Bakery Recipe Cost Calculator

What you get: one Excel workbook (.xlsx) with 5 tabs and live formulas throughout — Start Here plain-English instructions, a Recipe Calculator with 24 ingredient rows that costs a batch exactly (ingredients, labor, overhead and packaging) down to cost per unit plus a suggested price at your target cost % and a price rounded to the nearest $0.25, an Ingredient Library pre-loaded with 20 common baking staples that reprices every recipe when you update a grocery price, a Price List with 20 product rows whose first row is linked live to the Recipe Calculator, and a 200-row Sales Log that pulls price and cost from the Price List and totals revenue, cost and profit automatically.

How it works: download the .xlsx, open it in Microsoft Excel or upload it to Google Sheets, explore the pre-loaded vanilla cupcake sample first (about $0.97 per cupcake fully loaded at the sample prices), then update the Library to the prices you actually pay, cost your own recipes, set your prices, and log sales as they happen. Yellow cells are the only ones you type in — tan cells are formulas and update themselves. No macros, nothing to install.

For: home bakers and cottage-food sellers pricing for farmers markets, online orders and word-of-mouth sales, new bakery side-hustles that have been pricing by gut feeling or by copying competitors, and bakers who know their recipes are good but do not know which ones actually make money.

Please note: digital download only — no physical product ships, and the file is a spreadsheet costing tool, not a cookbook (sample recipes are costing examples). Library prices are typical US grocery examples — replace them with your own store prices for exact results, and enter recipe quantities in the same unit the Library uses (grams, ml, or each). This tool does the math only: it is not legal, tax, or financial advice, and no income is promised. Cottage-food and home-bakery rules vary by state and city — check your local law, labeling, and permit requirements before selling.