Printing Your Own Cookbook

I would type it up in whatever document software that you use - divide into categories by the type of recipe (appetisers, main dishes, desserts, sides...) and then your local print shop or office store should be able to print it out and bind it for you.

and I agree with CeeScraps - if you have photos or anecdotes that go with any of the recipes, include them. It'll be meaningful for them to see that this recipe is their grandmother's or that one is the one you always make for this occasion and so on.

edit - that said - what I did was to type all my recipes into Paprika (app) and each of the kids put the app on their device and we all share a log-in and access to the same collection of recipes that we all add to. That's working the best for my family.  However the kids did each end up with one of the recipe binders I made years ago for my mum and mil (and I made one for myself) - they came back to me when mum and mil passed and I gave one to each of the three kids

Sounds like a great idea for your kids.
Staples does binding with those plastic binding combs.

I don't have a Mac, but do they have a program like Microsoft does called Publisher? i know people that do some really nice stuff with that program. But, if I was doing a cookbook though, I think something like Word or Powerpoint would be easier as I find Publisher a bit difficult to make do what I want it to do. I'm think Mac has similar programs.

I kind of did this. I planned on giving them as Christmas gifts, but I just printed one copy at home, slipped the prints into page protectors in a binder and kept them for myself. haha

The template I used was actually a class that was PhotoShop based. I think I paid $20 for the class and templates. I didn't like the way she had it set up so I basically changed everything and only used the color palette from the class to delineate sections.

If you google Template for Recipe Book you will get lots of templates on Etsy. In looking just now at the google search Canva has some nice FREE templates, that I think would get you going.

Personally, I prefer to have my recipes in page protectors in a 3-ring binder so I can add recipes easily, and the page protector keeps the recipe clean.

I did this for DH's grandmother's recipes. Fair warning printing at a copy shop is not going to be cheap.

if you're comfortable with Canva then I'd use one of their templates. When I built mine I used InDesign as that's the program I'm most familiar with and set up a page template then typed everything into word then imported that into InDesign. Why into word first? It caught all my spelling errors and saving each file as the name of the dish auto put them into alpha order. it was time consuming but the resulting books went to each of the kids and grandkids and were well received.

I created a template set when we did a family cookbook for my mom a few years ago. www.snapclicksupply.com/digital-products/lets-eat-recipe-album/

Oh, I really love that!

I LOVE this!  Do you know where it could be printed into a book like that?  

I have no information about creating the cookbook but just thought that I would pass on my experience in printing something like this.  I would definitely check out local print shops to print.  That was the cheaper option between that and some place like staples.  We have just updated our family history book for a recent reunion and checked into getting them printed because we had added a lot(we typically only updated pages so get those printed to give everyone).  Anyway for 180 pages(which is probably way more than you are looking for) 3 hole punched at staples (not bound) it was going to be about 100.00 a copy.  From a local printer we got it done for just under 40.  We had it printed from a pdf file.  Good luck, it will be a great treasure for your kids.

I do the same thing, take out the recipe I’m using and put it on a clipboard that I have on an easel on my counter. So much easier than trying to prop up the whole book and it takes up much less counter space too.