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84% Butterfat Croissant
Cost / unit: 0,35 €
4,20 €Recipe costing in a bakery is the precise calculation of the cost of each product (from a baguette to a pain au chocolat). Without it, an average bakery workshop loses sight of up to 15% of its margin: according to industry reports, 68% of bakeries don't cost all their SKUs, which translates into over €4,000 in annual profitability leakage for every percentage point of uncontrolled food cost.
By having a live, digital recipe cost, each SKU shows its real margin and allows you to make agile decisions: adjust the price of a baguette when flour prices rise, discontinue a product that doesn't reach a 25% food cost, or launch a new sourdough bread with the confidence that the selling price covers the cost and delivers the expected profit.
Recipe costing software for bakeries. Calculate the real cost of doughs, breads, and pastries. Control your food cost, allergens, and production scaling with AI.
Create spec sheets for your sourdough starter, poolish, or biga as composite ingredients. Miselup calculates their cost and integrates it into the final costing of the piece.
Record yield loss from baking or cooling of each batch. The software adjusts the final cost to reflect your product's actual yield.
A large catering order? Scale your recipe from 20 to 200 croissants with one click and get the exact shopping list.
Note down every raw material with its purchase format (kg, liters, units) and the actual price from the latest invoice. Include even the salt, yeast, and water if it has a filtration cost.
Flour can have a 1% waste due to dust, and sourdough starter a 3% loss from sticking to the container. Dry goods (salt, sugar) usually have 0%, but fruits or nuts do lose weight when cleaned.
Multiply the quantity used by the unit price (including waste) and add up all the ingredients. Then divide by the number of pieces yielded from that dough to get the cost per unit.
Add a percentage for oven energy, direct labor, and utensil amortization. A good rule of thumb is to add 8-12% on top of the raw material cost.
Define the food cost percentage you want for that product family (e.g., 28% for basic bread). Divide the total cost per unit by that percentage and add the corresponding VAT (4% for basic bread, 10% for viennoiserie).
250g baguette of common bread, with sourdough starter and long fermentation.
| Ingredient | Quantity | Waste | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bread flour | 500 g | 0 % | €0.25 |
| Water | 300 ml | 0 % | €0.00 |
| Fresh yeast | 10 g | 0 % | €0.05 |
| Fine salt | 10 g | 0 % | €0.01 |
| Active sourdough starter | 100 g | 0 % | €0.10 |
| Bread improver (optional) | 5 g | 0 % | €0.03 |
| Olive oil for kneading | 5 ml | 0 % | €0.02 |
| Dusting flour | 10 g | 100 % | €0.01 |
Total cost
€0.41
Food cost
25 %
Suggested price
€1.68 (VAT incl.)
Margin
€1.22 per unit
By adjusting the flour quantity, the software instantly recalculates the cost, selling price, and margin while maintaining the 25% target food cost.
68 %
of bakeries don't cost all their SKUs
industry reports
32 %
average food cost in artisan bakeries
Spain market data
€0.15
loss per poorly costed baguette
profitability studies
45 %
of bakery workshops don't know the real margin per product
baker surveys
Bakeries
A baguette loses between 10% and 15% of its weight during baking. If this isn't factored in, the cost per unit sold is unrealistic and the margin is inflated.
Oven electricity, mixer water, or parchment paper all add up. A professional recipe costing prorates these so each piece absorbs its share.
Flour prices fluctuate every quarter. Costing with prices from six months ago distorts the food cost and can lead to selling below the minimum margin.
A natural sourdough starter has a daily maintenance cost (flour, water, time). If treated as a free ingredient, the real cost of the bread is underestimated.
Each product family requires a different approach to calculate its profitability.
Costing per piece from a base dough. The target food cost is usually 25-28%.
Includes ingredients like butter, milk, or seeds. The cost is higher and the food cost can reach 35%.
Croissants, pains au chocolat... Here, the butter and lamination increase the raw material cost, and the costing must reflect the yield per tray.
The maintenance cost of the culture and the longer production time must be allocated to avoid giving away margin.
Expensive flours (rice, almond) and separate processes require a specific costing to avoid losing money in this range.
Chefs, pastry chefs, bartenders, baristas and chocolatiers who swapped spreadsheets and notebooks for Miselup.
Carlos Mendoza
Owner · La Mesa Restaurant
“Every recipe change used to be a mess. With Miselup, if I bump the sirloin by 20 g, I see the real cost instantly. It's amazing—I no longer lose margin without noticing. Now costing is quick and safe, no calculator needed.”
Diego Valdés
Head Bartender · Nébula Bar
“My team sees the production sheet without any cost breakdown. That way they measure every cocktail precisely—no more over- or under-pouring. The recipe stays clear, and the numbers stay for my eyes only.”
