200 grams of butter in cups
Two hundred grams of butter is about 0.88 of a US cup, 14 tablespoons. It stops two tablespoons short of two landmarks at once: two sticks, and a full cup.
Just short of two sticks, and of a cup
Two US sticks weigh 226 g and a US cup of butter weighs 227 g. 200 g is 26 g under the sticks and 27 g under the cup, about two level tablespoons shy of each. Close enough that a recipe asking for two sticks or a cup will not notice 200 g, but not exact: you are two tablespoons of butter light.
Two sticks are a cup
The tidy part is that those two landmarks are one landmark. Two sticks, 226 g, and a cup, 227 g, land within a gram of each other, which is why a US recipe writes "1 cup (2 sticks)" and means it. Butter is sold in quarter-pound sticks, four to a pound, so the cup and the stick were built to agree. 200 g just misses their shared mark by two tablespoons. The butter master page works through the stick, the cup and the European block that has no stick at all.
Bigger butter weights in cups
Reading up from 200 g, with the stick landmarks marked:
| Butter | US cups | |
|---|---|---|
| 113 g | 0.50 cups | one stick |
| 200 g | 0.88 cups | |
| 226 g | 1.00 cups | two sticks |
| 340 g | 1.5 cups | |
| 454 g | 2 cups | one pound |
A round weight rarely lands on a round cup. 200 grams of flour is an untidy 1.7, and 100 grams of cocoa overflows past one at 1.2. Fifty grams up, 250 grams of butter is one whole European block and needs no measuring at all.
Questions about 200 grams of butter
- Is 200 grams of butter a cup?
- Almost. 200 g of butter is about 0.88 of a US cup; a full cup is 227 g, so 200 g is 27 g short, about two level tablespoons.
- How many tablespoons is 200 grams of butter?
- About 14, at roughly 14.2 g to a level tablespoon. A cup, or two sticks, carries 16 tablespoon marks, so 200 g is two under.
- Is 200 grams of butter two sticks?
- Not quite. Two sticks weigh 226 g, so 200 g is 26 g less, about seven-eighths of the pair. A US recipe's two sticks means 226 g.
Sources
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy for the 227 gram cup and the 14.2 gram tablespoon, King Arthur Baking for the 113 gram stick. Both put a stick at half a cup. Full citations on the sources page.