Baking Forums

For a project i am doing, I want to learn to make and decorate a cake.

Hi everyone,

I bake cakes from home and I’m looking for a simple app or tool to help me keep everything in one place.

I don’t run a big bakery or company, so I really don’t need a complicated ERP or accounting system. What I mainly need is something for recipes, ingredient costs, orders, and pricing.

One of my biggest problems is calculatin...

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