Free Tools & Resources for Bakers
Calculators, workbooks and guides for running a home or cottage bakery. Free to use, with no account needed for the calculators.
Calculators
- Cake & Cookie Pricing Calculator Price an order from ingredients, time, packaging, delivery, overhead and card fees, with a true profit margin and the price per serving or dozen.
- Cake Servings & Tier Calculator Plan round or square tiers for a guest count, with wedding or party slices and servings for each tier and the whole cake.
- Decorated Cookie Pricing Calculator Price decorated cookies from your dough batch, icing, decorating time and packaging, with Quick or Detailed pricing per cookie, dozen and order.
- Buttercream Calculator Estimate the buttercream for a cake or tiers: filling, crumb coat, finish coat and decorating, plus batches of your own recipe.
Free workbooks
- FOUND: How Cake & Cookie Bakers Get Found Online SEO, GEO and AEO for bakers, in plain English. Score your visibility, then follow a 30-day plan to get found in search and AI answers.
- The Bakery Business Plan Workbook A step-by-step guide to starting, organizing and growing a profitable home bakery: plan, price, grow.
Guides and answers
New resources will appear here first, as they're published.
- Cottage Food Laws by State Plain-English guides to the home-baking rules in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., each linked to the state agency.
- The Whisk Manager blog Articles on pricing, inquiries, getting found online and running a home bakery.
- Whisk Manager FAQ Answers about Whisk Manager's plans, features and getting started.
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