Batter Math

Price the cake.
Keep the profit.

Batter Math is a cake pricing calculator for home bakers. Paste your recipe, describe the order, and get your real costs, a fair price, and a quote you can send your customer — in about 90 seconds.

Price my first bake — free

No sign-up, no card. Works for cakes, cupcakes, cookies & more.

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Cost breakdown

8" two-tier vanilla, buttercream florals

Flour, sugar, butter, eggs$41.20
Buttercream + gel colour$14.80
Board, box, ribbon$12.50
Your hours (4.5 × $22)$99.00
Overhead$8.00
Cost to make this bake$175.50

Suggested price

$395

Your profit: $219.50 · 56% margin

Preview of the Batter Math pricing tool results page with an editable receipt and suggested price.
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How the cake pricing calculator works

Your skill is an ingredient too.

Step 1 · Recipe

3 cups AP flour
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
4 eggs · 1 cup whole milk
1 tbsp vanilla bean paste

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Paste your recipe.

Exactly as you have it written — messy notes welcome. Batter Math reads your ingredients and estimates current costs, so you never type prices into little boxes.

Step 2 · Order

8 inch two layer for a 30th, about 20 people. Buttercream florals, dusty pink, delivered Saturday morning.
$22/hryour rate

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Describe the order.

“8-inch two-tier for a 30th, buttercream florals, delivered Saturday.” It prices your decorating time, packaging, and delivery — the costs bakers forget most.

Step 3 · Quote

$395

Your profit: $219.50 · 56% margin

“Hi Nadia! For the 8" two-tier with buttercream florals, the total comes to $395…”

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Send the quote.

You get the honest price, your actual profit, and a warm, professional quote message with deposit terms, ready to copy into your customer's DMs.

The average home baker earns

$3.60/hr

That's what most home bakers make after ingredients, packaging, and hours nobody charged for. You're not bad at business — nobody handed you the math. Knowing your real cost per cake is the fix.

Every number is editable.

The calculator estimates; you decide. Tap any ingredient cost and correct it to your store's prices — totals update instantly.

Your hours make the invoice.

Baking time and decorating time, priced at your hourly rate. Because a $50 cake that took five hours isn't a business, it's a favor.

Nothing invisible.

Boards, boxes, ribbon, delivery fuel — line-itemed automatically, so your profit stops quietly disappearing into packaging.

The awkward part, written for you.

Every quote comes with a client-ready message: the price, a 50% deposit line, and pickup or delivery confirmation. Firm, warm, and ready to send.

Lifetime access

$29

Pay once, price every order forever. No subscription. Most bakers earn it back on their first properly-priced cake.

Price my first bake — free

Founding offer: the first 25 bakers get lifetime access for $10 with code FOUNDING.

Questions, answered plainly.