How many cups is 15 grams of butter?
How many cups is 15 grams of butter?
Answer
One US cup (236.6 ml) of butter weighs 227 grams, from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 173430 “Butter, without salt”, portion “1 cup” = 227 grams.
15 grams of butter equals 0.0661 US cups; the way back, from cups to grams, is the Cups to Grams converter.
This is the US customary cup of 236.6 ml. A metric cup of 250 ml, used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, is 5.7 % larger, so the same weight fills 0.0625 cups of that size.
How 15 grams of butter was converted to cups
A cup is a volume, so its weight depends on the ingredient. One US cup of butter weighs 227 grams (two hundred twenty-seven), so divide 15 by 227.
15 g ÷ 227 g
≈0.0661 cups
(zero point zero six six one cups)
The weight of the cup comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 173430 “Butter, without salt”, portion “1 cup” = 227 grams. Scooped ingredients vary with how they are filled — spooned in lightly, a cup weighs less; packed down, more — so for baking a kitchen scale is the exact tool and this figure the standard reference.
15 grams of other ingredients in cups
The same weight fills a different number of cups for every ingredient: light, airy ones take many, dense ones few. Your ingredient is highlighted.
| Ingredient | 15 grams in cups | One US cup weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 0.12 cups | 125 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 0.075 cups | 200 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 0.0682 cups | 220 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 0.1 cups | 145 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 0.13 cups | 120 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 0.15 cups | 100 grams |
| Butter | 0.0661 cups | 227 grams |
| Water | 0.0634 cups | 236.6 grams |
| Whole milk | 0.0615 cups | 244 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 0.0811 cups | 185 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 0.0949 cups | 158 grams |
| Rolled oats | 0.19 cups | 81 grams |
| Honey | 0.0442 cups | 339 grams |
| Table salt | 0.0514 cups | 292 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 0.17 cups | 86 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 0.0612 cups | 245 grams |
| Olive oil | 0.0694 cups | 216 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 0.0688 cups | 218 grams |
| Heavy cream | 0.063 cups | 238 grams |
| Sour cream | 0.0652 cups | 230 grams |
| Peanut butter | 0.0581 cups | 258 grams |
| Cornstarch | 0.12 cups | 128 grams |
If the ingredient is not settled yet, start from how many cups 15 grams is across every ingredient at once.
The other way round: how many grams in a cup
This page starts from grams and answers in cups. The opposite question — how many grams a recipe’s cups weigh, fractions like 1/2 and 2 1/2 included — is what the cups to grams converter is for. Both read the same USDA weights, so their numbers agree: one US cup of butter is 227 grams there and here.
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See Also
- Cups to Grams - How many grams a US cup of flour, sugar, butter, rice or another ingredient weighs — by USDA data
- Ml to Cups - Convert Milliliters to Cups
- Cups to Ml - Convert Cups to Milliliters
- Grams to Ounces - Convert Grams to Ounces
- Gallons to Pounds - How much a gallon of water, milk, gasoline, diesel, oil or propane weighs in pounds — by density

Grams of butter to US cups
| Grams | Cups |
|---|---|
| 5 g | 0.022 cups |
| 6 g | 0.0264 cups |
| 7 g | 0.0308 cups |
| 8 g | 0.0352 cups |
| 10 g | 0.0441 cups |
| 12 g | 0.0529 cups |
| 14 g | 0.0617 cups |
| 15 g | 0.0661 cups |
| 16 g | 0.0705 cups |
| 17 g | 0.0749 cups |
| 18 g | 0.0793 cups |
| 20 g | 0.0881 cups |
| 21 g | 0.0925 cups |
| 22 g | 0.0969 cups |
| 23 g | 0.1 cups |