Honey Cups to Grams
King Arthur's 21 g tablespoon leads to 336 g per US cup by multiplication; transferring all the sticky honey into the bowl is a separate practical issue.
Reference measurement
336 grams per US cup
Pour into a liquid US cup and read at eye level.
King Arthur Baking lists 1 tablespoon honey as 21 g; normalized using 16 US tablespoons per cup. Source note
Temperature and crystallization affect pouring but not the reference ratio.
Common Honey measurements
| US cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| 0.25 US cups | 84 grams |
| 0.333 US cups | 112 grams |
| 0.5 US cups | 168 grams |
| 0.667 US cups | 224 grams |
| 0.75 US cups | 252 grams |
| 1 US cup | 336 grams |
| 1.5 US cups | 504 grams |
| 2 US cups | 672 grams |
Practical examples
- 1/2 US cup = 168 grams.
- 1 US tablespoon = 21 grams.
- 3 US teaspoons = 21 grams.
Measuring note
Pour into a liquid US cup and read at eye level.
Temperature and crystallization affect pouring but not the reference ratio.
The per-cup figure comes from sixteen tablespoons
King Arthur's original honey chart lists one US tablespoon as 21 g. A US cup contains sixteen tablespoons, so 16 × 21 = 336 g, the derived rate used here. That source convention gives 84 g for a quarter cup and 252 g for three-quarters of a cup.
Another publisher may list a slightly different whole-cup weight, but that is not automatically a discrepancy in this tablespoon chart. The original USDA whole-cup measure was not independently verified for this page, so no number is falsely described as USDA-certified. A recipe that already supplies grams should use its own amount.
A full cup is not the same as honey delivered to the bowl
Honey can coat the measuring vessel, leaving some of the measured amount behind when it is poured into a mixture. For a repeatable bake, place the bowl on a scale, tare it and add honey by weight rather than repeatedly scraping the measuring cup.
For volume-only directions, read a liquid measure at eye level. A lightly oiled measuring vessel may release honey more cleanly when an added trace of oil is compatible with the recipe. Crystallized honey pours differently, and the 336 g chart rate is not a measured density for every honey state.