Kitchen converter / brown sugar
Brown sugar: cups to grams
One US cup of brown sugar weighs about 215 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of brown sugar=215 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Brown sugar conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 215 g | 7.5 oz |
| ¾ cups | 160 g | 5.6 oz |
| ⅔ cups | 140 g | 5 oz |
| ½ cups | 105 g | 3.8 oz |
| ⅓ cups | 71 g | 2.5 oz |
| ¼ cups | 53 g | 1.9 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 13 g | 0.47 oz |
| 1 tsp | 4.4 g | 0.16 oz |
Whose cup?
A cup is not one size. The United States measures 240 ml, the UK, Canada and New Zealand use a 250 ml metric cup, and Japan's カップ is 200 ml — so the same recipe line can mean a fifth more or less flour depending on where it was written. Australia shares the 250 ml cup but uses a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size.
This page is currently showing US cup. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.
Why weighing beats scooping
These figures describe brown sugar measured the usual way, but a cup is a container, not a quantity. Flour packed tightly into the cup can outweigh the same cup loosely spooned by a fifth — which is the single most common reason a baked recipe comes out differently than it did last time. If you own a scale, the gram column is the one to trust.
Why a cup of flour isn't a cup of flour →
Brown sugar in other languages
Useful when you are cooking from a recipe written somewhere else — these are the names the same ingredient goes by in the languages Gather supports.
- English brown sugar
- German Brauner Zucker
- Spanish azúcar moreno
- French sucre roux
- French (Quebec) cassonade
- Italian zucchero di canna scuro
- Japanese ブラウンシュガー
- Portuguese (Brazil) açúcar mascavo
- Portuguese (Portugal) açúcar mascavado
What ingredients are called elsewhere →
Out of brown sugar?
Weighing it and replacing it are different questions, and we answer both. What to use instead of brown sugar →
Weigh something similar
The nearest neighbours of brown sugar — same kind of ingredient, different weight per cup.
| Ingredient | Per US cup |
|---|---|
| Granulated sugar | 200 g |
| Caster sugar | 200 g |
| Powdered sugar | 120 g |
| Confectioners sugar | 120 g |
| Demerara sugar | 200 g |
| Muscovado sugar | 200 g |