14 Gifts For Kids Who Love To Cook

By Mary Claire Lagroue
This holiday season, feed a kid's interest in cooking with gifts fit for a future gastronome. Here are our 15 favorite child-size chef's tools, kitchen play sets, and children's recipe books for 2019. 
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Bakers Gonna Bake

Sur La Table
$25
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A budding baker will find everything they need for mixing, rolling, cutting, and frosting their sweet treats. These tools are high-quality, too, so you can expect them to last until they're ready for their first grown-up baking set.

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Looking Sharp

Opinel
$46
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Kids can learn to peel and slice food with this rounded kitchen knife, peeler, and (best of all) finger guard from Opinel.

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Pancakes for Padawans

Williams Sonoma
$20
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Jedi knights in training can add pancake-making skills to their repertoire with this set of character-shaped molds.

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Worth the Whisk

Pottery Barn Kids
$19
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Kids can pretend to whip up the mess-free mixtures of their choice thanks to this Chrome Hand Mixer, complete with working beaters and buttons.  

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Stir the Pot

Walmart
$25
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Melissa & Doug's stainless steel set of pretend pots and pans will introduce little ones to the art of cooking and cleaning up after, thanks to a matching storage rack.

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Princess Cut

Williams Sonoma
$30
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Help your own princess keep clean with this ice-blue, Princess Elsa-approved apron.

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Out of This World

Williams Sonoma
$25
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No, you won't have to *force* your kid to don this sleek Darth Vader apron in the kitchen.

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Short (Order) Cook

Walmart
$65
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Children ages three and up can get their first taste of cooking with this retro-inspired wooden kitchen from Teamson Kids.

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Knead Between the Lines

Phaidon
$13
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This interactive, illustrated book teaches toddlers how to make pizza, from forming the dough to cutting a slice of their picture-perfect pie.

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Lunch and Learn

Phaidon
$19
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Amazon

This colorful atlas and cookbook introduces kids to dishes from all 50 states, the nation's capital, and three territories. With 54 recipes and full-color photographs, it's a feast for the eyes and belly.

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Petite Treats

Williams Sonoma
$10
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Kids can bake their own madeleines (small French sponge cakes) with this baking plaque and sugar sifter from American Girl. Better yet, this set includes six gift boxes, tags, twine, and stickers for wrapping — a gift that keeps on giving. 

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Just Chilling

Sur La Table
$20
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Silicone molds transform liquids into super-cool polar-themed ice pops, chocolates, and ice cubes. 

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Spellbinding Spatulas

Williams Sonoma
$14
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Witches and wizards will be glad to trade their wands for these Hogwarts spatulas, at least while they're cooking. 

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Taste the Rainbow

Williams Sonoma
$60
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Pottery Barn Kids

With a little help from an adult, kids can bake the the six-layered, candy-filled Rainbow Explosion Cake from Amirah Kassem's Soho-based Flour Shop bakery.

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