Free Tools for Cottage Bakers

Running a cottage bakery means wearing a lot of hats — baker, packager, bookkeeper, and label-maker, all before the dishes are done. These are the two free tools I built to take the two fiddliest jobs off your plate: pricing your recipes and making your labels. No spreadsheets, no guessing, and no design degree required. Just add sprinkles!

Cottage Food Label Generator

Tell it your state and your product details, and the Label Generator builds a print-ready label sheet for you — with your state’s required wording printed word-for-word, at the size the law requires. It cannot shrink that wording smaller, even if your ingredients list gets long.

  • Pick your state and fill in your product, ingredients, and business details
  • Allergens are easy: tap the ones that apply and the bold CONTAINS: line builds itself
  • Download a print-ready PDF for popular label sheets and rounds, including Avery 5163 and OL5030WX, plus thermal label sizes
  • Live today for Texas, Florida, California, Ohio, Minnesota, Tennessee, Michigan, and Colorado — in another state? Send your details in from the tool and we will verify your state’s rules next
Open the Label Generator

Selling in Texas? Pair it with my Texas Cottage Food Law guide.

Recipe Cost Calculator

Type or paste your recipe, tell it what your ingredients cost, add your time and your profit margin, and the Cost Calculator works out exactly what to charge — per batch, per serving, and per dozen. No more pricing by hope and a shrug.

  • Start right away as a guest — try the sample Vanilla Sugar Cookies recipe to see it in action
  • It adds up ingredients, your time, packaging and overhead, then prices with a real profit margin built in
  • Create a free account to save your recipes in a library, organize them in folders, keep your price history, and build a shopping list of whole packs to buy
  • Print a tidy pricing sheet for your records
Open the Cost Calculator

Price It Right, Label It Right

The two tools work best as a pair: use the Cost Calculator to land on a price that actually pays you, then use the Label Generator to send every package out the door looking professional and labeled the way your state requires. Two jobs done, one less thing to worry about — now back to the fun part: baking.

More Help for Cottage Bakers

New to selling from your home kitchen? Start with my baker-to-baker tips on the blog, and browse the kitchen favorites I use and recommend in my shop.