How to Price Baked Goods From Your Real Cost per Unit
Build cost per unit from price per gram, real yield, packaging, labor and overhead, then set retail and wholesale prices. One batch worked through.
What is KitchenSync?
Recipes
Every Recipe in One Organized Library
Group a recipe's ingredients into named sections and drag them into order. Add photos, written instructions and tags, and tag many recipes at once. One search bar finds any recipe, ingredient or supplier.
Versions
Try a Variation Without Losing the Original
New version makes a linked copy of the recipe you have open. Cut the sugar or swap the flour, and the original stays as it was. Mark the version you sell as primary. All versions share one dropdown and one row on the Recipes list.
Recipes inside recipes
Use Your Frosting Inside Your Cupcakes
Add any recipe as an ingredient in another. The buttercream's nutrition and cost carry into the cupcake. When the price of butter changes, every recipe that uses the buttercream is recosted. This works on every plan.
Costing
Know What Every Batch Costs
Record what each supplier charges for an ingredient, and KitchenSync costs the recipe at the lowest unit price. The recipe shows the cost of the batch and the cost per gram, ounce, pound or kilogram. The Recipes list shows a cost beside every product.
Nutrition labels
Nutrition Facts Labels in Three FDA Formats
Pick vertical for most packages, dual column to show one serving beside the whole package, or linear for small packages. Save each package you sell as a packaging format with its serving size and net weight. Download one label as a PNG or all of them as a zip.
Ingredient lists and allergens
Ingredient List and Allergen Statement, Ready to Copy
The ingredient list is in descending order by weight, and a recipe used as an ingredient has its components in parentheses. The allergen statement has a Contains line and a May contain line. Correct an allergen on an ingredient once, and every recipe that uses it is corrected.
Nutrition
Macros and Micronutrients for Every Recipe
Every recipe and every ingredient has a chart of its protein, carbohydrate and fat. The label lists vitamins and minerals with their % Daily Value, and added sugars on their own line.
Built for Food Businesses of Every Size
Put an allergen statement on every product you sell from home.
Label the single cookie, the six-pack and the dozen from one recipe.
Write the recipe in cups and tablespoons and label a one-tablespoon serving.
Tree nuts and peanuts in any mix-in show up in the allergen statement.
Make a ganache or caramel once and build every bonbon from it.
Test a new flavor as its own version and keep the one that sells.
Enter the cooked batch weight so the label matches what goes in the jar.
Cost each blend from what you pay for every spice in it.
Keep one base recipe and use it inside every flavor you make.
Update an ingredient price and see each new product cost before market day.
Keep house sauces, doughs and dressings as recipes and reuse them across the menu.
Multiply a recipe for a large order and give the client its allergen statement.
Know what a batch of each menu item costs before you set prices.
Answer allergen questions at the counter for every pastry and syrup you make.
Tag recipes by client and find any dish from the search bar.
Get the label, ingredient list and allergen statement for each product you ship.
Show the calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat in every meal you sell.
Calculate a recipe from USDA data and check each ingredient match yourself.
From the Blog
Guides to pricing your products, labeling rules and recipe development, written for people who make food to sell.
Do I Need a Nutrition Label? FDA's Small Business Exemption Explained
Who must put a Nutrition Facts panel on food and who is exempt under FDA rules, how cottage food laws fit in, and why wholesale buyers may ask anyway.
Managing Recipe Versions When You Reformulate
Why to keep the old formula when you change a recipe, which changes force a new label, and a simple naming and change-log habit.
Choose a Plan by Recipe Count
Plans differ only in how many recipes you keep. There are no per-label fees on any plan.
Free
$0 /month
Free forever. No credit card required.
- 3 recipes
- Unlimited nutrition labels
- Recipe costing
- Vertical, dual column and linear labels
- Export as PNG, copy, or zip of all packages
- USDA database access
- Nested recipes
Starter
$14.99 /month
For growing food businesses.
- 25 recipes
- Unlimited nutrition labels
- Recipe costing
- Vertical, dual column and linear labels
- Export as PNG, copy, or zip of all packages
- USDA database access
- Nested recipes
Growth
$29.99 /month
For scaling production.
- 100 recipes
- Unlimited nutrition labels
- Recipe costing
- Vertical, dual column and linear labels
- Export as PNG, copy, or zip of all packages
- USDA database access
- Nested recipes
- Inventory management Coming, not available yet
- Batch management Coming, not available yet
How KitchenSync Compares
| Feature | KitchenSync Starter | ReciPal Business | Food Label Maker Basic |
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| Monthly price | $14.99 | $59 ($49 billed annually) | $49 ($25 billed annually) |
| Recipe limit | 25 recipes | 50 per month | 50 per month |
| FDA-format Nutrition Facts labels | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Recipe costing | Yes | Yes | Not on Basic (Plus plan and up) |
| Ingredient data | USDA FoodData Central | USDA database plus specialty ingredients | Own database (500,000+ ingredients) |
Prices checked October 2026. Sources: ReciPal pricing, ReciPal homepage, ReciPal FAQ, Food Label Maker pricing. Competitor plans and prices change; check their sites for current terms.
Read the full KitchenSync and ReciPal comparison or the KitchenSync and Food Label Maker comparison.
Coming Next
Four additions are planned: recipe import, spec sheet import, custom ingredients, and inventory and batch management. None is in the app yet.
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Recipe import
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Spec sheet import
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Custom ingredients
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Inventory and batch management
Planned for Growth
As a software engineer who started a healthy food brand, I quickly realized that there were no good tools for managing recipes, experimentation, costs, and nutrition in realtime... So, I built one.
If you're in the same position I was, you'll love using KitchenSync to superpower your kitchen management.
Jennifer Trippett
Owner of CrunchCraft and KitchenSync
Frequently Asked Questions
What is KitchenSync?
KitchenSync is recipe management, costing and nutrition label software for food businesses. It is a web app that calculates nutrition from the USDA FoodData Central database, generates Nutrition Facts labels in the FDA format, and costs each batch from your supplier prices.
Are KitchenSync nutrition labels FDA-compliant?
KitchenSync generates Nutrition Facts panels in the FDA format, including serving size, calories, macronutrients with % Daily Value, and vitamins and minerals. Values are calculated from USDA data for each ingredient, so accuracy depends on matching each ingredient to the right USDA entry, which you can review and change.
Where does the nutrition data come from?
The USDA FoodData Central database, including Foundation, SR Legacy, Survey (FNDDS) and Branded foods. You can also create custom ingredients.
How does recipe costing work?
Add prices for each ingredient from as many suppliers as you use. KitchenSync uses the best unit price to calculate the cost of a batch and the cost per unit of weight, in grams, ounces, pounds or kilograms.
Does KitchenSync flag allergens?
Yes. It detects the FDA's nine major allergens (milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame) from USDA ingredient descriptions and shows them on your recipe.
Can I measure ingredients by volume?
Yes. Recipes accept weight units (grams, kilograms, ounces, pounds) and volume units (teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, fluid ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, milliliters, liters). Volume is converted to weight using USDA density data or a custom density you set.
Can I use one recipe as an ingredient in another?
Yes, on every plan, including Free. This is useful for sauces, doughs, spice blends and base mixes shared across products.
Do cottage food businesses need nutrition labels?
Often not. Many state cottage food laws and the FDA's small business exemption do not require a Nutrition Facts panel, but making a nutrient content or health claim generally removes the exemption, and rules vary by state. Check your state's requirements.
Build Your First Recipe Today
Add the ingredients, see what the batch costs and download its label.
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