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This is The Ultimate Cookbook Gift Guide with over 100 cookbook gift ideas. The only cookbook gift guide you need this holiday season. What I love about cookbooks is that they always make a great gift and they can be gifted throughout the year whether it’s for Christmas, birthdays or whatever the occasion they always bring a smile on people’s face.
Whether you are looking for a cookbook for the gourmet home cook, a chef, baking and pastry lover, new moms, kids, teenagers or the health conscious cook. I’ve got you covered!
This guide covers some of my personal favorite cookbooks, new and noteworthy cookbooks, cookbooks that look promising, classic cookbooks, recommended to me cookbooks and cookbooks that are on my cookbook wishlist.
I hope that you will find the perfect gift to give someone in your life and perhaps that you’ll find a little something for yourself along the way.
New & Noteworthy Cookbooks
I’m going to start this list off with a mix of new cookbooks that I think look promising and noteworthy cookbooks that I have on my personal wishlist!
Are you in the need of ideas for beautiful boards for all occasions? The Beautiful Boards book is absolutely stunning with so many great ideas!
Friends fans: Check out this Friends cookbook! And how exciting is this Disney Parks Cookbook?
Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbook
MasterChef The Classics With A Twist
Half Baked Harvest Super Simple
Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion
The Book on Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies
Let’s Stay In: More than 120 Recipes to Nourish the People You Love
Big Mamma Cucina Popolare: Contemporary Italian Recipes
What’s Gaby Cooking: Everyday California Food
What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want
Betty Jo’s Famous Cowboy Cookin’
Tasty Adulting: All Your Faves, All Grown Up: A Cookbook
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
The Prairie Homestead Cookbook
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier
Delish: Eat Like Every Day’s the Weekend
Sous Vide at Home: The Modern Technique for Perfectly Cooked Meals
Sous Vide Cookbook: 575 Best Sous Vide Recipes of All Time
The Soup Book: 200 Recipes, Season by Season
The Artisan Kitchen: The science, practice and possibilities
The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook
Disney Movie Recipes to Try at Home
Friends: The Official Cookbook
Essential Cookbooks:
This next section covers cookbooks that I believe are essential and benefit everybody whether you are a chef or ambitious culinary enthusiast. There’s even a book for practicing your knife skills!
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook
The Staub Cookbook: Modern Recipes for Classic Cast Iron
The Zwilling J. A. Henckels Complete Book of Knife Skills
Baking & Pastry Books:
This section has all of my favorite baking and pastry books and is ideal to choose from if your looking for a gift for someone that loves to bake and create beautiful desserts. It has everything from bread baking, simple sweets and treats to showstopping cakes and complicated pastry. It even has a few books on thorough step by step beginners baking. Like this one and this one.
Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School: 101 Step-by-Step Recipes
Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible
Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking
Food52 Genius Desserts: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake
Beginner’s Baking Bible: 130+ Recipes and Techniques for New Bakers
Favorite Cakes: Showstopping Recipes for Every Occasion
The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook
Tasty Dessert: All the Sweet You Can Eat
Delish Insane Sweets: Bake Yourself a Little Crazy
Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland
The Sweetapolita Bakebook: 75 Fanciful Cakes, Cookies & More
No-Bake Baking: Easy, Oven-Free Cakes and Treats
Southern Baked: Celebrating Life with Pie
The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes
The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies & Bars
The Perfect Pie: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic and Modern Pies, Tarts, Galettes, and More
Naturally Sweet: Bake All Your Favorites with 30% to 50% Less Sugar
Sally’s Baking Addiction: Irresistible Cookies, Cupcakes, and Desserts for Your Sweet-Tooth Fix
Sally’s Cookie Addiction: Irresistible Cookies, Cookie Bars, Shortbread, and More
Bigger Bolder Baking: A Fearless Approach to Baking Anytime, Anywhere
Bakerita: 100+ No-Fuss Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and Refined Sugar-Free Recipes for the Modern Baker
Healthy Cookbooks:
Here you’ll find a couple of great books with healthier recipes for the whole family as well as a few nutrition based cookbooks with guides how to eat better and live healthier. There’s even a healthy dessert book!
Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy, Lean & Fit
The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook
Bake to Be Fit’s Secretly Healthy Desserts
Cookbooks From Around The World:
I wanted to include a section of cookbooks that specialize in different cuisines from countries around the world. So if you or someone you know are looking to learn how to make food from a specific country then this section is perfect for you. For authentic Italian recipes check out this cookbook.
Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook
Vegetarian & Vegan Cookbooks:
Don’t eat meat? I’ve got lots of beautiful vegetarian and vegan cookbook options here below. There’s also books on vegan baking and desserts. A concept that fascinates me and I enjoy experimenting with. Vegan desserts are just so delicious! If you want to do a little experimenting with that yourself check out this beautiful Modern Vegan Baking and this Vegan Baking for Beginners.
The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook
The Simply Vegetarian Cookbook
The Plant Based Diet for Beginners
The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook
Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook
Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes
Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites
The Budget-Friendly Vegan Cookbook
Incredible Plant-Based Desserts
Gluten-Free Vegan Baking for Every Occasion
Scandinavian Cookbooks:
I had to include a section with my favorite Scandinavian and Nordic cookbooks. Maybe it’s the fact that I grew up to that kind of cooking and baking but there’s just always something about it. You just can’t help but to love it. And some of my all time favorite foods happen to be Scandinavian. These books here below have every kind of Scandinavian or Nordic food you might want. Swedish meatballs, rye bread, Danish pastries. You name it. You’ll find it here below. If you want to practice your open sandwiches skills this book is perfect. Or if you want to learn a little what Scandinavian Christmas is like then this is the book for that.
Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge
Scandinavian Baking: Sweet and Savory Cakes and Bakes
The New Nordic: Recipes from a Scandinavian Kitchen
North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland
The Scandi Kitchen: Simple, delicious dishes for any occasion
Bronte at home: Baking from the ScandiKitchen
Open Sandwiches: 70 Smorrebrod Ideas
Kids & Teen Cookbooks:
And then the last section of this post but not the least. Whether your looking for cookbooks for new moms on how to feed babies and toddlers throughout their first months and years. Or books to gift kids that are interested in cooking or baking and are starting to experiment in the kitchen. Or cookbooks for teens who love to cook or bake. You’ll find it here below. There’s even a Harry Potter cookbook!
P.S kids and teenagers might also love the Friends Cookbook listed in the New & Noteworthy Cookbooks section above.
What Mummy Makes: Cook just once for you and your baby
The Big Book of Organic Baby Food
The Big Book of Organic Toddler Food
The Silver Spoon: Recipes for Babies
The Silver Spoon for Children: Favorite Italian Recipes
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs
Super Foods for Super Kids Cookbook
American Girl: Around the World Cookbook
The Complete Cookbook for Teens
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook
Well, that’s it for the ultimate cookbook gift guide. I hope you enjoyed it and found something you loved or to gift others. If you need more gift ideas check out my gift ideas for foodies and gift ideas for cat lovers. And make sure to follow me on instagram @alaingablog
Let me know in the comments below what your favorite cookbook is or if you happened to find a cookbook that you want on this list. I’d love to know!
Happy holidays and happy shopping!
