30 Clever Gifts for Bakers That’ll Seriously Sweeten Their Setup
- KitchenAid KSMSFTA Sifter + Scale Attachment, 4 Cup, White
- 2) Custom Pet Portrait Cookie Cutter
- 3) Blank Recipe Cookbook
- 4) Good Grips 14-Piece Cookie Press Set
- 5) The Great British Bake-Off Enamel Pin
- 6) What’s for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People by Claire Saffitz
- 7) Handcrafted Japanese Bread Lamp
- 8) Savory Baking: Recipes for Breakfast, Dinner, and Everything in Between by Erin Jeanne McDowell
- 9) Classic Fresh Sourdough Starter
- 10) Oven Mitt
- 11) 3D-Printed Mixing Attachment Necklace
- 12) 20-Ounce Resealable Tub of Sea Salt Flakes
- 13) 2/3/4-Tier Collapsible Cooling Rack
- 14) Kitchen Personalized Notepad
- 15) Adjustable Rolling Pin
- 16) Kitchen Utensils Socks
- 17) Cookie and Cake Carrier Container
- 18) 9″ Round Cake Pan
- 19) Wooden Recipe Box With Dividers And Recipe Cards
- Good Housekeeping The Best-Ever Cookie Book: 175 Tested- ’til-Perfect Recipes for Crispy, Chewy & Ooey-Gooey Treats
- 21) Perfect Cookie Non-Stick Silicone Baking Mat
- 22) Floral Engraved Rolling Pin
- 23) Perfect Pot
- 24) Dough Pastry Scraper/Cutter/Chopper
- 25) Pastry Board with Rolling Pin Holder
- 26) Large 17-in-1 Bread Machine
- 27) Midnight Blue Apron
- 28) Bakers Gonna Bake T-Shirt
- 29) Steam Oven Toaster
- 30) Areaware Little Puzzle Thing
Whether you have a close friend who is a professional pastry chef or a sister who likes to stress-bake — and sometimes stress-burn — it’s truly the best to have someone in your life who enjoys whipping up fresh oven-baked wonders on the regular.
Gifting them the best gadgets and goodies to deck out their kitchen is a very thoughtful way to thank them for all those times they were kind enough to share a batch with you.
These practical, clever, and quirky gifts for bakers are a nod to their favorite hobby. From a fun pie-shaped puzzle that’ll help pass the time while their treats are in the oven to a steam-powered toaster oven for baking single-serve treats, these 30 best gifts for bakers provide something that’ll suit everyone’s taste.
KitchenAid KSMSFTA Sifter + Scale Attachment, 4 Cup, White
$99.95
If they’ve already scored their dream stand mixer, help them adorn it with some handy attachments that’ll do the hard work for them. This 2-in-1 attachment will soon make messy measuring and sifting a thing of the past.
It’ll precisely weigh up to 4 cups of dry ingredients with a built-in scale, then sift them to achieve a fluffy batter before sending them directly into the mixing bowl below.
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2) Custom Pet Portrait Cookie Cutter
$30.00
If there’s just one thing that your recipient loves more than baking, it’s their pet. For this gift for bakers, all you have to do is send the Etsy seller a photo of their fluffy friend, and they’ll turn it into a custom 3-D printed cookie cutter that looks just like Fido or Fifi.
3) Blank Recipe Cookbook
$35.00
Anyone who loves baking experiments will appreciate having this hardback recipe journal on hand. It provides several handy templates, a list of baking techniques, essential equipment, and even easy measurement conversions. They can even use it as a food diary to record and track their favorite dishes that they’ve made throughout the year.
4) Good Grips 14-Piece Cookie Press Set
$33.99
Pop out perfectly portioned cookies with a mess-free dispenser to easily create sweet shapes without a cutter. Its 12 stainless steel pattern disks will seamlessly push out cookies in fun shapes like flowers, butterflies, leaves, and snowflakes, so they’re ideal for any holiday or occasion. They’re almost too cute to eat.
5) The Great British Bake-Off Enamel Pin
$11.99
As any experienced pastry chef can tell you, the path to star baker is paved with plenty of soggy bottoms along the way.
This enamel pin, emblazoned with the now-infamous lighthearted warning from the judges of The Great British Bake Off, is a great gift for bakers who have a cheeky sense of humor.
6) What’s for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People by Claire Saffitz
$29.99
Claire Saffitz’s first cookbook, Dessert Person, is practically baking canon now. For serious bakers who’ve just finished baking their way through it, good news, she’s back with a follow-up that’s sure to be just as much of a smash hit, called What’s for Dessert.
Where Dessert Person was a pull-out-all-the-stops crash course in the art of French-influenced pastry, What’s for Dessert is written with the beginner baker in mind. It includes 100 fun and streamlined (read: EASY!) recipes, including No-Bake Strawberry Ricotta Cheesecake and Caramel Peanut Popcorn Bars.
