Approximate Costs For "the Matrix"
Business By SweetThistleCakes Updated 9 Oct 2006 , 6:12pm by puzzlegut
I know that ingredients vary by city, region, country but I was hoping that we could all start listing what we pay for ingredients and such as a FYI for us who use the price matrix. I think it would be fun to see the differences and it would be valuable to get an approximate cost for those times we need to give a price ASAP and get run down to the local grocery.
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Well, I can't get the matrix to work so I have a master price list that I use and figure how much each recipe costs...
French Vanilla cake mix : $1.20
Choc. cake mix: $ .80
Egg: $ .08
Flour: $ .10 per cup
Sugar: $ .15 per cup
1 cube real butter: $ .50
1 cube margarine: $ .12
1 cup applesauce: $ .40
1 cup oil: $ .30
1 cube crisco: $ .75
1 cup buttermilk: $ .25
1 c. choc. chips: $ .70
milk: $ .15 per cup
meringue powder: $. 40 tbl.
butter emulsion: $ .24
Creme bouquet: $ .24 tsp.
Clear vanilla: $ .18 tsp.
Reg. brown vanilla: $ .11 tsp.
And then I use these to figure the recipes individually..
French Vanilla Cake: $ 2.15
Chocolate Cake: $2.65
Wilton Frosting: $2.40
Carrot Cake: $2.90
Cream Cheese Frosting: $3.25
can you still use this program if you don't use mixes? I only saw a slot for putting in the price of a mix, though.
can you still use this program if you don't use mixes? I only saw a slot for putting in the price of a mix, though.
You sure can... just change the ingredients and make sure you swap out the formula to reflect the cells you changed.
I have one for my scratch recipes which is 95% of my orders and one for box mix which I have as an upon request option.
I reworked the whole thing to reflect my all scratch, all IMBC cakes, but included fondant, cheesecake, cake mix, wilton bc, white choc cream cheese bc, and other options, plus my local pricing.
Hours and hours and hours of work...! 
I think I've got it pretty well perfected, except I have to manually change some box sizes on the purchase.page, and it works well for me.
I can try to send it as an email attachment to anyone who does only or mostly scratch. The way it came didn't help me at all with only box mix prices...
pm me if you like.
bananas, anyone?
Perhaps a price on corn syrup?
apples?
I have been re-working the Matrix too, not quite finished... hope it will make my record keeping more organized 
Sounds like homecook has her matrix totally up and going, on I wish mine was finished too!
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