2021 Holiday Gift Giving Guide for Bakers and Baking Enthusiasts
The holiday season is right around the corner and I’ve rounded up a bunch of gift ideas to make gift buying easier. You will find over 250 gift ideas for the bakers and baking enthusiasts in your life.
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Baking Appliances
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Baking Decorations
- Americolor Gel Food Coloring Kit to get the perfect color
- Edible glitter to make treats shimmer and shine
- Edible markers to draw on royal icing
- Luster dust to add shimmer and shine to decorations
- Piping Tips to make the perfect designs with frosting
- Beautiful pre-made gumpaste flowers to elevate any cake. Choose your favorite flowers including roses, peonies, hydrangeas, lilies, hibiscus, daisies, and succulents.
- Russian piping tips that allow you to pipe flowers with a single squeeze.
- Sanding sugar in a rainbow of colors to sprinkle on cakes, cookies, and other baked goods.
- Sprinkles in all shapes and sizes including nonpareils, jimmies, sequins (like circles, hearts, and snowflakes), dragees (aka sugar pearls), and sprinkle medleys.
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Baking Fiction Books
- For Kids
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – A classic book and a fun read!
- Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast – I love this book because of the rhymes.
- Marigold Bakes a Cake – A story about a cat trying to bake a cake but he keeps getting interrupted.
- Thunder Cake – This story is about getting a cake in the oven before a thunderstorm hits.
- For Adults
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery – mix baking with a murder mystery. The author even includes recipes in the story.
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Baking Tools
- Candy thermometer helps to heat ingredients to the perfect temperature. This tool is not just for candy.
- Compostable piping bags to decrease the amount of plastic in landfills
- Cooling rack – this rack is awesome because it stacks to take up less space on your counter while cooling baked goods
- Digital measuring cup to measure ingredients in the same bowl you are using to bake.
- Digital scale for measuring large or small amounts of ingredients
- Fine mesh strainer to keep lumps out of desserts
- Humidity thermometer helps to ensure baking conditions are perfect BEFORE starting. Humidity is more important to baking than you might think.
- Instant thermometer which is helpful for telling when baked goods are done.
- Kitchen timer for a reminder to take bakes out of the oven. Try a traditional, cute, or timer with number buttons.
- Measuring cups for liquid, dry, and sticky ingredients
- Measuring spoons for spices and small amounts of ingredients
- Microplane zester the best rasp tool for grating
- Mixing bowls in glass and stainless steel.
- Oven thermometer to ensure your oven is heating tot he correct temperature
- Pastry blender helps to make pie and pastry dough
- Pastry brush for brushing on egg washes and liquid toppings
- Rolling pins made of wood and made for fondant
- Sheet pans for baking cookies, pastries, and bread rolls.
- Silicone baking cups for a reusable alternative to paper or foil cupcake liners.
- Silpat which is essentially silicone parchment paper
- Spatulas for all uses included offset spatulas for icing, silicone spatulas for mixing and stirring hot ingredients, and flipping spatulas for pancakes
- Whisk for mixing and stirring ingredients
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Basic Baking Pans
- 9-inch circle pans perfect for cakes for everyday or special occasions.
- 9″x13″ cake pan – use it for sheet cakes, rice krispie treats, and brownies
- Bundt pan for a cake with decorative ridges
- Loaf pan for homemade yeasted bread and quick breads
- Muffin pans for muffins and cupcakes or mini muffin pans for a bite-sized treat
- Pie plate for serving for sweet and savory baked goods. Pie plates come in all sorts of styles like ceramic, glass, and metal ones.
- Springform pan to make cheesecakes
- Square pan which is perfect for brownies and bars
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Clothing
- Aprons – great for keeping your clothes clean when baking in your kitchen
- Baby onesie
- Hat
- Headband with a cupcake – keep your hair out of your eyes in style
- Mask – keep safe in style
- Pajama Pants
- Pajamas – Baking Bright Full Set
- Shirt
- Socks
- Sweatshirt
- Visor
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Cookbooks
- Bouchon Bakery Cookbook by Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel
- Bravetart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks
- The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart
- The Cake Book by Tish Boyle
- The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook by Allysa Torey and Jennifer Appel
- The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour
- The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updated by David Lebovitz
- Rose’s Baking Basics by Rose Levy Beranbaum
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Household
- Bandages
- Beach towels with cupcakes, donuts, and macarons.
- Bed sheets
- Blankets to stay warm in the design of your favorite baked goods including bagel, bread, cupcake, donut, and oreo.
- Cake stand
- Candles that smell like baking like apple pie, gingerbread, spiced pumpkin, sugar cookies, and vanilla bean.
- Coasters with cupcake, donut, and pie designs.
- Coffee mugs
- Cookbook stand
- Cookie Jar
- Donut vase
- Embroidery/cross stitch patterns with Baking Puppies and a Little Girl Making Cookies
- Keychain
- Kitchen towels with bread, cupcake, funny, macaron, punny, sweet designs.
