30 Gifts For Your Favorite Home Baker
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Everyone has one or two (or if you’re lucky, many) people in their life that seem to be dessert geniuses. They can whip up a to-die-for chocolate cake in what feels like a matter of minutes and they always leave a bake sale empty-handed. There’s no question these people know what they’re doing in the kitchen, but that doesn’t mean they have every tool, ingredient, or display piece out there. This list will help you find something for everyone from enthusiastic beginners to pro-level bakers. Gifts this good are worthy of thank you in the form of a cookie (fingers crossed!).
The Best Gifts for Bread Bakers
For amateurs and experts alike, these breadmaking tools will encourage your favorite bakers to make more delicious loaves of bread. Shop our favorite gifts for bread bakers.
Keep freshly baked bread nice and crisp with these beeswax bags. The inner lining keeps out moisture making your bread stale—the fact that it's reusable is also a perk!
This unique ceramic mixing bowl is in a rustic fired clay color, adding a more decorative touch than the traditional stainless steel. It has a spout and a handle to make easy work of pouring batter. Gift it to the person who uses their stand mixer once a week.
Made in celebration of popular brand Nordic Ware's 75th anniversary, this beautiful cast aluminum loaf pan will make for some gorgeous baked goods. Its nonstick gold finish will also help cook food evenly.
These incredibly detailed, outrageously adorable handmade polymer clay earrings come in several different flavors, and you can choose which one you'd like for each ear. There's jelly, strawberry, chocolate sprinkle and glazed. There's so many cute things in this shop, too, including pumpkin pie or pancake earrings.
A good set of dish towels is always a winning present for anyone who loves to bake, and these are no exception. Made from 100 percent cotton, they're a nice size and are wonderfully decorated with all sorts of winter berries.
Lucile's Kitchen on Etsy has unique art prints of so many beloved recipes from around the world, and they'd make a beautiful gift for any food lover. This one is a rainbow cookie, but there are all sorts of options, including pecan pie, cheesecake and chocolate cake.
This basket keeps sourdough, tortillas, bread and more warm for hours because of the terracotta stone at the bottom. Heat it up in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes and then set it on the table for everyone to enjoy. It's beautiful to look at, too.
This gift set is sweetly packaged with a bunch of delicious cookies, including chocolate chip, ginger snap and mind chocolate. Try out Fancypants Bakery's crispy cookies in a variety of flavors to enjoy the holiday season.
This delightful butter dish that looks like a cow is likely to be the cutest one you'll ever see. It will also likely start a conversation about how long you can keep butter out on the counter, but with a dish that cute, who would care?
Handmade in Ohio, this kiln-fired ceramic storage canister is so, so sweet. Store sugar, flour, coffee beans and other baking necessities inside. It comes in two colors, grey and speckled blue and white.
This jadeite and painted glass cake stand from Martha Stewart looks vintage and delicate. It will make quite the centerpiece for any cake or pie.
A quality set of mixing bowls is a must for any chef, but those in the know know that these Pyrex mixing bowls are the way to go. The stain- and odor-resistant glass, secure lids and nesting abilities make these bowls extra useful. The colorways make them more fun to buy and receive.
Everyone loves a good cookbook, but no one likes getting yolky fingerprints all over the pages while they’re trying to make Ina Garten’s Carrot Cake with Ginger Mascarpone Frosting. This sweet stand is made of mango wood and etched with a bee design so it looks good with or without a book balancing on its wings. It also comes apart in two pieces for easy storage and cleaning, making it buzz-worthy for sure.
Let them make cake! And then give them all the tools they’ll need to decorate it like a pro. This set comes with 50 metal decorating tips and a plastic organizer to hold them, so creative cooks can pipe frosting roses, basketweaves, ruffles, swirls and pretty much any other design they can possibly think of.
There’s one thing that even the baker who has everything doesn’t have. A never-ending supply of ingredients! Vanilla is an important staple in any sweet tooth's arsenal, and Neilsen-Massey is a cult favorite thanks to the strong flavor it derives from luxe beans from the Bourbon Islands of Madagascar. The full-bodied, creamy flavor will take all their bakes to the next level.
For the friend who's all about making that dough, give them a beautiful ceramic cloche to bake it in. This one, from French brand Emile Henry, allows for even heating and has a crisscross pattern on the bottom tray to keep dough from sticking to it. The coolest part of all, though, is that they’ll get that ideal crusty exterior every time.
