Understanding Drupal Recipes

Drupal Recipes are a modern way to package and apply configuration. Unlike install profiles, recipes are composable — you can apply multiple recipes to build up your site's functionality incrementally.

Each template includes a recipes/ directory with modular recipes:

• base/ — Core setup: content types, views, roles, permissions
• Optional recipes like blog/, events/, portfolio/ add specific features
• performance/ — Caching, aggregation, and optimization settings

You apply recipes with: drush recipe recipes/base

To create your own recipe:

1. Create a new directory under recipes/
2. Add a recipe.yml file defining modules to install and config to apply
3. Apply with drush recipe recipes/your-recipe

Use a recipe when you need to configure existing modules. Use a custom module when you need new PHP functionality (hooks, plugins, services).