How many cups is 250g of icing sugar?
250g of icing sugar (powdered sugar) is
2 cups + 1 tbsp
That's 2.08 US cups, 1.97 metric cups, or 31 level tablespoons.
Worked out from 1 US cup = 120g. Cups are rounded to the nearest kitchen fraction, with what's left over in level tablespoons. If you have scales, weighing is more accurate.
Unsifted, straight from the packet. Sifted icing sugar is lighter: USDA gives 100g for a sifted cup.
Other amounts of icing sugar
- 100g: ¾ cup + 1 tbsp
- 200g: 1⅔ cups
- 1 cup: 120g
- Half a cup: 60g
- A quarter cup: 30g
- 1 tablespoon: 8g
- Full table for icing sugar
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 19336: “Sugars, powdered”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 cup unsifted = 120g
- 1 cup sifted = 100g
- 1 tbsp unsifted = 8g
- 1 tsp = 2.5g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.