400g Butter in Cups

400 grams of butter is 1¾ cups — 227g per US cup. This is the range most cookie, cake and pastry recipes use, and it lands close to whole sticks or half a European block.

400 g of butter is

1¾ cups

1.76 US cups · 28.2 tbsp · 417 ml · 227 g per cup

Amount in grams

To measure it · cut from the stick, or press in and level

1 + ½ + ¼ cup

Rest of the recipe in grams? Paste it and every line comes back in cups. Free, no sign-in.

Measuring by hand? That is 1 + ½ + ¼ cup. It is 3½ US sticks of butter (113 g each).

US butter wrappers are printed with tablespoon and stick marks, so cutting to the wrapper is usually more accurate than pressing butter into a cup.

400g of butter vs other ingredients

Ingredient	400g in cups	Per cup
Butter	1¾ cups	227 g
All-Purpose Flour	3¼ cups	125 g
Granulated Sugar	2 cups	200 g
Water	1⅔ cups	236 g

See all 400g conversions on the 400 grams to cups chart.

Another ingredient or amount

Nearby butter amounts

Grams	Cups	Tablespoons
350 g	about 1½ cups	24.7 tbsp
360 g	1½ cups + 1½ tbsp	25.4 tbsp
375 g	1⅔ cups	26.5 tbsp
390 g	1¾ cups	27.5 tbsp
410 g	about 1¾ cups	28.9 tbsp
420 g	1¾ cups + 1½ tbsp	29.6 tbsp
425 g	1¾ cups + 2 tbsp	30 tbsp
450 g	2 cups	31.7 tbsp

Full ladder on the butter grams to cups chart.

Questions

How many cups is 400g of butter?

400 grams of butter is 1¾ cups. In kitchen measures that is 1 + ½ + ¼ cup, worked out from 227 grams per US cup.

How many grams are in 1 cup of butter?

One US cup of butter weighs about 227 grams, one tablespoon about 14.18 grams, and one teaspoon about 4.73 grams.

How do I measure 400g of butter without a scale?

Use 1 + ½ + ¼ cup. US butter wrappers are printed with tablespoon and stick marks, so cutting to the wrapper is usually more accurate than pressing butter into a cup.

Is it better to weigh butter or measure it in cups?

Weighing is more accurate, especially in baking, because it removes the variation in how the butter is packed into the cup. Without a scale, use the cup figure above and measure the same way throughout the recipe.

Weights are per US cup, cut from the stick or pressed in and levelled. How we calculate