Baking Ingredients Conversion Chart
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Baking Ingredients conversion chart
| Ingredient | 1 cup | ½ cup | ¼ cup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate Chips | 170 g | 85 g | 42.5 g |
| Shredded Coconut | 80 g | 40 g | 20 g |
| Raisins | 145 g | 72.5 g | 36.3 g |
| Chopped Nuts | 120 g | 60 g | 30 g |
| Pecan Halves | 105 g | 52.5 g | 26.3 g |
| Whole Almonds | 142 g | 71 g | 35.5 g |
| Sesame Seeds | 142 g | 71 g | 35.5 g |
| Chia Seeds | 148 g | 74 g | 37 g |
| Ground Flaxseed | 100 g | 50 g | 25 g |
| Poppy Seeds | 144 g | 72 g | 36 g |
| White Chocolate Chips | 170 g | 85 g | 42.5 g |
| Walnuts (Chopped) | 113 g | 56.5 g | 28.3 g |
| Hazelnuts (Whole) | 142 g | 71 g | 35.5 g |
| Cashews (Whole) | 113 g | 56.5 g | 28.3 g |
| Pine Nuts | 142 g | 71 g | 35.5 g |
Remember: every baking ingredient has a different density, so always convert by ingredient rather than using one ratio. For other amounts, open the individual converter.
Nuts & seeds: 100 g in cups (reverse lookup)
Recipe gives you a weight and you only have measuring cups? Because every nut and seed packs differently, 100 g is a different number of cups for each one — from a level cup of ground flaxseed down to barely two-thirds of a cup of chia seeds. The handy anchor: 100 g of ground flaxseed is exactly 1 cup, and most whole nuts and small seeds land near ⅔–¾ cup per 100 g.
| Nut / seed | 100 g in cups | 50 g in cups |
|---|---|---|
| Shredded Coconut | 1.25 cups | 0.63 cups |
| Ground Flaxseed | 1 cup | 0.5 cups |
| Pecan Halves | 0.95 cups | 0.48 cups |
| Walnuts (Chopped) | 0.88 cups | 0.44 cups |
| Cashews (Whole) | 0.88 cups | 0.44 cups |
| Chopped Nuts | 0.83 cups | 0.42 cups |
| Whole Almonds | 0.7 cups | 0.35 cups |
| Sesame Seeds | 0.7 cups | 0.35 cups |
| Hazelnuts (Whole) | 0.7 cups | 0.35 cups |
| Pine Nuts | 0.7 cups | 0.35 cups |
| Poppy Seeds | 0.69 cups | 0.35 cups |
| Chia Seeds | 0.68 cups | 0.34 cups |
Computed from the same verified grams-per-cup weights as the chart above (100 ÷ grams per cup), so the two tables always agree. For any other gram amount, use the grams to cups converter — every ingredient here is in its dropdown.
Every cup fraction: chocolate chips, nuts, seeds and coconut
The chart above gives the three headline amounts. This one gives every fraction a cookie or muffin recipe actually asks for — three-quarters, two-thirds, a third — plus a single tablespoon, for all 15 ingredients on the page. The one everybody looks up first: half a cup of chocolate chips is 85 g, a third of a cup 56.7 g and a quarter cup 42.5 g. Half a cup of chopped nuts is 60 g, of whole almonds 71 g and of shredded coconut only 40 g.
| Ingredient | 1 cup | ¾ cup | ⅔ cup | ½ cup | ⅓ cup | ¼ cup | 1 tbsp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate Chips | 170 g | 127.5 g | 113.3 g | 85 g | 56.7 g | 42.5 g | 10.6 g |
| Shredded Coconut | 80 g | 60 g | 53.3 g | 40 g | 26.7 g | 20 g | 5 g |
| Raisins | 145 g | 108.8 g | 96.7 g | 72.5 g | 48.3 g | 36.3 g | 9.1 g |
| Chopped Nuts | 120 g | 90 g | 80 g | 60 g | 40 g | 30 g | 7.5 g |
| Pecan Halves | 105 g | 78.8 g | 70 g | 52.5 g | 35 g | 26.3 g | 6.6 g |
| Whole Almonds | 142 g | 106.5 g | 94.7 g | 71 g | 47.3 g | 35.5 g | 8.9 g |
| Sesame Seeds | 142 g | 106.5 g | 94.7 g | 71 g | 47.3 g | 35.5 g | 8.9 g |
| Chia Seeds | 148 g | 111 g | 98.7 g | 74 g | 49.3 g | 37 g | 9.3 g |
| Ground Flaxseed | 100 g | 75 g | 66.7 g | 50 g | 33.3 g | 25 g | 6.3 g |
| Poppy Seeds | 144 g | 108 g | 96 g | 72 g | 48 g | 36 g | 9 g |
| White Chocolate Chips | 170 g | 127.5 g | 113.3 g | 85 g | 56.7 g | 42.5 g | 10.6 g |
| Walnuts (Chopped) | 113 g | 84.8 g | 75.3 g | 56.5 g | 37.7 g | 28.3 g | 7.1 g |
| Hazelnuts (Whole) | 142 g | 106.5 g | 94.7 g | 71 g | 47.3 g | 35.5 g | 8.9 g |
| Cashews (Whole) | 113 g | 84.8 g | 75.3 g | 56.5 g | 37.7 g | 28.3 g | 7.1 g |
| Pine Nuts | 142 g | 106.5 g | 94.7 g | 71 g | 47.3 g | 35.5 g | 8.9 g |
Every cell is computed from the same verified grams-per-cup weight as the chart above (¾ cup = weight × 0.75, 1 tbsp = weight ÷ 16), so the two tables can never disagree. For an amount that is not in the table, the converter at the top of the page takes any number, and tablespoons to grams handles spoon amounts.
