35 Beautiful Recipe Book Designs | Jayce-o-Yesta (2024)

Do you have good recipes you can share? You can list and compile them in your recipe book (cookbook). A recipe book can become a bequest, that you can pass and preserve it on to the longer term generation, also by applying the best design in the cookbook can make it a special attraction for the look. So, design your own cookery book complete along with your timeless and favorite recipes. In this post I'll showcase 35 examples of Beautiful Recipe Books / Cookbook for your own design inspiration.

35 Best Recipe Books / Cookbooks Design Showcase

1. Food Play via Sue Lyn Ting

Food Play book created by Sue Lyn Ting, she shared everything she knew about baking in this book. This book is as personal as it gets with every page handwriten, illustrated and photographed by yours truly.

2. SPECIAL DELIVERY via matan lamm

A conceptual recipes book who brings the stories of the most special food ingredients in the world.

3. Handfuls of Herbs Cookbook via Cassia Friello

An innovative range of herb cookbooks.

4. La Carta via Julián Jaramillo Balbin

La carta is a university work, the project involved to make a recipe book containing four meals, four desserts and four drinks, all with students own photos.

5. Recipes from an Italian Summer via Atelier Dyakova

A collection of Italian summer recipes from from The Silver Spoon kitchen Includes photographs of Italy by renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz, beautifully illustrated by Jeff Fisher.

6. The Book of Lemon via Anne Lee

A cookbook that is vibrant, thematic and fun designed by Anne Lee. The book has a water resistant cover and the binding allows the user to add their own recipies.

7. Herbs in the city via Kika Novosadova

a book where you find description of plants, cooking recipes, use in medicine and also a map, which will relate to a certain city, where can every user find area of the occurrence of this herb.

8. Real Fast Food via Jessica Duncan

A series of book jackets for Nigel Slater's Real Fast series.

9. Cantine California via Claire Guigal

Cookbook devoted to California cuisine, written by Jordan Feilders, owner of a Food Truck in Paris called "Cantine California".

10. Polska Kuchnia via Alex Pabian

This is the book layout and cover design, as well as gift packaging and bookmarks for Polska Kuchnia, a Polish recipe book written by Anna Pabian.

11. Cookbook via Kata Kiss

This personal cookbook was a project in school, everything in this book is made by Kata Kiss, the cover, the logo, the paper, the fonts, everything.

12. Mustwich via Courtney McNeil

Mustwich is a mustard sandwich book featuring the Gold Medal Winning Mustards from the Napa Valley World-Wide Mustard Competition paired with a sandwich recipe.

13. How Not To Starve in College Cookbook via Jamie Piper

Cookbook for Students made by a Student. Realistic Recipes for every College & University student who are first learning to cook with a fun and appealing design.

14. I Know How to Cook via Atelier Dyakova

The bible of traditional French home cooking, the book contains more than 1,400 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, fully updated for modern kitchens by experts in classic French cooking.

15. Epic Mealtime Cookbook via Sam Jau

A cookbook done for designer's course at the Rhode Island School of Design. The cookbook recipes are designer's own descriptions of the the insane creations of epicmealtime.com.

16. In tutte le salse Recipes Book via Alice Pesenti

Recipes Book of sauces. Ingredients are illustrated and handwritten.

17. Backyard Cooking Recipe Book via Chelsea Zgierski-Boreyko

Backyard Cooking is a recipe book designed to bring excitement into camp food. All the recipes are simple yet delicious food, which can be locally sourced around New Zealand’s farmers markets. The style of the book is very laid back and quirky to appeal to camping demographic.

18. "Anything but margarine" Recipe Book via Tali Flash

A baking recipe book based on the recipes passed down through the generations of women in the designer's family.

19. LCBO SPRING FOOD AND DRINK CATALOGUE via Lisa McCoy

A food and drink recipe book for the Ontario liquor store's spring promotion.

20. YCN Fedrigoni_ Fedrigoni Pizza via Sebastian Needler

The publication is designed to work as a swatch book in a much more creative way. The design is inspired by traditional Italian cuisine and recipe books.

21. Everything Goes in a Jar - Cook Book via Brittany Armington

An easy to use cook book for all jar worthy recipes.

22. Old Wives Tales; Hangover Cures via Danielle Muntyan

Hangover Recipe Book. Designed for students, with a witty, humorous ton of voice. Designed to bring friends, flat mates etc together in times of need with daring recipies to try.

23. RICE via SunA Sim

This project consists of three small books with their package. The first book is about rice, second one has recipes of rice balls with many ingredients and the last one is special recipes using rice. All recipes are made by Suna Sim.

24. BASE 8 – Rachel Ossip via FULL: The 5th Annual BRDD Exhibition

"BASE 8 offers a radical approach to everyday cooking and baking, altering the idea of recipe as a static entity. Instead, this book shifts the focus to a base and variation mentality, in which understanding a food’s structure allows for infinite and dynamic change. Each recipe begins with a base, or the simplest version of the item, followed by a set of eight variations that expand upon the idea. Additionally, all eight base recipes are made of different combinations of the same eight simple ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, and water) providing an easy alternative to the current trend of increasingly processed, ready-made food."

25. 40 recetas de mi tía Amelia via Francesc Pera

Video produced to promote "40 Recipes from my Aunt Amelia" book. It's an Anna Coll's personal project that collects original recipes from her Aunt Amelia along with photographs of the places that she loved.

26. Thaimani via Mari Oshaug

Every recipe includes a personal story from Terje, which makes the book a charming and accomodating read.
Bound with black fabric and with a minimalistic cover, it gives the sense of craftmanship and quality. Its simplicity separates it in the shelves and gives you the urge to take good care of it. With black and white features, it lets the food grab the attention. The imagery highlights the dishes, whilst the small texts are in both Norwegian and Thai to give a sense of authenticity and a quick insight in the Thai cuisine.
Terje’s and Plah’s passion for Thai food is an important feature throughout the book.

27. Marta´s Kitchen via corina crawford

book design and illustrations for cookery book.

28. UN & DEUX via David Tremblay

Cookbook geared more towards an artist's book than a traditional cookbook. The recipes are create by a young Montreal chef and are exclusives to this project.

29. Las verduras de muchas maneras via Mot

A vegetables cook book with over 1.200 recipes cooked in many different ways, and some stuff to promote it: a year calendar - poster, a set of postcards, and a few bookmarks. Illustrations by Juliet Pomés Leiz.

30. After Dinner | Recipe Book via Marianna Kosterina

A dessert cookbook design.

31. CPA Recipe Book via Jason Booth

This is a recipe book packed with some weird and wonderful creations and other tasty treat-sized delights.

32. Vitor Sobral Recipe Book for Vista Alegre via Daniela Lomba

Recipe book, by Vitor Sobral, for Vista Alegre couvert set - Chefs Collection.

33. Recipe Book via Rita Serra

Edition of Recipes Book, which by the binding the person can only watch one book or view all.

34. Seasons of Japanese Cuisine Recipe books via Michela Monterosso

Japanese recipe books.

35. Ardoise Recipe Book via Jono Rayner

A fictional recipe book:

"The purpose of this book is to showcase a few recipes for people to prepare, cook and serve for entertaining. The main reason for using this book is for people who are stuck on ideas on what to present to their friends/family for a dinner event e.g. a dinner party. The book will include an entree, a main dish, a side dish and a dessert. The book will be largely photographic based so that the guests can preview it like a menu and also so it can be used as a coffee table book. The style and design of the book is to be quite rustic photography with modern typography and layout (matching the food described). "