Printable baking charts
Nine reference charts, free to save, print or pin. Each one is generated from the same data the calculators run on, so a chart and the tool it came from can never disagree — and when we correct a figure, the chart is reprinted rather than left to go stale.
Use them freely, including on your own site or in a class handout. All we ask is that you keep the address at the foot of the chart, or credit CrumbCalc with a link. Where a number differs from the chart you may have seen elsewhere, the reason is written down on our methodology page.
Cups to grams chart
Every ingredient we hold a tested density for — 41 of them — with the weight of a cup, a tablespoon and a teaspoon. The one to stick inside a cupboard door.
Baking pan size chart
What each standard pan actually holds in cups, its bake surface in square inches, and its depth — the three numbers that decide whether a recipe fits.
Cake serving chart
How many people each cake feeds, in both slice conventions — party slices at 1½ × 2 in and the narrower 1 × 2 in wedding slice.
Oven temperature chart
Gas mark, Fahrenheit, Celsius and the fan-oven equivalent on one line, for when a recipe is written for an oven you don't have.
What size cake do I need?
Work backwards from the guest list: the smallest cake that seats 10 to 150 people, in party and wedding slices, plus the sheet-cake option for crowds.
How much frosting chart
Buttercream for common two-layer cakes at a standard ¼″ coat, with and without piping — plus a dozen cupcakes, flat or swirled. Estimates from stated geometry.
High altitude baking chart
The published Colorado State Extension adjustments by elevation band — leavening, sugar, liquid and oven temperature — for the three bands from 3,500 to 10,000 feet.
Cookie exchange chart
Half a dozen per participant, for 6 to 24 bakers: how many cookies each person brings and how many batches of a three-dozen recipe that takes.
Thanksgiving pie chart
How many 9-inch pies your table needs for 4 to 24 guests, at generous six-slice and standard eight-slice cuts — always rounded up.
Why a chart and a calculator, not just one
A chart is better than a calculator exactly when your hands are covered in dough. You want the whole picture at a glance, on paper, without unlocking anything — which is why a printed conversion chart taped inside a cupboard door has outlived every app that tried to replace it.
A calculator wins the moment your number isn't on the chart. No printed table can hold every pan against every other pan, or scale a recipe to 17 servings, or split the flour and water hiding inside a sourdough starter. So each chart here links to the tool that does the part it can't — and both read from the same figures.
Printing these
They're 1000 × 1500 pixels, which is a clean 2:3 — it prints without cropping on A4 or US Letter in portrait, and it's the ratio Pinterest displays at full height rather than truncating. Print at "fit to page" and the smallest text stays comfortably legible.