Baking Mod (Update 10/16/26) - Bake From Menu & New Recipes

This mod adds a new Baking skill, self-employed baking career, and 100 custom baking recipes!

This is a script mod that can be placed in your Packages folder. It was built and tested on 1.69 but should work fine on 1.67.

Version 3

• Added 20 new baking recipes
• Added "Bake From Menu" interaction made with the Better Cooking Menu mod (Better Cooking Menu is now REQUIRED) Thank you zoe22!
• Updated Berry Macaroons and Sweet Buns recipes.
• Added translation strings for the new recipes.
• Updated translation files for all languages in the STBL files (existing translations will need to be updated too!)

Updates

10/19/26

• Updated Russian translation by murkoose
• Updated German translation by Venice__Bitch
• Updated European and Mexican Spanish translations by ECM6215A
• Fixed issue with sims with no baking skill not being able to gain the skill.

Requirements

This mod requires CCLoader, Bietjie's Cooking Assets, and Better Cooking Menu to function.

To use the Baker’s Station Add-on, you will also need the Baker’s Station.

To use the Home Baker self-employed career, you will need NRAAS Careers.

To access all of the recipes available with this mod, the following expansions/store content are required:

• The Sims 3: World Adventures
• The Sims 3: Generations (only needed for the Forever Wedding Cake)
• The Sims 3: Pets
• The Sims 3: Showtime
• The Sims 3: Supernatural
• The Sims 3: Seasons
• The Sims 3: University Life
• Bohemian Fruits and Nuts from The Sims 3 Store
• Humble Harvest Stands from The Sims 3 Store
• Grandpa’s Grove from The Sims 3 Store (only needed if you're using the Baker’s Station Add-on)
• Monte Vista from The Sims 3 Store (only needed for the Happily Ever Frosted Wedding Cake)

Overview

• Baking Skill
• Selling Baked Goods
• Home Baker Career
• Custom Recipes
• Birthday and Wedding Cakes
• Baker’s Station Add-on
• Cookies Texture Override
• New Ingredients
• Creating Custom Baked Goods

Baking Skill

Baking is a 10 level skill, and is primarily gained by sims making baked goods under the new “Bake From Menu” interaction on refrigerators, or from reading baking skill books found at the bookstore.

There is also a new baking skill class available at the Bistro rabbithole for §400.

Similar to the cooking skill, the higher a sim’s baking skill level, the more recipes they will unlock, the more sophisticated their preparation animations will be, and the less likely they are to burn what they’re baking.

Sims with the Natural Cook trait will learn the baking skill faster, create higher quality baked goods more often, and won’t burn any food they bake.

Sims with the Born to Cook lifetime reward will have the quality of their baked goods increased by one level.

Child sims who use the toy oven will get a boost in the baking skill when they age into teens.

For players who use ani’s No Fridge Shopping mod, set the kNoFridgeShopping value in the XML file to “True” to require ingredients before a sim can bake a recipe.

Please remember to download Better Cooking Menu for the mod to function and display the new baking menu.

If you prefer the pie menu format, you can change the new value in the xml file kBakeFromMenuEnabled from "True" to "False."

Selling Baked Goods

Baked goods can be sold at three different places: a local bakery, the grocery store, and the bistro. Their base price is determined by their Venue Value, as listed in their recipe xml file.

At Level 3 of the baking skill, sims can sell their baked goods using the “Sell to Local Bakery” interaction on a full group serving of a baked good that is Normal quality or better.

At Level 5 of the baking skill, sims can sell their baked goods in bulk using the “Sell Baked Goods” interaction at the Grocery Store rabbithole with at least one full group serving of a baked good that is Nice quality or better. Baked goods sold here can sell for 20% more than selling to a local bakery.

At Level 8 of the baking skill, sims can sell their baked goods in bulk using the “Sell Baked Goods” interaction at the Bistro rabbithole with at least one full group serving of a baked good that is Excellent quality or better. Baked goods sold here can sell for 50% more than selling to a local bakery.

The quality of the baked goods and the skill level of the sim who baked it will increase how much the baked goods can be sold for.

If your sim has the Born Salesperson trait or the Suave Seller lifetime reward, they will make an additional 20% on any baked goods they sell.

If your sim is a Level 1 celebrity or higher, they will gain celebrity points from selling their baked goods.

Home Baker Career

Home Baker is a new, 10 level self-employed career for the Baking skill.

Sims must be at least Level 3 in the Baking skill in order to register as a Home Baker at City Hall and will progress through the career by selling their baked goods to the local bakery, the Grocery Store, or the Bistro.

If you don't want the career, you can delete the Home Baker Career file from the mod folder.

