Ease of Use:  

Intuitive navigation allows you to move easily from one step to the next whether you’re planning meals for the week or building a family cookbook. Move recipes to different chapters or different cookbooks with the drag and drop feature.

Use the search function to filter the recipes by keywords or ingredients to find the recipe you want.  This makes locating recipes or searching for recipes by key ingredients is quick and simple. Cook’n with Betty Crocker Deluxe even offers additional filtering tools to make searches as precise or broad as desired.

Recipe Manager:  

Betty Crocker's recipe manager is designed to mirror the structure of a cookbook. You’ll find the same chapters and recipes on your screen that you would find in the book itself. You may add your own cookbooks, which means you can name a file to hold your personal recipes.

Each recipe is divided into three windows: view, edit and picture. You can edit any of the recipes that come with Cook'n with Betty Crocker Deluxe or recipes you have added. If a recipe has a photograph, check the Picture tab. The photos are attractive, clear and give excellent examples for presentation.

The recipe manager also has auto-fill to make entering recipes fast, so keep one eye on the screen. The software will automatically find the nutritional value for each recipe as long as you use the ingredients that the program recognizes. 

Menu Planner:  

Click on the menu planner and you can access the recipes by book, chapter and category. Drag the recipe to the appropriate day. When you’ve finished, you can name your menu and save it. The software will calculate the nutritional value of the meal. When it's time to do your grocery shopping, the meal planner will compile a grocery list and group the foods according to where you'll find them in the market. 

Feature Set:  

The recipes are reliable, simple and traditional. You will find recipes from international cuisines, but they are Americanized. This recipe collection is  probably better-suited  for the home cook, as opposed to the epicurean.Cook’n with Betty Crocker Deluxe includes:

• Betty Crocker Easy Family Dinners
• Betty Crocker’s Best Bread Machine Cookbooks
• Betty Crocker’s Best Chicken Cookbook
• Betty Crocker’s Best-Loved Recipes
• Betty Crocker’s Bisquick Cookbook
• Betty Crocker’s Cookbook, 9th Edition
• Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Two
• Betty Crocker’s Ultimate Cake Mix Cookbook
• Cook’n Sampler

Automatically adjust recipes according to the number of people you're going to serve. Don’t forget to edit instructions: if you increase a brownie recipe from nine servings to 20, that 9” x 9” pan is not going to work.

Cook'n with Betty Crocker Deluxe comes with over 2000 recipes and you can download an unlimited number from the web in a variety of formats.

Share your recipes in several ways: print on recipe cards or full sized paper or email them.

A simple backup procedure so you don't lose your files.

Bonus Feature

Friendly and helpful videos presented by founder Dan Oaks and his wife Kathy.

Ease of Installation:  

No problems during the installation of the program and it executed all tasks performed without delay or error.

Help/Support:  

The manufacturer of Cook'n with Betty Crocker is dedicated to answering any questions or concerns you have with the program as quickly as possible. They offer email, phone and live chat so you can reach customer service in a number of different ways. And, at your request, you may receive e-newsletters with new recipes and more cooking advice. 

Cook’n with Betty Crocker Deluxe has the widest selection of family recipes, informative tutorials with personality, and the intuitive structure of a cookbook. If you have the patience to work around the search problem, Cook’n with Betty Crocker Deluxe is a good source of inspiration, information and organization for the new cook.