Helping chefs, fitness coaches, and passionate cooks turn their recipes into beautiful, high-end books.
A great cookbook needs to be as functional in the kitchen as it is beautiful on the shelf.
Selected work
Recent books for fitness creators, home cooks and food brands — each built to sell on the shelf and to cook from in the kitchen.
Zack Chug
Over 100 high-protein meal-prep recipes turned into a bold, high-energy cookbook for a fitness creator's community.
Mia Yael
Timeless kosher recipes with real historical context — a heritage cookbook designed cover to spread.
ChefSofi
A ten-recipe brand booklet for a kitchenware label — packaging-grade design, cover to copyright page.
Designed & formatted for major publishing platforms
100+
Books designed
5000+
Recipes formatted
5 yrs
Designing cookbooks
100+
Authors & brands served
Built & delivered for
Services
Just the design, or the full journey to a published book — scroll through both and pick the path that fits.
This package focuses entirely on the layout & formatting of your book — your recipes presented with clarity, style, and professional precision.
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Everything in the Design Foundation, plus the technical heavy lifting required to get your book published and ready for market.
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Client reviews
Real words from the people whose books I've designed — straight from their DMs and reviews.
Zack Chug
@zack.chug
Amazing to work with Maria as always, delivers on time and the work is always so so good, she has helped me change my life.
Camila Hurst
@piesandtacos
Azka was wonderful to work with. She is very professional, prompt, and always quick to answer messages. She pays close attention to details and consistently delivers high quality work. Communication was smooth throughout the process, and she made everything feel easy and organized. Overall, she was a joy to work with and I'd happily work with her again.
Joachim
@JoandBart
Azka is the kind of freelancer you want to work with. She truly cares about the project and consistently gives her best to deliver outstanding results.
Wendy Luong
@wendythefoodscientist
Maria designed my ebook exactly the way I had envisioned it. She worked fully within my brand style incl. colors, typography, icons and followed the briefing perfectly. The pictures I made for the book came out beautifully in the layout. The delivered design was already so close to perfect that we only needed a few minor revisions, which saved me a lot of back-and-forth time. She even turned my hand-drawn sketches into beautiful custom illustrations. Maria is super friendly, communicative, and really thinks along with you throughout the process. Despite my tight timeline, everything came together smoothly. My vision truly came to life, and people who bought my book are giving so many compliments on the design. I can't wait to work with her on my next project!
Sarah Mackay
@LiftwSarah
I can't recommend Maria enough. This project far exceeded my expectations — which were already very high based on her prior work! I will be using her services again!
Ani Tarpinian
@little_sprouts_kitchen
Maria Azka truly exceeded my expectations with her book design! She is an absolute dream to work with and was so patient with all my requests and modifications. I am blown away with the final product! Her creativity and professionalism stood out, making the entire process so smooth and enjoyable. Plus, her quick responses and polite manner made working with her a pleasure. Highly recommend!
How it works
A calm, four-step process — you always know what happens after 'get in touch'.
We talk through your recipes, your readers and the feeling you want the book to have.
I design a few samples based on our initial discussion.
We plan the food photography so every dish is shot to fit the book aesthetic.
Once the direction is finalized, I continue with the rest of the book.
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