That sounds like a lovely idea! I bet she will love it, especially if she's into cooking.
I ordered my T- three Dr Seuss books: The cat in the hat, Green eggs and ham and how the Grinch stole Christmas. Books are MY thing, but he also has a young daughter so I know they will get read and not left to gather dust on a shelf. He recently thanked me for the last book I gave him for his birthday (Oh the places you will go) and told me that he'd been reading it a lot.
The first two have been dispatched, but it's the third one with the message that hasn't as it's out of stock at the moment!! But I bet he will figure out that it's from me.