diff --git a/cookbook/recipes/notebook_tasks/spark_notebook_wf.py b/cookbook/recipes/notebook_tasks/spark_notebook_wf.py
index 63a3d24c4..84f98ef28 100644
--- a/cookbook/recipes/notebook_tasks/spark_notebook_wf.py
+++ b/cookbook/recipes/notebook_tasks/spark_notebook_wf.py
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-from __future__ import division
-from __future__ import print_function
+import os
 
-from flytekit.sdk.types import Types
+from flytekit.contrib.notebook.tasks import spark_notebook
 from flytekit.sdk.tasks import inputs, outputs
-
+from flytekit.sdk.types import Types
 from flytekit.sdk.workflow import workflow_class, Input
-from flytekit.contrib.notebook.tasks import spark_notebook
-from flytekit.models.task import  Container, Resources
 
 
-interactive_spark = spark_notebook(notebook_path="./notebook-task-examples/spark-notebook.ipynb",
-                                          inputs=inputs(partitions=Types.Integer),
-                                          outputs=outputs(pi=Types.Float),
-                                        )
+interactive_spark = spark_notebook(
+    notebook_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "spark-notebook.ipynb"),
+    inputs=inputs(partitions=Types.Integer),
+    outputs=outputs(pi=Types.Float),
+    )
+
 
 @workflow_class
 class FlyteNotebookSparkWorkflow(object):
diff --git a/cookbook/requirements.txt b/cookbook/requirements.txt
index c2e53a7f5..7f7bd92cd 100644
--- a/cookbook/requirements.txt
+++ b/cookbook/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-flytekit[sidecar,schema]==0.10.4
+flytekit[sidecar,schema]==0.11.6
 pytest
 statsd
 opencv-python==3.4.4.19