Butter Converter

Convert butter between cups, sticks, tablespoons, teaspoons, ounces, grams and more — instantly and free. Type an amount, pick the units, and get every equivalent at once. No sign-up.

Butter Converter

How many sticks of butter are in 1 cup?

This is the most-asked butter question in baking, and the answer never changes: one cup of butter always equals two standard US sticks. If your recipe calls for a cup and your butter comes in sticks, unwrap two and you are done — no measuring needed.

How many cups is a stick of butter?

American butter sticks are molded to exactly half a cup, and the wrapper is printed with tablespoon markings so you can slice off what you need. Half a stick, the amount many cookie recipes call for, is ¼ cup or 4 tablespoons.

Cups of butter to sticks, grams and more

Everything a recipe might ask for, from a quarter cup to two full cups — converted to sticks, tablespoons, ounces, and grams in one place.

Sticks of butter conversions

Working from sticks instead? Here is every stick amount you will meet in recipes, converted to cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, ounces, and grams.

Butter Measurement & Conversion: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet

The amounts recipes actually call for, with all their equivalents side by side. Tap “Use in converter” on any card to load it into the tool above.

The Full Conversion Chart

One master chart for butter: teaspoons to cups, in sticks, tablespoons, ounces, and grams. Bookmark this page — it covers every butter amount a recipe can throw at you.

How Much is 1 Stick of Butter?

A standard US stick of butter is all of the following — memorize one row and you will never measure butter wrong again:

• ½ cup — the volume every stick is molded to.
• 8 tablespoons — the markings printed on the wrapper.
• 24 teaspoons — three per tablespoon.
• 4 ounces — exactly ¼ pound by weight.
• 113.4 grams — the metric weight to use on a kitchen scale.

How to Measure Butter from Sticks to Tablespoons and More

1. Read the wrapper. US sticks are printed with tablespoon lines. Need 6 tablespoons? Cut at the “6” mark — no tools required.
2. Cut and count. One stick is 8 tablespoons, so each tablespoon is one-eighth of the stick. Slice the stick into 8 equal pats for tablespoon portions.
3. Weigh it. A kitchen scale is the most accurate method: 113.4 g per stick, 14.2 g per tablespoon. Weight works for cold, softened, or melted butter alike.
4. Use water displacement. No scale? Fill a measuring cup with cold water to the 1-cup line, add butter until the water reaches 1½ cups — you just measured ½ cup of butter.
5. Pack it for cups. Measuring cups only work if the butter is pressed in with no air gaps. Softened butter packs easily; cold butter should be grated or weighed instead.

Convert Cups of Butter to Grams

To convert cups of butter to grams, multiply the cups by 227:

The exact factor is 226.8 g per cup, but 227 is the kitchen-standard rounding and the difference (0.2 g) is far below what any home scale can detect. Use the converter above for the exact figure.

How to Convert Cups to Grams

1. Take your cups of butter. Read the recipe amount — say, ¾ cup.
2. Multiply by 227. ¾ × 227 = 170.25 g.
3. Round to the nearest gram. 170 g is plenty accurate for baking.
4. Weigh it on a scale. Tare your bowl, add butter until the scale reads the target grams.

How Many Grams Are in a Cup of Butter?

227 grams. One US cup of butter weighs 227 g (226.8 g exact) — simply two sticks at 113.4 g each. This single number converts any butter recipe between American volume measures and metric weights.

What Is a Cup?

A cup is a unit of volume in the US customary system, equal to 236.588 milliliters — 16 tablespoons or 8 fluid ounces. In butter terms, one cup is exactly 2 sticks. Note that a metric cup (used in Australia and some international recipes) is 250 ml, about 6% larger, so check which cup your recipe means.

What Is a Gram?

A gram is the metric unit of mass, equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Because it measures weight rather than volume, grams are the most reliable way to measure butter: 113.4 g is one stick whether the butter is fridge-cold, softened, or fully melted.

Cup to Gram Conversion Table

Cups of butter to grams, with the stick equivalent alongside for wrapper-counting.

How to convert a cup, ounce, stick, teaspoon or tablespoon of butter into grams

Multiply by the factor for the unit you have — that is the whole method:

• Cups → grams: multiply by 226.8 (kitchen shortcut: 227).
• Sticks → grams: multiply by 113.4.
• Ounces → grams: multiply by 28.35.
• Tablespoons → grams: multiply by 14.2.
• Teaspoons → grams: multiply by 4.7.

Example: a recipe needs 6 tablespoons of butter. 6 × 14.2 = 85.2 g — weigh out 85 g and bake with confidence.

Does your recipe require a stick of butter? Don’t worry, we’ve been there. Here’s a handy conversion chart.

Stick counts are the friendliest way American recipes measure butter — and this chart turns any number of sticks into the cups, tablespoons, and grams the rest of the world uses.

Cups to grams butter

The quick-lookup version: cups of butter straight to grams. Tap any row to load it into the converter.

Stick of butter in grams

For everyday cooking, 113 g is close enough; for precise pastry work, use 113.4 g. Remember this is the American stick — if your butter comes in a 250 g European block, cut slightly less than half the block.

How many grams butter in an ounce?

Ounces sit halfway between tablespoons and sticks: 2 tablespoons make an ounce, and 4 ounces make a stick. A recipe calling for 4 oz of butter wants exactly one stick (113.4 g).

Tablespoon to grams butter

Since a tablespoon is one-eighth of a stick, the math is simple: 113.4 ÷ 8 = 14.175 g. For rough measuring, 14 g per tablespoon; for scale work, 14.2 g. Three teaspoons make a tablespoon, so one teaspoon of butter is about 4.7 g.

Grams of Butter to Cups

Going the other way — from a metric recipe back to American cups — divide grams by 227:

Common ones to memorize: 227 g = 1 cup, 170 g = ¾ cup, 113 g = ½ cup (one stick), 57 g = ¼ cup.

Butter Grams to Cups Calculator

Skip the division — the converter at the top of this page is also a butter grams to cups calculator. Set the left dropdown to Grams, the right one to Cups, type your grams, and the answer appears instantly with every other equivalent listed below it.

Butter Conversion Table: Grams to Cups, Sticks & Tablespoons

Metric butter weights converted to the cups, sticks, tablespoons, and ounces American recipes use.

How to Measure Butter Accurately

• Weigh it when it matters. A digital kitchen scale beats every volume method, especially for pastry, where a few grams change the texture.
• Level, don’t heap. If you must use cups, press softened butter in firmly and level the top — air gaps are the biggest source of error.
• Trust the wrapper lines. US stick wrappers are printed with tablespoon marks; cutting on the lines is accurate to within a gram or two.
• Measure cold butter by weight. Cold butter won’t pack into a cup without gaps, so grate it or weigh it instead of guessing.
• Keep units consistent. Don’t mix a “cup” of melted butter with a “cup” of cold butter in the same recipe — pick weight or volume and stick with it.

Check the butter state your recipe requires

Butter’s state changes its volume but never its weight — 113 g is one stick whether cold, softened, or melted. Recipes specify a state for a reason: cold, firm butter cut into flour makes flaky pastry; softened butter (cool room temperature, holding a fingerprint) creams with sugar for cakes; melted butter gives chewy brownies and crisp cookies. If a recipe says “1 cup melted butter,” melt first, then measure — melting shrinks the volume as air pockets collapse.

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