What did this recipe really cost?

Every gram, box and hour—turned into one honest cost.

Stock And Spoon follows today’s ingredient and packaging prices into your recipe, adds the work and running costs you choose, then shows the answer per batch, pan or piece.

Miniature costing kitchen with bakers weighing ingredients, checking purchases and reading a real recipe-cost panel

When butter jumps again, your recipe answer changes with it.

Start with what you paid

South African baker checking a long grocery receipt beside flour, eggs, butter and bakery packaging

Purchases become useful, not paperwork.

Record the bag, bottle, packet or box exactly as you bought it. Add delivery when it belongs to that shop, and Stock And Spoon works out the price of the amount your recipe actually uses.

  • Ingredients and packaging
  • Supplier and purchase history
  • Delivery spread across the shop
  • Changing prices carried forward

Write recipes your way

Two generations of bakers comparing a measuring cup with a digital kitchen scaleWhich cup, exactly?

Grams, cups, tins, pans and pieces all belong.

Build the recipe from the quantities you really use. Add packaging beside ingredients, scale the yield and see the useful answer for a whole batch or one sellable piece.

  • Recipe quantities and yields
  • Batch, pan and piece costs
  • Packaging per item
  • Current price comparisons

Count the invisible work

Baker accounting for oven time, electricity and labour beside a working oven

The oven and your time are part of the bake.

Add labour, overhead and electricity in plain amounts. You decide what belongs in the cost, and the app keeps it visible instead of burying it in a spreadsheet tab.

  • Labour time
  • Electricity and oven time
  • Overhead allowance
  • Clear cost breakdown

A real view from the app

The useful numbers, close enough to read.

Three focused views show the purchase, the recipe breakdown and the answer you can sell from.

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When butter jumps again, your recipe answer changes with it.

Expanded recipe cost breakdown with ingredients, overhead and labour in Rand
Where the recipe cost comes from
Purchase history in Stock And Spoon with supplier and ingredient entries
What the shop cost
Recipe result showing cost, suggested price, profit and markup per output unit
The answer at every useful yield

In baker language

From question to answer, without the detour.

  1. Receipt, ingredient packet and small shopping trolley

    Add what you buy

    Capture the pack size and price.

  2. Recipe card, kitchen scale and measuring cup

    Build the recipe

    Use the quantities and yield you know.

  3. Portioned bake, calculator and South African coins

    Read the answer

    See batch, pan and piece costs in Rand.

Good to know

Straight answers.

01What happens when an ingredient price changes?

Add the new purchase and the app uses your current stock value, so today’s recipe cost reflects what is really on your shelf.

02Can I include boxes, boards and labels?

Yes. Packaging can be stocked and added to recipes just like ingredients.

03Can I count my own time?

Yes. Add labour and overhead choices that make sense for your bakery.

Another question, answered

What should I charge?

See the full story

Cost one real recipe

Pick your bestseller. See what it actually costs.

Open the demo and cost one batch from ingredients to finished portions.

Cost a batch