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You’ve priced a dish on a guess before. You picked a number that felt about right, and only found out later, once GST and the real cost of every ingredient were factored in, that the margin barely existed. A menu price built on instinct is hard to walk back once customers are used to paying it. Our recipe calculator works out your true food cost, your GST-inclusive cost, and your profit margin before the dish goes anywhere near a menu.

Peanut Butter Brownie

Method

Raw ingredients for the peanut butter brownie recipe

Step 1:

To begin the peanut butter brownie recipe, whisk together Crunchy Peanut Butter, CSR Muscovado Sugar, dark chocolate chips and Goodman Fielder Ingredients Cake Margarine in a pan on a low heat once it forms a fudge mixture. Once the mixture has melted, remove it from the heat and allow to cool until it reaches about 50 degrees celsius.

Combining all of the ingredients and placing it on the stove

The brownie mixture on the stovetop

Step 2:

Once the mixture cools, add one egg at a time and mix. It is important to ensure the mixture has cooled otherwise the eggs will curdle. Once complete, add the salt, White Wings Self Rising Flour and cocoa powder. Mix together to ensure there are no lumps.

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Adding an egg to the brownie mix

Whisking in White Wings Self Raising Flour

Step 3:

Grease a baking tray with Gold’n Canola Spray Oil and pour the mix in. Using a spatula, smooth out the mixture – this will ensure it cooks evenly. Place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celsius for 20 to 25 minutes.

Greasing a tray with Gold'n Canola Oil Spray

Pouring brownie mixture into the tray

Step 4:

While the brownie is in the oven, melt down the Smooth Peanut Butter in a microwave or on the stove.

Step 5:

Once the peanut butter brownie has cooled for 10 minutes, garnish with a drizzle of the melted Peanut Butter and a sprinkle of crushed peanuts. Portion and serve.

Want more?

If you loved Chef Adam’s peanut butter brownie and want to further diversify your menu offering – check out Chef Liam’s Chocolate Brownies with Salted Caramel & Biscuit Crumb.

Cooked brownie coming out of the oven

Drizzling melted Peanut Butter over the brownie

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WHAT IS A RECIPE CALCULATOR?

A recipe calculator works out what a dish costs to make and what it needs to sell for to turn a profit. Some tools under that name are really a recipe converter, turning ounces and teaspoons into metric, or a recipe multiplier that scales quantities up or down, or a nutrition calculator returning the energy and carbohydrate count per serve. Ours is a recipe cost calculator. Enter your ingredient costs and servings, and you get a total cost, a cost per serve, and the margin behind your selling price.

HOW TO USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Enter your recipe name, method and serving size, and the number of servings the recipe makes.
Select “+ Add Ingredient” to build your ingredient list, then enter the quantity purchased and cost of goods for each item.
Enter the quantity your recipe actually uses for each ingredient, in grams, millilitres or each.
Select Calculate to see your total cost across the batch, plus the same figure with GST added and your cost per serve. This is where the calculator divides your total batch cost by your number of servings, converting it into a cost per portion.
Enter a Selling Price per serve to see your Food Gross Profit, Food Markup percentage and Total Generated Profit.

WHY FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Cafes and quick service kitchens change their menus often, and costing a new dish properly before it launches matters more than costing it quickly. Catering and events businesses price the same recipe at different scales throughout the year, a function for ten one week and an event for two hundred the next. Enter the servings for each job, and the calculator handles that recipe scaling without you reworking your ingredient list from scratch.

Bakeries producing large batches need to know the per-unit cost still holds as bakery ingredient prices shift. Contract caterers working to a fixed per-meal budget, such as aged care or education providers, can check a recipe against that budget before it goes into a wider meal planner or seasonal menu.

Across all of these, the value is the same. You get a cost per serve and a margin you can trust, built from your actual supplier pricing rather than an estimate.

Browse our recipes for menu inspiration, then cost them here before you commit to a price.

WHAT MAKES OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR DIFFERENT

Most recipe cost calculators are standalone software with no link to where you actually buy. Ours sits within Goodman Fielder Food Service, a foodservice supplier. Once you’ve priced a recipe and know your numbers, you’re already talking to the team that supplies the ingredients themselves. If a margin looks tighter than expected, that’s a conversation about ingredient pricing you can have straight away.

If you want to work through pricing on a specific dish or menu, our team can help. Get in touch today.

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