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Recipes

Recipe management, costing, and scaling

Creating a Recipe

Add a recipe with ingredients, instructions, prep time, and yield.

Understanding Recipe Costing

See how BakeOnyx calculates recipe costs from ingredient prices and how to interpret the cost breakdown.

Batch and Portion Costing

Learn how batch yields and portion sizes work for accurate product costing — ideal for weight-based recipes.

Scaling Recipes

Scale a recipe up or down to produce different quantities while keeping proportions correct.

Creating Products from Recipes

Link a recipe to a product so the product cost is automatically calculated from the recipe.

Recipe Versioning and History

Track recipe changes over time with automatic versioning, diff views, and the ability to restore previous versions.

Tin Size Converter & Serving Guide

Convert recipes between different tin sizes and calculate servings for various cake shapes and sizes.

Scale a Recipe & Check Margins with Bake Buddy

Ask Bake Buddy to scale a recipe to any yield, see the new cost and profit margin, save it as a copy, or get ingredient-substitution ideas — all in chat.

Sub-Recipes (a recipe inside a recipe)

Use one recipe as an ingredient of another — e.g. a sourdough leaven or a buttercream made as its own recipe — so cost and stock flow through correctly.

Managing Products and Categories

Create products from recipes, set prices, manage categories, and list items for your storefront and POS.

Recipe Costing: From Ingredients to Profit

A baker-friendly guide to understanding how ingredient costs become recipe costs, product prices, and ultimately your profit.

Add Photos to Your Products

Add up to 6 photos to each product. The main photo shows on your POS, online shop and wholesale portal.