VanillaGoods Bake Basket Index
What it costs to bake at home, tracked monthly: the VG Bake Basket prices 20 everyday baking ingredients in the amounts used by 10 average U.S. home bakes, at typical U.S. prices at National Grocery Chain stores.
Basket items with a U.S. price
Grouped by category · …
| Item | Amount | Typical U.S. price | Stores | Cost of amount |
|---|
Index weights
Each item counts in proportion to how much home bakers use it, the way the S&P 500 counts bigger companies more. Each item's weight is the share of U.S. baking recipes that use it, from RecipeNLG, a public collection of 2.2 million recipes (558,629 baking recipes), fixed for the year.
| Item | Category | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Weights are published with the first release. | ||
Not priced this month
Listed, never filled in or estimated.
Release calendar
Releases on the third business day of the month, 10 AM ET. Base: November 2026 = 1,000.00.
- Dec 3, 2026First level: November 2026 = 1,000.0010 AM ET
- Jan 6, 2027First monthly move (December data)10 AM ET
- Feb 3, 2027Monthly release10 AM ET
- Mar 3, 2027Monthly release10 AM ET
How to cite
Source: VanillaGoods Bake Basket Index.Experimental, privately produced statistic. Not an official government statistic. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, USDA or any retailer.
Not investment advice. Not licensed as a reference rate in any financial contract.
VanillaGoods sells vanilla, coffee and tea. Our own prices are never included.