For food bloggers, home cooks and kitchen shops
A cookbook built around the way you cook
Your recipes live on index cards, in blog posts and in the notes app on your phone. Gather them into a real recipe book with chapters, numbered recipes and cheat sheets, typeset as a PDF you can print and an EPUB for tablets, with your name on the cover.
- Numbered recipes grouped into clear chapters
- Free editable outline and 2-page sample
- Print-ready PDF and EPUB
- AI photos of the dishes as an optional paid add-on
Good recipes get lost when they are scattered
A food blog is a great place to publish a recipe and a poor place to cook from. Readers scroll past ads and long introductions to reach the ingredient list, then lose their place when the screen locks with flour on their hands. Regular followers ask the same question in the comments every few months: is there a version of all this in one place?
A cookbook answers that question and does several other jobs as well. A dietitian can hand clients a set of weeknight dinners that follow the plan they discussed. A shop that sells air fryers or multicookers can include a short book of times and temperatures with every purchase, so buyers keep using the appliance after the first week. A cooking class teacher can send participants home with the recipes from the session, laid out properly instead of photocopied.
What usually stops people is the work around the recipes: deciding on chapters, writing the introductions, keeping quantities and units consistent and then laying out fifty pages so they look like a book. With InkMagnet you describe the cookbook, attach your own recipes or notes if you have them and edit the free table of contents. You see two typeset pages before paying. After payment the book is written chapter by chapter, edited and set into PDF and EPUB.
Cookbooks people make with InkMagnet
The best cookbook starts from what your readers or customers already cook, or want to. A few directions:
Appliance cookbook
Recipes for an air fryer, multicooker, bread maker or slow cooker, with time and temperature tables. A useful extra for a kitchen shop to send with the appliance or offer on the product page.
Blog recipe collection
Your most popular posts turned into a book with consistent formatting, sorted by meal or season. A download for newsletter subscribers or a paid product for loyal readers.
Meal plan with recipes
For dietitians: a week or two of meals, simple recipes and shopping lists that follow the approach you use with clients.
Class handout book
The recipes from your cooking class or workshop series, with the techniques you demonstrated explained step by step, so participants can repeat them at home.
Family recipe book
The dishes your family has cooked for years, written down properly with quantities, the order of steps and the stories that go with them.
Themed mini cookbook
Weeknight dinners, lunchboxes, holiday baking or meat-free meals. A short, focused book is quicker to read and easier to promote than a general collection.
A real book made with InkMagnet
Example: “Air Fryer: 60 Simple Recipes for Every Day” (56 pages)
A recipe book made in InkMagnet for people who have just bought an air fryer. It opens with a getting-started chapter (how the appliance works, a time and temperature cheat sheet, safe internal temperatures and common beginner mistakes), then 60 numbered recipes in five chapters: breakfasts, poultry and meat, fish and vegetarian dishes, snacks and sides, desserts. This edition was ordered with AI photographs matched to specific dishes, which is an optional paid add-on. Below is its full table of contents.
Air Fryer: 60 Simple Recipes for Every Day · 56 pages · See the book page →
Table of contents
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1.Air Fryer Demystified – How to Get Started
- How an Air Fryer Works
- Temperatures and Times – A Cheat Sheet to Start With
- Safety: Internal Temperature
- Accessories and Prepping Food
- The Most Common Beginner Mistakes
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2.Breakfasts and Light Meals
- Mornings Without Waiting for the Oven
- Eggs in Silicone Molds
- Baked Oatmeal with Apple and Cinnamon
- French Toast with Cinnamon
- Crispy Bacon
- Egg Muffins with Bell Pepper and Spinach
- Homemade Granola with Nuts
- Grilled Cheese and Ham Sandwich
- Banana Pancakes
- Baked Apples with Honey and Nuts
- Cinnamon Rolls from Ready-Made Dough
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3.Poultry and Meat for Dinner
- Meat Without Watching the Pan
- Whole Roast Chicken
- Chicken Thighs in Honey and Mustard
- Crispy Breaded Chicken Breast
- BBQ Wings
- Ground Turkey Patties
- Pork Neck Steaks
- BBQ Pork Ribs
- Pork Tenderloin with Herbs
- Breaded Pork Cutlet
- Beef Burgers
- Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
- Curry Chicken
- Beef Steak
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4.Fish, Vegetables, and Vegetarian Dishes
- Light Meals for Every Day
- Salmon Baked with Lemon and Dill
- Garlic Shrimp
- Breaded Cod
- Whole Baked Trout
- Tuna Steak
- Whole Roasted Cauliflower
- Sweet Potato Fries
