BakeLabels
BakeLabels — free Natasha's Law allergen and ingredient label maker for UK home bakers and cake sheds
Quick, law-aware allergen labels for the food you bake and sell.
Built for small independent bakers. Making allergen labels that follow UK law is fiddly and easy to get wrong — BakeLabels turns it into three quick steps so you can spend less time on paperwork and more time baking. Photograph your packets → check & order → print your label.
Why this exists
UK law ("Natasha's Law") requires any food you pre-package and sell — including home-baked cakes — to carry a full ingredients list with the 14 major allergens clearly highlighted. BakeLabels helps you build that list quickly from what's actually printed on your ingredients' packaging, so you're working from the real thing rather than memory. Read the full guide and FAQ on what UK law requires.
1 Add your ingredients
For each ingredient you bake with (flour, butter, eggs and so on), take a photo of the ingredients list — the small print on the back or side of the packet, not the front. BakeLabels reads it and adds it to your label. One packet = one entry.
Take a new photo or choose one from your camera roll. Tip: get the small-print ingredients list in frame, close and well-lit. No packet to hand? Type it in below instead.
Or type an ingredient in manually
My pantry
Ingredients you use often — saved on this device only. Tap ☆ on any ingredient card to add it here.
2 Check & order them
Fix any misread text, enter the grams you used, then sort by weight — UK labels list ingredients heaviest first.
3 Your label
Updates live as you work. Add your logo and details, pick a size, then print or copy.
My saved labels
Saved on this device only — load one back up next time you bake the same thing.
Free allergen labels for UK home bakers and cake sheds
BakeLabels is a free tool that helps UK home bakers, cake sheds, market stalls and small food businesses create Natasha's Law allergen and ingredient labels for the cakes and bakes they sell. Since October 2021, any food that is pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) must carry a full ingredients list with the 14 major allergens clearly emphasised — and that includes home-baked cakes boxed up ready for sale.
Instead of writing ingredient labels by hand, you photograph the ingredients list on each packet you bake with, and BakeLabels reads it, highlights the allergens, and helps you build a ready-to-print label. It's designed for people running a cake business from home who want to spend less time on food labelling paperwork and more time baking.
Who it's for
Home bakers, cottage bakeries, cake sheds, honesty boxes, market and fair stalls, and anyone wholesaling bakes to cafés or farm shops — anyone in the UK who pre-packs food for direct sale and needs compliant allergen ingredient labels.
Learn more
New to this? Read our plain-English guide to Natasha's Law and UK allergen labelling for home bakers, or see how to make an allergen label in three steps.