For cupcake & muffin bakers

By the dozen, to the penny.

A home bakery sells by the dozen and leaks by the little stuff: liners, boxes, and the butter that tripled in price since you last did the math. Cupcake orders book for weekends; muffins move at the market by the half-dozen. MadeKeeper prices the batch with the packaging counted, so the dozen leaves the counter at a number that works.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your oven

Ingredients at grocery-receipt realityFlour, butter, eggs, and vanilla log at what the store charged this month — so when butter jumps, the next batch reprices and your dozen price keeps up.

Liners and boxes countedLiners by the sleeve, bakery boxes by the bundle — the packaging on a two-dozen order is nearly three dollars, and it belongs in the price, not the shrug.

Order book with pickup datesBirthday dozens and event orders book with deposits and dates. Saturday's oven schedule comes from the app, not from scrolling messages at 6 a.m.

Market mornings by count-backBake 60 muffins, come home with 9 — the market sold 51, and the event math turns the table fee and the early alarm into a was-it-worth-it number.

One order, to the penny

Say you bake two dozen cupcakes for a pickup:

Cake (flour, sugar, butter, eggs, milk)$7.20
Buttercream (butter, powdered sugar, vanilla)$5.45
24 liners @ 3¢$0.72
2 bakery boxes @ $1.40$2.80

Order cost — 67¢ a cupcake$16.17

At $36 a dozen the order pays $72.00 and keeps $55.83 — before the two hours of baking and frosting, which MadeKeeper also counts, because 'it's just cupcakes' is how home bakers end up working for flour.

Cupcakes and muffins are core cottage food in most states, with frosting rules that vary — buttercream is usually fine, cream cheese often isn't. MadeKeeper keeps the batch and label records your program asks about; the allowed-frosting list stays yours to check.

Straight about what's live

Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →

Questions cupcake and muffin bakers ask

How do I keep up with ingredient prices?

Log purchases at the receipt and the batch cost moves with the store. When eggs spike, you'll see the dozen's cost climb that week — and raise the price from a fact instead of a feeling.

Cupcake orders versus market muffins — track separately?

Yes, as channels: booked orders with deposits on one side, market count-back on the other. Most bakers discover one of them is quietly subsidizing the other; the ledger says which.

What about custom toppers and themes?

Theme add-ons — toppers, colors, filled centers — log as extra recipe lines on that order, so the birthday premium covers its real extra cost and hours, not just its extra cuteness.

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