How Many Grams in a Cup of Chocolate Chips?
One cup of chocolate chips weighs 170 grams when spooned into the cup and levelled off with a straight edge and this page converts chocolate chips between cups, grams, tablespoons, teaspoons, millilitres and ounces, with full tables, worked examples and a free converter.
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 170 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 10.6 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 3.54 g |
| 1 cup (volume) | 236.6 ml |
| 1 cup in ounces | 6 oz |
| 100 grams | 0.59 cups |
One cup of chocolate chips weighs 170 grams. Chips are one of the few ingredients whose bag maths is friendly: a standard 12-ounce bag is 340 grams, exactly two cups. Below are the full conversion tables for chocolate chips, a converter for any amount, and why chip size makes the scale the safer tool for partial bags.
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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: chocolate chips
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 43 g |
| ⅓ cup | 57 g |
| ½ cup | 85 g |
| ⅔ cup | 113 g |
| ¾ cup | 128 g |
| 1 cup | 170 g |
| 1½ cups | 255 g |
| 2 cups | 340 g |
| 3 cups | 510 g |
| Measure | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 10.6 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 3.54 g |
| 1 cup in ounces | 6 oz |
Grams to cups: chocolate chips
| Grams | Cups (decimal) | Cups (fraction) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.29 cups | ⅓ cups |
| 100 g | 0.59 cups | ⅝ cups |
| 125 g | 0.74 cups | ¾ cups |
| 150 g | 0.88 cups | ⅞ cups |
| 200 g | 1.18 cups | 1 ⅛ cups |
| 250 g | 1.47 cups | 1 ½ cups |
| 300 g | 1.76 cups | 1 ¾ cups |
| 400 g | 2.35 cups | 2 ⅓ cups |
| 500 g | 2.94 cups | 3 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 chocolate chips properly
Learn the bag, skip the cup. US chocolate chips usually come in 12-ounce (340 g) bags — two cups exactly. A half-bag is a cup, a quarter-bag is half a cup (85 grams). Weighing what is left in an open bag is faster and truer than tipping chips into a measure.
Chip size moves the cup, not the gram. Mini chips settle into the gaps and pack tighter per cup; jumbo chips bridge and trap air. The same “cup” of different chips can differ by 15 grams or more. Recipes written in grams do not care which chips you bought.
Chopped chocolate converts identically. A cup of chopped bar chocolate also weighs 170 grams in the GramChef database, and it melts into smoother, glossier pools than chips — which are made with stabilisers to hold their shape. Swap them by weight freely; choose chopped chocolate for brownies and ganache.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams are in a cup of chocolate chips?
170 grams, for standard-sized semisweet chips. That is the King Arthur Baking figure used across GramChef, and it matches the bag in your cupboard: a 12-ounce bag contains 340 grams, which is exactly 2 cups.
How many cups of chocolate chips are in a 12 oz bag?
Exactly 2 cups. 12 ounces is 340 grams, and at 170 grams per cup the bag divides cleanly in two — one of the neatest conversions in baking. A 6-ounce bag, where you find one, is a single cup.
How many grams are in half a cup of chocolate chips?
85 grams — half of the 170-gram cup. If you are dividing a bag by eye, half a standard 12-ounce bag is two half-cups; for a single half-cup amount, weighing out 85 grams is quicker than measuring and levelling chips.
Sources: the weight on this page is based on published values from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart and USDA FoodData Central, chosen and checked as described in our methodology.