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Free bakery calculators and tools

These free bakery calculators answer the questions home bakers ask all the time: what a recipe really costs, what to charge for a cake or a dozen cookies, what margin a price leaves you, and how much a bigger batch will cost. Each tool shows the formula step by step with a worked example, so you can run your own numbers on paper or in a spreadsheet, with no sign-up and nothing to install.

Which bakery calculator to start with

If you are setting prices for the first time, start with the recipe cost calculator: every other number depends on knowing what one batch costs you in ingredients and packaging. Then use the cake or cookie pricing calculator to turn that cost into a price, and the margin calculator to check what that price leaves you after costs.

For example, if a batch of 24 cookies costs 9.60 dollars in ingredients and packaging, each cookie costs 0.40 dollars. Selling them at 1.50 dollars each leaves a margin of about 73 percent before your time and overhead.

• Pricing: cake pricing, cookie pricing, and margin and selling price.
• Costing: recipe cost, food cost, and recipe scaling with batch cost.
• Baking: baker's percentages for bread and sourdough, and cake servings by pan size.
• Starting out: bakery startup costs, name ideas, and nutrition labels.

When a calculator is no longer enough

A calculator answers one question once. When you sell every week, ingredient prices change, and a cake that was well priced in spring can lose its margin by autumn. Farinu is an app for home and micro bakers that keeps those numbers current: it costs each recipe from ingredients, packaging, sub-recipes, labour, machines and overhead, suggests a price from the markup you want, and alerts you when an ingredient price rise leaves a product selling below that markup.

It also keeps your customers, custom orders with deposits, sales and a monthly profit and loss in one place. The free plan covers recipe costing for up to 10 recipes and up to 50 orders a month; Team adds unlimited recipes and orders, sales and the rest.

Every free tool

• Cake pricing calculator

  Free cake pricing calculator: add ingredients, packaging, your time, oven and overhead, then read the price for your margin off the table. Worked example.

• Recipe cost calculator for bakers

  Recipe cost calculator for bakers: the formula step by step, unit conversion, sub-recipes, labour and overhead, with a worked cookie example.

• Food cost calculator for bakers

  Free food cost calculator for bakers: the food cost percentage formula, a worked cookie example, and how to price backwards from a target.

• Profit margin calculator for bakers

  Work out a bakery selling price from cost and target profit margin: price = cost / (1 - margin). Worked example, margin to markup table, common mistakes.

• Cookie pricing calculator

  Free cookie pricing calculator: add up a batch's ingredients, packaging, time, oven and overhead, divide by cookies, then by 1 minus your margin.

• Cake serving chart by pan size

  Free cake serving chart: wedding and party servings for round, square and sheet cake pans, common tier combinations, the slice formula and price per serving.

• Sourdough calculator: baker's percentage and hydration

  Sourdough calculator for baker's percentage and hydration: the formula, starter water counted right, and a worked example you can scale to any batch.

• Bakery startup costs by bakery type, with a worked budget

  Bakery startup costs by type, from about $15,500 for a home bakery to $102,700 for a commercial one, with the formula, an equipment list and a worked budget.

• Bakery names: a name generator you can run on paper

  Bakery names that work: a simple name formula, 60 bakery business names by style, and a 5-step check before you print labels. Worked example included.

• Recipe scaler with batch cost and yield

  Recipe scaler for bakers: the scaling factor formula, pan size conversion, what not to scale in a straight line, and how cost per piece changes.

• Nutrition facts label template and free method for bakers

  Free nutrition facts label template for bakers: a filled panel for an example cookie, the generator method with FDA rounding, and when you need a label.

Questions

Are these bakery calculators really free?

Yes. Every tool on this page is free to use with no account. Each one shows the formula and a worked example you can copy with your own numbers.

Why don't the calculators have input boxes?

This site loads no scripts, so each tool gives the formula step by step and a worked example instead. If you want the math done for you and kept up to date, Farinu does it for every recipe.