CookingCost makes food costing fast, simple, and surprisingly empowering. Here's exactly how it works.
Try It Free Now →Tap the store where you buy most of your baking supplies. This helps you track where your prices are coming from — especially useful when comparing costs across stores over time.
Don't see your store? No problem — just skip this step and enter your prices manually.
Give your recipe a name — be specific! "Grandma's Brown Butter Cookies" is more useful than just "Cookies" when you're managing multiple recipes.
Use the Batch Scale to adjust size: making a double batch for a market? Tap 2× and every cost updates automatically.
Enter how many units your recipe makes — 12 cookies, 1 loaf, 24 cupcakes. Optionally enter the expected weight per unit (e.g. 4 oz per cookie) to activate the Waste Calculator, which checks if your batter adds up correctly.
For each ingredient you need three things:
Store package: What size package did you buy and what did you pay? (e.g. 5 lb bag of flour for $4.99)
Recipe amount: How much does your recipe actually call for? (e.g. 2 cups)
CookingCost automatically calculates the exact cost of what you used. You don't need to do any math.
Use the slider to set your target profit margin — from 10% (break-even) to 80% (premium pricing). CookingCost will calculate your suggested sell price based on this margin.
New to pricing? Start at 30-40% and adjust as you learn your market. Remember to account for your time, packaging, and any market or delivery fees.
Hit "See What This Recipe Is Worth" and get your complete cost breakdown instantly — total recipe cost, cost per unit, profit per unit, suggested sell price, allergen warnings, and organic ingredient callouts.
Print your cost sheet for your records, or print a customer-facing version to share with buyers.
This is the feature professional bakers have been waiting for. Ever made cinnamon rolls where the filling, the dough, and the frosting all have separate costs? Now you can cost each component as its own recipe — then link them together into the final product.
How to use it: Save your filling as a recipe. Then when building your cinnamon rolls, tap "🔗 Saved Recipe" on any ingredient row and select your filling. Its full cost rolls up into the total automatically — including allergen inheritance.
Check the Organic checkbox on any ingredient and it gets flagged throughout your cost sheet and print layouts. Use this to communicate the value of your organic ingredients to customers — they pay more for quality, and they should know when they're getting it.
My Cost Sheet (🔒): Your full business document — total costs, profit margins, suggested pricing, ingredient breakdown. For your eyes only.
Customer Sheet (👤): A beautiful ingredient list with allergen warnings and organic callouts — but no costs shown. Perfect to hand to customers with their order or post at a market stall.
Tap the ☀️ button in the top header to keep your phone screen on while you're actively baking. No more tapping your screen with doughy hands to see the next step. It deactivates automatically when you leave the app.
It takes less than 5 minutes and you might be surprised what you discover about your pricing.
Start for Free — No Account Needed →