Is that weight right? A ten-second sanity check for nuts, seeds and chocolate
A lot of people arrive at a chart like this one not to convert a number but to check one — a figure from a recipe, a bag or a tracking app that looks too big or too small. Two steps settle almost all of them.
Step 1: check the band. Baking add-ins are not scattered at random. Everything on this chart falls into one of three groups, and simply knowing which group you are in catches an implausible number immediately.
| Group | 1 cup weighs | What is in it |
|---|---|---|
| Light and airy | 80–105 g | Shredded Coconut 80 g · Ground Flaxseed 100 g · Pecan Halves 105 g |
| Nuts, seeds and dried fruit | 113–148 g | Walnuts (Chopped) 113 g · Cashews (Whole) 113 g · Chopped Nuts 120 g · Whole Almonds 142 g · Sesame Seeds 142 g · Hazelnuts (Whole) 142 g · Pine Nuts 142 g · Poppy Seeds 144 g · Raisins 145 g · Chia Seeds 148 g |
| Chocolate | 170 g | Chocolate Chips 170 g · White Chocolate Chips 170 g |
Group boundaries and every weight are read straight from the chart above — nothing here is typed by hand.
The middle band is where nearly everything lives, and it is narrower than people expect: every nut, seed and dried fruit on this chart sits between 105 and 148 g a cup, a 1.4× spread end to end. So an almond-sized number for a hazelnut is fine (they are both 142 g); a doubled one is not. Chocolate is the heaviest thing here because chips are solid and pack tightly, and it is the one group where the spread is tiny — standard, white, mini and chunk all land within about 15 g of 170 g. At the light end, shredded coconut at 80 g is mostly air between the strands, so any coconut figure much above 100 g a cup has been pressed into the cup or is for a different product.
Step 2: check which question the number is answering. A nut or chocolate weight that fails the band test is usually not wrong, just an answer to a different question. Four possibilities, worth ruling out in this order.
Whole, halves, chopped, sliced or ground? By far the most common one. The prep state moves a nut's cup weight more than the species does: USDA weighs a cup of walnut halves at 100 g, chopped walnuts at 117 g and ground walnuts at 80 g; whole almonds 143 g, slivered 108 g, sliced 92 g; whole hazelnuts 135 g, chopped 115 g, ground 75 g. That is a 44% drop from whole to ground for the same nut, while the whole nuts on the list nearly all fall in a tight 133–146 g band (shelled pistachio kernels, at 123 g, are the one outlier). This chart lists whole almonds, hazelnuts and pine nuts at the 142 g baking-chart convention, inside that band; USDA's own measured cups are 143, 135 and 135 g, and a gap of a few grams is normal spread between sources for irregular nuts. And the direction is not fixed: big curved halves get heavier chopped (the pieces fill the gaps), compact round nuts get lighter. The chopped nuts page has all 21 measured prep states.
Which chocolate? Chips, minis, chunks and grated bar are different cup weights: USDA measures standard chips at 168 g, mini chips 173 g, chunks or large chips 182 g, and chocolate grated from a bar only 132 g, because shavings are mostly air. This chart's 170 g is the standard morsel. A chocolate number 15 g either side of it is almost certainly a different piece size, not an error; the chocolate chips converter lists every form and every US bag size.
Packed, or which cup? Coconut and raisins are the two here that change with a heavy hand: shredded coconut springs and tangles, so pressing it down fits far more into the cup than the 80 g of a loose fill, and raisins clump, so a cup crushed down holds well above the 145 g of a gently settled one. This chart assumes a loose, level cup for both. Then the cup itself: a US cup is 236.6 mL and the metric cup used in the UK, Australia and New Zealand is 250 mL, so a metric cup of chocolate chips is about 180 g and of whole almonds 150 g — a 5.7% lift before the ingredient is even chosen. This chart is US cups throughout.
Is it a cup weight at all? Nutrition labels quote grams too, and they collide with cup weights constantly. Nuts and seeds are labelled per 1 oz (28 g) serving — about a fifth of a cup of whole almonds (0.2 cups), a small handful, not a measure. Chocolate chips are labelled per tablespoon at 14–15 g, and sixteen of those would be 224–240 g, far above the 170 g a measured cup actually holds — chips cannot level in a spoon the way they settle in a cup. If a number came from a label, convert it as a weight and ignore its serving unit.