7) Handcrafted Japanese Bread Lamp
$126.00
For the person who has every kitchen gadget and cooking accouterment under the sun, this offbeat gift for bakers is sure to light them up.
This lamp, handmade by artist Yukiko Morita, is made of real milk bread that’s been hollowed out, embedded with an LED bulb, and coated with an anti-bacterial, anti-fungal preservative layer so that it stays forever fresh (and inedible).
8) Savory Baking: Recipes for Breakfast, Dinner, and Everything in Between by Erin Jeanne McDowell
$34.99
Hope you’re sitting down while reading this — there are some people out there who love to bake, but they don’t like sweets! (Cue exploding-head emoji.) For them, Erin Jeanne McDowell’s Savory Baking is the cookbook to gift.
While sugar isn’t entirely banished from this book, it takes a backseat to tangy, salty, veggie-forward, and umami-rich edibles that are great for snacking on any time of day. Don’t miss the Stuffed Pretzels or the Buttermilk Biscuits!
9) Classic Fresh Sourdough Starter
$9.95
Are they using a status-worthy starter for their sourdough loaves? For true culture freaks out there, baking with a starter that’s been cultivated and passed down through the years infuses not just outstanding flavor but history into their bread.
This 1-ounce jar of starter from King Arthur Flour comes from an original batch from the brand’s New England headquarters that’s decades old and still going strong. Their boules may never be the same.
10) Oven Mitt
$16.99
While you can never go wrong with getting them a pair of top-rated oven mitts to assist them with getting a grip on piping-hot pans, it’s always nice to get a gift for bakers that adds a dash of humor, too. While most home chefs add a whole lot of TLC to their bakes, this oven mitt also delivers a pinch of salty attitude.
11) 3D-Printed Mixing Attachment Necklace
$65.00
Here’s a jewelry gift for bakers that’s a little quirky and unexpected from the usual sugary sweet baubles out there.
This.86-inch high, 3-D printed flat beater necklace is the ultimate “if you know, you know” accessory that’ll be sure to get nods of approval from other cooks. It comes as a pair of earrings, too, if that’s more their style!
12) 20-Ounce Resealable Tub of Sea Salt Flakes
$14.45
Any baker worth their salt knows that a little finishing sprinkle of Maldon turns a basic baked good into one that tastes Michelin Star-worthy.
Wow them this year not just with a box, but a 20-ounce tub of Maldon sea salt. These little crystalline pyramids add pleasant crunch, light salinity, and an Insta-worthy aesthetic to dishes both savory and sweet.
13) 2/3/4-Tier Collapsible Cooling Rack
$31.99
How many tiers are too many? The limit does not exist! Take their baking rack up another level (or two or three) with this accordion-style mesh cooling surface.
Clad in a rosy copper hue, every level of this four-tier baking rack can be extended or contracted to the height they need, and they can even keep a few tiers collapsed if necessary. Using this will help them cool off a massive batch of cookies quickly and concurrently.
14) Kitchen Personalized Notepad
$19.00
Cute, sweet, simple: This personalized notepad is a gift for bakers that belongs in any kitchen. It comprises 40 sheets of paper, each one printed at the top with your recipient’s name and cute cooking-tool illustrations. Reviewers tout that this notepad ships quickly from the seller and arrives impeccably wrapped and ready to gift.
15) Adjustable Rolling Pin
$14.95
The using-a-wine-bottle-as-a-rolling-pin trick works in a pinch, but if they’re starting to get serious with their pastry-making practice, they need to get a real one.
Help them out with the Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin, a gift for bakers that comes with 1/16-, 1/6-, 1/4-, and 3/8-inch removable discs for flattening out doughs of all types to the perfect thickness.
16) Kitchen Utensils Socks
$7.00
Novelty socks are an easy yet always-appreciated gift idea. This particular pair is covered with the tools of a home cook’s domain, including a whisk, spatula, rolling pin, and a cheese (or butter!) grater. Their cozy softness and fun colors help make a day spent on their feet a little more enjoyable.
17) Cookie and Cake Carrier Container
$34.99
There is nothing worse than spending long, careful hours perfecting a cookie or cupcake decoration… only to have them get totally smushed in transit.
This nifty carrying case comes with four slide-out tiers, and they can use as many of them as they need to transport their baked goods from one place to another. The ants at their next picnic don’t stand a chance!
18) 9″ Round Cake Pan
$99.00
If they’re somehow managing to make five-star cakes from pans that look (and sound) like old tin cans, just imagine how much better their bakes will get when you gift them this beautiful, investment-worthy upgrade.
This 9-inch round cake pan from 360 Cookware is no joke — it’s surprisingly hefty, made of thicker-than-average.07 gauge stainless steel. This will help them get even browning without hot spots, and the material will continue to look and feel top-notch even after countless uses.
