Stop undervaluing yourself. Know your costs. Price with confidence.
Know what every dessert costs to make: ingredients, packaging, labor and profit included.
Chocolate Cake
A 40% margin leaves room for the unexpected batch, the ruined tray, and paying yourself.
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The Sweet Price method: know your costs, then know your market
Sweet Price is where home bakers, treat makers, cake artists, and cottage food businesses run the money side of the business: ingredients and packaging in one inventory, recipes costed to the penny, prices built from real numbers, and sales tracked as you go. Our dessert pricing calculator finds what your treats actually cost to make, then shows how that price compares with your local market. Know your costs before you compare your price.
- Step 1
Know Your Costs
Sweet Price calculates what your desserts actually cost to make, ingredients, packaging, labor, and overhead, down to the cent.
- Step 2
Know Your Market
Compare your calculated price with local pricing trends to see where you stand. Regional Pricing is your market benchmark, not your calculator.
- Step 3
Price With Confidence
Stop guessing. Stop copying. Start making informed pricing decisions based on your business, not someone else's.
Recipe cost calculator built for home bakers
One workflow, no spreadsheets. Cost ingredients, build recipes, price products, and log sales.
- Step 1
Add ingredients
Enter what you buy, once. We track true cost per unit.
- Step 2
Build a recipe
Pull from inventory. See the real cost of one batch.
- Step 3
Price it
Add labor and profit. Get a number you can quote.
- Step 4
Log sales
Inventory drops, revenue climbs, taxes track themselves.
Regional dessert pricing comparison
A market benchmark, not a calculator. See how your calculated price stacks up in your area.
Your costs determine your price. Regional Pricing shows where you stand against Charlotte.
Open full regional toolBakery pricing software made by a dessert business owner
Every screen was built around how home bakers and treat makers actually work.
Inventory management for bakers, plus pricing and finances
Every feature is one clean screen. Tap a card to see it in action.
Buy a 5 lb bag of flour for $9? Sweet Price stores it and calculates the cost per gram, cup, or ounce every time you use it in a recipe.
- Cost-per-unit auto-calculated
- Deducted as you log sales
- Low-stock nudges
Add ingredients from your inventory in your usual units. Sweet Price tallies what one batch actually costs to make, updates when prices change, and remembers it.
- Bakery-friendly units
- Instant batch cost
- Reusable across products
Sweet Price adds your labor rate, overhead, packaging, and profit margin to your true batch cost and lands a price you can defend. Then compare it against your local market to see where you stand.
- Profit margin slider
- Compare against your local market
- Save straight to My Menu
Look up any dessert in your state and city. Sweet Price shows budget, average, and premium ranges so you can compare your calculated price with your local market, not copy it. Your costs still determine your price.
- 50 states covered
- Budget, average, premium tiers
- Benchmark, not your calculator
Recording a sale deducts ingredients from inventory using your recipe, adds revenue to Finances, and marks the profit. No double entry.
- Auto-deduct from inventory
- Live revenue tracking
- Tax-ready reporting
See what you made this week, this month, and this year. Best sellers, low stock, and cash allocation, all in one place, on your phone.
- Revenue and profit at a glance
- Best-seller and low-stock lists
- Profit allocation planner
Bakery profit calculator and finance dashboard
Real software, not a worksheet. Here's what you see after your first week of sales.
Free forever plan. No credit card.
Built by a treat maker who wondered if she was charging enough
I run a dessert business. I'd forget labor, second-guess every quote, and copy prices I saw other bakers charge with no idea if they even covered their costs. After helping other treat makers rebuild their pricing one order at a time, the same thing kept happening: the numbers were never written down anywhere they could trust.
Treat makers didn't need another spreadsheet or someone else's price to copy. They needed to know their own numbers first. That's what Sweet Price is.
Dessert pricing calculator questions we hear most
You can, until an ingredient price changes and every formula needs rebuilding. Sweet Price updates every recipe and product the moment a cost changes, so your prices stay accurate without you maintaining anything.
Notes hold the price, not the math behind it. Sweet Price keeps the ingredients, labor, packaging, and overhead attached to each product, so you can answer 'why is it this price' in one tap.
Then this takes ten minutes to confirm it. Most treat makers find one or two products quietly losing money, usually because labor or overhead was never counted.
Update the ingredient once. Every recipe, product, and recommended price that uses it recalculates automatically, and your dashboard flags anything that has drifted below target.
No. Cakes are one of many. Sweet Price works with any dessert you sell by the item, dozen, batch, or board.
Yes. You define your own units, batch sizes, and packaging, so cookies by the dozen, cupcakes by the box, or dessert boards priced individually all fit.
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- 30 ingredients
- 3 recipes
- 3 priced products
- 5 regional searches a month
- Dashboard
- Unlimited inventory, recipes, and pricing
- Full regional pricing access
- Sales logging with auto-deduct
- Dashboard analytics and allocation
- Tax tools
- Full community access
You can start free first and upgrade whenever you're ready.
Price with confidence.
Two minutes to set up. No credit card. Know your costs, then know your market.