1/4 cup of sour cream in grams

1/4 cup of sour cream weighs about 60 grams.

Grams60 g
Ounces2.12 oz
Tablespoons4 tbsp
Teaspoons12 tsp
Milliliters (volume)59 ml

This is based on 1 cup of sour cream = 240 g, so 1/4 cup of sour cream is 1/4 × 240 ≈ 60 g.

How to measure 1/4 cup of sour cream

By weight (most accurate): set your bowl on a kitchen scale, press tare, and add 60 g of sour cream.

By volume: Use a 1/4-cup measure, or 4 level tablespoons.

Sour cream and Greek yogurt weigh about the same per cup and can often stand in for each other in baking.

Why sour cream weighs what it does

Sour cream weighs about the same as water by volume: a cup of water is about 237 g.

1/4 cup of other ingredients

The same 1/4 cup holds a very different weight depending on the ingredient:

Ingredient1/4 cup in grams
Sour cream60 g
Butter57 g
Milk61 g
Heavy cream60 g
Greek yogurt61 g
All-purpose flour30 g
Granulated sugar50 g
Water59 g

Other amounts of sour cream

Full sour cream conversion chart → · Sour cream by the tablespoon →

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