Custom Recipes

There are 80 custom recipes converted from The Sims 4 and custom content creators including ONI, TianaSims, Littlbowbub, oduvnix-ts4, JNBrownsville, MonoChaos, and AlwaysJustJay.

You’ll be able to choose which recipes you want and which ones you don’t.

Five desserts from The Sims 3 have also been given baking skill equivalents: Cookies, Pumpkin Pie (requires The Sims 3: Seasons), Cobbler, Key Lime Pie, and Baked Angel Food Cake.

All of these recipes are split into the following categories: Breads, Cakes, Cobblers, Cookies, Cupcakes, Gourmet, Pastries, Pies, Savory, Other Baked Goods, Birthday Cakes, and Wedding Cakes

The included recipes are listed below:



Birthday and Wedding Cakes

To bake the birthday cakes and wedding cakes that come with the mod, you will need the Cake Connector mod.

Birthday Cakes can be baked at Level 6 and Wedding Cakes can be baked at Level 9.

Birthday Cakes

Hand-Crafted Birthday Cake (requires Baker’s Station)
Inferno Birthday Cake

Wedding Cakes

Baked Fresh Wedding Cake (requires Baker’s Station)
Forever Wedding Cake (requires The Sims 3: Generations)
Happily Ever Frosted (requires Monte Vista)

For custom cake creators, please use one of the following prefixes at the beginning of your Recipe Key:

• "TBMBakeBirthday"
• "TBMBakeWedding"

Currently, birthday cakes and wedding cakes cannot be sold, but that is a feature I'm hoping to add in the future.

Baker’s Station Add-on

If you have the Baker’s Station installed, 30 additional recipes from that premium store content will be available to bake, with tweaked ingredient requirements and adjusted skill levels.

If you don't have the Baker's Station installed, you can delete the Baker's Station Add-on file from the mod folder.

The included recipes are listed below:



Cookies Texture Override

I’ve also created an override for the textures on the four cookie recipes that come with the Baker’s Station using the cookie textures from The Sims 4: Get To Work.

The file is named “twinsimming_Baking_Mod [Cookies Override]” and should be placed in your Overrides folder.

New Ingredients

All of the new ingredients can be purchased from the grocery store for the following prices:

• *Butter (§5) - Can also be made using my Pasteurize Milk Mod.
• Chocolate (§5)
• Dough (§5)
• Flour (§7)
• Sugar (§7)
• **Whole Milk (§11)

*Note If you have my Breakfast At Twinsimming's recipes or Pasteurize Milk Mod installed, you can delete the Butter package inside the “Ingredients” folder.

**Note: If you have my Pasteurize Milk Mod installed, Pasteurized Milk and Pasteurized Soy Milk can both be used in place of Whole Milk.

Creating Custom Baked Goods

For recipe creators, you can add your own recipes to the mod by using one of the following prefixes at the beginning of your Recipe Key, Recipe Class, and Cooking Process entries, depending on what category you want the recipe to show up under:

• "TBMBakeBread"
• "TBMBakeCake"
• "TBMBakeCobbler"
• "TBMBakeCookie"
• "TBMBakeCupcake"
• "TBMBakeGourmet"
• "TBMBakePastry"
• "TBMBakePie"
• "TBMBakeSavory"
• "TBMBakeOther"
• "TBMBakeBirthday"
• "TBMBakeWedding"

Tuning

All of the following values are tunable in the mod’s XML files.



Mod Recommendations

Want to make more bread? Check out zoe22 Homebaked Bread Mod!

Conflicts & Known Issues

Merging this mod may lead to issues.

Uninstallation

Just as with other custom skills, removing the baking skill may cause issues in saves where the skill has been used.

I have created a new cheat called “uninstallBakingMod” to remove the baking skill from any sims in the world and cancel all baking interactions that may be active, but use this mod with caution.

Poly Counts

All of the meshes converted are 1k poly or less!

Credits

EA/Maxis for The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, ONI, TianaSims, Littlbowbub, ccbybudgie, nectar-cellar, oduvnix-ts4, JNBrownsville, MonoChaos, and RAVASHEEN, AlwaysJustJay, and Around the Sims for meshes and textures, sofayya for conversions used in the cover photo, Sims4Studio, Visual Studio 2019, ILSpy, s3pe, Notepad++, and CCLoader.

Thank You

A big thank you to zoe22, desiree101, SimsDeoGloria, gitte2001, fantuanss12, Littlbowbub, nectar-cellar, bietjie, ATS Sandy, and simplyharryyy, oni28, tianasimstreehouse, its-time-o-clock, oduvnix-ts4, sofayya, ccbybudgie, and londonsimblr on Tumblr, and JNBrownsville, MonoChaos, RAVASHEEN, and AlwaysJustJay!