1 cup of chocolate chips in grams — 170 g.

Why 170 g per cup

Semi-sweet chocolate chips weigh 170 g/cup; the value is roughly the same for milk and dark chips. Mini chips pack denser (~195 g/cup) because they fill the volume more efficiently.

Bulky or chunky ingredients — chocolate chips, raisins, chopped nuts — have wildly variable densities depending on piece size and how settled the cup is. Treat these gram figures as approximate; differences of ±15 % are normal and rarely consequential in recipes that use these as additions rather than structural ingredients.

The most accurate way to measure chocolate chips

For recipes where the outcome matters — bakes, doughs, anything leavened — measure chocolate chips on a kitchen scale set to grams. Set the bowl on the scale, press tare to zero, then add until the readout matches the gram value the recipe calls for. This removes the largest source of cup-to-cup variation: how you scoop.

The cup-based numbers on this page assume the “spoon and level” method — fluffing the ingredient in its container, spooning it into the cup, and levelling the top with a straight edge. Scooping directly with the cup packs more in, and can push the gram value up by 20-30 % for fluffy ingredients like flour and cocoa.