Create a Personalized Digital Cookbook for the Foodie in Your Life
A digital cookbook or breakfast digital cookbook is the PERFECT gift for the chef or cook in your life. Especially if your gift giving budget is limited!
Here is why a digital cookbook or recipe book is the perfect, personalized gift.
This post is about a digital cookbook and the templates used to make it easy to create, and why it is such a great personalized gift at a super economical price.
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Digital Cookbook
When you make your own digital cookbook, you can create a completely personalized gift that is also completely affordable!
Showcase the chef or cook’s delicious recipes with your own photos – flex those photography skills by taking gorgeous photos of your favorite chef’s dishes when you create the recipe book.
Let’s discuss all the ways that recipe book templates and the digital cookbooks they create are actually brilliant and should be on all holiday gift-giving lists.
Digital Cookbook – Economical Gift with Sentimental Value
Personalized gifts are just special. They are gifts that take forethought and effort, which makes them unlike any other. Digital products are great for this, because using a digital template is a very affordable way to build something unique.
Digital Cookbook – The Perfect Personalized Gift
Everyone knows someone who loves to cook!
Whether they are a master chef trained by the best culinary institutes, or one of those home cooks who make the best comfort food, this is the perfect gift. Don’t forget those who are the masters of the grill & have the best cookouts ever – everyone knows someone!
Typically, a great gift for someone who likes to cook is a cookbook. Filled with new recipes to try and gorgeous aesthetic food photographs, everyone loves to be gifted, look through, and own a cookbook!
So there is truly no better present to give them than a personalized cookbook filled with their own tasty recipes or incredible family recipes, accompanied by gorgeous pictures of the ingredients used, the techniques used during the cooking process, and the finished product.
A Digital Cookbook is a Unique & Thoughtful Gift
A personalized cookbook is such a thoughtful, unique gift to give to him or her. It is a great way to show them how much you appreciate all their work in preparing the meals you enjoy on a regular basis. They will love to flip through it to look at the pictures, remember the recipes, and get inspired to continue doing what they love.
Not only will they love to look through it, but it is useful too.
They will be able to refer to it again and again as they reach for their favorite recipes. Add a list of ingredients for each recipe, along with a shopping list for each recipe.
Beyond that, when they try a new recipe, they can add it to the cookbook and include notes on what was successful and what they would tweak for the next time they make it.
When you try new recipes, how many times do you think—if I were to make it again, I would change up XYZ to ABC to make it better. A digital cookbook template makes adding notes and comments very easy. This will be a perfect reference for the chef or cook when they make the recipe again.
Digital Cookbook – can be a Family Cookbook!
If the cookbook is shared, the notes would come in handy for someone else who might be trying the recipe for the first time. Additional notes can be added each time the recipe is tried and improved upon.
Those types of notes and comments can easily be added to the digital cookbook to be remembered the next time the dish is prepared. If you have perfected a recipe, you can also note that and say you wouldn’t change a thing.
Digital Recipe or Cookbook Template – How You Create It
So how do you go about making someone a personalized digital cookbook? The first step is to get a digital recipe or cookbook template.
Slowprose is a digital product shop where can find a digital template or planner for all aspects of your life! We have links to the cookbook and breakfast cookbook templates for you to use.
Digital recipe books are simple to make when you have a digital template to use. Simply download the template and then plug in the recipe ingredients, cooking instructions, and any other tips and tricks the chef uses.
Act like a food blogger and add your own gorgeous aesthetic pictures of the food they have made!
You can even make a specific cookbook to showcase their baking or their world-renowned breakfasts! Because who doesn’t love breakfast? No one, that’s who. Breakfast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Show off your photography skills
Once you have your template, you can start filling it in. This is the fun part!
If you like to dabble in photography, this is where you get to flex your gorgeous pictures. It doesn’t have to be just the finished product.
Start by listing the ingredients needed for a dish, and then add in a gorgeous picture of all of the items and utensils needed to make the dish.
These types of pictures are not only aesthetically pleasing, but they are also helpful quick references when cooks are getting their materials together.
We have started down a sourdough making journey, and if you have done any sourdough making – you know it is a JOURNEY. Take pictures along the way! The bulk fermentation, the stretch & folds, the baking and finished product.
It makes for gorgeous pictures and is so helpful when you are working to perfect your technique. Don’t forget to add in the name of your sourdough starters! Our current one is “Yeasty Boys!”
Digital Cookbook – Perfect For Holiday Recipes
The holidays are often centered around food! Take pictures of the process and steps as you go. One great idea for this is Thanksgiving, and particularly if you cook a turkey.
You can even start with the brine. Add the ingredients you used, how long you simmered it for and how long you soaked the turkey. Look at how gorgeous this looks! Plus, it will definitely be a helpful reminder in future years when the holiday rolls back around.
Then on to the turkey itself! Include what the prep process was, and how it turned out. Yummy!
An Ever-Growing Culinary Legacy
Once the food prep begins, take pictures of your intended gift recipient working their magic! They don’t have to know it is for their personalized recipes and cookbook. When the day comes, they will open their gift, and they will have an “Ah ha!” moment remembering the day you took the photos.
If we have learned anything in this age of Instagram, it is that most people love to take pictures of or look at pictures of food. Unlike traditional cookbooks that are set in stone, digital versions can be continuously updated and expanded.
Your family can continue to add new recipes, photos, and anecdotes, creating a living record of their culinary journey. Anyone can easily snap pictures of their dishes using their smartphone or digital camera and seamlessly incorporate them into the digital cookbook. The photos will not only add a visual feast to the cookbook but also serve as a delightful reminder of their culinary achievements.
Protecting keepsakes and heirlooms
Grandma’s Famous Cookies!
For generations, recipes have been refined, perfected, and then handed to the next generation of chefs and cooks to create and enjoy. They have been treasured and protected, as they are priceless, both in the knowledge they contain and in the memories they hold.
Often times, these recipes were closely guarded secrets, so they weren’t always written down. At most, they were written on recipe cards and stashed away. These family heirlooms, written on faded, fragile pieces of paper are susceptible to the ravages of time.
A digital cookbook is an ideal way to preserve these precious recipes in a format that’s easily shareable and secure.
Technology has allowed this treasured tradition to have an additional layer of security.
No longer will the family need to worry about losing grandma’s famous cookie recipe or the secret behind grandpa’s world-famous red beans and rice. A digital recipe book will memorialize and keep family recipes safe from flood, fire, or any other type of natural disaster.
Digital and Print Options
Digital cookbooks offer the flexibility of being accessible online, on tablets and smartphones, or as a downloadable PDF.
To give as a gift, you have the option of having them printed and bound to give a physical copy of their own cookbook with their own recipes. You can even give special emphasis to your favourite recipes. Creators priviledge!!!
You can have the best of both worlds. Your loved one can access their recipes on their devices while also having a physical copy to pass down through generations.
Give the Gift of a Digital Cookbook
We hope this has given you inspiration to give the gift of a breakfast digital cookbook or digital cookbook to the foodie in your life!
If you are looking for more gift giving inspiration, check out the seasonal sections of the blog! We have a Christmas, Mothers Day, & Fathers Day section to find plenty of inspiration for everyone on your list.
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I totally agree that gifting a digital cookbook to the chef/cook in our lives is economical and we can personalize it to our liking. Thank you so much for this idea!
My pleasure and thank you for commenting! Hope it is helpful!