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Chocolate chips: cups to grams

One US cup of chocolate chips weighs 170 g, and one tablespoon weighs 11 g. Convert any amount below, in either direction.

Unit
Ingredient

chocolate chips

170 g

6 oz

of chocolate chips

Standard semi-sweet chips, poured in and settled. Chunks measure about the same.

Chocolate chips conversion table

Every amount a recipe is likely to ask for. Half a cup is 85 g.

chocolate chips measured by volume, converted to grams and ounces
Chocolate chipsGramsOunces
1 teaspoon3.5 g0.1 oz
1 tablespoon11 g0.4 oz
1/4 cup43 g1.5 oz
1/3 cup57 g2 oz
1/2 cup85 g3 oz
2/3 cup113 g4 oz
3/4 cup128 g4.5 oz
1 cup170 g6 oz
1 1/2 cups255 g9 oz
2 cups340 g12 oz
3 cups510 g18 oz
4 cups680 g24 oz

Standard semi-sweet chips, poured in and settled. Chunks measure about the same.

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Questions

How many grams is a cup of chocolate chips?

170 g. That is one US customary cup, 236.6 ml. Standard semi-sweet chips, poured in and settled. Chunks measure about the same.

How many grams is a tablespoon of chocolate chips?

11 g. A tablespoon is a sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon of chocolate chips is 3.5 g.

Which cup does this use?

The US customary cup, 236.6 ml, which is the one American recipes mean. A UK or Australian metric cup is 250 ml, about 6% larger, and a Japanese cup is 200 ml. If your recipe is metric, type the millilitres in directly.

Why is my cup of flour heavier than 120 g?

Because of how you filled it. Scooping straight from the bag compacts the flour and can give you 145 g or more; the standard 120 g assumes you spooned it in and levelled it off. That 20% swing is the reason bakers weigh instead of scooping, and it is why halved and doubled recipes go wrong so often.

Are these conversions exact?

They are the standard US baking-reference values, and each ingredient page says how the cup was filled to get its number. For liquids and sugars they are good to within a gram or two. For anything fluffy or packable, like flour, brown sugar or grated cheese, measuring by volume carries more error than the conversion does.

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