Cake flour: cups to grams
Cake flour is finely milled, low-protein flour that gives US layer cakes their soft, tender crumb. A spooned-and-levelled cup of supermarket cake flour weighs about 114 g.
Cake flour: cups to grams
| US cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 15 g |
| ¼ cup | 30 g |
| ⅓ cup | 40 g |
| ½ cup | 55 g |
| ⅔ cup | 75 g |
| ¾ cup | 85 g |
| 1 cup | 115 g |
| 1½ cups | 170 g |
| 2 cups | 230 g |
| 3 cups | 340 g |
| 4 cups | 460 g |
Tablespoons and teaspoons
| Spoon | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 7 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 15 g |
| ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) | 30 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 2 g |
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Grams to cups
Going the other way, for a metric recipe in US cups:
| Grams | Cups of cake flour |
|---|---|
| 25 g | about 3½ tbsp |
| 50 g | about ½ cup |
| 100 g | about ⅞ cup |
| 125 g | about 1⅛ cups |
| 150 g | about 1⅓ cups |
| 200 g | about 1¾ cups |
| 250 g | about 2¼ cups |
| 300 g | about 2⅝ cups |
| 400 g | about 3½ cups |
| 500 g | about 4⅜ cups |
| 1 kg | about 8¾ cups |
Can't find it?
For each cup of cake flour, measure 1 cup of all-purpose (plain) flour, remove 2 tablespoons, and add 2 tablespoons of cornstarch (cornflour in the UK). Sift together twice. By weight that is roughly 105 g plain flour plus 15 g cornflour.
UK "sponge flour"
Some UK mills sell a fine sponge flour that works well in place of cake flour. Check whether it is self-raising before you use it.
Weights are for a level US cup (236.6 ml), spooned in, based on standard US baking references. Weighing will always be more accurate than any cup.