Food News and Trends Gift Guides 30 Gifts the Bakers on Your List Will Actually Use By Melanie Fincher Melanie Fincher Melanie Fincher is a Birmingham, Alabama–based food writer who covers everything from cooking techniques to gadget reviews. She has nearly 7 years experience writing news and lifestyle content. Allrecipes' editorial guidelines Updated on November 16, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email We independently research, test, review, and recommend the best products—learn more about our process. If you buy something through our links, we may earn a commission. Photo: Getty Images If you're lucky enough to have a friend or family member who loves to bake, the holidays are the perfect time to help them stock their kitchen with all sorts of handy baking tools. Whether you're shopping for a beginner or a lifelong baker, you'll find these gifts go beyond the basics, yet remain useful for all sorts of baking endeavors. Shop our picks for the best gifts for bakers this holiday season. 01 of 31 Bowled Over Food52 Buy Now A good mixing bowl is an essential tool in any kitchen, but especially in a baker's kitchen. These bowls from Mason Cash — the same brand used by contestants on The Great British Bake Off — have a beautiful embossed exterior. The handle and pour spout make it perfect for mixing and pouring cake batter, pancake batter, and more. The 12 Best Mixing Bowls for All Your Cooking and Baking 02 of 31 Grandma's Recipe Uncommon Good Buy Now This beautiful cherry wood board comes with a personal touch: Choose a favorite family recipe to be engraved on it in the original handwriting. The personalization even goes as far as to capture fingerprints, creases, and other markings from the original recipe card. 03 of 31 Labor of Loaf Food52 Buy Now For the baker who has picked up a sourdough habit, this bread bag and dough cover set is the best gift. The cotton and linen bowl cover is perfect for when you're letting your dough rise (say goodbye to plastic wrap), and the drawstring bread bag will keep their ciabattas and brioches fresh. 04 of 31 Good as Gold Amazon Buy Now A beautifully crafted gold Bundt pan is perfect for holiday baking, or anytime you want an elegantly shaped Bundt cake. The Nordic Ware Anniversary Bundt pan is made with heat-responsive cast aluminum, a nonstick interior, and side handles for easy lifting. 05 of 31 Roll With It Crate and Barrel Buy Now This rolling pin will become a staple for any baker you choose to gift it to. Marble is naturally cool, and helps to keep dough at the right temperature as you roll it. This chic rolling pin from Crate and Barrel comes with sturdy wooden handles and a wooden cradle for storage. The 7 Best Rolling Pins for Any Type of Dough 06 of 31 Cutie Pie Photo by Williams-Sonoma . Buy Now Inspired by vintage French bakeware, this pie dish has ruffled edges shaped from Burgundian clay, which evenly bakes and browns pies. The hand applied glaze comes in a number of colors, making it an elegant addition to any kitchen table. 07 of 31 Let Them Eat (Cup) Cakes Amazon Buy Now This set of reusable cupcake liners is the gift that keeps on giving. It's the perfect gift for the environmentally-conscious baker! 08 of 31 Stir Crazy Williams-Sonoma Buy Now KitchenAid stand mixers are like the Swiss Army knives of baking — use them to prepare large batches of cookie dough, cake batter, and more. Treat the baker in your life to this special design series mixer, complete with a stylish glass bowl. 09 of 31 Less Mess Less Stress Hedley & Bennett Buy Now Friends don't let friends wear old, scrappy aprons. These fan-favorite aprons are beloved by professional chefs and home cooks alike, and they feature a crossback design that's so comfortable you'll forget you're even wearing it. 10 of 31 Flour Power Sur La Table Buy Now The best bakers know you often need to weigh, not scoop, your ingredients, so let this top-rated food scale take the guesswork out of measuring flour, sugar, and all other ingredients. This scale came in first among six of the top-rated food scales in our food scale testing. 11 of 31 Be Sweet Williams-Sonoma Buy Now Nielsan-Massey is known as the "foremost name in vanilla" among bakers and ice cream makers. This set allows bakers to sample extracts from three distinct places around the world: Mexico, Tahiti, and Madagascar. 12 of 31 Fully Baked Great Jones Buy Now Great Jones's bakeware set is the ultimate gift for someone new to baking or anyone looking to replace old, tarnished bakeware. This seven-piece set includes on aluminized steel sheet pan, two cake pans, two loaf pans, a ceramic casserole dish, and a pie plate. 13 of 31 Mix It Up Food52 Buy Now A set of melamine mixing bowls is the gift that will be more appreciated than you can imagine, and the recipient will think of you each time they reach for them (which will be often). These nesting bowls can be used for prep, serving, and storage. 