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Overview

Recipes and products work together in Knead. When you link a recipe to a product, ingredient costs feed into your margins, recipe phases drive production time estimates on The Sweet Spot, and ingredients appear on The Pass checklists. Linking is fast and happens right from the product detail page.

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How the Relationship Works

Products and recipes have a many-to-many relationship. This means:
  • One product can have multiple recipes. A layered cake might have a batter recipe and a separate frosting recipe. Both link to the same product, and Knead combines their costs.
  • One recipe can be used by multiple products. A vanilla buttercream recipe might appear on your vanilla cupcakes, your birthday cake, and your cake pops. Update the recipe once, and the cost updates everywhere.
This flexibility matches how baking actually works. You reuse the same frostings, fillings, and bases across your menu.

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Linking a Recipe to a Product

  1. Open a product from your catalog.
  2. Tap the Recipe button on the product detail page. This is the terracotta-colored button — the most prominent action on the page.
  3. Knead opens the recipe panel. You have two options:
    • Select an existing recipe — Search for a recipe already in your catalog and link it.
    • Create a new recipe — Build a recipe from scratch right here. No need to leave the product page.

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Creating a Recipe Inline

When you create a new recipe from the product page:
  1. Enter a recipe name (e.g., “Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough”).
  2. Start typing an ingredient name. Knead shows matching ingredients from The Pantry.
  3. Select the ingredient and enter the quantity used.
  4. Repeat for each ingredient.
  5. Set the recipe yield — how many sell units this recipe produces (e.g., “4 dozen”).
  6. Tap Save.
If an ingredient is not in The Pantry yet, Knead creates it on the fly. Type the name, set the unit and cost, and it saves to The Pantry for future use.
Pro tip: Name recipes descriptively. “Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough” is easier to find than “Cookie Recipe 1” when you link it to a second product later.

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What Linking Does

Once a recipe is linked to a product, three things happen automatically.

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1. Costs Feed into Margins

Knead adds up the cost of every ingredient in every linked recipe. It divides by the recipe yield to calculate the cost per sell unit. This cost appears on the product detail page alongside your sell price and margin percentage. If a product has two linked recipes, Knead combines both recipe costs before calculating the margin. You see the true, all-in ingredient cost for one sell unit.

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2. Production Times Flow to The Sweet Spot

Recipes can include phases — prep, bake, cool, decorate. Each phase has an estimated duration. When you view The Sweet Spot (your calendar and capacity planner), Knead uses these phase durations to estimate how long each order takes to produce. This helps you see whether you have capacity to accept a new order.

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3. Ingredients Appear on The Pass

The Pass is your production checklist. When you start production on an order, The Pass pulls in every ingredient from every linked recipe and shows the quantities needed for that order. No mental math. No missed ingredients.
Good to know: Unlinking a recipe from a product does not delete the recipe. It stays in your catalog and can be linked to other products at any time.

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Managing Linked Recipes

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Viewing Linked Recipes

Open any product and scroll to the recipes section. You see every linked recipe with its name, ingredient count, and cost.

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Unlinking a Recipe

  1. Open the product.
  2. Find the recipe you want to remove.
  3. Tap the unlink icon next to the recipe name.
  4. The product’s cost and margin recalculate without that recipe.

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Editing a Linked Recipe

Tap any linked recipe to open it for editing. Changes you make — adding ingredients, updating quantities, adjusting yield — propagate to every product that uses that recipe.
Pro tip: Before editing a shared recipe, check which products use it. A change to your buttercream recipe affects the cost of every product it is linked to.
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