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The great thing about giving gifts for cookie bakers is that they love to share their creations. They get a great new cooking tool, and you get a delicious treat!
These days everyone is cooking more at home, and cookies are both easy and a traditional family favorite. Below you’ll find tools and gadgets suitable for rank beginners as well as more experienced cooks. Some, like the stencils and cookie press, are especially good gift ideas for bakers who like to cook with children.
Gifts for Cookie Bakers
1. Cookie Decorating Tools, 15-Piece Set
Start with the basics! Any cookie baker who is ready to step up to the next level of decorating will appreciate this starter tool set. It includes cookie decoration brushes, stir scriber needles, and fondant gum paste tools. You may want to pair this set with the cookbook below, especially if your recipient is a beginner.
2. Creative Cookie Decorating Book
This beautiful cookbook teaches the art of cookie creation through hundreds of detailed, step-by-step photographs. You’ll find recipes for several varieties of cookies and buttercream, including some that are gluten-free or dairy-free. This top rated book was written by Emily Hutchinson of The Hutch Oven.
3. Cookie Decorating Turntable Set
This smoothly rotating turntable stays anchored in place while you easily turn your cookie to the position you need. Decorating is easier as you attend to minute detail from any angle. The set also includes 3 pastry bags with couplers, 6 decorator tips, 3 icing smoothers, and 3 scriber needles.
4. Cookie Press
This great gadget makes cookie baking super simple but elegant. It’s a basic tool and a must-have for any cookie baker, and it’s especially fun to use when cooking with young children. They can create special cookies so attractive that decorating isn’t necessary. This popular model is inexpensive and made by Wilton.
5. Cookie Stencils
Using stencils can be as simple or as difficult as you want to make it. Create designs on cookies by icing within the stencil design, paint with a brush, spray paint, or sprinkle with colored sugar. You can also dress up basic brownies using these stencils and plain powdered sugar. This is another good gift idea for those who bake cookies with children.
6. Glass Cookie Jar – Made in the USA
After all their hard work, cookie bakers will enjoy displaying their beautiful creations in this glass cookie jar with it’s sage advice. It comes in a gallon or half-gallon size, and you can customize it to choose the color of the lettering on the jar.
7. Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin
The removable discs on each end make it easy to roll dough to a specific thickness – 1/16″, 1/6″, 1/4″, and 3/8″. This rolling pin measures 2.5 x 16.5 x 2.5 inches, and it will also come in handy when making pie, pastry, and pizza crusts. As it is made of wood, hand washing is recommended.
8. Wilton Icing Colors
With this set of 12 Gel-Based Food Colors, cookie bakers can create almost any shade of icing they desire. Wilton is probably the best known name in cake and cookie decorating supplies, and the company has a long-standing reputation of high quality products.
9. Cookie Cutter Set
Cookie cutters are always a hit because they’re so fun! Pictured here is a 10-Piece Autumn Season set for fall holidays, but the selection is endless, from other holidays to movie themes to cartoons to … you name it. Amazon offers hundreds of different sets, and you can click here to see them all.
10. Stainless Steel Spatula
This small spatula is 2.5 inches wide and perfect for cookies because of its beveled edge. That edge makes it easier to slide under fragile cookies without breaking them – unlike silicone and other spatulas that are way too thick on the edge. It may seem trivial, but this is one of those little things that a cookie baker will really appreciate.
11. Stackable Cooling Rack Set
No matter how large your kitchen, baking somehow tends to spread out over every surface. Cooling racks are a must-have basic, and this stackable set gives you the advantage of saving some counter space. Each rack measures 13.5 x 10 inches, and the set is available in other size options.
12. Cookie Scoop Set
Fancy, beautifully decorated cookies are great, but there are days you just want something simple like Grandma’s recipe for oatmeal or chocolate chip cookies. When it comes to baking traditional favorites, a cookie scoop makes quick work of getting dough on cookie sheets, and it helps keep cookies the same size for even baking.
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