Mateo Herrera
Owner · Café Origen
“Swap whole milk for oat milk and Miselup updates allergens on the menu automatically. Every new season with sandwiches and pastries used to be a nightmare. Now my digital menu is always up to date and my celiac customers are grateful.”
Carlos Mendoza
Owner · La Mesa Restaurant
“Every recipe change used to be a mess. With Miselup, if I bump the sirloin by 20 g, I see the real cost instantly. It's amazing—I no longer lose margin without noticing. Now costing is quick and safe, no calculator needed.”
Diego Valdés
Head Bartender · Nébula Bar
“My team sees the production sheet without any cost breakdown. That way they measure every cocktail precisely—no more over- or under-pouring. The recipe stays clear, and the numbers stay for my eyes only.”
Mateo Herrera
Owner · Café Origen
“Swap whole milk for oat milk and Miselup updates allergens on the menu automatically. Every new season with sandwiches and pastries used to be a nightmare. Now my digital menu is always up to date and my celiac customers are grateful.”
Carlos Mendoza
Owner · La Mesa Restaurant
“Every recipe change used to be a mess. With Miselup, if I bump the sirloin by 20 g, I see the real cost instantly. It's amazing—I no longer lose margin without noticing. Now costing is quick and safe, no calculator needed.”
Diego Valdés
Head Bartender · Nébula Bar
“My team sees the production sheet without any cost breakdown. That way they measure every cocktail precisely—no more over- or under-pouring. The recipe stays clear, and the numbers stay for my eyes only.”
Mateo Herrera
Owner · Café Origen
“Swap whole milk for oat milk and Miselup updates allergens on the menu automatically. Every new season with sandwiches and pastries used to be a nightmare. Now my digital menu is always up to date and my celiac customers are grateful.”
Lucía Ramírez
Pastry Chef · Dulce Masa Bakery
“I always jot down recipes in my test notebook. I snap a photo with Miselup, and the AI turns that page into a technical sheet with exact ingredients and weights. It's magic—saves me hours of copying data and eliminates errors completely.”
Ana Solís
Catering Director · Sol y Sombra Events
“For each wedding menu, I instantly see if the proposal is green or red. The margin traffic light tells me if I'm over cost before sending the quote. I negotiate with data, not blind. And I sleep easy once every event is locked in.”
Isabel Vega
Artisan Chocolatier · Bombones Amargo
“For a big order of 300 boxes, I enter the base recipe for 10 chocolates and Miselup scales everything: grams, time, cost. No neurotic math. From small workshop to large order, the scaling is spot on and I don't waste a single gram of cocoa.”
Lucía Ramírez
Pastry Chef · Dulce Masa Bakery
“I always jot down recipes in my test notebook. I snap a photo with Miselup, and the AI turns that page into a technical sheet with exact ingredients and weights. It's magic—saves me hours of copying data and eliminates errors completely.”
Ana Solís
Catering Director · Sol y Sombra Events
“For each wedding menu, I instantly see if the proposal is green or red. The margin traffic light tells me if I'm over cost before sending the quote. I negotiate with data, not blind. And I sleep easy once every event is locked in.”
Isabel Vega
Artisan Chocolatier · Bombones Amargo
“For a big order of 300 boxes, I enter the base recipe for 10 chocolates and Miselup scales everything: grams, time, cost. No neurotic math. From small workshop to large order, the scaling is spot on and I don't waste a single gram of cocoa.”
Lucía Ramírez
Pastry Chef · Dulce Masa Bakery
“I always jot down recipes in my test notebook. I snap a photo with Miselup, and the AI turns that page into a technical sheet with exact ingredients and weights. It's magic—saves me hours of copying data and eliminates errors completely.”
Ana Solís
Catering Director · Sol y Sombra Events
“For each wedding menu, I instantly see if the proposal is green or red. The margin traffic light tells me if I'm over cost before sending the quote. I negotiate with data, not blind. And I sleep easy once every event is locked in.”
Isabel Vega
Artisan Chocolatier · Bombones Amargo
“For a big order of 300 boxes, I enter the base recipe for 10 chocolates and Miselup scales everything: grams, time, cost. No neurotic math. From small workshop to large order, the scaling is spot on and I don't waste a single gram of cocoa.”
Bakeries
John Guerrero
Gastronomy consultant · Founder of ChefBusiness and Miselup
15+ years advising restaurants, bakeries and hospitality businesses across Spain and Latam. Creator of ChefBusiness, AI Chef Pro and Miselup: the digital mise en place his clients use to control food cost to the cent.
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