Recipe Card Maker — Free Printable 4 × 6 Recipe Cards

A free recipe card maker for printing and sharing

Handwritten recipe cards fade and stain; typed ones are easier to read across the kitchen. This recipe card maker turns your recipe into a neat card: type the name, ingredients and method, add a photo and a nutrition line if you like, choose a size and a design, and print it or download it as a PDF or PNG to share.

It makes the classic 4 × 6 inch index card that fits a recipe box, 5 × 7 inch and A6 cards, and full A5, A4 or US Letter pages for a binder. Small cards can be printed on card-size paper, or two to a sheet on A4 or Letter with crop marks for cutting. Everything is drawn in your browser; your recipe and photo are never uploaded.

How to use the Recipe Card Maker

1. Choose the card size, orientation, design and accent colour.
2. Type the recipe name, who it is from, and the servings, prep and cook times.
3. Paste the ingredients one per line and the method one step per line; steps are numbered for you.
4. Optionally add notes, a photo and the nutrition per serving.
5. Check the preview, then Print at 100% scale or download the PDF or PNG.

Recipe Card Maker features

Tips for a card that reads well

• Keep each ingredient short and put the quantity first: “150 g sugar”, “2 eggs, beaten”.
• Group ingredients with a sub-heading line ending in a colon, such as “For the glaze:”.
• Write each step as one action. Six to eight steps fit a 4 × 6 card comfortably.
• Put oven temperatures in both scales if the card will be shared: 175 °C (350 °F).
• Use the notes for storage, freezing and swaps, so the method stays short.

Printing recipe cards

For 4 × 6 cards, either load index card stock and print with “Card-size paper”, or print on A4 or Letter card stock with two cards per sheet and cut along the crop marks. Always print at 100% scale with “fit to page” switched off, so the card comes out the right size. If the recipe runs onto a second card, print that page on the back, or keep both cards together in the box.

The PDF uses the standard PDF fonts, which cover English and most Western European letters plus symbols such as °, × and –. Fractions like ½ and other scripts are replaced by “?” in the PDF, so type “1/2”, or use Print or the PNG, which keep every character.

Scaling, costing and nutrition

Need the recipe for a different number of people? Scale it first with the recipe scaler, then paste the new quantities here. For the nutrition line, enter the ingredients into the recipe nutrition calculator and copy the per-serving values. Kitchens can record the yield from the food yield calculator in the notes, and plan the week with the meal planner printable.