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Ingredient Cost Calculator: what did 320 g of flour cost?

You bought the whole bag, but this batch used only part of it. Enter the price and size of the pack, then the amount you used. Do that for each ingredient and you'll have the batch total.

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Enter your batch costs, active production time, hourly rate, and monthly overhead. You'll see the complete cost per item and a price based on your chosen target.

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Batch ingredient total: $0.00

Sellable items from the batch

Enter the whole number of items you can actually sell, not the planned yield.

Active production time for the batch

Count the hands-on minutes spent mixing, shaping, decorating, packing, and cleaning for this batch.

Production hourly rate

Enter the hourly value of hands-on production work. Enter zero only when you intentionally do not include labor.

Normal active production hours per month

The calculator turns monthly fixed costs into an hourly overhead rate, then assigns this batch its share by active production time.

Pricing target

Choose whether to price for a target margin or a fixed profit amount per item.

Target profit margin

Enter a percentage from 0 to 99.99.

How it’s calculated

Ingredient cost per item = full batch ingredient cost ÷ sellable yield
Production labor per item = hourly rate × active batch hours ÷ sellable yield
Fixed-cost allocation per item = monthly fixed costs ÷ normal monthly active hours × active batch hours ÷ sellable yield
Breakeven = ingredients + packaging + production labor + fixed-cost allocation
Price = breakeven ÷ (1 − target margin), or breakeven + target profit per item

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Price estimate

Based on your current inputs

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Complete the required inputs, then calculate the price. Entering zero for fixed costs leaves overhead allocation at zero.

A $12.50 bag of flour, 320 g used

Your receipt shows the bag price. Here's the amount to put against this batch.

Pack bought: 5 kg of flour for $12.50
Convert the size: 5 kg = 5,000 g
Cost per gram: $12.50 ÷ 5,000 g = $0.0025 per g
Recipe amount: 320 g of flour used

320 g × $0.0025 = $0.80 of flour in this batch.

Don't put the full $12.50 against one batch. Use the price from your own receipt; these are example numbers.

Keep the units straight

If butter comes in pounds but your recipe uses ounces, convert the pack size before you divide. Do the same with kilograms and grams, or liters and milliliters. Weight and volume are not interchangeable.

Count eggs by the piece. A dozen for $3.60 is $0.30 an egg, so three eggs cost $0.90. The itemized calculator accepts weight, volume, and count units and warns you if the units don't match.

Build the real batch total

Do the same calculation for the butter, eggs, vanilla, and anything else in the recipe. A little baking powder or a few drops of flavoring still have a cost.

Once you have the batch total, divide by the number of finished items you can sell. Keep the box or bag separate from the dough: packaging is a cost of each item you hand over.

When the pack price changes

If your butter goes from $8 to $10 per kilogram and this batch uses 200 g, that's another $0.40 per batch. Check new receipts before you keep quoting the old cost.

You can use this calculator without an account. If the same flour or butter goes into several products, a Bakeluma account lets you save those ingredients and use them again.

A few practical checks

Is pack price the same as recipe cost?

Only if the recipe uses the entire pack. Otherwise, divide the pack price by the pack quantity and multiply by the amount used.

Can I mix grams and kilograms?

Yes, after converting them to compatible units. The calculator can handle compatible weight units; it will not treat a weight and a volume as interchangeable.

Does this calculate my final selling price?

Ingredient cost is one input. Add packaging and any other costs you need to cover, then use the pricing calculator to work out a selling price.

Now add the rest of the recipe.

Add every ingredient in the batch, then divide by the pieces you can sell. After that, check packaging and your selling price.

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