Baking sheets are the kind of boring staple people typically buy for themselves, but Ratatouille baking sheets? Now those are a fun and super useful gift! This set comes with two aluminized steel baking sheets and two baking mats. Most importantly, every piece is dishwasher-safe.
Sure, the giftee probably favors sugar over salt, but no one can deny that the combo is heavenly. This set will help them up their baking game, adding that extra pop of flavor to cookies and brownies. It comes with six varieties — vanilla lavender (add it to caramels), orange ginger, espresso, hibiscus (sprinkle it on ice cream), rose peppercorn and vanilla cardamom.
Everyone has their go-to rolling pin, but just wait until friends and family see how incredible this new one is! It’s adjustable, thanks to three different ring sizes that you can slide onto the handle to vary the thickness of the roll (2mm, 6mm, 10mm). The largest size can be used for smoothing out fondant and the smaller sizes come in handy when prepping sugar cookie dough.
A pretty notebook will help them keep all of their favorite recipes in one place. It comes with 60 blank pages so they can organize their buns, breads and blondies, as well as 2 bookmarks and a storage pocket for loose recipe papers. Bonus: The book also has two conversion charts they can easily reference whenever they’re trying to halve (or more likely, double) a recipe.
This carrier will come in handy for the bake sale superheroes in your life. It holds 9” x 13” dishes and keeps brownies hot or tiramisu cold for hours thanks to foam insulation and an aluminum fabric lining. A small zippered pocket outside is the ideal place to keep napkins, spoons or a baggie of last-minute sprinkles.
There’s a heated debate over whether it’s ok to give knives as a present or not, but trust us, this one is a cut above. It’s a bread knife with a faux wood grain handle and a full-tang steel blade with a hammered surface. Translation: It’s beautiful, beautifully made and definitely worthy of slicing into their latest loaf of bread.
Pastry pros know the optimal place to work with dough is on a marble surface. The cooler temperature keeps it from sticking to the counter! While getting someone new kitchen countertops sounds amazing, this more practical option will quickly become a baker’s best friend. This 24” x 16” slab is the real deal (26 pounds!) and they can use it to prep pie crust or serve charcuterie.
This isn’t a cookbook, but it’s definitely something any baker will be thrilled to flip through. It’s a coffee table book filled with California artist Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings — focusing on his famous works depicting delicious desserts. They all look good enough to eat and may just inspire the person looking through it to try a cool new recipe.
The KitchenAid stand mixer doesn’t need much of an introduction. It’s the holy grail of baking equipment! It can knead dough, mix batter, whip egg whites and even shred chicken… if they’re making a pot pie it might be helpful, who knows? It’s definitely an investment piece, but it’s something they’ll use all the time (and think of you every time they do!).
There’s something about taking banana bread out of a ceramic loaf pan that just feels way better than when you use the supermarket aluminum ones. This ceramic-coated stunner comes in a poppy yellow (or blue, pink, green etc.) and has an aluminized steel body to allow for even heating. It’s nonstick, nontoxic and non-negotiable for bread bakers.
Eating key lime pies, lemon bars, and orange chiffon cakes is awesome. Juicing all of that citrus? Not so much. This genius gadget makes prepping for those delish dishes way less of a pain. Just put a slice in, pull the handles closed and juice comes pouring out with just one movement. After it’s done being used, it folds flat for easy storage. Like we said, genius!
Even the most proficient cookie monsters get a little nervous at the prospect of making finicky macarons. It makes sense since a lot can go wrong in that one little recipe (uneven feet, flat tops), but an outlined silicon mat should help keep mistakes to a minimum. There are 20 evenly spaced circles to use as an outline for meringue piping.
If this book contains a cookie that was amazing enough to change American chef, baker, author, and James Beard Award-winner Nancy Silverton’s life, it’s good enough for everyone! The text is also packed with dozens of delicious cakes, muffins, pies, pastries and breads to give your favorite baker tons of tasty inspiration.
There's cinnamon, and then there’s Royal Cinnamon, which is harvested around the mountains of Vietnam and has a beautiful, almost spicy finish. This set is packed with the upper echelon of baking spices including the aforementioned cinnamon, plus smoked star anise, fruity buffalo ginger, warm pemba cloves and lots of others. The brand is a favorite of Vallery Lomas!
Even if your friend’s baking drawer is packed, they’ll never pass up the chance to get an upgraded set of measuring spoons! Made of weighted stainless steel, the four-piece set will last them a lifetime and look so chic.
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