Printable recipe cards are a classic. People print them for their own recipe box, tuck them into gift baskets and sell them in sets for bridal showers and family cookbooks.

You can generate one with the title already lettered on it, or leave it as “Recipe” and make a blank card people fill in by hand.

Here’s the prompt from my toolbox.

THE PLR SHOP

Done-for-you content you can put your name on

PLR articles and ebooks you can rebrand and sell as your own (or hand out as a lead magnet).

Browse the PLR Shop →

A printable recipe card, landscape, flat on a plain white background, filling the frame. Style: vintage farmhouse with a soft cream card, a thin dark green border and a small hand-drawn sprig of rosemary in one corner. At the top, the title "Grandma's Buttermilk Biscuits" in a warm script font. Below it, two ruled sections labeled "Ingredients" and "Directions", each with 6 blank lines to write on. Small lines at the bottom for "Serves" and "Prep Time". No other text anywhere.

The title came out spelled right, apostrophe and all, with Ingredients and Directions sections ready for a pen and a little rosemary sprig up in the corner.

Make It Yours!

Swap the brackets and go.

A printable recipe card, landscape, flat on a plain white background, filling the frame. Style: [STYLE] with a [CARD COLOR] card, a thin [BORDER COLOR] border and a small hand-drawn [DECORATION] in one corner. At the top, the title "[RECIPE NAME, or Recipe]" in a [FONT FEEL] font. Below it, two ruled sections labeled "Ingredients" and "Directions", each with [NUMBER] blank lines to write on. Small lines at the bottom for "Serves" and "Prep Time". No other text anywhere.

A few styles to try:

• Retro 1950s diner with a cherry red border and a little pie in the corner
• Modern minimal with a sage card and a single lemon
• Christmas cookie card with a red border and a sprig of holly
• Rustic kraft paper with a wheat stalk for a bread baker’s set

The Line You Should Not Touch!

“No other text anywhere.”

Leave that one alone. Without it the generator tends to fill the blank lines with fake recipe text, and a card with made-up ingredients printed on it is no use to anybody.

Full Disclosure

Read every word on the card letter by letter before you print or sell it. Text rendering has gotten a lot better, but it’s still the thing to check first.

Count the lines, too. Generators get loose with numbers (I’ve asked for three chicks and gotten four), so if your set needs every card to match, check before you package it. Want a whole recipe book? Pair the card with the ebook cover prompt.

Selling These?

A recipe card set sells better with content behind it, like listings, blog posts and emails. That’s where my PLR shop comes in: done-for-you content you can put your name on and use as your own.

Browse the PLR Shop →

Go make a card. Grandma would be proud. (Even if the biscuits came from a can.)