Cake Pricing Calculator

Cake pricing calculator spreadsheet for home bakers: enter what your ingredients and boxes cost, how long each bake takes and what your marketplace or checkout charges, and see the price that hits your target profit margin, a wholesale price and your real profit at the price you charge now. One Excel workbook for every cake, cupcake and treat you sell.

WHAT IT DOES

• Ingredients: enter each ingredient and supply once with what you pay for a bag or pack and how many grams, millilitres or pieces are in it. The cost per gram or piece calculates
• Recipes: one row per material in a product. Pick the product and the material from drop-downs, type how much one bake uses (for example 450 g of flour and 6 eggs), and the ingredient cost adds up by itself
• Products: labour minutes at your hourly rate, overhead per item, packaging, shipping you pay and other costs give the total cost of one item
• Price for your target margin: the price that covers every cost and the marketplace fees and still leaves the margin you set
• Wholesale price: total cost times your wholesale markup
• Profit check at your current price: fees, profit per sale and margin. Products below your target turn amber, products losing money turn red
• Settings: hourly rate, overhead, transaction and payment fee percentages, fixed fees per order, target margin and wholesale markup. Change one and every price updates
• Room for 200 materials, 200 products and 1,000 recipe lines. Works in grams or ounces and any currency

WHAT YOU GET

• Cake-Pricing-Calculator.xlsx (blank)
• Cake-Pricing-Calculator-with-Sample-Data.xlsx (a filled-in home bakery: 14 ingredients and supplies, 5 bakes, including one that loses money at its current price)
• Quick-start guide (PDF)

HOW YOU GET IT

Digital download. After checkout you get a download page right away, plus a receipt by email. Nothing is shipped.

COMPATIBILITY

• Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer
• Google Sheets: upload the .xlsx to Google Drive and open it
• Needs a computer or tablet with a spreadsheet app. This is not an app or a printable planner

GOOD FOR

Home bakers and small bakeries that sell cakes, cupcakes, cookies and cake pops, and want prices that cover ingredients, boxes and their hours instead of guessing.

PLEASE NOTE

Same workbook as our Handmade Product Pricing Calculator, set up for baking. If you already own that one, you don't need this. A pricing and planning tool, not accounting, tax or food safety advice. Enter the current fees of the marketplace or checkout you use; they change. For use in your own business; please don't resell or share the files.

DISCLAIMER

This template is a planning tool and does not replace advice from a qualified or licensed professional (such as an accountant, financial advisor or lawyer). Check the results before you rely on them.

HOW IT WAS MADE

Designed by VARS Digital with AI-assisted tools. Every formula is checked before release, and the sample file shows each tab working.

QUESTIONS

Email varsdigitals@gmail.com and we'll help you get set up.