What is the best site or program for making a family cookbook with pictures??

I want to print my own cookbook on some special paper I ordered but need a template to create it. Any suggestions?

I'm interested in creating a recipe book for my sister-in-law. I want to create custom recipe pages but I don't want to book bound, because I want her to be able to remove the pages and add new recipes whenever she wants. Does anyone know where I can create custom recipes to be printed, so that I can put them into my own 3-ring binder?

This is a great resource! It seems like Heritage Cookbooks, Blurb, Create My Cookbook and Cookbook Create are the best options for a high end fundraising cookbook. Is this correct? Has anyone had a great experience creating a cookbook recently? Any tips?

I would like to create a cookbook for a wedding present. I am wanting to have pictures of the actual recipe cards and pictures of people. Maybe a few places that I could type an explanation nest to a recipe. But I will not be typing out the actual recipes. I would also like it to be hardbound with a spiral or binder. What site would you recommend.

Take a look at heritagecookbook.com. Program is easier to use than createmycookbook, with more design and layout options, and competitive pricing and much better paper quality!

on createmycookbook, what is better - hardback or hardback wire-o?

I need to create a cookbook of recipes compiled for a wedding- they have photos and the recipe itself and the person wants a certain color palette. Does Create my Cookbook let you add extra photos to a page and change color backgrounds and possibly add flourishes to the pages?

simplycookbooks.com

I had a great experience using CreateMyCookbook, my family said the quality looked like I bought it at a bookstore! :)) And the pricing was fair. https://createmycookbook.com

I just wrote both a Family Cookbook, and then an article on the process. Thank you to all on this stream for direction to a lot of sources! After signing up for all and previewing them, I have to say that CreateMyCookbook is a fantastic site and easy to use. Nothing to download and great customer support, too. The process is very streamlined and not overwhelming at all. Blurb definitely offers infinite options, however you can get lost in the details. Heritagecookbook is a wonderful site, however the pay aspect is something I didn't like, unless you (a) think you can complete your project in under 30 days (I couldn't!), or (b) are doing a fundraising or non-profit cookbook. If that's the case, then go with Heritage! Cookbookcafe is an amazing site and I can't wait to get started with it, but it is an on-line platform only; no hard copy cookbooks available if that's what you are looking for. End result: my advice is to go with CreateMyCookbook. I was really happy with their product!

Do any of the cookbook publishers import from recipe managers, such as Paprika?

This was posted 5 years ago. Any newer possibilities?

You can make a free cookbook at BakeSpace -- http://www.bakespace.com/cookbooks/cafe/ - here's one we made - http://www.bakespace.com/cookbooks/detail/Brownies%3A-Baking-Outside-the-Box/37/ and so far 1800 people have downloaded it. It's a free cookbook and digital (way easier than printing a cookbook) ... so everyone in your family can see it. You can also sell your cookbook too.

I just made a family cookbook using createmybookbook.com. I am a regular Shutterfly user, but I wanted to be able to make a spiral or binder for the cookbook so that it would stand up with use and not lose pages. I am very happy with the cookbook and that I don't have to pay for my it to stay on the site in case I want to alter or reorder it later. Also, they knocked themselves out in response to a concern I had in the shipping of the product. I found their prices to be very good.

I love heritage cookbook.com. So easy to use and the quality of the books is amazing!

I love heritage cookbook.com. So easy to use and the quality of the books is amazing!

I like http://copymethat.com/cookbook. For me it was a big plus that I didn't have to download anything. it's all online.

Check out http://CreateMyCookbook.com - I love their software. Super easy to use :)

My friend gave me a copy of her personalized cookbook done by TasteBook.com. They did an amazing job!!

I stumbled on this the other day: http://cookbookcafe.com/ -- "The New Grassroots Way to Publish & Shop for Cookbooks", which is a platform for publishing, and not a print service. It seems quite interesting, though of course I have not tried it so I can't tell you how it works. I do note however that the International Association of Culinary Professionals IACP nominated the tool as “Most Intriguing Use of New Technology” in 2012. I for one am very interested in it. I plan to build some time into my schedule to use it for organizing my vast collection of disparate recipes into my own personal cookbook. I've been taming that paper tiger (to quote an organizing handbook of the same name) over the past month or so, and am just at the point where I'm ready to integrate my hard copy recipe files with my digital files, so the timing of the launch of this product could not have been more perfect. I'll report back as the project advances. ;o)

Here's a second for blurb.com. I really liked it.

I used Lulu.com last year to make 10 copies of a 200 pg cookbook. It was spiral bound but black and white. Worked out to $11 each. I was happy with the site and as a bonus they hosted both the book for sale so anyone could buy a copy and a downloadable PDF so I have it on my iPad now. Best of luck!

I would also recommend Shutterfly.

I've made my recipes into books via the photobooks from Shuterfly..

Check out http://blurb.com