Cook the Books app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 2880 ratings )
Food & Drink
Developer: We Are Apps
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 09 Dec 2013
App size: 34.3 Mb

Take shopping lists for your favourite cookbooks everywhere you go.

Cook the Books has created shopping lists for every recipe in more than 50 of the UK’s favourite cookbooks, over 5,000 recipes in total.

This app is every cook’s best friend when they are out shopping.

***** Please note, recipes aren’t included on this app. The app is a shopping companion for the recipes you already have in your favourite cookbooks. *****

If you’ve ever found yourself in a supermarket wishing you could remember the ingredients to a favourite recipe, this app is for you. There are more shopping lists for more than 5,000 recipes, from the nation’s favourite chefs and celebrity cooks.

There are shopping lists available for Jamie, Nigella and Heston cookbooks. Many of the cookbooks of popular TV chefs like the Hairy Bikers, the Fabulous Baker Brothers and Lorraine Pascale are available too. Plus there are our staff picks - our very favourite cookbooks that you may not have discovered yet but can actually purchase via the app. Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts and The Campervan Cookbook are our current favourites.

There are cookbooks for family cooking, baking, healthy cooking - including a number of 5:2 fasting diet cookbooks. There is also a fantastic book for cooking gluten-free, wheat-free and dairy-free recipes!

Over 30 titles included with the app:

Annabel Karmels New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner
Baking Made Easy by Lorraine Pascale
Childrens First Cookbook by Annabel Karmel
Cooking with Daisy by Josie Klafkowska
Delias Cakes by Delia Smith
Delias How To Cheat At Cooking by Delia Smith
Ellas Kitchen The Cookbook (The Red One)
Gordon Ramsays Ultimate Cookery Course
Greedy Girls Diet by Nadia Sawallah
Home Cooking Made Easy by Lorraine Pascale
How To Be A Domestic Goddess by Nigella lawson
Hughs Three Good Things by Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall
Its All Good by Gwyneth Paltrow
Jamies 15-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver
Jamies 30-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver
Jamies Great Britain by Jamie Oliver
Mary Berry At Home
Mary Berrys Baking Bible
Mary Berrys Complete Cookbook
Mums Know Best by Si King & Dave Myers (The Hairy Bikers)
My Daddy Cooks by Nick Coffer
Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson
Recipes from My Mother for My Daughter by Lisa Faulkner
Saturday Kitchen At Home
Skinny Weeks and Weekend feasts by Gizzi Erskine
Tana Ramsays Family Kitchen
The 5:2 Diet Book by Kate Harrison
The 5:2 Diet Cook Book by Angela Dowden
The Best Gluten-free, wheat-free & dairy-free recipes by Grace Cheetham
The Busy Mums Cookbook by Mary Gywnn
The Campervan Cookbook by Martin Dorey
The Fast Diet Recipe Book by Mimi Spencer
The Little Paris Kitchen by Rachel Khoo
Things on Toast by Tonia George
Willies Chocolate Cookbook by Willie Harcourt-Cooze

More titles are also available via in-app purchase:

At Home by Heston Blumethal
Annabel Karmels New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner
Fays Family Food by Fay Ripley
Gok Cooks Chinese by Gok Wan
Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
Mary Berrys Complete Cookbook
Nigella’s Kitchen by Nigella Lawson
Nigellissima by Nigella Lawson
Ottolenghi The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
Paul Hollywoods Bread
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
Real Fast Food by Nigel Slater
Rick Steins Spain
River Cottage Baby and Toddler Cookbook by Nikki Duffy
River Cottage Veg Every day! by Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall
The Fabulous Baker Brothers by Tom and Henry Herbert
The Fabulous Baker Brothers Glorious British Grub by Tom and Henry Herbert
The Hairy Bikers Great Curries by Dave Myers and Si King
The Hairy Dieters by Dave Myers and Si King
The Hummingbird Bakery Home Sweet Home
The Intolerant Gourmet by Pippa Kendrick
The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater
The Kitchen Diaries II by Nigel Slater
Two Greedy Italians by Antonio Carluccio & Gennaro Contaldo



Please note: These are shopping lists only. If you haven’t got the recipes, go buy the cookbooks!