You have decided to hold a charity cake sale.

You are going to use the cake and icing recipes below to make 12 cupcakes.

Enter a formula in cell E14 to calculate the cost of 1g of butter. Replicate this down to cell E20 to calculate the unit c
Enter a formula in cell E24 to calculate the cost of the butter needed for the cake recipe. Make sure the cell is forma
Enter similar formulae in cells E25 to E28 to calculate the cost of the other ingredients needed for the cake recipe. M
Enter similar formulae in cells E32 to E35 to calculate the cost of the ingredients needed for the icing recipe. Make s
Enter a function in cell C37 to calculate the total cost of the ingredients needed to make 12 iced cupcakes.
Enter a formula in cell C39 to calculate the total cost of the ingredients needed to make one iced cupcake.

Cost of ingredients
Ingredient Cost Quantity Unit Cost per unit
Butter £1.50 250 g £125.75
Caster sugar £0.90 500 g £250.45
Self-raising flour £0.90 500 g £250.45
Icing sugar £1.10 500 g £250.55
Eggs £1.20 6 egg £3.60
Vanilla extract £2.00 40 ml £21.00
Milk £0.40 500 ml £250.20

Cake recipe
Ingredient Quantity Unit Cost
needed
Butter 110 g £160.93
Caster sugar 110 g £55.45
Eggs 2 egg £1.60
Self-raising flour 110 g £55.45
Vanilla extract 5 ml £3.50

Icing recipe
Ingredient Quantity Unit Cost
needed
Butter 150 g £75.75
Icing sugar 300 g £150.55
Vanilla extract 5 ml £3.50
Milk 20 ml £10.20

Cost price for 12 cupcakes £6203.16

Cost price per cupcake £516.93

You now want to work out how much profit you will make if you sell each cupcake for 50p.

Enter the number of cupcakes sold (12) into cell C49 and the selling price (50p) into cell C51.
Enter a formula in cell C53 to calculate the profit/loss per cupcake. You will need to subtract the cost price per cupc
Enter a formula in cell C55 to calculate the total profit/loss for the number of cupcakes sold.
Add conditional formatting to cell C55 so that the fill colour is light green if there is a profit, and pale red if there is a

Number of cupcakes sold 12

Selling price £50

Profit / Loss per cupcake £466.93

Total Profit / Loss £ 5,603.16

Your final task is to use Goal Seek to work out how many cupcakes you will need to sell if you want to make £25 pro

Number of cupcakes to make £25 profit 4026519.84

make 12 cupcakes.

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for the cake recipe. Make sure the cells are formatted as currency.
he icing recipe. Make sure the cells are formatted as currency.
ed cupcakes.
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he cost price per cupcake from the selling price.

d pale red if there is a loss.

want to make £25 profit for charity. Enter the number of cupcakes in the green cell below.
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