Free tools for cake bakers
Real calculators, built for UK bakers, free to use as often as you like.
Cake Designer
3DAgree the design before you turn the oven on. Style a tiered cake in 3D, with finishes, drips, florals, and a topper, then export a photo-ready image.
Pricing & Profit
Know your costs, then charge for them.
Cake Pricing Calculator
Stop underpricing. See the number, and where it came from.
Turn ingredients, time, and overhead into a price you can charge with confidence.
Recipe Cost Calculator
Know your true ingredient cost before you quote.
Work out what a recipe costs, down to the slice.
Overhead Calculator
Find the hidden cost sitting inside every order.
Spread rent, power, and packaging across the orders you actually take.
Cupcake Pricing Calculator
Charge for the batch, not the supermarket price.
Turn a batch into a price per cupcake and per dozen, with your time and boxes counted.
Delivery Fee Calculator
Cover the trip without guessing or eating the cost.
Charge fairly for the miles, the time, and the setup at the venue.
Sizing & Portions
Get the size right before you quote.
Portion Calculator
Quote the right size cake the first time.
Party and wedding slice counts for any tin size, shape, or tier.
Tin Conversion Calculator
Use the recipe you have in the tin you own.
Scale a recipe between tin sizes and shapes, with bake time guidance.
Cake Batter Calculator
Fill every tin level. No dome, no spill.
How much batter to fill each tin to the right depth, by size and layers.
Cake Dowel Calculator
Stack tiers that hold from the kitchen to the table.
How many dowels each tier needs to carry the tiers above.
Cake Board and Box Sizer
Order the right board once, not twice.
What size board and box a cake needs, including the tier that has to sit on top of another.
Recipe Scaler
Resize a recipe without the guesswork.
Scale a recipe up or down by yield or a set multiplier.
Traybake and Sheet Cake Portions
Even pieces, and the count you promised.
Servings from any tray, with the grid to cut and how many cuts to make.
What Size Cake for Your Guests
The size to bake, and what each option costs you in work.
A guest count in, and every way to feed it: one tin, tiers, traybake or cupcakes.
Cake Weight Calculator
A number for the courier, the drum, and the dowels.
What a finished cake weighs, tier by tier, with the board and the courier band.
Ingredients & Frosting
Mix the right amount, the first time.
Buttercream Calculator
Mix once. No half batch at midnight.
How much buttercream a cake takes, from a crumb coat to a smooth finish.
Cupcake Frosting Calculator
Mix enough the first time. No running short mid-swirl.
Buttercream for a batch of cupcakes, by swirl style, split into butter and icing sugar.
Cake Filling Calculator
Fill every layer the same, and none of it escapes.
How much goes between the layers, by filling type, plus the buttercream dam a loose filling needs.
Ganache Calculator
Set firm under fondant, or stay soft for a drip.
The right ratio by chocolate type, and how much to cover the cake.
Fondant Calculator
Roll once. Reaches the board, no shortfall.
How much rolled fondant or sugarpaste to cover a cake, and how wide to roll it.
Christmas Cake Calculator
Buy once, feed on time, ice with enough to spare.
Fruit, marzipan, and royal icing quantities for any tin size, plus a feeding and maturing schedule.
Baking Substitution Calculator
Keep baking when the cupboard is missing one thing.
The exact UK swap and amount when you are out of an ingredient.
Cake Soaking Syrup Calculator
A moist cake that still tastes of cake, not of syrup.
Sugar syrup to soak the layers, by cake size, with the sugar and water to weigh out.
Flour Substitute Calculator
The exact weights, for the amount your recipe asks for.
Cake flour, self-raising, and bread flour made from what is already in the cupboard.
Egg Size Converter
The right amount of egg, whatever the box says.
Medium to large, and UK to US to Australian, by the weight a recipe actually means.
Royal Icing Calculator
The batch size, and the consistency to thin it to.
Royal icing to cover a cake, pipe a border, or flood a batch of cookies.
Baking Basics
Get the oven right, whatever the recipe says.
Oven Temperature Converter
Set the oven right whatever the recipe was written in.
Fan, fan-forced, convection, gas mark, Celsius, and Fahrenheit, with the bake time to match.
Cake Baking Time Calculator
A time, a temperature, and when to first open the door.
How long to bake, for your tin size, batter depth, and fan or conventional oven.
Cake Storage and Make-Ahead Planner
A dated plan, working back from the day it is wanted.
How long a cake keeps, where it should sit, and what day to start baking.
Cake Tin Lining Calculator
Cut once, and it fits.
The exact pieces of greaseproof paper to cut, including the fruit cake collar.
Design & Quotes
Agree the cake, and the price, with the customer.
Wedding Cake Calculator
Size and price a wedding cake in one go.
Turn a guest count into a tier stack, portions, and a price to quote.
Terms and Conditions
Settle it in writing, before anyone is upset.
Booking terms for your cake orders: deposit, deadlines, cancellations, handover.
Labels & Compliance
Lay a label out the way the rules describe.
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