2 tablespoons 300g 114 cups + 2 tsp 400g 134 cups plus 12 tablespoon 500g 2¼ cups   Converting Cups to Grams of Butter or Margarine Cups Grams 1 tsp 5g 1 tbsp 14g ¼ cup 56g ⅓ cup 74g ½ cup 111g 1 cup 222g  

Many American recipes call for a "stick of butter," but I've always wondered how much butter is actually contained in a "stick."

It takes half a cup of butter (113 grams, or 4 ounces) to make a stick.

GRAMS TO FL OUNTERS Grams Cups 50g the equivalent of 3 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons 100g 1/3 of a cup + 2 tablespoons 200g 3/4 cup + 3 tbsp 250g 1/3 of a cup plus 2 tablespoons 300g 114 cups plus 2 tablespoons 400g 1 & 14 cups + 2 tsp 500g 2.15 ounces minus 1 teaspoon   Conversion of Oil Measurement from Cups to Grams Cups Grams 1 tsp 4g 1 tbsp 13g ¼ cup 54g ⅓ cup 71g ½ cup 107g 1 cup 214g  
GRAMS TO FL OZ CONVERSION FOR MILK AND CREAM Grams Cups 50g 3 tbsp 100g 1/2 a cup 1 & 1/2 tbsp 200g 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp 250g 1 cup 300g 1 mug + 3 tablespoons 400g 112 cups plus 1 tablespoon 500g 1 mug + 3 teaspoons   How Many Grams Are in a Cup of Milk or Cream? Cups Grams 1 tsp 5g 1 tbsp 16g ¼ cup 64g ⅓ cup 85g ½ cup 128g 1 cup 255g   GRAMS OF COCOA POWDER IN CUPS Grams Cups 50g Approximately 3 tablespoons (1/4 cup) 100g 2 Tablespoons and a Third of a Cup 200g 1¾ cups 1 tbsp 250g 2¼ cups 300g 2.13 fluid ounces 400g 3 and a half cups plus 2 tablespoons 500g 4½ cups   GRAMS TO CUPS: COCOA POWDER Cups Grams 1 tsp 2g 1 tbsp 7g ¼ cup 28g ⅓ cup 37g ½ cup 56g 1 cup 111g  
Grams to cups calculator - Easily convert between grams, cups, ounces and millilitres for many common baking ingredients.
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