Brown sugar (packed): cups to grams
Recipes assume brown sugar is packed into the cup, which gives about 213 g. Loosely spooned it weighs closer to 145 g, so "1 cup brown sugar" is ambiguous unless the recipe says packed, and American recipes almost always mean packed.
1 cup brown sugar (packed) = 213 g · 1 tbsp = 13.3 g · 100 g = 0.47 cups
Based on 213 g per US cup of brown sugar (packed), spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure brown sugar (packed)
Press the sugar firmly into the cup with the back of a spoon until it holds the shape of the cup when turned out. Light and dark brown sugar weigh the same; the difference is molasses content, not density.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 213 g per US cup comes from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart; other charts differ by a few percent, which is within the spread between two cooks filling the same cup.
Cups of brown sugar (packed) to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 27 g | 0.9 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 53 g | 1.9 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 71 g | 2.5 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 107 g | 3.8 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 142 g | 5 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 160 g | 5.6 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 213 g | 7.5 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 320 g | 11.3 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 426 g | 15 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 639 g | 22.5 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 852 g | 30.1 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 4.4 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 13.3 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 26.6 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 53 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 225 g |
| 100 mL | 90 g |
Grams of brown sugar (packed) to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.12 cups | 1.9 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.23 cups | 3.8 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.35 cups | 5.6 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.47 cups | 7.5 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.59 cups | 9.4 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.7 cups | 11.3 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 0.94 cups | 15 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.17 cups | 18.8 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.41 cups | 22.5 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 1.88 cups | 30 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.35 cups | 37.6 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 213 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: King Arthur Baking.
100 g of brown sugar (packed) is 0.47 US cups, or about 7.5 tablespoons.
13.3 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 4.4 g.
No. This page uses the US cup of 236.6 mL. The metric cup of 250 mL used in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe holds 225 g of brown sugar (packed), about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.