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Converting your Recipes to Metric

 

Liquid Conversions
This should be used for converting liquids to metric and can also be used to convert small measurements of salt, baking soda, baking powder etc.
(Note that these conversions are meant to convert recipes from the US and Canada. Converting recipes from other parts of the world may be different.)

U.S./ Canada Quantity Metric equivalent
1 teaspoon 5 mL
1 tablespoon (1/2 fluid ounce) 15 mL
1 fluid ounce (1/8 cup) 30 mL
1/4 cup (2 fluid ounces) 60 mL
1/3 cup 80 mL
1/2 cup (4 fluid ounces) 120 mL
2/3 cup 160 mL
3/4 cup (6 fluid ounces) 180 mL
1 cup (8 fluid ounces) (half a pint) 240 mL
1 1/2 cups (12 fluid ounces) 350 mL
2 cups (1 pint) (16 fluid ounces) 475 mL
3 cups (1 1/2 pints) 700 mL
4 cups (2 pints) (1 quart) 950 mL
4 quarts (1 gallon) 3.8 L

 

Non-Liquid Ingredients
(Note that these conversions are meant to convert recipes from the US and Canada. Converting recipes from other parts of the world may be different.)

Product 1 cup 3/4 cup 2/3 cup 1/2 cup 1/3 cup 1/4 cup 2 Tablespoons
Flour, all purpose (wheat) 120 g 90 g 80 g 60 g 40 g 30 g 15 g
Flour, well sifted all purpose (wheat) 110 g 80 g 70 g 55 g 35 g 27 g 13 g
Sugar, granulated cane 200 g 150 g 130 g 100 g 65 g 50 g 25 g
Confectioner’s sugar (cane) 100 g 75 g 70 g 50 g 35 g 25 g 13 g
Brown sugar, packed firmly (but not too firmly) 180 g 135 g 120 g 90 g 60 g 45 g 23 g
Corn starch 120 g 90 g 80 g 60 g 40 g 30 g 15 g
Oats, uncooked quick 90 g 65 g 60 g 45 g 30 g 22 g 11 g
Table salt 300 g 230 g 200 g 150 g 100 g 75 g 40 g
Butter 240 g 180 g 160 g 120 g 80 g 60 g 30 g
Vegetable shortening 190 g 140 g 125 g 95 g 65 g 48 g 24 g
Nuts, chopped 150 g 110 g 100 g 75 g 50 g 40 g 20 g
Nuts, ground 120 g 90 g 80 g 60 g 40 g 30 g 15 g

 

Weight
(For US and Canada recipes only)

Standard Weight Metric equivalent (grams)
1 ounce 28 g
4 ounces or 1/4 pound 113 g
1/3 pound 150 g
8 ounces or 1/2 pound 230 g
2/3 pound 300 g
12 ounces or 3/4 pound 340 g
1 pound or 16 ounces 450 g
2 pounds 900 g

 

Length

Standard Length Metric Equivalent (centimeter)
1/8 inch 3 mm
1/4 inch 6 mm
1/2 inch 13 mm
3/4 inch 19 mm
1 inch 2.5 cm
2 inches 5 cm
3 inches 7.6 cm
4 inches 10 cm
5 inches 13 cm
6 inches 15 cm
7 inches 18 cm
8 inches 20 cm
9 inches 23 cm
10 inches 25 cm
11 inches 28 cm
12 inches or 1 foot 30 cm
13 inches 33
14 inches 35
15 inches 38
16 inches 40
17 inches 43
18 inches 46
19 inches 48
20 inches 51
21 inches 53
22 inches 56
23 inches 58
24 inches or 2 feet 61

 

Temperatures

Fahrenheit Celsius
225 F 105 C
250 F 120 C
275 F 130 C
300 F 150 C
325 F 165 C
350 F 180 C
375 F 190 C
400 F 200 C
425 F 220 C
450 F 230 C
475 F 245 C

 

Comments

  1. Kathleen Cagle says
    March 29, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    Great information in condensed form! Thank you, Jen. I also found a Weight Ingredient Chart on the King Arthur Flour website, http://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart.html, which I printed out and refer to very often. I prefer to use grams to weight and use a kitchen scale as I cook and bake. It’s especially helpful with flour and ingredients that can vary so much with different types of measuring. The grams are always spot on, so no guesswork! I love your channels, Jenn, and the Baking Buddies Community on Facebook is just great!! Inspiring me to try new things and giving me ideas for designs! Thank you for starting this, Jenn!!

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  2. Daphne says
    September 19, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Dear Jenn,

    Can your above convertion chart use in Singapore? I wanted to convert cup to gram.
    Love you recipe!
    Thank you very much Jenn

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  3. J.Q. says
    August 31, 2016 at 5:05 am

    I am making your vanilla cake recipe and I have a silly question. The metric measurements of the ingredients are for weight of the ingredients, right? The scale that I purchased has it’s own weight measurements for different ingredients and they are different than yours. If you would please verify that your measurements are by weight I will definitely use your measurements because these are your recipes and they look awesome. I have spent the last few hours looking at a number of recipes on your site and they are inspiring!
    Thank you

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    • Jenn says
      August 31, 2016 at 6:37 am

      Yes they are by weight. A simple kitchen scale will work for you to measure. Good luck~

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  4. Lisa says
    July 28, 2016 at 4:01 am

    Whats 200 grams of sweetened condensed milk us
    300 grams of granulated sugar in us
    150 grams water in us
    350 grams white chocolate chips in us
    And 19 grams of gelatin in us

    Please reply ASAP thanks

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    • Jenn says
      July 29, 2016 at 12:00 am

      This recipe needs to be weighed due to the preciseness required.

