How to Convert Ounces of Chocolate Chips to Cups

Chocolate chips come in bags that are sold by weight in ounces. When you are baking with chocolate chips, it can be confusing to figure out how many cups of chocolate chips are in a bag of chocolate chips. Once you understand how to convert ounces of chocolate chips to cups, you can be confident that you never come up short of chocolate chips for a recipe. Does this Spark an idea?

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Chocolate chip bag (labeled with ounces)
Dry measuring cup

Instructions

- 1
  
  Look at the chocolate chip package to find the weight stamping on the label.
- 2
  
  Understand that 6 oz. of chocolate chips equals 1 dry measuring cup of chocolate chips.
- 3
  
  Determine that if one standard bag of chocolate chips usually has 11.5 to 12 oz. of chocolate chips per bag, this is the equivalent of approximately 2 cups of chocolate chips.

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