BakerBacker

BakerBacker

Cottage baker operations: pricing, pantry, pre-orders, markets, labels, tastings and coupons in one place. Pick a cookie below: each keeps its own recipe, hours and label, while stall, travel and payment costs are shared.

Your batch

How much you bake for one market, and how much of it usually sells. Unsold cookies still cost money, so the sold ones have to cover them.

Ingredients for one batch

Enter what you paid for the package, how big the package is, and how much one batch uses, in the same unit (oz, grams, cups, count). If you already know an ingredient's cost per batch, enter that cost as the price and the amount used as both the package size and the amount used.

IngredientPackage pricePackage sizeUsed per batchUnitCalories per unitCost
Per batch

Calories per unit are typical USDA values for one unit as written in the Unit column (one stick, one cup, one egg). Check your packages' Nutrition Facts and adjust if your brands differ.

Kitchen time

Count every hands-on hour for the whole market: mixing, baking, cooling, bagging. Pay yourself what you'd need to pay a helper.

Packaging per cookie

Everything that goes on or around a single cookie.

ItemCost each
Per cookie

Market day

Stall fees, your time behind the table, and a fair share of the gear and paperwork that let you sell at all.

Card payments

Square, SumUp and similar readers charge a percentage plus a few cents per swipe.

Profit

Profit is separate from your wage. It pays for growth, slow days, bad weather and new cutters.