1-3″ extra wide white binder with a clear pocket (Avery also has cute pre-printed binders in several styles: Vintage, Chalkboard, and Epicurean).So let’s get started! What you’ll need for your DIY Recipe Binder Kit: The most time-consuming part of creating your own recipe book is typing the recipes, but what I recommend doing is first saving them in a Word document so that you can simply copy & paste them into your design in Avery Design & Print Online (plus, you’ll always have that Word file available if you need them later down the line!). Which I consider a steal considering some of those bound books online can cost $50+. Between the colors and text, you can create your very own giftable recipe book in a few hours and under $25. And with these templates, you are able to completely customize the whole thing. Which is a must-have in my house because I’m constantly filling it with new recipes.īinders also make it easy to change categories later on, so if you end up needing to create an entire new category for Cookies, you can do that. custom bound books) is that you can easily add or remove recipes down the road. Which means that you don’t need any of my fancy design software to achieve these professional lookin’ designs, as you can 100% customize them through Avery’s free online software, Avery Design & Print. So this year as I designed a new recipe binder kit, I also designed files for Avery’s free software so that you can make one of your own! And today I’m going to show you how to create a custom, DIY recipe binder kit using a white binder, the My Recipe Starter Kit clear dividers, and my (free) printable templates. And as fun as that was, I could never find a way to share the templates with all of you because I designed it in InDesign, which I know many of you don’t have and don’t have the time/will to learn.

But a little backstory before we start is that a few years ago, my sister and I typed up hundreds of recipes for my mom and compiled it into a recipe binder.īut being the overachieving designer I am, I went all-out on the design and basically handcrafted custom-sized tabs, dividers, and recipe pages. With the holidays just around the corner, I wanted to share the printable templates I used to create some DIY recipe books for the college siblings. Organize your favorite recipes into a DIY recipe book with these fun and free printable recipe binder kit templates! Perfect for gifting to friends or family or just as a way to organize your favorite family recipes.

Word recipe card template 3x5