Recipes — or step-by-step instructions for cooking dishes — are the base ingredient of a food blog’s mix, naturally! 

Recipe posts tend to have two parts: 1) The blog post itself and a recipe card. Of these, the recipe card is a compact one-sheet resource that your users can refer to (and print) to make what you’re teaching. With a WordPress plugin like WP Recipe Maker, you can insert beautiful, mobile-friendly recipe cards into your recipe posts with the click of a button. Your recipe card carries your recipe’s ingredients, its steps, and additional information like nutritional value.

Recipes are also the easiest food blog content type to monetize. For instance, you can insert affiliate links and even show ads in your recipes.

Here’s an example of a recipe post done just right: How to Make a Japanese Highball