Kitchen converter / heavy cream
Heavy cream: cups to grams
One US cup of heavy cream weighs about 240 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of heavy cream=240 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Heavy cream conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 240 g | 8.5 oz |
| ¾ cups | 180 g | 6.3 oz |
| ⅔ cups | 160 g | 5.6 oz |
| ½ cups | 120 g | 4.2 oz |
| ⅓ cups | 80 g | 2.8 oz |
| ¼ cups | 60 g | 2.1 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 15 g | 0.53 oz |
| 1 tsp | 5 g | 0.18 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 heavy cream 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 →
Heavy cream 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 heavy cream
- German Schlagsahne
- Spanish crema para batir
- French crème épaisse
- French (Quebec) crème 35%
- Italian panna fresca
- Japanese 生クリーム
- Portuguese (Brazil) creme de leite fresco
- Portuguese (Portugal) natas
What ingredients are called elsewhere →
Out of heavy cream?
Weighing it and replacing it are different questions, and we answer both. What to use instead of heavy cream →
Weigh something similar
The nearest neighbours of heavy cream — same kind of ingredient, different weight per cup.
| Ingredient | Per US cup |
|---|---|
| Whipping cream | 240 g |
| Sour cream | 240 g |
| Clotted cream | 240 g |
| Coconut cream | 240 g |
| Milk | 240 g |
| Whole milk | 240 g |