Cake Pricing Calculator

Use this cake pricing calculator to cost your ingredients from the packs you buy, add your hours, box and overhead, and get a price per cake and per slice. It's free, needs no signup and runs in your browser. It also works as a cake cost calculator: see exactly what one cake costs you before you quote.

Price a cake now Or snap the recipe in the app — free download on iOS

Example: an 8-inch two-layer vanilla cake with buttercream, at typical US supermarket pack prices. Replace it with your own.

Ingredients, frosting and decorations

IngredientPack sizePack price Amount usedYield %Cost

Your time

Per cake

Overhead is this cake's share of power, gas, card fees and rent.

Same as markup—

Same costing, no typing

Skip the typing: recipe photo to cost card

Snap a photo of your recipe, paste a link from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, or dictate it. FoodTechGuru builds the cost card for you, with ingredient prices for your country, prep and cooking loss, and a Google Sheet you can edit.

  • New accounts get 15 free credits; one recipe uses one credit
  • Cost per serving, margin at your price, and nutrition per recipe
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FoodTechGuru Google Sheet cost card for churros with cinnamon sugar: base recipe weights, prep and cooking loss, unit cost per kg and a cost per serving of 1.03
FoodTechGuru on iPhone: from the main screen, tap Cost a Recipe, type the dishes, and the carne asada tacos cost card appears with its ingredients and servings
A real cost card from the app: churros with cinnamon sugar, $1.03 per serving. The frying oil is over half of it.

How to price a cake

  1. Cost the ingredients from the packs you buy: amount used ÷ pack size × pack price, for the sponge, the frosting and every decoration.
  2. Add your time: baking, prep and decorating hours × the hourly rate you want to earn.
  3. Add the per-cake extras: box and board, this cake's share of overhead, and delivery.
  4. Divide by (1 − margin): total cost ÷ 0.70 gives a 30% profit margin.
  5. Divide by the slices for the price per slice.

Example: the 8-inch vanilla cake above uses $14.04 of ingredients, but 3.5 hours at $20 is $70. With the box and overhead it costs $91.54 to make, so a 30% margin means about $131, or $8.17 a slice. Sell it for $65 and you lose money: your hours earn about $12 each, not $20.

Margin vs markup

Margin is profit as a share of the price. Markup is profit as a share of the cost. A 30% margin is a 43% markup. Price from margin and you always know what share of each sale you keep.

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Cake pricing calculator FAQ

Is this cake pricing calculator free?

Yes. It is free, needs no signup and runs in your browser. Your numbers are not sent anywhere.

Should I include my time in the cake price?

Yes. Your hours are a real cost. Pick the hourly rate you want to earn, and the calculator adds baking, prep and decorating time to the cake's cost before the margin.

What is the difference between margin and markup?

Margin is profit as a share of the price; markup is profit as a share of the cost. A 30% margin is the same as about a 43% markup. This calculator prices from the margin you enter and shows the markup next to it.

How do I price a cake per slice?

Enter how many slices the cake serves. The calculator divides the price of the whole cake by that number, so the price per slice already covers ingredients, time, box and overhead.

Can it cost buttercream and decorations?

Yes. Add frosting, fillings and decorations as ingredient lines, each with the pack you buy and the amount the cake uses.

Can an app cost my cake recipes for me?

Yes. In FoodTechGuru for iPhone you snap a photo of the recipe, paste a link or dictate it, and the app builds the cost card with ingredient prices for your country plus a Google Sheet. New accounts get 15 free credits; one recipe uses one credit. Android is coming.

Cost every recipe without typing

Photograph the recipe, get the cost card and the Google Sheet.

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