Website where you can create a cookbook?

My sister is getting married and I had an idea to create a cookbook to give to her at her shower with all the attendees contributing favorite recipe(s)

Does anyone know a website where we can enter in our recipes and create a cookbook. Then I will print it out and have it bound.

Alternatively, if anyone has any other suggestions as to how to go about this, I am open.

Thanks!

funholidaygirl wrote:My sister is getting married and I had an idea to create a cookbook to give to her at her shower with all the attendees contributing favorite recipe(s)

Does anyone know a website where we can enter in our recipes and create a cookbook. Then I will print it out and have it bound.

Alternatively, if anyone has any other suggestions as to how to go about this, I am open.

Thanks!

I know that there is a service that will do the printing from your recipes from allrecipes.com

There's this one. Also, I googled "make your own cookbook" and I found a bunch of other options and ideas.

Best,
Michael

I've actually been looking into this, myself - I made up a Tastebook and decided that the format was a bit restrictive, and that I wanted to actually write a cookbook for Sparky, so I poked around the 'net and found some resources that seemed awfully expensive.

Then, as I was copying something else, I stopped by Kinko's and got pricing for the various options I'd seen online: If you print your own on glossy paper (Microsoft has a couple cookbook templates, or I created one myself in MS Publisher with has a photo and a description or anecdote on one page and the recipe facing) Through them, spiral-binding is pretty expedient and fairly cheap; you can use their standard cover or make your own on heavy cardstock. The only negative is that if you want each page laminated (which you definitely want if you're using an inkjet printer, because if it gets wet it will run) it's about $3 per sheet - but if you're each paying for your own recipe, it's no big thing. You might find even more binding options at your local printing shop.

Edited to add: just found the pricing list they gave me at the Kinko's on Greenbay a couple months ago: Lamination is $2.49 per sheet for the thinnest lamination. Color copies are $.98 for double-sided. Coil (spiral) binding is $5.49 per bind with cover, Comb binding (which is flimsier but easier to remove and re-do if you want to be able to update pages) is $4.49 per bind with cover. If you provide your own cover you can take $1 off that price. Obviously, these prices may be different already.

Try http://www.lulu.com
A 100-page 8x11" perfect-bound book with color covers is only $6.53, with discounts over 25 copies. I know a few folks who have used them for short-run personal use. You can barely copy the 100 sheets at Kinkos, let alone bind it.