Conversion Calculator For Cooking and Baking
Here is an all-inclusive conversion calculator designed to make your baking and culinary adventures just that much simpler.
Having access to a calculator that can convert between milliliters, cups, grams, and all the other methods of measurement is priceless.
There is nothing more frustrating than stumbling across the recipe of your dreams only to realize you don’t know how to measure the ingredients stated in it.
This is a common complaint amongst home bakers and cooks, hence the development of our conversion calculator.
Here is a calculator to solve your baking conversion problems. While grams to cups (and visa versa) is probably the most requested conversion, this conversion calculator covers them all.
It also has a list of the most popular baking ingredients that you can select from.
Read on to learn precisely how the calculator works and the suggested tips and tricks to getting the best out of your measuring techniques.
How the conversion calculator works
When you come across a recipe with metrics that are either foreign to you or that don’t have the right equipment, this tool will come in handy.
The steps to using the calculator are as follows:
Step 1: select the first metric that you are converting from. For example grams.
Step 2: select the second metric you are converting to. For example, cups.
Step 3: you will see an ingredient list pop up. Click the button to allow the list to drop down. Select your preferred ingredient.
Step 4: type in the amount or quantity of the ingredient you are converting.
Step 5: select “calculate,” and you will see a reading pop-up with the conversion answer.
Metrics covered by the conversion calculator
Here is a list of what measurements you can easily switch between with this calculator:
How many times do you read a recipe and face the following questions?:
- How much is 500g flour in cups?
- How many cups is 800g of sugar?
- How to convert 200g into cups?
- How to convert 250 grams to cups?
- What is 1 cup of flour in grams?
All the time, right? You’re not alone. So before we get into it, here is the list of all the measurements that can be converted:
- Grams
- Pounds
- Ounces
- Milliliters
- Liters
- Kilograms
- Tablespoon
- Tablespoon (10ml)
- Tablespoon (20ml)
- Teaspoon
- Pints
- Quarts
- Sticks (as in, sticks of butter)
Ingredients covered by the conversion calculator
Here is a list of which ingredients are covered by this conversion calculator:
Fats:
- Butter
- Margarine
- Vegetable oil
Flours:
- Cornflour or corn starch
- All-purpose / plain flour
- Self-raising flour
- Spelt flour
- Wholemeal flour
Milk and cream:
- Buttermilk
- Double cream
- Half and half
- Heavy cream
- Milk
- Single cream
- Whipping cream
Sugars and sweeteners:
- Black treacle
- Brown sugar
- Caster sugar
- Golden sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Icing / Powdered / confectioner’s sugar
- Maple syrup
- Runny honey
- Water
How to fill a cup correctly
This is a rather important part of measuring, as not all cups are measured equally. As you can imagine, if a cup is measured with an ingredient that is too densely packed, that can result in your recipe coming out a little drier than you’d hoped.
On the other hand, if you scoop the cup full of lumpy flour, those lumps can take up extra space in the cup and result in you under-measuring.
If you are measuring a dry ingredient out of a container, such as flour or sugar, make sure you loosen it up first before filling the cup up.
This can be done with a large spoon, either metal or wooden. Give the ingredient a good stir inside its container and fluff it up as much as possible so that it isn’t too densely packed.
When you are ready to fill the cup, fill a large spoon or tablespoon with the ingredient and fill the cup with it. Do not scoop the element out of the container directly into the measuring cup.
You’re going to want to level the cup off with the back of a spoon or knife to get an accurate measuring cup. A heaped cup is an over-measured cup.
Measuring wet ingredients is far more accessible as you can’t heap it up and over-measure.
The official US cup size is 236.588m, but most US cups are rounded off to 240ml for simplicity. There are some measuring cups are sold at 250ml. Half a cup should be kept at 120ml.
There is a reality around the fact that some measuring cups sold do not actually hold the amount they are designed for. This can lead to inaccurate measuring and, ultimately, the recipe failing or coming out really dry.
A scant cup is a cup that has been under-measured. Basically, it’s the opposite of a heaped cup.
What Is a Gram?
A gram is a measurement used to measure mass or weight and is part of the metric system. As with kilograms and tons, the metric system is used in many parts of the world as the main method of measuring.
The Imperial measurement system that is used by the US is slightly different from the original version as it was changed slightly by the US.
Grams are usually measured on a scale – either an analog or a digital scale.
What Is a Cup?
A cup in the United States is different from a cup in the United Kingdom, in terms of volume. Beyond the US and the UK, the rest of the world uses a metric cup.
It is no wonder people throw their hands in the air trying to figure this all out. It’s by no means simple unless you spend a lot of time figuring it all out.
