The Best Holiday Gift Ideas for Bakers
Words Valerie Liston‘Tis the season for holiday baking and gift giving—and sometimes a combination of the two! Whether you want to gift baked goods with something that’ll last longer than the cookies you made, or you’re looking for the perfect gift for your favorite baker, here are some ideas to get you started.
Who doesn’t love freshly baked cookies or homemade pie? Or the wonderful person in your life who loves to bake them? Even (or especially!) if you’re more of a cake-eater than a cakemaker, gift your favorite baker with these supplies to keep them (and you) in more baked goods to come.
Prep Tools
This is for the baker who has most of the basics but is ready for more advanced supplies to start new baking adventures. Stainless steel measuring cups and spoons and a food scale are great places to start (take it to the next level with a punny message, like, “My love for you is immeasurable, but cupcake ingredients aren’t!”). While these prep tools aren’t necessarily fun on their own, they pair well with cookbooks.
Baking Tools
One thing every baker needs, whether they’re brand-new or a certified pastry chef, is quality bakeware. Fill a loaf pan with festive candy or wrap a cookbook up inside a glass baking dish. Another idea, which would also be a great gift for a host, is to bring treats served on a jelly roll pan (a clean, brand new one, not the one you actually baked in) or a delicious pie in a beautiful glass pie plate. You could also just be someone’s hero and get them a full set of glass bakeware, arming them with everything they need to bake every treat in the book!
Cookie Tools
To break the cookie-cutter mold, bring some sweet treats to a holiday party and give the host the baking tools to recreate them! Include a Cookie Scoop or a Cookie Spatula and tie a little recipe card to the handle with a ribbon. It’s a simple but thoughtful gift that will keep on giving! Or, for a fellow cookie enthusiast, give them a Cookie Press with a festive Disk Set and make a couple dozen spritz cookies to share.
Storage Tools
Hold on, don’t go! “Storage tools” doesn’t exactly scream fun gift, but we promise this will be cute. The POP Containers are a fun way to present cookie gifts or any treats you’re bringing to a potluck. Another cute idea is a deconstructed baked goods gift. Fill the POP Container Baking Set with (non-perishable) ingredients—sugar, flour, chocolate chips, nuts—then seal ’em up and hope your friend shares when they make their first batch!
Decorating Tools
The serious baker probably already has all the basics. Try sweetening the deal with some fun decorating tools like an icing knife, or even an entire decorating kit.
Need more gift ideas? Check out these memorable thank you gifts for holiday hosts that will definitely get you invited back. Plus, the best cooking gifts, gift ideas for coffee lovers, and easy DIY food gifts.
Valerie Liston is part of OXO's Brand Communications team. She is a Bostonian by blood, a New Yorker by choice, a writer, a lover of stories, a self-proclaimed nerd, and a Hufflepuff.
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Did not answer my question about glass measuring beakers? Please answer this.
Thank you in advance.
Margaret
I’m looking for a cookie scoop that is 2 teaspoons. Your smallest appears to be 1 tablespoon? Am I correct?
I can’t get the cookie scoop and cookie spatula links to open. Just get oops message.
Hi! I am looking for the cookies cutters that help me make what I call glass cut-out centers. The ones I am looking for help cut out triangles, rectangles, etc., which I then bake the bookies and put either jam or some fruit between the layers. Often they may be called cathedral windows.
Do you make glass beckers? My son would like to have a set of glass beckers. Ones with pouring sides. With 1\2 etc on side.
First of all, I would like to see your tools for arthritic hands. I thought that was why you started your business to help folks
like us. I have always been pleased with your tools. Do you have gloves that protect hands from being CUT from knives
or BURNED on hot oven racks? On your site years ago I was able to really see all your hand tools.
Looking for another Oxo extend tub brush. It has two scrub brushes and also 2 sponges to attach . Can use either.
I would love a set or a few pots and pans from OXO hard-anodize some months ago I came across thie 2 items at Bed Bath & Beyond a frying pan and a small sauce pot. Every since I have been on a mission to find just the small pots and the medium size one. I LOVE to receive this set or just the pots I have to admit I’m so hooked on this pots sets please please please let me know where I can get the pots or set and could anyone I mean anyone help me find out where I can get these pots
I love a good gift guide for bakers! I’d never seen the dusting wand before. I hope Santa slips one into my stocking this year!