Butter: cups to grams
A cup of butter is two American sticks, 8 ounces, 227 g; each stick is ½ cup or 8 tablespoons and is printed with tablespoon marks on the wrapper. European butter comes in 250 g blocks, which is 1 cup plus 1½ tablespoons.
1 cup butter = 227 g · 1 tbsp = 14.2 g · 100 g = 0.44 cups
Based on 227 g per US cup of butter, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure butter
Use the wrapper marks or a scale rather than a cup; butter does not level. 1 tablespoon = 14 g, 1 stick = 113 g, 1 cup = 227 g, 250 g block = 1.1 cups.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 227 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 butter to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 28 g | 1 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 57 g | 2 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 76 g | 2.7 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 114 g | 4 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 151 g | 5.3 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 170 g | 6 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 227 g | 8 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 341 g | 12 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 454 g | 16 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 681 g | 24 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 908 g | 32 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 4.7 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 14.2 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 28.4 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 57 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 240 g |
| 100 mL | 96 g |
Grams of butter to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.11 cups | 1.8 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.22 cups | 3.5 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.33 cups | 5.3 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.44 cups | 7 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.55 cups | 8.8 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.66 cups | 10.6 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 0.88 cups | 14.1 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.1 cups | 17.6 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.32 cups | 21.1 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 1.76 cups | 28.2 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.2 cups | 35.2 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 227 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: King Arthur Baking.
100 g of butter is 0.44 US cups, or about 7 tablespoons.
14.2 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 4.7 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 240 g of butter, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.