To determine which cup size to use for a recipe, you need to determine where the recipe comes from. There are literally thousands of new recipes being loaded onto the internet every day.
These recipes come from all over the world; the key is knowing where they are from and whether they’ve been written for that country’s system.
That can be another stumbling block as some writers based in Europe, New Zealand etc, sometimes write for American audiences, so that would also need to be considered. Which cup size are they using in their recipe?
In the US, a standard 1 cup has a volume of 8 ounces. In the United Kingdom, a cup has a volume of 9.61 ounces.
Conversion Charts
These have been designed as little bite-size conversion charts.
Grams To US Cups Conversion Chart For Common Ingredients
Ingredient | Grams | US Cups |
Granulated sugar | 200 g | 1 cup |
Flour | 125 g | 1 cup |
Cocoa powder | 100 g | 1 cup |
Honey | 340 g | 1 cup |
Powdered sugar | 120 g | 1 cup |
Brown sugar | 220 g | 1 cup |
Butter | 227 g | 1 cup |
Grams To UK Cups Conversion Chart For Common Ingredients
Ingredient | Grams | UK Cups |
Granulated sugar | 280g | 1 cup |
Flour | 175 g | 1 cup |
Cocoa powder | 140 g | 1 cup |
Honey | 477 g | 1 cup |
Powdered sugar | 168 g | 1 cup |
Brown sugar | 308 g | 1 cup |
Butter | 318 g | 1 cup |
Grams To Metric Cups Conversion Chart For Common Ingredients
Ingredient | Grams | Metric Cups |
Granulated sugar | 237 g | 1 cup |
Flour | 148 g | 1 cup |
Cocoa powder | 118 g | 1 cup |
Honey | 403 g | 1 cup |
Powdered sugar | 142 g | 1 cup |
Brown sugar | 260 g | 1 cup |
Butter | 269 g | 1 cup |
Water: cups to grams (If you get a gram measurement)
Cups | Grams |
3 TBS + 1 tsp | 50 g |
¼ cup + 3 TBS | 100 g |
¾ cup + 1 TBS | 200 g |
1 cup + 1 TBS | 250 g |
1 1 /4 cup | 300 g |
1 ½ cups + 3 TBS | 400 g |
2 cups + 1 TBS | 500 g |
Water: cups to grams (If you get a tsp, TBS, or cup measurement)
Cups, tsp, TBS | Grams |
1 tsp | 50 g |
1 TBS | 15 g |
¼ cup | 60g |
1/3 cup | 80g |
½ cup | 120g |
1 cup | 240g |
Caster sugar – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup |
100 g | ½ cup |
200 g | 1 cup |
250 g | 1 ¼ cup |
300 g | 1 ½ cup |
400 g | 2 cup |
500 g | 2 ½ cup |
Caster sugar – cups to grams
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 4 g |
1 TBS | 13 g |
¼ cup | 51 g |
1/3 cup | 67 g |
½ cup | 101 g |
1 cup | 202 g |
Granulated sugar – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | 3 TBSP + 2 tsp |
100 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
200 g | ¾ cup + 3 TBS |
250 g | 1 cup + 3 TBS |
300 g | 1 ½ cup + 2 TBS |
400 g | 1 ¾ cup + 2 TBS |
500 g | 2 ¼ cup + 1 TBS |
Granulated sugar – cups to grams
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 4 g |
1 TBS | 13 g |
¼ cup | 54 g |
1/3 cup | 72 g |
½ cup | 108 g |
1 cup | 215 g |
Icing sugar/powdered/confectioner’s sugar grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 1 TBS |
100 g | ½ cup + 3 TBS |
200 g | 1 ¼ cups + 2 TBS |
250 g | 1 ½ cups + 3 TBS |
300 g | 2 cups + 1 TBS |
400 g | 2 2/3 cup |
500 g | 3 ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
Brown sugar (densely packed)
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup |
100 g | ½ cup |
200 g | 1 cup |
250 g | 1 ¼ cup |
300 g | 1 ½ cup |
400 g | 2 cups |
500 g | 3 ¼ cups + 3 TBS |
Flour- all-purpose, plain, self-raising – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 1 TBS |
100 g | ½ cup + 2 TBS |
200 g | 1 ¼ cups |
250 g | 1 ½ + 1 TBS |
300 g | 1 ¾ cups + 2 TBS |
400 g | 2 ½ cups |
500 g | 3 cups + 2 TBS |
Wholemeal and Brown flour – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 1 TBS |
