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Scale a recipe to any number of servings and convert cups to grams — free, no account, straight from your browser.
Scale a recipe
Servings scaler
For 6 servings you need
3¾ cups
The original recipe calls for 2.5 cups for 4 servings.
Convert an ingredient
Cups to grams
2.5 cups all-purpose flour is
≈ 300 g
≈ 2½ cups · based on 1 cup = 120 g
How it works
Two little calculators, zero mental math
Enter an amount and the servings the recipe makes, then the servings you actually want. The converter does the multiplication and rounds to kitchen-friendly fractions.
Pick an ingredient — flour, sugar, butter and nine more — and turn cups into grams and back, using a stated grams-per-cup basis so you know exactly what you measured.
Take the numbers to the kitchen. Halving a cake, doubling a stew, or finally baking that American recipe with a scale — the math is done.
Common conversions
Cups to grams, at a glance
Reference weights for the ingredients home cooks convert most often — the same values the converter above uses.
| Ingredient | 1 cup | 1 tbsp | 1 tsp |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 120 g | 8 g | 3 g |
| Granulated sugar | 200 g | 13 g | 4 g |
| Brown sugar, packed | 220 g | 14 g | 5 g |
| Butter | 227 g | 14 g | 5 g |
| Powdered sugar | 120 g | 8 g | 3 g |
| Cocoa powder | 100 g | 6 g | 2 g |
| Honey | 340 g | 21 g | 7 g |
| Milk | 240 g | 15 g | 5 g |
| Rolled oats | 90 g | 6 g | 2 g |
| White rice | 185 g | 12 g | 4 g |
| Vegetable oil | 218 g | 14 g | 5 g |
Values rounded to the nearest gram. 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons = 236.6 ml.
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Quick questions
Is this recipe converter really free?
Yes, completely. No account, no trial, no download — the scaler and the cups-to-grams converter run entirely in your browser, and nothing you type leaves it.
How accurate are the cup-to-gram conversions?
They use standard reference weights — for example 1 cup of all-purpose flour = 120 g, spooned and levelled. Real kitchens vary: a scooped cup of flour can hold 140 g or more. For everyday cooking these values are spot on; for precision baking, weigh your ingredients with a scale.
Why do grams per cup vary by ingredient?
Because a cup measures volume, not weight, and ingredients have different densities. A cup of honey weighs about 340 g — nearly three times a cup of flour. That is why the converter asks which ingredient you are measuring instead of guessing one number for everything.
Can I scale baking recipes the same way?
Doubling or halving a baking recipe usually works, but beyond that the rules bend: yeast, baking powder and spices don't scale perfectly linearly, and a bigger batch may need a different pan and a longer bake. Scale the ingredients here, then keep an eye on the oven.
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