Creating a recipe

Ingredients in sections

Build a Black Forest the way you bake it: sponge in one section, cherry filling in another, cream on top. Each section shows its own weight. Start typing an ingredient and the app suggests what your library holds. A new name becomes a new ingredient. An amount is optional: salt to taste stays in the list, and the totals ignore it.

• One section per part of the cake
• Each section to the shopping list separately
• New ingredients created as you type
• Other recipes added as sub-recipes
• Lines without an amount

Yield, pan and cake size

Twelve brownies or 1.8 kg of batter: the yield is what one batch makes. A recipe will not save without it. A pan or a size is optional. A baking pan is the tin. It scales by area, so its height is ignored. A cake size is the finished cake, height included. It needs a yield in grams or kilograms.

• Yield required, pan optional
• Baking pan scaled by base area
• Cake size with height included
• Cake size needs a weight yield

Where the density comes from

Density is the weight of the finished cake divided by its volume. Give a recipe a cake size and a weight yield, and the app works it out. Your 20 cm sponge at 1.4 kg carries its density on its own. Some recipes cannot derive it: a plain pan, a cream, a cake counted in slices. For those you enter it yourself.

Instructions, time, photo and notes

Steps go in sections of their own, the sponge method apart from the assembly. You tick them off as you bake. Prep time and bake time have their own fields. Prep time scales with the batch and can price your labour by the hour. A photo shows in the library grid, and the original can be attached as a PDF.

• Steps in sections, ticked off while baking
• Prep time and bake time
• A photo for the library grid
• The original attached as a PDF
• A free note for anything else

Common questions