- Brussels Sprouts with Parmesan
- Bell Peppers Stuffed with Grains
- Zucchini in Parmesan Breading
- Baked Falafel
- Sesame Tofu
- Mushrooms Stuffed with Cheese
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5.Snacks, Fries, and Sides
- Movie Night Without Ordering In
- Classic Potato Fries
- Potato Fritters
- Breaded Onion Rings
- Cheese Sticks
- Homemade Chicken Nuggets
- Kale Chips
- Pierogi from the Freezer
- Cheese Quesadilla
- Baked Nachos
- Cheese Croissants
- Corn on the Cob
- Soft Pretzels
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6.Desserts and a Sweet End to the Day
- Sweet Things Without Heating the Whole Oven
- Chocolate Brownie in a Mold
- Mini Apple Pie
- Bananas in Puff Pastry
- Oat Cookies
- Baked Peaches with Cinnamon
- Chocolate Muffins
- Apple Crumble
- Croissants with Chocolate Spread
- Baked Pears in Maple Syrup
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Mini Cheesecake
- Doughnuts from Ready-Made Dough
- Summary
What the pages look like
Real pages from the opening of this book, typeset exactly as they appear in the PDF. Click any page to enlarge it.
More cookbooks made in InkMagnet
Two more books with recipes: weeknight dinners for a Thermomix and a dietitian's 14-day meal plan. Download either one as a full PDF.
From a pile of recipes to a finished cookbook
You work in the browser or in the Android app. This is how a cookbook comes together.
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Describe the cookbook
Say who will cook from it, what equipment they have and what kind of dishes the book should cover. Attach your own recipes, notes or a list of dishes if you want them in the book.
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Arrange the chapters and recipes
You get a title and a full table of contents for free. Move recipes between chapters, cut dishes you never make and add the ones your readers ask for.
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Check a 2-page sample
See two pages in the final layout and style. Decide whether the format suits the way your readers cook before you pay.
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Download, cook and adjust
Get the PDF and EPUB. Cook through the recipes you are unsure of, then correct quantities, times or steps in the chapter editor, add photos of your own dishes and rebuild the files.
How to use your cookbook
A recipe book is the kind of download people keep. These ideas help it reach the right kitchens.
Newsletter sign-up gift
Offer the PDF in exchange for an email address on your blog. Readers who cook from it are the ones most likely to open your next post.
Extra with an appliance sale
For kitchen shops: send the book after purchase or mention it on the product page. If you want a QR code in the book, give the link it should open, such as your accessories page.
Handout after a class
Send the book to participants after the session instead of loose recipe cards. They leave with every dish you cooked together, in order.
Seasonal editions
Edit chapters for holidays, summer grilling or back-to-school lunches and rebuild the files. One cookbook gives you a reason to write to your list several times a year.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use my own recipes?
Yes. Paste them into the description or attach your notes and files, and the book is built around them. After it is ready you can change any recipe in the chapter editor and rebuild the PDF and EPUB.
Are the recipes tested?
Recipes are written from research and language-edited, but nobody cooks them in a test kitchen. Treat the book as a draft: cook the dishes you are unsure about and correct quantities, times and temperatures before you share it. This matters most for baking and for meat and poultry, where safe internal temperatures count.
Are photos of the dishes included?
Not in the base price. AI photos matched to the dishes are an optional paid add-on you choose when ordering. You can also add your own food photos in the chapter editor.
I run a kitchen appliance shop. Can I give the book to customers?
Yes. You get full rights to the finished book, so you can include it with purchases, offer it on your site or sell it. Check cooking times against the models you actually sell, since appliances differ.
How much does a cookbook cost?
One fixed price per book, depending on the number of pages. There is no subscription. The title, table of contents and 2-page sample are free, so you pay only once the plan looks right.
What if I want to change something in the finished book?
You have three options. Edit any chapter yourself in the built-in editor. Tell the AI what to change in a chapter or section (shorten, simplify, add an example): you see the change first and keep it only if you like it, three times per book. Or use “Check by a human”: describe what is wrong and our editor corrects it by hand, free of charge, up to three requests per book.
Put your recipes into one book
Describe your cookbook in a few sentences. The table of contents and a 2-page sample are free.
Plan my cookbookThe table of contents and a 2-page sample are free. You pay only for the finished book.