Baking conversions
Cake Flour: cups to grams
Cake flour is milled finer and is noticeably lighter than all-purpose, so a cup weighs less — swapping them by volume is a common cause of dense cakes.
Cake Flour cups to grams
| Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 14 g | 0.5 oz |
| ¼ cup | 28 g | 1 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 38 g | 1.33 oz |
| ½ cup | 57 g | 1.99 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 75 g | 2.66 oz |
| ¾ cup | 85 g | 2.99 oz |
| 1 cup | 113 g | 3.99 oz |
| 1½ cups | 170 g | 5.98 oz |
| 2 cups | 226 g | 7.97 oz |
| 3 cups | 339 g | 11.96 oz |
| 4 cups | 452 g | 15.94 oz |
Cake Flour grams to cups
| Grams | Cups | Tbsp |
|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.22 | 3.5 |
| 50 g | 0.44 | 7.1 |
| 100 g | 0.88 | 14.2 |
| 125 g | 1.11 | 17.7 |
| 150 g | 1.33 | 21.2 |
| 200 g | 1.77 | 28.3 |
| 250 g | 2.21 | 35.4 |
| 300 g | 2.65 | 42.5 |
| 400 g | 3.54 | 56.6 |
| 500 g | 4.42 | 70.8 |
Cup standards compared
Convert cooking volumes
The charts above cover weight. If you also need to move between cups, decilitres, millilitres and spoons, this converts any volume:
1 cup (US) in every unit
A US cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml and a UK tablespoon is larger than a US one — so the system your recipe was written in matters. Pick the matching unit rather than assuming.
Questions
How many grams is 1 cup of cake flour?
One US cup of cake flour weighs 113 grams. That works out to a density of about 0.48 g per mL.
How many cups is 100 g of cake flour?
100 g of cake flour is about 0.88 cups, or roughly 14.2 tablespoons.
Why can’t I convert cups to grams directly?
A cup measures volume and a gram measures weight, so the conversion depends entirely on the ingredient. A cup of cake flour is 113 g, but a cup of honey is 340 g and a cup of cocoa powder is only 84 g.
Does the cup size matter?
Yes. A US customary cup is 236.59 mL, a US legal cup is 240 mL and a metric cup is 250 mL. Using a metric cup for cake flour gives 119 g instead of 113 g — about 6 percent more.