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Cost A Cake Pro app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 1888 ratings )
Productivity Food & Drink
Developer: Flame Red Productions
4.99 USD
Current version: 2.3, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 18 Mar 2013
App size: 24.82 Mb

** NUMBER 1 Food and Drink App in 15 countries including UK and Ireland, Top 10 in 32 countries including USA and Australia **

** Featured in the App Store Food and Drink Cooking section across 80 countries **

Do you think you are undercharging for your cakes? When a customer asks you to quote for a cake, how do you work it all out? Do you stumble on answering cake pricing questions?

How much should I charge for my cakes and cupcakes?
How do I calculate the ingredients cost?
What about the extra costings like boards, boxes and baking paper?
How much should I charge for baking time, or delivery?
And what about MY time?
Im baking for a friend, what will it cost me?
How do I calculate a cake quote for a large order, quickly, if a customer is on the phone asking?

Cost a Cake Pro can answer ALL these questions for you.

Cost a Cake Pro is an invaluable business tool for anyone who bakes cakes, cupcakes, pastries, cookies, cake pops or any other edible creation or food. It was created by the team at The Cake Makery to assist home and professional bakers with this often time consuming task.

With Cost a Cake Pro you can add any ingredient to your pantry, and you can add any additional item to the extras section, cake boards, cake boxes, ribbon, moulds used, and other such non edible expenditures.

Once your pantry has all the things you regularly bake with, creating your favourite and most used recipes is very quick as you simply add in all the ingredients and their amounts. Your recipes are stored, and from here you can create detailed and accurate quotes for your customers.

Here are a few of our best features:

* Choose you own currency - We automatically support ALL worldwide currencies from £ to $ to Euro or Yen.

* Cost a Cake Pro is really easy to use, add and edit your ingredients and recipes in a few clicks, swipe left or right to delete anything. Designed with ease of use, speed and simplicity in mind.

* Add, edit and delete ingredients in your Pantry. Ingredients can be anything that you can buy in your local supermarket! Yes, you can add in regular food items, such as all the ingredients for your smoothies and juicing or work out the cost of your family dinners.

* You can add ingredients in:

Cups
Grams
Ounces
Fluid ounces
Litres
Millilitres
Centimetres
Meters
Inches
By name for single items or things that come as a pack like 12 eggs or 6 Apples.


* Pantry includes an Extras store - here you can add anything that is inedible, such as:

Baking paper
Ribbon for your cake boards
Cake Boards and cake drums
Cupcake Boxes
Cake Boxes
Florist wire, and tape
Oven times for baking cost
Your delivery cost per mile

* Once you have added your ingredients - you can use them to create individual recipes, with a few clicks you select the ingredient that you want to add, enter the amount you need and add it in. You can also add extras at this point so cupcake recipes can include your cases, and big cakes can include baking paper as part of the recipe as its always used.

* Once you have created recipes, you can build customer quotes. You simply select the recipes that you will use to make the cake for your order, add them in (as many times as you need - helpful if you have a recipe for 12 cupcakes and you have to make 96!) then add in any extras such as boxes and ribbon and your estimated time on that order and you are done. You get a price that adds all this up, so you can see clearly what you need to charge to ensure you are not out of pocket. Yes it really is that easy!

Pricing your cakes and cupcakes has never been easier with Cost A Cake Pro, the #1 Food & Drink app, only from The Cake Makery.

Pros and cons of Cost A Cake Pro app for iPhone and iPad

Cost A Cake Pro app good for

This app is great for basic costing, and putting together quick accurate quotes A couple additional features would be great 1- a place to add in profit. Its got recipe cost and time cost but no line for profit. And if you arent making a profit its kind of pointless. Easily solved with a calculator for now. 2- the ability to use 1/2 or other fractions of recipes. Overall its a great little streamlined app and does what its supposed to. Ive had no issues with crashes or anything of the sort.
I love this app! It has made my cake life sooooo much easier! Only wished there was a option to edit recipes that have already been added.

Some bad moments

You need to fix this app! Please make it simple and easy to used. Please make an upgrade!
Terrible program- very difficult to use. Only certain types of measurements allowed for adding ingredients and recipes, so you have to calculate on your own before adding them in, which isnt always accurate. Theres a much better app to use. Sorry that I wasted my money on this.
I find this app to be very helpful. A must for professional bakers.
I had the free version and was waiting for this new app. 4.99 is a little steep but well worth it. Cant do without it!
First Id like to point out that app support is quick, and I hope they work it out soon. This app is a great idea but needs some work still: -Needs to install the Apple keyboard, the one it has is a pain to work with because the capital key stays on like CAPS LOCK, its only in English and theres no autocorrect. -It would be useful if it allowed other currencies. -Only works in portrait view. -Pantry list should be editable and allow more info, like brand, provider and date of purchase of ingredient or extras. That said, Ill wait until they fix it to keep on using it.
Like the new app will take me some time to input my own recipes and cost of ingredients and I like that you can change the currency and measurements for country specific and the conversion table is great!! Much better than the precious app