50 Best Gifts for Bakers: 2024 Guide & Ideas

A whisk may seem like a small thing, but it can make the difference between a light and airy baked confection and a flat, dense one! This whisk has 12 steel wires instead of the usual 8-10, and it’s constructed to reduce wrist fatigue.

It comes in several colors, so you can find one to match the decor of almost any kitchen. This would be the perfect gift for a child with a small budget to give their mom or dad, or for someone to give as a stocking stuffer at Christmas.

Pie dishes need to work extra hard in the kitchen! Not only do they need to evenly bake pies, they need to look pretty so that when the pie comes out, it can be served in the same dish.

This pie dish is made from professional-quality stoneware that won’t pick up odors, flavors, or colors from previous pies. It’s also a lovely shade of teal on the outside, with white on the inside, and it will look great on the table after the pie is baked! It can also go in the freezer and microwave as well as the oven.

If you’re looking for the ultimate gift idea for bakers, a KitchenAid stand mixer is a wonderful choice! It is an expensive present, but it will get used countless times a week, especially by someone who loves baking.

The mixer features a 10-speed slide control that can do everything from a very fast whip to a slow stir. It comes with a flat beater, a dough hook, a wire whip, and other optional attachments that are available to purchase separately. This stand mixer makes a great present for beginner bakers…and for professional bakers and everyone in between.

These reusable baking cups make a great gift for cupcake bakers! Not only do they prevent unnecessary trash from paper muffin liners, but they’re also one less thing bakers need to continually purchase before making muffins or cupcakes.

The silicone cups come in a rainbow of colors, pop easily out of a muffin pan after baking, and wash easily so they’re ready for the next batch!

Bakers may not need a kitchen scale for basic cookies or cakes, but fancier baked goods and pastries can require exact measurements to get the texture just right! This scale has a widescreen LCD display so bakers can see the numbers easily. It will weigh up to 11 pounds of food and can detect down to 2 grams.

This fun little keychain makes a great present for baking enthusiasts! It features a tiny stand mixer charm and a larger charm that says, “Life is what you bake it.” Tuck it into a stocking at Christmas, or add it to the top of a birthday present when you’re wrapping it.

These decorating sprinkles make a great present for cake bakers! The package comes with sprinkles in a variety of sizes and they make a dramatic presentation on a cake. They also take a cake from plainly frosted to Instagram-worthy in just a few minutes!

If your baking friend doesn’t have room for a stand mixer (or you don’t have room in your budget to buy one!) this handheld mixer is a great option! The handheld mixer has 9 speed options and comes with beaters, a chef’s whisk, dough hooks, a spatula, and an instruction book. It also has a snap-on storage case, so everything can be stored easily together.

A good spatula can make all the difference when baking and can prevent parts of the delicious cake or cookie batter from being left behind in the bowl when it could be baked!

These spatulas are the perfect blend of durability and flexibility. Bakers can use them to scrape mixes out of bowls or to gently stir ingredients. They also come in a variety of colors, so you can pick one that matches your baking friend’s kitchen or pick a punchy color just for fun.

With this cookbook, bakers can make dishes that have their own starring role in many famous movies! They can whip up a hazelnut gelato from the Audrey Hepburn classic Roman Holiday, or toss a double-decker New York-style pizza like the one in Saturday Night Fever.

Your baking friend will love mixing up the baked goods in this book and maybe having everyone over for dinner and a movie!

If your baking friend is always bemoaning the fact that everyone wants an edge piece when she bakes brownies, this is the pan for her! The cleverly placed lines in the pan mean that everyone who gets a brownie gets an end piece. No more fighting among the kids (or among adults who are acting like kids…!)

One of the worst feelings is taking a hot pan of cookies or cake out of an oven and burning your wrist (and then making sure you don’t drop the pan!). These oven mitts cover much more of bakers’ wrists and arms, so they don’t accidentally burn themselves if they bump against the oven rack or other hot items.

The mitts come in a variety of colors, so you can pick the one you think your friend would like best!

Measuring cups and spoons make great gift ideas for bakers! Even if the baker already has some measuring cups and spoons, they can almost always use more. These stainless steel cups and spoons are durable and look sleek and minimal. They won’t rust and can be tossed in the dishwasher after they’re used. They’re a great choice for people who love to bake!

This sourdough proofing set is perfect for bread bakers! If you know someone who got caught up in the sourdough craze during the pandemic or who simply wants to learn to make sourdough, this proofing set will get them on their way.

It includes 2 baskets, 2 clothes, a scoring lame, a plastic scraper, 4 spare blades, and a scoring lame cover. Everything is hand-crafted from rattan or beech wood.

These kitchen aprons are made from complementary fabrics, so it would be fun to give one to a brother or sister or to a spouse, and keep one for yourself! The middle of each apron has 2 compartments for holding baking tools or a phone. The aprons are perfect for cookie bakers or anyone who worries about getting flour and other ingredients on themselves while they bake.

It’s the quirky gadget most bakers didn’t know they needed!

The whisk wiper keeps mess to a minimum by cleaning the wires on a whisk after they’ve been used. The wiper can also be used to scrape out a bowl, like a spatula. Finally, it can keep the whisk off the countertop and catch drips so they don’t make a mess on the counter.

