10 cookbooks to give as the perfect Mother’s Day gift

4. Cake by Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman

This is a cookbook that may hit home and relate to many of its users, bakers, and readers alike. As the person who suggest it stated, it has things that are simply and singlehandedly

"woven in with handwritten narratives of the families memories those cakes conjure."

This cookbook sounds like a true family cookbook, mixed with some delicious-looking illustration cartoons of cake, coffee cake, cupcakes, and just about any and all other baked goods that you could possibly think of. The person who suggested this also said that since she cannot be with her own mother on Mother’s Day, that this is and will be

"more than just recipes…..warm hug I’d like to give her in person"

What sounds better than a warm hug mixed with baked goods? Absolutely nothing. Anything from our Mama is special, so that’s why this person probably chose such a family oriented based cookbook to gift her own mother this year.

As for what’s quite inside this cookbook, Cake offers an insight into the author’s own love for cake, why she loves it, and some great memories behind each recipe that will surely relate to her readers (all of them). There are only seventeen recipes included in here, and the book itself is about roughly less than 100 pages, but do you need more than that?

Telling simple family stories that remind you of recipes and vice versa, are simply all that you need to bring people together in the kitchen, am I right?! Being in the kitchen with your family can be loud, frustrating, crowded, and fun all in one, but we wouldn’t have it any other way now would we?

You can buy this wonderful family-based cookbook for $17 at Target and for $25 at Barnes & Noble (or $16 for a Paperback version, or $9.99 for the Nook version as well (tons of options here for Mom!).