Convert Peanut butter: cups to tablespoons
1 cup of Peanut butter = 16 tablespoons
Amount of Peanut butter
Density: 1.141 g/ml · Peanut butter
Peanut butter: cups to tablespoons at a glance
The amounts people ask for most, worked out for Peanut butter.
How much Peanut butter weighs
Every figure below is one measured number — 270 g per US cup — scaled. That is why this table and the converter above it cannot disagree.
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How much does a cup of peanut butter weigh?
270 g, from King Arthur's 135 g per half cup. That makes peanut butter the heaviest fat on this site — a cup of it outweighs a cup of butter (227 g) by nearly a fifth, and outweighs a cup of all-purpose flour more than twice over.
Source for Peanut butter: King Arthur Baking (135 g per 1/2 cup) · King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart
Frequently asked questions
How many tablespoons is 1 cup of Peanut butter?
1 cup of Peanut butter is 16 tablespoons. Cups, millilitres, tablespoons and teaspoons all measure volume, so this figure is the same whatever is in the cup — a US cup is 236.588 ml, 16 tablespoons and 48 teaspoons by definition. What the ingredient changes is the weight: a cup of Peanut butter is 270 g.
How many cups is 2 tablespoons of Peanut butter?
2 tablespoons of Peanut butter is 0.125 cups. It is the same conversion read backwards, so this page and its reverse always agree.
How many tablespoons of Peanut butter are in a cup?
Sixteen — a US cup is 16 tablespoons and 48 teaspoons by definition, for every ingredient there is. What Peanut butter decides is what they weigh: one tablespoon is 16.88 g and one teaspoon is 5.63 g, against 270 g for the whole cup.
Where does dishscale's figure for Peanut butter come from?
One US cup of Peanut butter is 270 g. The dataset records that as: “King Arthur Baking (135 g per 1/2 cup)”. That is the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart. Every ingredient on the site carries the reference its weight came from, so any number here can be checked — and corrected if the source disagrees.