14 of 31 Season's Greetings The Spice House Buy Now Bakers know the importance of using high-quality spices. This set of warm, fragrant spices includes everything from nutmeg to espresso powder to crystalized ginger. 15 of 31 Can't Touch This Food52 Buy Now Any baker will tell you — you can never have too many oven mitts and pot holders. These top-rated oven mitts and pot holders from Food52 feature heat-resistant silicone for a no-slip grip and machine-washable cotton. 16 of 31 Double Duty Williams-Sonoma Buy Now Put cakes, pies, and pastries on display with this lidded glass pedestal that doubles as a punch bowl when inverted. Add a monogram or name for a personal touch this Christmas. 17 of 31 Send a Sweet Message Etsy Buy Now Cookies are the perfect way to say "I love you" — at least they were before these personalized cookie stamps came along. Choose any message to be stamped onto your cookie creations. 18 of 31 Easy Breezy Amazon Buy Now These silicone nonstick mats are essential for any baker. This mat from Silpat makes removing cookies or other baked goods from the baking sheet a breeze. Plus, it helps to uniformly heat foods for the perfect brown every time. The 9 Best Silicone Baking Mats, Tested by Allrecipes 19 of 31 Whip It Good Amazon Buy Now This funny looking tool is actually considered a must-have in the bread baking community for its ability to seamlessly blend together hard-to-incorporate ingredients such as water and flour. It's the perfect gift for the baker who has everything. 20 of 31 Rise Up Food52 Buy Now Proof your sourdough in style with one of these natural cane rising molds. Available in varying sizes of round, rectangle, baguette, and oval shapes, each mold helps to give your bread a thicker crust, and allows some of the dough moisture to evaporate during proofing. 21 of 31 Nuts About You Amazon Buy Now An electric grinder takes the dirty work out of grinding fresh nuts and spices to add to baked goods. The storage lid even allows you to store the spices right from the grinding bowl. The 9 Best Spice Grinders of 2021, Tested by Allrecipes 22 of 31 Some Like It Hot Made In Buy Now These sheet pans were designed with the help of a professional chef. The commercial-grade aluminum is the ideal material for even heat distribution and retention. It's a difference you'll be able to tell. The 10 Best Baking Sheets, Tested and Reviewed by Allrecipes 23 of 31 Squeaky Clean Amazon Buy Now We're fans of licking the excess batter off the whisk around here, but sometimes you do a little too much licking, and lose too much batter in the process. This handy tool allows you to wipe the batter right back into the bowl, no dripping on the countertop. 24 of 31 Recipe for Magic Amazon Buy Now Preserve precious family recipes with these stylish recipe cards and matching tin. This is a great gift for a newlywed, new parent, or anyone looking to save family recipes and add a sentimental touch to their kitchen. 25 of 31 I Loaf You Williams-Sonoma Buy Now Know a busy cook who wants to bake homemade bread but doesn't have the time to do it all by hand? This fully automatic bread maker does all the work for you, from kneading to rising to baking. 26 of 31 Bake Me Smile Food52 Buy Now This set of two offset (icing) spatulas, a pastry brush, and bench scraper is exactly what a baker needs to complete their toolkit. 27 of 31 We Dough Together Amazon Buy Now A silicone spatula is going to be a baker's go-to for mixing wet and dry ingredients, folding chocolate chips or nuts into dough, or scraping batter from a mixing bowl. This set offers lots of variety at a great value, with a small spatula, an everyday spatula, and a spoon spatula, each of which feature a heat-resistant silicone construction. The 12 Best Spatulas for Every Kitchen Task, Tested by Allrecipes 28 of 31 Just Beat It Crate and Barrel Buy Now This fan-favorite hand mixer won the "Best Basic Hand Mixer," superlative in our hand mixer testing. In classic KitchenAid fashion, it's available in several stylish colors. 29 of 31 Cast Your Cares Away Target Buy Now Lodge continues to be the industry standard for all things cast iron, and this loaf pan is no exception. Cast iron gives a thick, evenly-browned crust to all your bread loafs. The 10 Best Loaf Pans For Every Baker, Tested by Allrecipes 30 of 31 Cool Down Amazon Buy Now Here's the space saving solution the baker in your life has been looking for: This stackable cooling rack provides twice the amount of cooling surface. 31 of 31 More Holiday Gift Guides: JMichl/Getty Images Best Gifts for People Who Love to Cook and Eat Gifts for Kids Who Love to Cook Browse our entire collection of Gift Guides. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! 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