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CUPCAKE

baked to order

Baking software for home bakers and small bakeries — formulas, scaling, substitutions and bake-day planning, working offline on your own device.

Why it exists

Recipe apps help you cook. Cupcake is for people who bake — the formula, the mixer, the oven load, and the time you have to get up to have it out by seven.

In the bakery

A baker’s formula, not a shopping list

Ingredients carry weights, flours are flagged, and every line shows as a percentage of the flour — hydration, total dough weight, the lot. The way a bakery writes a recipe.

Scaling that respects reality

“I need 50 loaves” becomes whole batches, because you cannot mix 1.4 of a dough. The app does the arithmetic; you keep the mixer size you actually have.

Substitutions you approve

A library of gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan swaps. The app suggests; you accept or reject; the result saves as a named variant. It never rewrites a recipe on its own.

Bake days that work backwards

Say what you need and when it must be ready. Cupcake counts batches, mixes, oven loads and hands-on time, then tells you what time to start — and when the day will not fit in a day.

Running the numbers

The half that turns a recipe collection into software you can run a small bakery on.

Costing three ways

Per batch, per unit, and per serving, from your own price book. The number you need before you quote, not after.

Price book & inventory

What flour actually costs you this month, and what is on the shelf, so the costing is not a guess from last year.

Orders

A 300-cookie order becomes batches, mixes and a start time, instead of a note on the fridge.

Yours, on your device

Recipes, costs and plans stay on the phone or the desktop. No account, no feed, no subscription.

A look inside

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Home — recipes, this week’s plan, and tools
Home — recipes, this week’s plan, and tools
The cookbook, organised the way you bake
The cookbook, organised the way you bake
Baker’s formula — weights and percentages together
Baker’s formula — weights and percentages together
Scale to the order — whole batches, not fractions of a dough
Scale to the order — whole batches, not fractions of a dough
Substitution library — you approve every swap
Substitution library — you approve every swap
Bake day — work backwards from when it has to be ready
Bake day — work backwards from when it has to be ready
Cost per batch, unit, and serving
Cost per batch, unit, and serving
Menus filtered by type, region, and holiday
Menus filtered by type, region, and holiday

Why Cupcake

Get Cupcake

Phone & tablet — Android

The whole bakery in your pocket. Free to start; a one-time Pro unlock adds costing, the price book, and orders.

Coming soon

Desktop — Windows

The same app with room to spread out — formulas, costing and bake-day planning on a full screen.

Coming soon

No subscription. No ads. Your recipes stay yours. See all Practical Path apps →