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Peanut butter chips
Also called peanut butter morsels, Reese's peanut butter chips, peanut butter baking chips, peanut butter flavored chips
168g5.9 oz
From USDA FDC 167570; 2 sources agree within 5%.
What each source weighs for 1 cup
2 sources · 1% apart- USDA168 g
- America's Test Kitchen170 g
Peanut butter chips in grams, by amount
- 1 cup168 g5.9 oz
- ¾ cup126 g4.4 oz
- ⅔ cup112 g4 oz
- ½ cup84 g3 oz
- ⅓ cup56 g2 oz
- ¼ cup42 g1.5 oz
- 1 tbsp10.5 g0.37 oz
- 1 tsp3.5 g0.12 oz
Weights for a US cup of 236.6 ml and spoons derived from it. Ounces are weight ounces of 28.35 g.
One US cup of peanut butter chips weighs 168 grams (5.9 ounces). Going the other way, 100 grams is about 0.60 cups.
Most sites print a number for a cup of peanut butter chips and do not say where it came from. This page publishes 168 g (5.9 oz) and names all three sources it was checked against: USDA SR Legacy "Candies, confectioner's coating, peanut butter" (FDC 167570), America's Test Kitchen (Peanut Butter Blondies) and Reese's Peanut Butter Chips (producer package statement).
Peanut butter chips ounces to grams and cups
| Weight | Grams | US cups |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28.3 g | 0.17 |
| 4 oz | 113.4 g | 0.67 |
| 8 oz | 226.8 g | 1.35 |
| 16 oz (1 lb) | 453.6 g | 2.70 |
Compared side by side
Baking chips compared: cup weights side by side, the source behind each, and why they differ.
Where this number comes from
A cup of peanut butter chips weighs about 168 g (5.9 oz), and a tablespoon about 10.5 g. USDA, America's Test Kitchen and Hershey's own recipes agree within 1.3%.
Peanut butter chips are small drops of peanut-flavoured confectioner's coating, made mostly of sugar, peanuts and vegetable fat. Reese's, made by Hershey's, sells the best-known version in 10 oz bags, and store brands make their own. They go into peanut butter blondies, cookies and brownies, haystacks and no-bake bars, and they melt for drizzles.
USDA's record for peanut butter confectioner's coating weighs a cup of chips at 168 g. America's Test Kitchen's Peanut Butter Blondies use half a cup at 3 oz (85 g), 170 g a cup. The two are 1.2% apart, inside the 5% this site allows for chips and other crystalline solids, so this site publishes USDA's 168 g with high confidence.
Hershey's recipes for its own chips say a 10 oz package is 1 2/3 cups, 170 g a cup. That agrees with the published figure, but it is a bag's weight rounded to a cup fraction rather than a measured cup, so it is listed without a figure, as bag statements are for butterscotch chips, where makers' fractions disagree with each other. The bags' nutrition labels give a tablespoon as 15 g, the FDA's reference weight for baking candies; that is a fixed serving weight, not a weighed tablespoon.
King Arthur Baking's chart has no peanut butter chip row; its only peanut butter row is for the spread.
The physical check: peanut butter chips have the size and shape of chocolate chips and a similar mix of sugar and fat, so they should weigh about the same per cup, and they do. This site's semisweet chocolate chips weigh 168 g a cup, white chips 170 g and butterscotch chips 170 g. In a cup of drops much of the volume is the air between them, so small differences in what the chips are made of barely move the total.
Practical guidance: use 168 g per cup of peanut butter chips, 84 g per half cup and about 10.5 g per tablespoon. A 10 oz bag (283 g) holds about 1 2/3 cups. Peanut butter chips can replace chocolate chips cup for cup and gram for gram in cookies and bars; for melting, use low heat or short bursts in the microwave, since the coating thickens if it overheats.
Sources
Chips, spooned and leveled
- USDA SR Legacy "Candies, confectioner's coating, peanut butter" (FDC 167570)168 g per cup5.9 ozReciPal, from USDA (NDB 19086): "1 cup, chips (168g)" (Prospre the same). 168 g per US cup (density 0.7101 g/mL).
- America's Test Kitchen (Peanut Butter Blondies)170 g per cup6 ozamericastestkitchen.com recipe 11000: "½ cup (3 ounces/85 grams) peanut butter chips": 170 g per cup.
- Reese's Peanut Butter Chips (producer package statement)hersheyland.com Peanut Butter Chip Brittle and Reese's Peanut Butter Chip Brownies: "1 2/3 cups REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips (10 oz pkg.)": 170.1 g per cup. It agrees with the figure, but a bag's cup count is a rounded fraction of a cup for a fixed weight, so it is kept without a figure.
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