Free resources for home and cottage bakers.
Tools and guides we’ve built (or partnered on) to make running a small bakery a little less lonely. All free, no Cakery account required.
- State guides
Cottage food laws by state
Plain-English guides for every US state. What you can sell, how to label it, sales caps, online and shipping rules, and direct links to the state agency that writes the rules.
Browse all 50 states → - Free tool
Cottage food label maker
Generate a compliant cottage food label in seconds. Pulls the right disclaimer, allergen format, and address requirements based on the state you bake in. Customize shape, colors, fonts, and add your logo.
Open the label maker → - Free tool
Custom cake designer
Design a custom tiered cake — pick the shape, frosting color, tier count, and serving size — and get an instant price estimate. Drop the same designer into your own bakery website with one line of code.
Design a cake → - Premium feature
Integrate this designer on my bakery website
Embed the Cake Designer on your own Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, or Square Online site with one snippet — like Calendly, but for cakes. Quotes flow back to your Cakery inbox. Premium and VIP plans only.
See how it works → - Free tool
AI Search Compatibility Scanner
Your customers are asking ChatGPT and Perplexity for bakers near them. Scan any website in seconds to see whether AI can find, read, and recommend it: llms.txt, business schema, FAQ page, and page-level structured data, graded in plain English.
Scan your website → - Free tool
Recipe cost calculator
Figure out what every batch actually costs you, including your labor. Get itemized ingredient costs, your real total, and a comparison against what other home bakers charge so you don't undersell yourself.
Calculate a recipe → 
PartnershipCakery × WCE membership discount
Cakery is partnered with the Women's Council of Entrepreneurs. Every Cakery baker gets exclusive discounts on WCE membership tiers, plus access to a national community of women business owners.
See the WCE discounts →
Run your bakery on Cakery.
Your own bakery page, free for your first 30 days. Custom orders without the DM chaos. Get found by local customers searching in your area.