PieceOfCake - Your every day assistant

PieceOfCake is freeware designed by cooking enthusiasts to make the everyday life a little easier by managing recipes, planning and shopping lists.

Despite some very advanced features the program is easy to use. When you look at the feature list below, please remember that we have put extra efforts into making the program as easy and user friendly.

News Jan 2009: PieceOfCake 2009 is available for download. This is freeware - because we all love to cook!

Download the program now (7.5MB).

The program is in English, German and Swedish. Units are precoded in some additional languages - Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, Italian.

...managing recipes,
planning and shopping lists

Five star rating at Topshareware and four cows at Tucows.

Some of the features included in PieceOfCake:

Basic functions:

Handle recipes and ingredients.
Compose your menu by dragging recipes to a calendar.
Create a shopping list with everything you need for the next couple of days.

Additional features:

Just for fun - built in formula to calculate how to cook the perfect egg.
Multiple recipes can be opened in separate windows.
Recipes can be imported from Internet Explorer easier than ever before with an integrated button (see screenshots).
Recipes can be "expanded" in the main view to show a list of the ingredients used.
Improved search functions.
Improved functions to merge ingredients.
Freetext can be added in the calendar.
Select ingredients and units from drop down lists.
Use fractions or decimals when entering recipes (1/2 cup OR 0.5 cup).
Recipes can contain multiple subgroups of text and ingredients.
Shopping lists are sorted to suite the aisles in your favorite grocery store.
Recipes can be sorted and searched in a number of ways and you can create any categories you like.
Conversion between units. If an ingredient is used in more than one recipe in a shopping list, they are summed into the prefered shopping unit for that ingredient.
Recipe exchange via import/export (also imports MasterCook and MealMaster files)
Import recipes from websites or Word documents (even import images).

Advanced features:

Import one or more Word document into the database in one batch.
Import batches of recipes from recipe websites when you have trained the import engine in PieceOfCake.
Hints can be connected to each recipe (cooking methods, explainations etc).
Recipes can be connected with each other (the recipe for the home made pasta can be connected to each pasta sauce).
Calculate nutrition index with custom formulas.