How Many Grams in a Cup of Coconut Flour?
One cup of coconut flour weighs 128 grams — heavier than wheat flour's cup despite feeling like dust, because it is defatted, dried coconut ground fine and packed tight. It is also the most absorbent flour in the kitchen. Below are the full conversion tables, a converter, and why it never swaps one-for-one.
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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: coconut flour
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 32 g |
| ⅓ cup | 43 g |
| ½ cup | 64 g |
| ⅔ cup | 85 g |
| ¾ cup | 96 g |
| 1 cup | 128 g |
| 1½ cups | 192 g |
| 2 cups | 256 g |
| 3 cups | 384 g |
| Measure | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 8 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 2.67 g |
| 1 cup in ounces | 4.5 oz |
Grams to cups: coconut flour
| Grams | Cups (decimal) | Cups (fraction) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.39 cups | ⅜ cups |
| 100 g | 0.78 cups | ¾ cups |
| 125 g | 0.98 cups | 1 cup |
| 150 g | 1.17 cups | 1 ⅛ cups |
| 200 g | 1.56 cups | 1.56 cups |
| 250 g | 1.95 cups | 2 cups |
| 300 g | 2.34 cups | 2 ⅓ cups |
| 400 g | 3.13 cups | 3 ⅛ cups |
| 500 g | 3.91 cups | 3 ⅞ 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 coconut flour properly
Never swap it cup-for-cup with wheat flour. Coconut flour absorbs roughly four times its weight in liquid. Recipes built for it use about ¼ to ⅓ cup (32 to 43 grams) where a wheat recipe uses a full cup, plus extra eggs for structure. Converting a wheat recipe by simply exchanging flours produces a brick.
Sift or whisk out the lumps. Coconut flour clumps hard in the bag, and a single lump in the cup throws the weight and leaves dry pockets in the bake. Whisk it loose before spooning and levelling — measured that way, the cup is 128 grams.
Let the batter rest before judging it. Coconut flour keeps drinking for several minutes after mixing. A batter that looks too thin at minute one is often perfect at minute ten. Mix, rest, then adjust — adding flour early to fix a 'loose' batter is how coconut-flour bakes turn dry.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams are in a cup of coconut flour?
128 grams, spooned and levelled. That makes it heavier per cup than all-purpose flour (120 grams) and far heavier than almond flour (96 grams) — the three 'flours' are not interchangeable by volume in any direction.
How much coconut flour replaces a cup of all-purpose flour?
About ¼ to ⅓ of a cup — 32 to 43 grams — plus extra liquid and usually an extra egg. Coconut flour's absorbency is the whole story: it needs roughly four times its weight in liquid to hydrate, so the substitution is a reformulation, not a swap.
How many grams are in a tablespoon of coconut flour?
8 grams. A teaspoon is 2.7 grams. Because coconut-flour recipes use such small amounts, these spoon figures — weighed, ideally — are more useful than the cup for most bakers.