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For at-home bakers

Templates for Home Bakers.

A curated set of 10 spreadsheets — and the guides that go with them — for cottage-food bakers and small bakery owners. Cost a recipe, price a custom cake, track an order calendar, and figure out whether that wedding tier is actually paying you.

From "what should I charge?" to a real cottage-food business

Most home bakers we hear from have the same arc: you start baking for friends, someone insists on paying, suddenly there's an Instagram page and a custom-cake DM you don't know how to price. The templates in this collection are built around that exact reality — ingredient costing down to the gram, packaging and overhead baked into the price, an inventory tab that doesn't pretend you're running a warehouse, and an order book your phone can read on a Saturday morning.

Pair the spreadsheets with the guides below — they cover the questions we get asked most about pricing wedding cakes, costing a single recipe, and turning a baking side hustle into something closer to a real job.

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10 templates

Recipe costing, business management, inventory and pricing — in Excel and Google Sheets.

Reading list

Real talk on pricing, costing, and the hidden expenses that quietly eat your margin.