It comes in a variety of cool colors and would make a fun stocking stuffer or gift for the baker who has everything!

This silicone mat can be placed on a table or countertop, so bakers can knead bread and roll out pastry crusts. It keeps the counters clean…and keeps the dough clean as well. The mat is also good in temperatures from -30°F to 470°F, so it can be used on a cookie sheet or other pan to keep baked goods from sticking.

One of the most fun gifts for baking enthusiasts is an online class where they can learn a new baking technique! Sign your loved one up to learn how to make beautiful, delectable French macarons.

The class is led by the TV chefs and bakery owners of The Lincoln Apartment Bakery in Montreal. You can sign your buddy up for a one-on-one class or do a group class so you can join them!

This unusual-looking whisk is a Danish design and is meant to mix both wet and dry dough quickly and thoroughly. It also prevents over-mixing, which can make bread more rubbery and less fluffy.

Give one to your friend to use on pizza dough, pie crusts, pasta, sourdough, or other pastries. It’s a great holiday present and an excellent, unique baking gift!

This shortbread pan makes a cute gift for bakers! The pan is made from stoneware ceramic, perfect for baking shortbread. The inside of the stoneware pan features beautiful hearts and scrolls, so when the baker turns out the shortbread, it’s imprinted with the design. It’s a lovely gift for baking lovers!

Joy the Baker is known on her blog for sharing recipes that are decadent and delicious and delightful manageable, even for beginning bakers.

Her cookbook features 125 of her favorite recipes, including Smoked Sea Salt Cookies, Butterscotch Cream Pie with Thyme-Marshmallow Meringue, and Mint Chocolate Chip Cake. It’s the perfect cookbook for someone who likes to bake, with plenty of projects to keep them busy!

Polish pottery is expensive, but it’s also extremely durable and features intricate, hand-painted designs by artisans in Poland. In fact, many people collect and display Polish pottery.

If you know a baker who loves pottery, a Polish pottery muffin pan would be an awesome baking gift for them! The stoneware pan can go in the microwave, dishwasher, freezer, and oven and is lead-free.

Cookie presses make the best gifts for bakers who love making cookies! The press creates consistent cookies simply by pressing the lever. The press will also imprint one of 12 designs on each cookie. Fortunately, the cookie press comes apart so it’s easy to clean and store, and it comes with a case for storing the disks.

This dusting wand is a great gift for bakers who like to add that final, finishing touch to each of their creations!

They can fill the dusting wand with powdered sugar for brownies or colored sugar for cakes or cookies, and the wand will evenly sprinkle the sugar over their baked goods.

The dusting wand also works to evenly flour a baking pan or surface for rolling out dough.

Every good baker needs a variety of sizes of bowls! Some recipes call for several different things to be mixed in separate bowls at various points during the baking process.

This set of mixing bowls has 7 different bowls of different sizes that all nest one inside the other when they’re not being used. They also all have lids, so if mixes need to be refrigerated or stored, they will stay safe and clean. They’re the perfect bowls for people who like to bake!

If you’re stumped on what to get as gifts for bakers, fine quality ingredients or unusual ingredients always make fun baking gifts!

This vanilla powder is made from pure Madagascar Grade A ground vanilla beans. It can be used in baking, in breakfast foods like oatmeal, and in a variety of other sweet and savory dishes. It would be an especially great present for a cake maker, to take her cakes to the next level!

This kitchen towel is the perfect gift idea for bakers – especially bread-obsessed bakers! Bread, at its most basic, is very simple…and yet all over the world, countries, and cultures have created their own variations and kinds of delicious bread.

From baguettes to bagels and pretzels to pumpernickel, this towel has an impressive array of breads from around the world.

For anyone who’s ever bypassed the handles on a rolling pin and gone straight for rolling with their hands…or anyone who’s used a wine bottle to roll out their dough instead…comes this simple, beautiful rolling pin.

This wooden pin is simply made and simple to use. It has no handles – bakers can just roll the pin along the dough, fondant, or whatever else they’re rolling out!

Bakers can make their own perfectly-shaped macarons with this baking kit! It comes with a nonstick silicone baking mat, a refillable batter or icing pen, and six tips so bakers can decorate their cookies. It also has a recipe book so they can create delicious flavors of this tasty treat ASAP.

Hey, nice bundt! Bakers can turn out beautiful flower-shaped bundts with this pan. It’s made of cast aluminum to ensure cakes bake evenly. The nonstick coating means cakes pop out of the pan easily. If you’re looking for gift ideas for bakers, this lovely pan is a great option!

Pie weights are one of those tools that separate the amateur bakers from the serious ones! These ceramic weights are great for baking empty pie shells, and keep them from shrinking, bubbling, or buckling.

The weights come with a storage container, and are made from food-safe ceramic stoneware. Your baking friend can make perfect crusts for lemon meringue, banana cream, or chocolate cream pies with these weights!

These mitts are the best gifts for bakers who like to put a little whimsy into their baking! They’re shaped like bear paws, complete with claws. Your friend can brag that they’re taking hot pans out of the oven with their bare hands now.

