SOP Style Recipe Templates
As I’ve been working on streamlining and scaling my operation through the transition from bakernobakery to Florosa and hiring a small team, I’ve been rethinking not just what we make, but how we document it. That process led me to build a new recipe SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) template and I’m excited to share it with you.
This free recipe SOP spreadsheet is designed to help you reformat your existing recipes into a clear, repeatable structure that supports consistency, training, and long-term growth. If you’re baking solo and want to set yourself up for scaling success or working with a small team, this template guides you in turning handwritten notes, scattered files, or “recipes in your head” into a system your kitchen can actually rely on and— maybe, hopefully, won’t call you on your day off.
Built from the same framework I use in my own operation, this template emphasizes clarity, standardization, and independence. Recipes shouldn’t just live with one person, and your team can execute confidently without constant oversight. As I was looking around the internet for references or different formats, it was important for me for this document to be as close to as one page as possible. When printing, use the ‘fit to page’ if you have one or two lines spill over into the second page.
Start with an existing recipe!
Take one of your current recipes and transfer it into the template, following these steps.
Make a copy of this Google Sheet to your own Google Drive, so that way this copy can remain for everyone else to copy.
Standardize measurements and yields
Enter ingredients, weights, and batch yields. Enter your base weights in ‘Column B’ which will then double and triple into ‘Column D’ and ‘Column F’Document the process
Write clear, step-by-step instructions as if you were training the greenest, freshest person on their first day.Print!
And put it in your recipe binder with plastic sleeves. As your team works with them, guide them to use painters tape to cover the columns of batch sizes they aren’t scaling, so they don’t confuse the weights between the columns.
