37 Best Gifts for Bakers That'll Stir up Some Joy

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.

For bakers who work with dough, this multi-tasking tool can help divide dough into even portions as well as scrape your work surface to clean up or transport food like chopped veggies. It's a favorite of one of our Test Kitchen editors, who calls it one of her go-to tools.

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.

Great for beginners and pros alike, the wavy rim on this pie pan makes crimping easy. We love the retro yet modern blue wavy rim. Plus, it's one of the best ceramic pie pans we've tested.

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Out of all the dry measuring cups we tested, these Oxo measuring cups and spoons were the most accurate. The rubber handle makes these comfortable to hold, and it's easy to see the large printed measurement markings. Each piece is magnetized to nest in each other for easy and organized storage.

Handstand Kitchen's Junior baking set comes with kid-friendly tools that are made for smaller hands such as a rolling pin, whisk, silicone baking cups and more, plus five recipes to get them started. There's also themed baking sets like Winter Wonderland, Maker Your Own Gingerbread House and Spring Fling Butterfly.

Finding delicious gluten-free baked goods, especially less common pastries or cakes, can be a challenge. This gluten-free gift set makes it easier, offering six gluten-free mixes for hard-to-find treats like gingerbread, pie crust, cornbread, muffins, sugar cookies, brownies and pancakes, all neatly packaged with a jute tote.

This spatula is an essential tool for anyone who's into cake decorating. The long, thin designs allows for easy decorating and even smearing on the tops and sides with a smooth finish. The elevated handle helps ensure there are no accidental smudges, and the coated rubber grip makes it comfortable to hold.

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.

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.

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This 10-piece set of durable glass mixing bowls offers pieces from 1 ounce to 3 1/2 quarts. It's perfect for portioning out ingredients before baking and mixing. Plus, they barely take up any space for storage.

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.

Bakers will appreciate this "book" of honey filled with six varieties, from orange blossom to lavender. Each jar is 3 ounces, perfect for just a spoonful or using in recipes.

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.

Any gluten-free bread baker knows the pain of making a loaf that results in a hard, dense loaf. One of our staff members loves this gluten-free flour that makes artisanal bread that's crusty, yet soft — you can't even tell it's gluten free.

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Nordic Ware is known for its bakeware, and these baking pans are well known for their quality and ability to evenly bake and brown. They are made with aluminum for excellent heat conductivity and edges are reinforced to add strength and prevent warping. This set is also very versatile and comes with two half sheets to make two different items at the same time. Note that these are not nonstick.

An essential set for any baker, this Circulon baking pan set took the top spot in our baking pan set tests. The cake and cookie baker will love the fine texture and even browning these pans produce. The set also comes with two round cake pans for bakers who want to make tiered cakes, as well as a muffin tin and rectangular pans.

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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.

We love this tool for dusting everything from cake to coffee with powdered sugar or cocoa. It's easy to fill without making a mess –just dip it into the larger container. (The tip of the handle rotates to open and close the head of the wand for filling.) It takes up minimal space in your drawer.

The Our Place loaf pan produced one of the best banana breads in our test—moist, golden and perfectly baked. While the loaf pan is not sold as a single piece, this colorful set makes an ideal gift for any baker who wants to add color to their collection of bakeware or those who want to switch to ceramic.

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