Create a Recipe

Recipes are what that link together your raw materials and your finished products. While they aren't necessary to use FlexiBake, they allow you to unlock the program's full inventory and production capabilities, lot tracking and recalls being the most notable of these.

Not only can storing recipes in FlexiBake keep them organized and easy to find, but they also allow you to print out work orders and baker's sheets for your production team. You can even attach labour costs to recipe make your cost analysis more accurate; an article on how to do that is available in Add Labour/Labor to a Recipe.

To enter in a new recipe:

1. Navigate to the Inventory Centre then click the New Recipe button.
   
                        
2. Enter a Name for the recipe.
   
                               
3. Click in the textbox beside the Raw Material box and begin typing the name of an ingredient until it is recognized and populates. You may also click F2 to view a list of all raw materials and recipes. 
   
                             
4. Enter the Quantity for the associated material.
   
                     
5. Click Add.
   
                                    
6. Repeat steps 3-5 to build the recipe formula.
   
   
7. Click OK to save.
   

A video walkthrough on creating a recipe is available below:

You can link recipes to a product to complete the chain. Instructions on this can be found in Link a Recipe to a Product. For longer or more complicated recipes, you can break them into stages and link those recipes together, as outlined in Link a Recipe Into Another Recipe.

Did you know that FlexiBake can even password protect your secret recipes to safeguard them from falling into the wrong hands. To find out how to use this feature, see Set Up and Use Secret Recipes.

If you're feeling lost or rusty, it may be helpful to join one of our refresher courses. FBN102 - Nutrition and Costing goes through how raw materials, recipes and products get linked together in the system, and how this allows nutritional and costing information to be carried through the production chain.