How to make a family cookbook to give to your daughter or other family members. It’s a beautiful way to save and collect family favorite recipes to pass on to the next generation.
I gave my daughter the perfect gift for her bridal shower…a family cookbook filled with all her favorite recipes. MixBook works GREAT with helping you organize your recipes and create a family heirloom to pass on to your family!
This family cookbook was not only easy to put together, it was fast. Which was good because I thought of making this cookbook for Olivia only 2 weeks before her bridal shower. Nothing like waiting for the last minute, right?
I have so many of Olivia’s favorite recipes already posted here on my blog, so putting the cookbook together was pretty easy, but I wanted to make it more personal. I added photos of the two of us along with a few favorite stories of Olivia growing up.
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Our Family Cookbook
The cover says it all. A collection of recipes shared from Mother to Daughter.
The first page included a special note to Olivia and a few photos of the two of us together. I love the first photo of us together from her third birthday party.
One of her favorite soups.
Our whole family loves Chicken Cutlet Italian Style and Chicken Cutlet Parmesan.
This recipe is for the fruit tart that I have been making for her birthday for years now. Also included is a photo of her Olivia taken on her 5th birthday and on her 20th birthday.
Her favorite cookie recipe.
And finally here’s a photo of Olivia and I together at the shower. Putting this cookbook together was so much fun and I know it’s something Olivia will treasure.
If you’d like to read more about Olivia’s bridal shower and wedding, please check out these posts:
- What to Serve for a Bridal Shower Luncheon
- How to Decorate for a Spring Bridal Shower
- How to Create a Bridal Shower Memory Jar
- How to Create a Cookie and Punch Table
- Photos from Our Daughter’s Wedding
- A Wedding and a Funeral – yes, this happened to our family.
This is a wonderful idea. I would love to make one for my daughter, but I never write recipes down seems like I just do them. Maybe I should start because my daughter has her own family now and she is constantly asking me to make some of her favorite dishes that she grew up eating. Maybe I should learn to write recipes just not sure where to start to learn to write them. I am getting older now and she would love one of these books I have hand written a lot of things down for her but never put anything together for her to keep as a keepsake someday.
I hope you take advantage of this idea and get your recipes together as a keepsake for your daughter!!! What a nice gift it would make for her…one she would treasure forever! Thanks for visiting.
What a great idea! Your cookbook looks amazing.
I have used shutterfly for so many books but never thought of a cook book. I am working on one now for my daughter since she will be leaving home soon so I will check this out, thank you!!
What a great project!