Two worked examples, both taken from questions people actually arrive here with:
“Is 145 g of chocolate-covered peanuts a lot?” As a quantity, it is about one cup. USDA weighs a cup of raw shelled peanuts at 146 g and this chart's cup of chocolate chips is 170 g; a cup of chocolate-coated peanuts lands in the same region, so 145 g is roughly a level cup — 5.1 oz, or about five of the 1 oz handfuls that nut packaging calls a serving. Whether that is a lot depends on the job: folded into a batch of cookies it is an ordinary mix-in amount (a cup of chips is the standard), and eaten from the bag it is five servings.
“I want hazelnuts instead of ¼ cup of mini chocolate chips — how much?” A quarter cup of hazelnuts: about 35.5 g whole or 28.8 g chopped, in place of 43.3 g of minis. Mix-ins are swapped by volume, not by weight — a dough is built to carry a certain bulk of solid pieces — and because hazelnuts are lighter per cup than chocolate, matching the 43 g by weight instead would put 1.22 times the volume of nuts in the batter. The chocolate chips page has the full swap table for every mix-in on this chart.
One habit removes most of this: weigh nuts in the state the recipe names, after chopping if it says “1 cup chopped nuts” and before if it says “1 cup nuts, chopped”. Comparing two add-ins rather than checking one? The ingredient substitution chart works out how much of a replacement to measure, and the recipe weight calculator totals a whole mix-in list at once.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams is 1 cup of chocolate chips?
One cup of chocolate chips weighs about 170 g. White chocolate chips are the same weight per cup.
How many grams is 1 cup of chopped nuts?
Chopped nuts are roughly 120 g per cup. Whole almonds, hazelnuts and pine nuts are denser at 142 g, pecan halves lighter at 105 g, and chopped walnuts about 113 g.
How many grams is 1 cup of shredded coconut?
Shredded coconut is very light — about 80 g per cup — so a cup weighs far less than most other baking add-ins.
Do seeds weigh the same per cup?
Roughly. Sesame and poppy seeds are about 142–144 g per cup and chia seeds 148 g, while ground flaxseed is lighter at 100 g.
How many cups is 100 g of nuts or seeds?
It depends on the nut. 100 g of ground flaxseed is exactly 1 cup, shredded coconut 1.25 cups, pecan halves about 0.95 cups, chopped walnuts or cashews about 0.88 cups, generic chopped nuts about 0.83 cups, and dense whole nuts and small seeds — almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, sesame, chia — only about 0.68–0.7 cups. The reverse-lookup table above has every value.
How many grams is half a cup of nuts and seeds?
For mixed chopped nuts, about 60 g. Whole almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and sesame seeds are about 71 g per half cup, chia seeds 74 g, chopped walnuts and cashews about 57 g, pecan halves 53 g, and ground flaxseed 50 g.
How many grams is half a cup of chocolate chips?
About 85 g - half of the 170 g in a full US cup, and the same for white chocolate chips. A third of a cup is about 56.7 g, a quarter cup 42.5 g and a tablespoon about 10.6 g. Mini chips run slightly heavier (USDA measures 173 g per cup, so about 86.5 g per half cup) and chunks heavier still at 182 g per cup.
Is 145 grams of chocolate-covered peanuts a lot?
As a quantity it is about one US cup - 5.1 oz, or roughly five of the 1 oz (28 g) handfuls that nut packaging calls a serving. USDA weighs a cup of raw shelled peanuts at 146 g and a cup of chocolate chips is 170 g, so a cup of chocolate-coated peanuts lands in the same region and 145 g is roughly a level cup. Folded into a batch of cookies that is an ordinary mix-in amount; as a snack it is five servings.
Do nuts weigh more chopped or whole?
It depends on the shape of the whole nut. Big curved halves get heavier per cup when chopped because the pieces fill the gaps - USDA weighs walnut halves at 100 g and chopped walnuts at 117 g, pecan halves 99 g against 109 g chopped. Compact round nuts go the other way - whole hazelnuts 135 g against 115 g chopped, whole almonds 143 g against 108 g slivered and 92 g sliced. Ground nuts are lightest of all, 75-95 g a cup.
Which nuts and seeds weigh the most per cup?
Of everything on this chart, dried fruit included, chia seeds at 148 g a cup, then raisins 145 g, poppy seeds 144 g, and whole almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and sesame seeds all at 142 g. The lightest are shredded coconut at 80 g, ground flaxseed 100 g and pecan halves 105 g. Chocolate chips outweigh all of them at 170 g, so a 12 oz bag of chips is 2 cups while 12 oz of pecan halves is over 3 cups.
How many grams is a third of a cup of nuts or chocolate chips?
A third of a cup of chocolate chips is about 56.7 g, of chopped nuts 40 g, of whole almonds or hazelnuts 47.3 g, of chopped walnuts or cashews 37.7 g, of pecan halves 35 g, of raisins 48.3 g and of shredded coconut 26.7 g. A third of a cup is 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon, which is why it is so awkward to measure and worth weighing.