When you need this conversion
Baking from US recipes with a kitchen scale, converting family recipes to weights, and scaling recipes accurately up or down.
Weights per US cup
- Water: 236.6 g
- Milk: 244 g
- Vegetable oil: 218 g
- Butter: 227 g
- Honey: 340 g
- All-purpose flour: 125 g
- Bread flour: 127 g
- Granulated sugar: 200 g
- Brown sugar (packed): 220 g
- Powdered sugar: 120 g
- Cocoa powder: 85 g
- Rolled oats: 90 g
- White rice (uncooked): 185 g
- Table salt: 292 g
Measuring flour
Spoon flour into the cup and level it with a knife. Scooping packs it down and can add 15–20% more flour, which makes cakes dry and dough stiff.
Common mistakes
Using a liquid cup weight for dry ingredients. 1 cup of water is 236.6 g, but 1 cup of flour is about 125 g.
Mixing cup sizes. These weights are for the US cup (236.6 mL). A 250 mL metric cup holds about 5.7% more.
For volume-only conversions, use cups to mL. For ounces, see grams to ounces.