35 Best Gifts for Bakers That'll Help Them Whip Up Tasty Treats
From someone who's been baking for years.
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Bakers are passionate about their craft, whether their house always smells of freshly baked cookies, their latest hobby is cake decorating, or they've entered their sourdough era. I'm a home baker myself (gluten-free baking is one of my favorite pastimes), and have nearly two decades of experience evaluating consumer products.
I tapped our Kitchen & Cooking Lab for their expert recommendations, like a bread pan for making crusty loaves, a digital food scale that won a Kitchen Award, and a stylish apron our editors swear by. You'll also find a sweatshirt that flaunts their favorite hobby, a set of swoon-worthy measuring cups, and chic coffee table books. If they love hosting, there's a warming basket that'll look chic as a centerpiece or a hand-made pie dish that'll help perfect their crust.
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Every baker needs a reliable oven mitt, and this silicone design from OXO is our favorite. During testing, the single glove had great flexibility which provided control when grabbing pans, lids, and handles. It also has a loop for hanging.
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Now, they can juggle multiple cooking projects. This kitchen timer can run three separate 100-hour timers at once, either counting up or down. We found it surprisingly compact and the backlit screen makes the display easy to read.
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They can flaunt their love of baking wherever they go with this subtle sweatshirt embroidered with baking essentials: a stand mixer, bag of flour, rolling pin, measuring cup, and utensils. Get it as a T-shirt, youth sweatshirt, or adult crewneck, and choose your color.
If they're known for baking bread or pastries, they'll fancy these reusable wax wraps for stowing away leftovers (or wrapping up gifts). This pretty set includes three different sizes, or you can buy the full roll, so they can cut their own shapes.
This silicon pie crust mold will help the baker in your life take their pie game to the next level. The mold comes with five different beautiful pie crust patterns to mix and match on top of a pie or use one as a single crust around the pie. Since the mold is made out of silicone, the crusts easily pop out and clean up is a breeze.
Inspire them to dream up new dishes or write down their favorites in this hardcover book. It's available in red, green, and yellow, and there's space for up to 100 recipes.
Their delicious, gold-brown crust deserves a handmade ceramic dish. Great for beginners and pros alike, the wavy rim on this pie pan makes crimping easy. Choose from seven different glaze designs.
Sure, you can score bread with a bread knife or kitchen shears, but this bread lame makes it so much easier to slash the dough and create beautiful designs. Made with elegant walnut wood and brass, it’s a tool any bread baker can appreciate.
Perfect for the hostess, this wicker bread basket includes a terracotta stone to keep breads, muffins, or cakes warm. They'll have to heat the stone in the oven for 10 minutes at 350-degrees Fahrenheit.
I recently tested seven cookie scoops, and this dishwasher-safe option from OXO was my favorite. It stood out, because it's easy to squeeze and the silicone grip helped keep my hand from slipping.
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Hedley and Bennett are known for their aprons, which are stylish and functional. They have an adjustable neck tie, a long string that wraps, and ties around the front (perfect for holding side towels) as well as pockets for stashing anything from recipe cards to pens and thermometers.
Elevate a kitchen staple with these artistic measuring cups and spoons, inspired by 18-century Chinese porcelain. The cups have a spout for easy pouring, and the pieces are heat-resistant.
Nordic Ware is known for their beautifully designed bundt pans. This one's heavy-duty for even heating, nonstick and has handles for easily transferring in and out of the oven as well as flipping.
Easily make cookies into fun shapes with this Oxo cookie press. The ergonomic design can press cookie after cookie without straining hands, and the clear cylinder shows how much dough is left. It comes with 12 stainless steel discs including a daisy, flower, sunflower, fleur-de-lis, butterfly, bear, shell, leaf, heart, snowflake, tree and wreath.
The cake kit comes with everything you need to make this Rainbow Explosion Cake including cake mix, coloring gels, frosting and sprinkles.
For bread baker enthusiasts, this set comes with everything you need to make traditional European-style artisan bread. It comes with a dough whisk, proofing basket, domed-lid bread pot and a gorgeous ceramic French-style lame to score the dough.
With this dual kitchen scale, you can weigh two items at the same time, making baking that much easier. It earned a 2024 Kitchen Gear Award, for its ability to weigh up to one pound to the thousandth of an ounce and hundredth of a gram and accuracy.
For the baker that wants to bring the bakery home, this cookbook is all about bread. Each recipe has step-by-step photos to ensure top quality results. It’s great for beginners and experts alike as the recipes progress from simplest to more complex recipes. The book features all kinds of bread such as sandwich bread, dinner rolls, monkey bread and many more.
This spatula is our go-to in our Test Kitchen, Kitchen Appliances Lab and home kitchens. It's sturdy but flexible enough to get into corners; plus, it's heatproof up to 550ºF.
The Goldie by Sourhouse makes it effortless to keep your sourdough starter at the perfect temperature, warming it between 75°F and 82°F. It also includes a cooling puck to lower the temperature if needed. It earned a spot in our 2024 Kitchen Gear Awards with testers commenting on how easy it is to use.
Jamie Ueda (she/her) is a contributing writer and analyst in the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen & Cooking Lab, where she has tested coffee and espresso machines, baking gadgets, dinnerware, ice cream makers, and other kitchen products since 2021. She has completed Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) coursework to further her expertise in coffee evaluation and brewing science.
With a background in engineering and design, she spent more than a decade developing consumer products in senior roles at both mid-sized companies and global brands before bringing that expertise to product testing and reviews. Her work has appeared in Forbes, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
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