100 g | ½ cup + 2 TBS |
200 g | 1 ¼ cups + 1 TBS |
250 g | 1 ½ + 2 TBS |
300 g | 1 ¾ cups + 3 TBS |
400 g | 2 ½ cups + 1 TBS |
500 g | 3 ¼ cups |
Cornflour / Corn starch grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
100 g | ¾ cup + 1 TBS |
200 g | 1 ½ cups + 2 TBS |
250 g | 2 cups + 1 TBS |
300 g | 2 ¼ cups + 3 TBS |
400 g | 3 ¼ cups |
500 g | 4 cups + 2 TBS |
Cornflour / Corn starch grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
100 g | ¾ cup + 1 TBS |
200 g | 1 ½ cups + 2 TBS |
250 g | 2 cups + 1 TBS |
300 g | 2 ¼ cups + 3 TBS |
400 g | 3 ¼ cups |
500 g | 4 cups + 2 TBS |
Cocoa powder- grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
100 g | ¾ cup + 2 TBS |
200 g | 1 3/4 cups + 1 TBS |
250 g | 2 ¼ cups |
300 g | 2 ½ cups + 3 TBS |
400 g | 3 ¼ cups + 2 TBS |
500 g | 4 cups + ½ cups |
Cocoa powder- cups to grams
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 2 g |
1 TBS | 7 g |
¼ cup | 28 g |
1/3 cup | 37 g |
½ cup | 56 g |
1 cup | 111 g |
Butter/margarine – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | 3 TBS + 2 tsp |
100 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
200 g | ¾ cup + 2 TBS |
250 g | 1 cup + 2 TBS |
300 g | 1 ¼ cup + 2 TBS |
400 g | 1 ¾ cup + 1 TBS |
500 g | 2 ¼ cup |
Butter/margarine – cups to grams
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 5 g |
1 TBS | 14 g |
¼ cup | 56 g |
1/3 cup | 74 g |
½ cup | 111 g |
1 cup | 222 g |
Butter/margarine – grams to cups
Grams | Cups |
50 g | 3 TBS + 2 tsp |
1 TBS | 14 g |
100 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
200 g | ¾ cup + 2 TBS |
250 g | 1 cup + 2 TBS |
300 g | 1 ¼ cup + 2 TBS |
400 g | 1 ¾ cup + 1 tsp |
500 g | 2 ¼ cups |
Butter/margarine – cups to grams
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 5 g |
1 TBS | 14 g |
¼ cup | 56 g |
1/3 cup | 74 g |
½ cup | 111 g |
1 cup | 222 g |
How much does a stick of butter or margarine weigh?
Weighing butter in sticks is a pretty standard way to measure out butter, especially in the United States. So, how much does a stick of butter actually weigh?
1 stick of butter is equal to 113g or 4 oz or ½ a cup.
Vegetable oil – grams to cups. This can be used for sunflower oil, olive, avocado etc
Grams | Cups |
50 g | 3 TBS + 2 tsp |
100 g | ¼ cup + 3 TBS |
200 g | ¾ cup + 3 TBS |
250g | 1 cup + 3 TBS |
300 g | 1 ¼ cup + 2 TBS |
400 g | 1 ¾ cup + 2 TBS |
500 g | 2 ¼ cups + 1 TBS |
Vegetable oil – cups to grams This can be used for sunflower oil, olive, avocado etc
Cups | Grams |
1 tsp | 4 g |
1 TBS | 13 g |
¼ cup | 54 g |
1/3 cup | 71 g |
½ cup | 107 g |
1 cup | 214 g |
Milk or cream – grams to cup
Grams | Cups |
50 g | 3 TBS |
100 g | ¼ cup + 2 TBS |
200g | ¾ cup + 1 TBS |
250 g | 1 cup |
300 g | 1 cup + 3 TBS |
400 g | 1 ½ cup + 1 TBS |
500 g | 1 ¾ cup + 3 TBS |
Milk or cream – cups to grams
Grams | Cups |
1 tsp | 5 g |
1 TBS | 16 g |
¼ cup | 64 g |
1/3 cup | 85 g |
½ cup | 128 g |
1 cup | 225 g |
Wrapping it all up
It might seem extreme to have all these conversion charts but really, they make the whole process of figuring out recipes and conversions so much simpler.
You can print them all out and pop them up somewhere in your kitchen or inside a little recipe folder.
The other option of course is to open up our conversion calculator which is a total cinch to use and do a speedy conversion.
The wonderful thing about this calculator is that it really does cover almost all the baking ingredients you are likely to need to convert.
Give it a try and let us know how it helps you in your baking and cooking practice.