State by state

Cottage food label requirements, all 50 states.

Pick your state to see everything a homemade food label needs there: the required statement word for word, what to list, the font rules and how to keep your home address private.

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Updated for 2026 · Always confirm with your state

The easiest way to make your labels

Paste It, Snap It or Link It. Your Label Writes Itself.

Bring the recipe you already have: pasted in, photographed, or straight from a website. Every ingredient is matched and weighed for you. Store-bought mix in there? Pick it from our list and its whole ingredient list comes with it. Then it is a label, in weight order, allergens declared, checked against your state's rules, in a design that looks like you. Here is one real bakery's cake mix cookies, start to finish.

Step 1 · Your recipe

Paste it, snap it or link it.

Paste the list from wherever it lives, take a photo of the recipe card, or drop in a link from your favourite food site. Every line is read, matched to your ingredients and weighed. Nothing to retype.

  • Paste, photo or link
  • Every line matched

Step 2 · Store-bought

Using a mix? Pick it from the list.

Cake and brownie mixes, frostings, chips and sprinkles. Search by product or brand and pick the one in your cupboard.

  • Search by product or brand
  • Mixes, frostings, chips and more

Step 3 · The fine print

Its whole ingredient list, filled in for you.

Pick it and the package's ingredient list arrives with it, bracketed after its name the way a label has to show a store-bought ingredient, with its allergens ticked. Glance at the box in your hand, tick, done.

  • No copying the box
  • Allergens picked up

Step 4 · Label it

One click, and it is a label.

Make a label opens the Label Maker with everything in place: ingredients in weight order, the mix with its own list in brackets, and the allergens from every box declared. Wheat, milk, soy, eggs.

  • Weight order, automatic
  • Allergens from every box

Step 5 · Required info

Your state's rules, checked as you go.

Your state's cottage food statement is filled in word for word. Add the net weight and the date you made it, and the checklist goes green when every line the law asks for is on the label.

  • Your state's exact wording
  • Checked before you print

Step 6 · Your style

Then make it beautiful.

Eight house styles, each in your own colours, matching your booth sign and your posts. The longest ingredient list still fits inside the cut line, and the label is saved for the next batch.

  • 8 house styles
  • Saved for the next batch
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Stamped design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Stamped
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Sprinkle design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Sprinkle
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Chalkboard design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Chalkboard
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Bold design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Bold

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The free Label Maker prints a compliant label. A Butter & Sage shop remembers it, fills it in and makes it look like you.

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Save it, reprint it

Every label saved with its recipe, so next batch is one click.

All plans

Store-bought ingredients, filled in for you

Using a cake mix or chocolate chips? Pick it from the library and its full ingredient list goes in for you.

All plans

Import from a recipe link

Paste a link from a recipe site and every line is read and matched.

Maker & Bloom

Designs that look like you

Classic designs on Maker; on Bloom, house styles that match your booth signs and shop.

Maker & Bloom

Round labels and every size

Rounds for jars, rectangles for bags and boxes, laid out ready to print.

All plans

Allergens marked for you

Wheat, milk, eggs, nuts and the rest flagged from the ingredients you choose.

Skip the guesswork. Make your label free.

Your state’s statement filled in, ready to print at home.

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