CookingCost
Know Your Worth
CookingCostA culinary-school-trained chef, a cottage food baker, and the guy who got tired of watching talented bakers undercharge for their work. CookingCost is the tool I built to fix that — for them, and honestly, for myself.
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I trained as a chef and spent years cooking in professional kitchens. Costing was second nature there — every plate had a food cost, every ingredient came in through a wholesale account, and there was a whole system built around the numbers.
Then I started baking out of my own kitchen and selling it — a cottage food business we call Baked by Bazz — and I learned fast that pricing your own baked goods is a completely different animal. No wholesale accounts. No commercial line. You buy your butter at retail like everyone else, you bake on a home oven, and you sell at a farmers market or off an order form. Every costing tool I knew was built for restaurants, not for one person trying to price a dozen cinnamon rolls.
And it's not just the buying. In a commercial kitchen there's usually a full team — someone prepping, someone on the line, someone scrubbing down at the end of the night. In a cottage kitchen it's often just one or two people doing all of it: the baking, the setup, the breakdown, and cleaning every pan and every piece of equipment. That labor is real, and it's the cost most home bakers forget to count.
So I built CookingCost: a costing tool made for home bakers and cottage food makers, not restaurants. It takes what I learned on the professional side and translates it to the way we actually sell — retail ingredients, real labor, honest margins — so you can finally charge what your work is worth.
I'm also a U.S. military veteran and a dad, and CookingCost is run under our family company, Blue Spruce Botanical Company LLC. This isn't a faceless app — it's a tool a real chef built for real bakers, and I use it myself every week.
There are other costing tools out there. Here's why bakers choose CookingCost:
Not restaurants. Not caterers. Built specifically for the home baker and cottage food community.
No training needed. Add your ingredients, see your costs. Done in minutes, not hours.
Add your cinnamon roll filling as an ingredient inside your rolls. Costs roll up automatically.
Automatically flags all 9 major allergens — protecting your customers and your business.
Check organic on any ingredient and it carries through to your printed cost sheet.
Keeps your screen on while you bake — no more unlocking your phone with floury hands.
I believe every person who makes food with love and real skill deserves to build a sustainable business from it.
The cottage food world is growing fast — home bakers and cooks everywhere are turning their craft into income. But too many are guessing at their prices, and guessing usually means undercharging. I've been there.
My mission is simple: give every home baker the tools and the confidence to charge what they're worth. You can start with a free trial and cost your recipes before you commit to anything. After that, CookingCost is a simple subscription — priced so a tool that quietly helps you stop losing money more than pays for itself.
Join home bakers and cottage food makers who are finally pricing their recipes with confidence.
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Email: hello@cookingcost.com
CookingCost.com is a DBA of Blue Spruce Botanical Company LLC