1 US cup of butter = 227 grams = 2 US sticks = ½ pound. American butter wrappers mark tablespoon and cup lines so you can cut without measuring.
Ingredient: Butter — 227 g per US cup
This calculator uses the US recipe cup (240 ml); the precise customary cup is 236.6 ml.
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 57 g |
| ⅓ cup | 76 g |
| ½ cup | 114 g |
| ⅔ cup | 151 g |
| ¾ cup | 170 g |
| 1 cup | 227 g |
| 1½ cup | 341 g |
| 2 cup | 454 g |
| Grams | Cups |
|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.11 cup |
| 50 g | 0.22 cup |
| 100 g | 0.44 cup |
| 150 g | 0.66 cup |
| 200 g | 0.88 cup |
| 250 g | 1.1 cup |
Butter is one of the few cooking ingredients where US sticks, cups, and metric grams all have convenient relationships: 1 cup = 2 sticks = 227 g = ½ pound. American butter wrappers are printed with tablespoon markings (each = 14.2 g) and cup fractions, making it easy to cut the exact amount without a scale.
European butter typically comes in 250 g blocks. For a US recipe calling for 1 cup (227 g), you can use slightly less than a full 250 g block — cut off about 23 g (roughly 1.5 tablespoons). For most recipes this approximation is fine; for precise pastry work, weigh.
Cold, room-temperature, and melted butter all weigh the same — 1 cup = 227 g regardless of state. However, measuring butter in a cup is easier at room temperature (it packs solidly) than when cold (air gaps form) or melted (you need a liquid measuring cup). For this reason many bakers prefer to weigh butter or count sticks.
For baking precision, always weigh ingredients in grams rather than measuring by volume. Ingredient figures are culinary approximations based on King Arthur Baking and USDA references.
1 US cup of butter equals 227 grams (½ pound or 2 sticks).
250 grams of butter equals approximately 1.1 US cups.
Half a cup of butter equals 113.5 grams — which is exactly 1 US stick of butter.
1 cup of butter equals exactly 2 US sticks (each stick = 113.4 g = 4 oz = ½ cup).