Four quick steps. Your ingredients, your hours, your costs. At the end you'll see your profitable price and how much you were about to give away.
Be honest. Nobody sees this but you.
What it is and what goes into it. Costs come from your pantry prices.
Every hour counts, including shopping and cleanup. Paid at $0/hr.
Everything that leaves the kitchen with the cake.
Add your customer's details. Copy the message and paste it into a DM, text or email.
Stored on this device.
Enter the package you buy and what it costs. Recipes can use any unit in the same family: weight, volume or count. Example prices
Your labor is not free. What would you pay a skilled decorator? Pay yourself at least that.
Costs that never show up in a recipe: electricity, gas, permits, insurance, website, tools, mixer wear, marketing.
Profit is part of the price, not what's left over. It's what lets your bakery grow.
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Opens with an example cake — edit anything. A pricing aid for home bakers; check your local cottage food rules and sales tax.