Cups of Honey to Grams

Cups to grams — quick reference

The formula

Cups of honey to grams is one multiply by 340 grams per cup:

grams = cups × 340

Worked example: 1 cup × 340 = 340 g; ¾ cup = 255 g; ½ cup = 170 g. The quick table covers ¼ through 2 cups.

Honey is dense, so a cup outweighs a cup of sugar (200 g) by well over half again — one reason it’s easy to over- or under-pour by volume, and easy to nail by weight.

How to use the cups of honey to grams

A cup of honey is 340 grams — it’s dense, so it weighs far more than the same cup of a dry ingredient. Enter cups for grams, or swap to convert grams back to cups.

Honey is the ingredient where weighing isn’t just more accurate, it’s less miserable. Measuring a sticky liquid by volume means coaxing it into a cup and then scraping it back out, with a stubborn film clinging to the sides that throws the amount off and wastes good honey. A scale skips all of it: set the bowl, tare to zero, and pour honey straight in until you hit the grams.

If you do measure by volume, the trick is to stop the honey sticking in the first place. Lightly oil or non-stick-spray the measuring cup before you pour, and the honey slides out clean; the same works for maple syrup, molasses, and corn syrup. Measuring the recipe’s oil or butter first and using the same unwashed cup for the honey is the classic two-birds version.

Because honey is heavier and wetter than sugar, swapping it into a recipe isn’t one-for-one — it’s sweeter by weight and adds liquid, so you generally use less and cut back another liquid. Crystallized honey weighs exactly the same as runny honey; the sugar just came out of solution, so warm it gently to pour if you’re measuring by volume. These values use the 240 ml US cup.

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