How much does a cup actually weigh?
It depends on what's in it. Pick the ingredient, type the amount and watch the cup fill. Every weight is sourced, so you can bake by grams with any American recipe.
One cup, twelve different weights
Grams per level US cup, from the King Arthur Baking chart.
- All-purpose flour120 g4.2 oz per cup
- Bread flour120 g4.2 oz per cup
- Whole wheat flour113 g4 oz per cup
- Granulated sugar198 g7 oz per cup
- Brown sugar (packed)213 g7.5 oz per cup
- Confectioners' sugar (unsifted)113 g4 oz per cup
- Butter226 g8 oz per cup
- Vegetable oil198 g7 oz per cup
- Cocoa powder (unsweetened)84 g3 oz per cup
- Rolled oats (old-fashioned or quick)89 g3.1 oz per cup
- Milk227 g8 oz per cup
- Honey336 g11.9 oz per cup
All 67 ingredients are in the cups to grams converter.
Kitchen tools
- Cups to grams converter for bakingPick the ingredient, type the amount. A cup of flour and a cup of sugar weigh very different things, so the converter never uses one number for all.
- Oven temperature converter: °F, °C and gas markFahrenheit, Celsius or gas mark in, all three out, with the setting to use if your oven has a fan.
- Recipe scaler: by servings or pan sizePaste the ingredient list, then tell it what changed: the number of servings or the pan. Every amount is rewritten in measures you can actually use.
Baking guides
- Oven temperature conversion chart: °F, °C, gas mark and convection350 °F is 177 °C and gas mark 4. A full oven chart from 225 °F to 500 °F with Celsius, gas mark and the convection setting for each.
- Baking pan size conversion chart (with the area math)An 8-inch square and a 9-inch round hold the same batter. A 9x13 is about 1.8 of either. Pan areas, swap factors and how to scale the recipe.
- Why weighing beats measuring cups (with the numbers)A packed cup of flour can hold 160 g instead of 120 g. A tablespoon of salt weighs 8 g to 18 g. What a kitchen scale fixes and how to start using one.
- Cups to grams for sugar: white, brown, powdered and more1 cup of granulated sugar is 198 g, packed brown sugar 213 g, powdered sugar 113 g. Charts from 1/4 cup to 1 cup for 8 sugars and 4 syrups.
- Butter conversions: sticks, cups, tablespoons and gramsOne US stick of butter is 1/2 cup, 8 tablespoons and 4 ounces, about 113 g. A full chart from 1 tablespoon to 1 pound, plus metric recipes in sticks.
- How many grams in a cup of flour? Chart by flour typeA cup of all-purpose flour weighs 120 g, but almond flour is 96 g and semolina 163 g. Grams per cup for 18 flours and starches, plus how to measure.