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.
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
Common ingredients
What one US cup of each weighs, and what your amount comes to in each. Pick a row to convert it.
| Ingredient | Grams per cup | 200 g in cup | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236.6 | 0.8453 | 1 g/mL | |
| 125 | 1.6 | Spooned | |
| 140 | 1.429 | Scooped | |
| 127 | 1.575 | Spooned | |
| 114 | 1.754 | Spooned | |
| 120 | 1.667 | Spooned | |
| 200 | 1 | USDA | |
| 220 | 0.9091 | Packed | |
| 120 | 1.667 | Spooned | |
| 227 | 0.8811 | USDA | |
| 245 | 0.8163 | USDA | |
| 238 | 0.8403 | USDA | |
| 218 | 0.9174 | USDA | |
| 340 | 0.5882 | USDA | |
| 322 | 0.6211 | USDA | |
| 85 | 2.353 | Spooned | |
| 128 | 1.563 | USDA | |
| 90 | 2.222 | Spooned | |
| 185 | 1.081 | USDA | |
| 170 | 1.176 | USDA |
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.
| Grams | Cups | To the nearest 1/8 cup |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.2203 cups | about 1/4 cup |
| 100 g | 0.4405 cups | about 1/2 cup |
| 150 g | 0.6608 cups | about 5/8 cup |
| 200 g | 0.8811 cups | about 7/8 cup |
| 250 g | 1.101 cups | about 1 1/8 cups |
| 300 g | 1.322 cups | about 1 3/8 cups |
| 350 g | 1.542 cups | about 1 1/2 cups |
| 400 g | 1.762 cups | about 1 3/4 cups |
| 450 g | 1.982 cups | about 2 cups |
| 500 g | 2.203 cups | about 2 1/4 cups |
| 56.75 g | 1/4 cup | exactly 1/4 cup |
| 75.67 g | 1/3 cup | about 3/8 cup |
| 113.5 g | 1/2 cup | exactly 1/2 cup |
| 151.3 g | 2/3 cup | about 5/8 cup |
| 170.3 g | 3/4 cup | exactly 3/4 cup |
| 227 g | 1 cup | exactly 1 cup |
| 340.5 g | 1 1/2 cups | exactly 1 1/2 cups |
| 454 g | 2 cups | exactly 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.