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Butter Grams to Cups

Convert grams of butter to cups, sticks and tablespoons, and cups of butter back to grams, starting from 200 g of butter at 227 g a cup. Butter is the one ingredient people measure by the stick as often as by the cup, and the numbers line up: a US cup of butter is two sticks, half a pound, 227 g, and the table below is built from that single figure.

To0.8811about 7/8 cups
Ingredient
Cup size
Round

Butter: 227 g in one US cup, a density of 0.9595 g per mL. Source: USDA FoodData Central.

Two US sticks, which is half a pound.

200 g of butter, in every unit

  • Cupscup · about 7/8
    0.8811
  • Tablespoonstbsp
    14.1
  • Teaspoonstsp
    42.29
  • MillilitresmL
    208.4
  • Fluid ounces (US)fl oz
    7.048
  • Ounces (weight)oz
    7.055
  • Kilogramskg
    0.2
  • Poundslb
    0.4409

Common ingredients

What one US cup of each weighs, and what your amount comes to in each. Pick a row to convert it.

IngredientGrams per cup200 g in cupSource
236.60.84531 g/mL
1251.6Spooned
1401.429Scooped
1271.575Spooned
1141.754Spooned
1201.667Spooned
2001USDA
2200.9091Packed
1201.667Spooned
2270.8811USDA
2450.8163USDA
2380.8403USDA
2180.9174USDA
3400.5882USDA
3220.6211USDA
852.353Spooned
1281.563USDA
902.222Spooned
1851.081USDA
1701.176USDA
There is no single answer to “how many grams in a cup”. A cup measures volume and a gram measures mass, so the two only meet through a density, and the density belongs to the ingredient. A cup of cocoa powder is 85 g, a cup of honey is 340 g, and both are correct. That is why the ingredient is a required choice here rather than an optional refinement, and why the number used is printed under every result with the source it came from. Accuracy. Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.

Butter: grams to cups and cups to grams

Computed with the tool's own figure for butter: 227 g per US cup of 236.588 mL, a density of 0.9595 g per mL, from USDA FoodData Central. The first ten rows are round gram amounts, the last eight are round cup amounts. A US stick of butter is 1/2 cup, so the 1/2 cup row is one stick and the 1 cup row is two.

GramsCupsTo the nearest 1/8 cup
50 g0.2203 cupsabout 1/4 cup
100 g0.4405 cupsabout 1/2 cup
150 g0.6608 cupsabout 5/8 cup
200 g0.8811 cupsabout 7/8 cup
250 g1.101 cupsabout 1 1/8 cups
300 g1.322 cupsabout 1 3/8 cups
350 g1.542 cupsabout 1 1/2 cups
400 g1.762 cupsabout 1 3/4 cups
450 g1.982 cupsabout 2 cups
500 g2.203 cupsabout 2 1/4 cups
56.75 g1/4 cupexactly 1/4 cup
75.67 g1/3 cupabout 3/8 cup
113.5 g1/2 cupexactly 1/2 cup
151.3 g2/3 cupabout 5/8 cup
170.3 g3/4 cupexactly 3/4 cup
227 g1 cupexactly 1 cup
340.5 g1 1/2 cupsexactly 1 1/2 cups
454 g2 cupsexactly 2 cups

Common questions

How many cups is 200 g of butter?
0.8811 cups, which is about 7/8 cup, or a little under two sticks. On a scale that is 14.1 tablespoons. The converter above starts on 200 g with butter selected; change the amount to convert a different weight, and the tablespoon and ounce lines are listed under the result.
How many grams is a stick of butter?
113.5 g, using the tool's figure of 227 g for a US cup of butter, because a stick is half a cup. A stick is also 8 tablespoons and 4 ounces by weight, and a US pound of butter is four sticks. If a recipe says one stick and you have a block, cut 113 g and you are within half a gram.
How many grams are in 1 cup of butter?
227 g, from USDA FoodData Central. That is two US sticks, half a pound, or 16 tablespoons. Margarine is listed at the same 227 g, shortening is lighter at 205 g a cup, and melted coconut oil is 218 g, so the tool asks which fat you mean rather than assuming butter.
Does it matter whether the butter is melted or solid?
Not for this table. The figures here are by weight, and 227 g of butter weighs 227 g whether it is cold, softened or melted. Volume is what moves: melted butter settles with no air pockets, so a cup of melted butter can weigh a few grams more than a cup of softened butter pressed in. That is a reason to weigh butter rather than a correction the tool applies.

Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.