Pizza stones do wonders to make home-baked pizzas bake evenly and quickly. They’re definitely a great tool in the arsenal of a home baker.

This stone preheats quickly and produces pizza with a crispy crust. It has a heat-resistant coating. It also comes with a pizza cutter so your pizza-baking friend will have everything they need to whip up a meal!

There are lots of cool tools that make great gifts for bakers, but the basics are just as important! These commercial cake pans are made from heavy-weight aluminized steel so they produce evenly, perfectly baked cakes.

The non-stick coating means the cakes pop easily out of the pan, and the cake pans are sturdy and long-lasting. They can even be washed in the dishwasher (although washing by hand is better).

Anyone who’s baked more than one batch of cookies knows that the challenge of most cooling racks is fitting them all on there!

This stackable rack has twice as much space for cookies, cakes, or any other baked goods. It can be taken apart to use both next to each other or stacked if counter space is at a premium.

This cookbook features some of the best, tastiest desserts from some of the top cookbook authors and chefs, all in one place!

Each recipe also teaches bakers something new, from trying out new ingredients to practicing new methods to making an old favorite in a new, simpler way. This book is a great gift idea for bakers and will keep them busy with a host of new projects!

Give your baking buddy a good variety of baking pans, so they’re ready to tackle any baked good that comes their way! This set includes a quarter sheet, a half sheet, and a jelly roll pan. The pans are pure aluminum, and their rims are made to prevent warping. They conduct heat well to produce evenly baked goods every time they’re used.

These precut sets of parchment paper mean bakers will have the perfect size every time they need some! Precutting also prevents curling at the edges, so the sheets lay flat on the tray. The set contains 100 pieces of round and 100 pieces of rectangle-shaped parchment paper.

The paper is useful for baking, grilling, frying, and other forms of cooking and can stand temps up to 450°F.

If you have a friend who loves baking and decorating cookies, this set of cookie cutters is for her! It includes a variety of shapes – everything from an airplane to a carrot to a dinosaur, and much more.

This would also be a fun present for a kid who loves to bake, perhaps with a cute apron or kids’ cookbook.

Dutch ovens are wonderful for making soups and stews, but they’re also great for baking bread, puddings, cakes, and other desserts!

Lodge is known for its cast iron, and this enameled cast iron Dutch oven is impervious to water and other liquids. The Dutch ovens come in a variety of colors, so you can pick one that will match the kitchen!

If you have a friend who loves baking and decorating cakes, this turntable makes cake decorating much easier! The hidden ball bearing in the turntable makes it turn smoothly, so there won’t be jostling or any danger of messing up. The platform rotates both ways, so it works well for both left and right-handed people. The turntable also comes with 2 stainless steel spatulas for icing.

After all that hard work baking and decorating cakes, cookies, and other confections, make sure they can get safely transported wherever they’re going!

No one wants their cake smashed flat on the car ride to its destination. This carrier has 3 adjustable middle sliding trays, plus a bottom tray, which can all be adjusted to the height of whatever they’re carrying. A handle makes the carrier easy to carry, and a lid on the front shuts tight to keep dirt and moisture out.

Who decided baking pans had to be a boring gray or silver? This set is a vibrant blue, bringing a little excitement into the kitchen! It comes with a muffin pan, 2 baking sheets, a square pan, a loaf pan, 2 cake pans, and a pizza pan. The pans are a heavy-gauge steel and have a non-stick coating so cakes and breads turn out perfectly.

Your baking loved one will love this personalized baking necklace that features a tiny, heart-shaped muffin pan and tiny teaspoon charms. The card the necklace comes on says, “Bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake,” in a spoof of the Taylor Swift song.

If you have a friend who loves creating customized cakes and goodies for other people, they’ll appreciate this baking gift!

The cake decorating set comes with 42 different, numbered cake decorating tips, icing piping bags, couplers for the piping bags, and many more tools for making exquisitely decorated cakes. It also comes with a storage box, so they’ll have a spot to put all these tools when they’re not in use.

Once someone has finished all the hard work of making the perfect cake, help them show it off! This pale green jadeite cake stand is beautifully minimal, making the cake the focal point and complimenting it beautifully. A small rim around the edge catches any crumbs so they don’t fall on the table.

There are a variety of online baking classes to choose from, so you can help your baking loved one improve their skills! Sign them up for a Lava Cake class, or help them learn Scandinavian baking. You can sign them up for an individual class or book a group class for several friends at once.

If you know someone who loves their cats and also loves to bake, these spoons are perfect! The 4 measuring spoons are all shaped like cats, and alternate between white and gray kitties for each spoon. They’re sure to give bakers a smile as they measure out their baking powder!

This funny t-shirt shows what appears to be an EKG readout, but the heartbeat makes the shape of a mixer. If you know someone who’s obsessed with baking or works as a baker, this might be a great baking gift for them!

Anyone who’s spent time in the kitchen knows it can be a perilous place for books and tablets! Things get splattered with food. Books fall over or lose their place. This book stand is perfect for propping up books or tablets so cooks can easily see their recipes. It keeps the books and tablets out of harm’s way, too!