- Lamp
- Ornaments including a personalized stand mixer, apron with baking tools, and gingerbread cookies.
- Pillows with baking tools, donut, pie, and sprinkle designs.
- Pot holders
- Salt and pepper shakers
- Stickers
- Umbrella
- Wall clock to keep time and show off your baking love. Display a bread, cupcake, gingerbread cookie, macaron, or vintage design.
- Wall decor and signs including dark, helpful, sweet, funny, vintage, and rustic.
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Jewelry
- Bracelets like baker themed, cupcake, and measuring cup charm.
- Earrings like bread, cupcakes, gummy bears, Kitchen Aid mixer, pumpkin pie, and whisks.
- Keychains that are geeky or uplifting.
- Necklaces like chocolate chip cookies, croissant, measuring spoons, and rolling pin.
- Rings shaped like a croissant or a cupcake belly button ring.
- Wrist watch
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Small Business Products/Etsy
- Baking recipe notebook
- Baking binder
- Cake tester
- Coffee mug
- Cookie scribe tool
- Dish Towels
- Embossed rolling pins
- Cards with bake shop, irreverent, and punny designs.
- Jewelry like earrings, necklaces, and bracelets
- Ornament
- Paper clips
- Personalized cutting board
- Procrastibaking T-shirt
- Spoons
- Sprinkles
- Stickers
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Specialty Baking
- Airbrush – a great way to add color and designs to cookies, cakes, cupcakes, pies, and more
- Banneton – a bread proofing basket
- Cake combs – add different textures to your icing with a turn of your cake
- Cake Pop Maker Kit with silicone molds or a Cake Pop Maker to bake cake pops
- Cakesicle molds – a cute and trendy way to make cake pops
- Cake testers – to get the perfect bake on cakes
- Cake turntable – an essential tool for anyone decorating cakes
- Candy food coloring – this is oil based food coloring that won’t make chocolate seize
- Chocolate coating for easy covering of baked goods. This is used frequently on cake pops.
- Collapsible cupcake and cake carrier – this is perfect for transporting lots of baked goods and the best part is that it collapse for easier storage.
- Cookie cutters – get a big assortment so you always have the shape you need
- Cookie press – easily make different cookie designs with the press of a lever
- Cookie stamps come in all shapes and size like geometric, letters and numbers, seasonal, dog, and nerdy designs.
- Couverture chocolate to make high quality chocolate treats
- Custom portrait cookie cutter
- Decorating pen – fun way to ice while “writing” with a pen
- Decorative bundt pan in swirls and intricate designs
- Donut pan – for a great baked donut option
- Embossed rolling pins in woodland, seasonal, and floral designs
- Flavor extracts to add flavoring to baked goods
- Fondant is essentially edible clay that can be use to make decorations for cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.
- Fondant and gum paste tool set to make beautiful decorations for cakes and cookies.
- Gumpaste is a pliable sugar dough that dries hard and can be used to make edible flowers and other designs for baked goods
- Lame – needed for scoring yeasted bread before baking
- Madeline pan – a must have pan for this classic french baked treat
- Pancake batter dispenser – keep breakfast clean and pancakes the same size
- Piping bags for precise piping of icing and loose ingredients
- Popsicle molds in traditional or wacky shapes. You can even make your own ice pops in popsicle bags.
- Silicone baking strips to make cakes in any shape
- Silicone mold making kit to make your own food-safe silicone molds
- Stay-bowlizer – makes it easy to keep your bowl in one place while stirring
- Stencil genie – great for adding detailed designs to sugar cookies
- Trifle bowl – perfect for displaying layered desserts
- Whisk wiper – get every last drop of batter off your whisk
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Storage and Cleaning
- Baking canisters in plastic, glass, and ceramic.
- Dishwasher bag to keep small parts (like piping tips or metal cookie cutters) safe in the dishwasher
- Piping tip brush to clean icing from hard to reach places
- Recipe box for storing recipes written on note cards
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Subscriptions
- Baking for Kids
- Baking from scratch
- Bread baking
- Cake of the Month Club – for pre-made cake delivered to your doorcake making subscription
- Cookies from scratch
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Toys
- 100 piece cupcake puzzle
- 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle
- Cookie Pillow
- Dream Cakes – Children’s Game
- Fruit and vegetable inset puzzle for toddlers
- Hasty Baker Board Game
- Ice cream store
- Melissa and Doug cake mixer set or cake and cookie set
- Overcooked (Nintendo Switch Video Game)
- Play food set with baked goods
- Soft bread basket
- Toy donuts
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Windy City Baker Products
- Beginner’s Guide to Cookie Decorating (PDF Guide)
- Cookie Decorating 101 (Online Course)
- North Pole Cookie Class (Online Course)
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