Cups to Grams Converter for Baking

About 120 g for all-purpose or bread flour when the cup is spooned in and levelled, which is the value this converter uses and the value the recipe cards here are written against — 500 g of flour shows up as 4 to 4 1/4 cups. Scoop straight from the bag without levelling and the same cup can hit 150 g, so the honest answer is a range: 120 to 150 g depending on how it was filled. That is exactly why the recipes print the grams first.

Because the two ingredients do not pack the same way into the same 236 ml of space. Granulated sugar settles into a dense cup at about 200 g and packed brown sugar at about 213 g, while flour traps air and only reaches about 120 g. Cocoa powder is lighter still at roughly 85 g a cup. One conversion number for every ingredient would be wrong for almost all of them, so this converter keeps a separate density for each.

Use a dry measuring cup, not a liquid jug, and spoon the ingredient into it rather than digging the cup into the bag. Fill it until it overflows, then sweep a straight edge — the back of a knife works — across the top. Do not tap the cup on the counter or press the ingredient down unless the recipe says packed, as both add weight. The gram figure the converter gives you is the target; without a scale the cup measure is the closest you can get.

Yes. A US cup is 16 tablespoons or 48 teaspoons, and the ingredient's density applies to those smaller measures as well — a tablespoon of flour is about 7.5 g, a tablespoon of butter about 14 g. Choose tablespoons or teaspoons as the unit you are converting from, or read the tablespoon and teaspoon lines in the result to convert from a weight back into spoons.

A 100% hydration starter — equal weights of flour and water — weighs about 240 g per cup, and the converter has it as its own ingredient. But starter is the one thing here worth weighing every time: it is the ingredient you feed, keep and build a recipe around, and a cup of starter can swing by 20 g or more depending on how bubbly it is. The starter feeding calculator handles that side of the maths.

No. Every conversion runs in your browser as you type, on your own device. There is no upload, no account, no stored history and no network request of any kind — the numbers disappear when you close the tab. That is why the page can do its job with JavaScript alone.