19) Wooden Recipe Box With Dividers And Recipe Cards
$40.80
If they love revisiting family recipes over and over again, help them keep their secret ingredients under wraps with this gorgeous, customizable gift for bakers.
This recipe box is made of beautiful walnut wood and has a sprawling floral design etched into it, another with their name. You can decide whether to include matching section dividers and recipe cards, too.
Good Housekeeping The Best-Ever Cookie Book: 175 Tested- ’til-Perfect Recipes for Crispy, Chewy & Ooey-Gooey Treats
$14.99
The title of this cookbook from the editors at Good Housekeeping says it all.
The Best-Ever Cookie Book is full of ooey-gooey cookie recipes that are sure to please bakers and those they bake for. There are 175 cookie recipes inside, but the book also covers basics like measuring, making basic cookie dough, and all sorts of tips and tricks.
21) Perfect Cookie Non-Stick Silicone Baking Mat
$28.50
This gift for bakers helps their cookie batches come out perfectly browned (not burnt) every time. Made of silicone and fiberglass mesh, the Silpat Perfect Cookie Non-Stick Silicone Baking Mat provides an even-heating layer for their baked goods and illustrates exactly how to line them up to prevent crowding.
We’ve used this exact baking mat for over 2 years and counting, and it continues to be our go-to for every batch of cookies that we’ve made since. It results in chewy (not undercooked gooey) deliciousness by the baker’s dozen.
22) Floral Engraved Rolling Pin
$18.04
For creative, one-of-a-kind cookies that look as good as they taste, this engraved rolling pin will stamp out a unique pattern with just a single roll on fresh dough.
This Etsy seller offers plenty of designs to choose from, including customizable rolling pins that you can adorn with your recipient’s name.
23) Perfect Pot
$165.00
The Perfect Pot from Our Place is one that truly lives up to its name. It does the work of kitchen tools in one, saving space and time. The pot comes with a lid, spoon, and a removable roasting and steaming rack. (And it’s oven-safe up to 425 degrees Fahrenheit, FYI.)
24) Dough Pastry Scraper/Cutter/Chopper
$7.99
While this may seem like a simple gift for bakers, it’s extremely useful. This pastry scraper can be used to portion, cut, chop, and scrape dough off of their prep surface.
There are also measurements on the scraper, so they’ll always perfectly portion whatever they’re working on. Plus, it’s super easy to clean because of its stainless steel construction.
25) Pastry Board with Rolling Pin Holder
$112.00
Save the plastic rulers for kiddie craft projects. The JK Adams Pastry Board with Rolling Pin Holder is basically a baker’s sidekick.
This stunning maple- and walnut-wood baking board features a border of measurements, as well as circular guides at its center to help them roll out their dough to the perfect proportions.
26) Large 17-in-1 Bread Machine
$149.96
Humans have been baking bread for millennia, yet the process can still feel intimidating. If they want to churn out fresh-baked loaves without having to babysit a boule for hours at a time, you need to get them the KBS Large 17-in-1 Bread Machine.
This bread machine can knead and proof dough, bake different types of bread and make yogurt and jam all with this one device. It also has an impressive 15-hour bake timer that allows them to add ingredients first thing in the morning and then enjoy a warm, freshly baked loaf at the dinner table.
27) Midnight Blue Apron
$85.00
No baker’s uniform is complete without a good apron. This one from Hedley & Bennett is a trendy twist on a classic white apron, made of classic yet durable cotton twill material and detailed with contrasting ties.
There are three pockets on the front for items like utensils, recipe cards, or even a phone, making sure their hands will be free for whatever baking challenge comes next.
28) Bakers Gonna Bake T-Shirt
$19.76
When they’re not wearing an apron, this super sweet T-shirt will be one of the go-to pieces in their wardrobe (because you know most of their clothes are covered in flour).
This gift for bakers is perfect to wear while lounging around or making yet another trip to the grocery store to stock up on ingredients.
29) Steam Oven Toaster
$299.00
Making a single sweet treat doesn’t always call for a full-sized oven. For bakers who prefer freezing their dough and baking off a cookie here and there or reheating a piece of pizza, a toaster oven is a compact alternative to a traditional convection oven.
The Balmuda Toaster is sleek enough to keep on the counter, but it comes with a secret weapon: steam. They can add water to a reservoir on the top of the oven that’ll ensure their toasted bites stay moist.
Our editor Stefan Vazharov adores this innovative kitchen gadget, saying in his review, “Over several weeks of testing, The Toaster by Balmuda significantly upped the quality of my kitchen routine. It not only replaced my old toaster with superior results but also helped me rely less on my tiny kitchen’s gas-powered stove.”
30) Areaware Little Puzzle Thing
$15.00
So they want to take a day off from baking? They can make an entirely different type of pie with this design from Areaware’s Little Puzzle Thing.
Sadly, the result isn’t edible, but this 70-piece mini puzzle looks just like the real thing with a filling chock-full of glistening cherries and a top laced with a golden lattice crust.