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How Many Cups in a Stick of Butter?

½cup

1 stick = ½ cup = 8 tbsp = 113 g

Butter	Cups	Tablespoons	Grams	Ounces
1 stick	½ cup	8 tbsp	113 g	4 oz
½ stick	¼ cup	4 tbsp	57 g	2 oz
2 sticks	1 cup	16 tbsp	227 g	8 oz
4 sticks (1 lb box)	2 cups	32 tbsp	454 g	16 oz

US butter sticks are printed with tablespoon markings on the wrapper — 1 stick = ½ cup = 8 tablespoons = 113 grams. Elsewhere butter is sold in 250 g or 500 g blocks, which is why international recipes call for grams.

Cutting cold butter? One tablespoon is one wrapper mark; ½ cup is a full stick — no measuring cup needed (or wanted: packing soft butter into cups is messy and inaccurate).

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