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  5. Fajar Butt says
    June 8, 2016 at 11:07 am

    hi i am from Pakistn and i really love ur baking creations can u plz make something “ever after high” related

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  6. Bart says
    May 10, 2016 at 9:00 am

    Hi Jenn, I need to convert 1 cup of peanut butter. Can you tell me at whitch product I have to look? I thought that butter would be likely the same?

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    • Jenn says
      May 18, 2016 at 5:14 am

      Good question….1 cup =250 g =8.8 oz I found that here: http://www.cookitsimply.com/measurements/cups/peanut-butter-0070-016q6.html

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      • Bart says
        June 14, 2016 at 4:39 pm

        Thanks a lot Jenn! 😀

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  7. sofia says
    February 11, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    Hiii.you ate very sweet and also your recipes.can uou tellme if I don have the paddle equipment and havinv only the hand mixer if i can make your recipe for red velvet cake.i am afraid that the cake wont be like yours.and a last question:why using butter and no vegetable oil??? Thank you!!!!!

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    • Jenn says
      February 13, 2016 at 4:35 am

      Yes you can use a hand mixer, and this cake calls for butter. Vegetable oil and butter are fats and you use one or the other in most recipes. This one happens to use butter.

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  8. rotem itzhak says
    October 8, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    hey,you can please share a chocolate cream cheese frosting for a cake in a 25 cm?

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  9. Tanzeema Tabassum says
    May 21, 2015 at 5:57 am

    Hi I am from Bangladesh. I like your videos on youtube. My twin daughters are also big fan of yours and they dreamed of becoming baker like you. In our country icing sugar is not easily available. I want to know the recipe of icing sugar.

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    • Jenn says
      May 30, 2015 at 1:38 am

      You can grind regular sugar to powder to make icing sugar.

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  10. Candice Williams says
    April 17, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    I’m from Australia, im new to baking i’ve only just started but these would be really useful for me. thank you so much. i love your channel and recipes

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  11. Aksen says
    February 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Thank you very much. It is very helpful. I am gonna try your cake recipe tomorrow and I will let you know the result.

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  12. Clémentia says
    October 24, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    Ahhhhhh merci pour ce petit tableau de conversion je vais pouvoir essayer tes recettes!
    Thanks for this chart i.ll be trying one of your reciepe. Sorry my english is so bad 😉

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    • Jenn says
      October 25, 2014 at 2:22 am

      You’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful!

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  13. jemima says
    September 30, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    Thanks jen
    it had been so help full

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  14. Temitope says
    August 9, 2014 at 4:55 am

    So happy about this conversion table. Can you give the measurement batter require of each baking pan?

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  15. Celia says
    August 6, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    Oh my god.
    This helps me so much! Thank you 🙂

    Why didn’t I find it sooner?!

    This is so great ^-^

    I love your videos, and my problem always was that here in Germany we don’t use Cups and stuff.
    You have no idea how happy I’m right now about finding this 😀
    Now I can realy try some things out 🙂

    Have a beautiful day 🙂

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    • Jenn says
      August 7, 2014 at 1:49 am

      It’s a great tool to have!!

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  16. Temitope says
    March 17, 2014 at 4:15 am

    Thanks for this convertion table. Can give the cake measurement to use for every cake pans?

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  17. Gina says
    January 31, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    This is so awesome! I needed these when I was trying to make some Mediterranean cookies and the recipe called for metrics…

    Have you thought about making an app with this info??

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    • Jenn says
      January 31, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Unfortunately there are already a number of apps for conversions…but thanks for the idea!

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  18. tayo says
    January 27, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    there so great….

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  19. T says
    January 22, 2014 at 2:54 am

    Do you make Vegan meals?

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    • Jenn says
      January 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm

      No, sorry.

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  20. Stella says
    January 14, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    Thank you for sharing this, I always avoided recipes with gram measurements cause i didn’t know the right conversions.
    this totally helps. I enjoy watching your VERY helpful videos… thank you

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    • Jenn says
      January 15, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      You’re welcome! Thanks for watching the videos!! I’m comfortable working in cups etc, but lots of our viewers are used to grams/kg, so we try to provide both, and a conversion guide to help!

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  21. robyn says
    November 22, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    hmmm so which do i use? im from the UK and wanting to make the chocolate mousse cake but the cups over here are very different to the american ones?

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    • Jenn says
      November 22, 2013 at 7:58 pm

      I’m not aware that there is a difference between American and UK measurements. The measurements that I use in the video are imperial so just use the conversions as they are listed in the chart, and use the metric amounts if you have that available.

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  22. Swazie (pronounced as in Patrick Swayze) says
    November 1, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    Ops Micelle,

    I’ve just spotted your conversion charts, therefor my apologies for my previous comment. I hadn’t looked at your website properly.

    Just love your demonstrations, they are so uncomplicated. Do you sense a passionate fan? Well, you’re absolutely spot on.

    Can’t hang around going to try baking sandwich cake, TheMichele’s way.

    Bye for now

    Swazie as in Patrick

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    • Jenn says
      November 1, 2013 at 10:45 pm

      Glad you found it!! When we post our videos, I try to show the conversions in the description box in the video as well.

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