How Many Grams in a Cup of Almond Flour?
One cup of almond flour weighs 96 grams — one of the lightest cups in baking, because ground almonds pack loosely and trap air. Press it down and the same cup can weigh 115 grams or more. Here are its conversion tables, a converter for any amount, and how to measure it lightly enough to match the number.
Convert almond flour instantly
This converter uses the same chef-reviewed database as our Cups to Grams converter for all 128 ingredients. Weights assume a US cup of 236.588 ml; see our methodology and sources.
Cups to grams: almond flour
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 24 g |
| ⅓ cup | 32 g |
| ½ cup | 48 g |
| ⅔ cup | 64 g |
| ¾ cup | 72 g |
| 1 cup | 96 g |
| 1½ cups | 144 g |
| 2 cups | 192 g |
| 3 cups | 288 g |
| Measure | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 6 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 2 g |
| 1 cup in ounces | 3.4 oz |
Grams to cups: almond flour
| Grams | Cups (decimal) | Cups (fraction) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.52 cups | ½ cups |
| 100 g | 1.04 cups | 1 cup |
| 125 g | 1.3 cups | 1 ⅓ cups |
| 150 g | 1.56 cups | 1.56 cups |
| 200 g | 2.08 cups | 2 ⅛ cups |
| 250 g | 2.6 cups | 2 ⅝ cups |
| 300 g | 3.13 cups | 3 ⅛ cups |
| 400 g | 4.17 cups | 4 ⅛ cups |
| 500 g | 5.21 cups | 5 ¼ cups |
Working with more than one ingredient? The grams in a cup chart puts 40 ingredients in one table, and the Whole Recipe Converter converts a full ingredient list in a single paste.
How to measure almond flour properly
Measure it with a light hand. Spoon almond flour into the cup and level it without pressing; it compresses far more willingly than wheat flour, and a packed cup can overshoot 96 grams by 20 percent. This is the flour where weighing changes results most visibly — macarons live or die on it.
Push out the lumps. Almond flour clumps in the bag from its own oils. Rub or sift the lumps away before measuring, or a single dense lump can add several grams to a cup and leave greasy spots in the crumb.
It is not a one-for-one swap. Almond flour has no gluten and absorbs far less liquid than wheat flour, so it cannot simply replace flour in a standard recipe — almond-flour recipes are built around it, with more egg for structure. Use the weight on the page for recipes written for almond flour, not as a conversion of wheat recipes.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams are in a cup of almond flour?
96 grams for fine, blanched almond flour, spooned into the cup and levelled without pressing. Almond meal — ground with the skins on — is coarser and can weigh a little more per cup, which is one reason almond recipes are best followed by weight.
How many cups is 100 grams of almond flour?
About 1.04 cups — practically, 1 cup plus about 2 teaspoons. The maths is 100 ÷ 96 ≈ 1.04. Because almond flour packs down so easily, the gram weight is far more trustworthy than the fractional cup.
What is the difference between almond flour and almond meal?
Almond flour is ground from blanched almonds with the skins removed, so it is pale and fine. Almond meal keeps the skins, giving a coarser, darker, more rustic result. They weigh close to the same per level cup, but almond flour gives the finer crumb that cakes and macarons need.