Recipe pins have one job: make someone hungry enough to save the pin and click through to cook. The photo does most of the work, but a clear name and quick facts like total time and servings answer the first questions people ask before they decide to try a recipe.
This template maker puts your photo on top or full bleed behind a card, then adds the recipe name, three badges for prep, cook and servings, and up to eight ingredients in two columns. It is drawn in your browser, so your food photos stay on your device.
What to put on a recipe pin
Name the dish the way people search for it: "One Pan Lemon Garlic Chicken" beats a cute name nobody types. Put the benefit in the small heading: quick, cheap, high protein, dairy free, make ahead. Those are the details that make someone choose your version over the next one.
Keep the ingredient list short and recognizable. It is a teaser, not the recipe card. Five to eight main ingredients show how simple the dish is, and the full method stays on your blog where it earns the visit.
Recipe pins and rich pins
If your blog uses recipe schema markup, Pinterest can show the ingredient list and cooking time from your page on the pin itself. You can check whether your post is set up for that with the rich pin checker.
Make two or three designs per recipe, for example one photo-first and one with the card layout, and pin them a few days apart. The description generator helps you write a keyword-rich description for each.