47 Gifts for Bakers, Pie Lovers, and Cake Decorating Pros

Baking is an art and a science—and the same could be said for finding gifts for bakers in your life. Whether they’ve long been bringing the most beautiful birthday cakes to your party, or they just picked up a rolling pin for the first time, your butter-and-sugar-and-flour-loving friends could always use another whisk in their tool kit or an upgraded bread knife for their sourdough boules. You've just got to choose the right thing. Scroll on for the best gifts for bread makers and pie bakers and pastry aficionados, including Epicurious product review winners and some of our favorite baking books.

• A chic rolling pin: Made In Rolling Pin, $29 at Made In
• A no-nonsense kitchen scale: Escali Premo Digital Food Scale, $25 on Amazon
• A pro-level stand-mixer upgrade: Waring Commercial Planetary 7-Quart Stand Mixer, $713 on Amazon
• A personalized stamp that'll make their home bakery official: Custom rubber stamp, $15 at Zazzle
• Measuring cups that are actually little pans: All-Clad stainless-steel measuring cup set, $60 on Amazon
• An adorable bread oven: Le Creuset bread oven, $298 on Amazon

• Gifts for beginner bakers
• Gifts for bread bakers
• Gifts for pie lovers
• Gifts for cake decorators
• Gifts for the baker who has everything

A digital scale is a kitchen essential. Measuring ingredients by weight is far more precise than measuring them by volume. This means that when you use a scale, you’ll get better baked goods. (It also means fewer dishes.) This Escali digital scale performed best in Epi’s product testing and is a staple in our test kitchen. The interface has just two buttons, so it’s easy and intuitive to operate. It has a capacity of 11 pounds—more than enough to weigh apples for a pie, or flour for a sourdough boule.

An offset spatula will get plenty of action in any baker’s kitchen; it’s great for frosting cakes, spreading butter, transferring intricately shaped cookies to a baking sheet, and loosening a cake from the sides of the pan after it bakes, to name a few. This a great affordable gift for the baker who wants to up their decorating game.

Silpat makes the gold standard of reusable sheet pan liners. Like parchment paper, Silpats keep baked goods from sticking, but they’re sustainable and can be used again and again—even for baking in batches. The mats cool quickly for back-to-back rounds of cookies. Or, opt for a Silpat mold; Epi’s test found that the company’s mini fluted cake pan yielded eight bakery-quality cakes without the greasing, flouring, or fight associated with a sturdy pan. Or, if you really want to go for it, make your own gift set by pairing those fluted cake pans with the mini loaf pan molds—and toss in one of our favorite cooling racks while you’re at it. And, if you’re especially a perfectionist, Silpat has a baking mat that allows you to evenly space and size your cookies. (Pro tip: a cooling rack from the Epicurious favored brand Oxo can also be used in their home cooking to make everything crispy in the oven—no air fryer required.)

For something a little less fancy than the fluted mold above, wrap up a pack of silicone baking cups. We love that they’re reusable, simple to work with, and mean you’ll never have to peel off another sticky paper liner before enjoying a muffin or cupcake. These Oxo cups come in a bunch of cute colors and feature side tabs for easy removal. They're the perfect thing to throw in a stocking alongside a mini whisk and an offset spatula.

Every aspiring star baker needs this iconic kitchen gadget. A smaller version of commercial-size models, this versatile mixer can be equipped with a flat beater (for cake batter), a dough hook (for bread dough), and a wire whisk (for meringue). The 5-quart mixing bowl is made of glass, so you can see what's going on inside! With 10 speeds, it’s powerful enough for nearly any recipe.

If you really want to splash out—or coordinate a group gift—the Luna stand mixer is a worthy opponent to the KitchenAid. Pastry chef Clarice Lam made the switch to this commercial mixer model in her kitchen, and she doesn’t think she’ll ever go back. The Luna has a larger capacity (7 quarts) and a 350-watt motor that gracefully handles tricky doughs while making as little noise as possible. This is a stand mixer worthy of the pros.

If your favorite baker doesn’t have the counter space (or isn’t ready for the commitment) of a stand mixer, opt for our test-winning hand mixer. This Breville mixer is sleek, quiet, powerful, and as effective as a hand mixer can get—complete with over-the-top features like a light to illuminate your bowl.

Yes, you can use cookie cutters to make classic holiday cookies that look cute but don't actually taste very good, but you can also use the designs below to cut out fun shapes in pie crusts. Give the Disney adult in your life the ability to make a pie like a princess in an animated movie, fit with flowers and woodland creatures and butterflies. Or, give a set that features options for every major holiday, and, fine, make some adorably-decorated Halloween cookies.

A bench scraper can be used to portion dough, slice brownies, lift and turn sticky doughs, cut butter, transfer cookies, and clean countertops. This particular scraper has a bonus ruler etched onto the length of the blade and along the vertical side; your favorite baker can use it to ensure their pastry or dough is the right thickness before it goes into the pan.

Every baker wants to make the absolute most out of their batter, getting every bit from the edges of a mixing bowl—and sometimes a spatula just doesn’t cut it. Enter a bowl scraper. Not to be confused with the aforementioned bench scraper, a bowl scraper is a more flexible, curved baking tool that helps you scrape batter and dough from the sides of your bowl. You won’t know how necessary it is in your baking life until you have one.

An old-timey hand-crank sifter is both useful and beautiful. Mrs. Anderson’s Baking Crank Flour Sifter removes clumps from flours, cocoa, and icing sugar. It also helps ensure that salt, baking soda, and baking powder get mixed and incorporated evenly into your batter.

A colorful, functional apron is the perfect gift for your friend who always seems to be covered in flour. We love BlueCut’s Milk & Cardamom Baker Apron: It’s a collaboration with MasterChef alum and cookbook author Hetal Vasavada. The apron has some cool features, like heat-resistant baker’s mitts built into the bottom corners, a built-in towel loop, and a double-layer chest pocket to hold small baking tools.

If your loved one still has their beat-up set of mixing bowls from college, help them upgrade with a sleek stainless steel set. Cuisinart came out on top in our best mixing bowl test thanks to a lightweight design, extreme durability, and versatility. Plus they can double as storage containers since they come with tight-fitting lids.

It’s never a bad idea to give someone who loves to bake a book that they can leaf through for inspiration and instruction. If your giftee often looks to TikTok baking recipes for dessert ideas that are simple and innovative, they’ll love Jessie Sheehan’s recent Snackable Bakes, which is full of easy options that are quick to put together, including this actually delicious mug cake. Any would-be baker can find their next signature dessert here.

Yes, even beginner bakers probably own measuring cups. But they might be flimsy and plastic, with the numbers starting to rub off. This stainless-steel set ranked at the top of our product test. While it may seem unnecessarily luxe to own Le Creuset measuring cups, having a set made of quality materials means they’re surprisingly versatile and long-lasting. Use them directly on the stovetop like mini pans to melt butter or coconut oil. Pair the standard measuring cups with these odd-sized measuring cups, and you will never have to do extra math in the kitchen again.

And if you know an especially stylish baker who really appreciates the finer things in life—treat them to these colorful beaker-inspired measuring cups. They'll want to leave them out on display even when they're not baking.

A Danish dough whisk, also called brodpisker in Denmark, is a thoughtful gift for your friend or family member who’s gotten into sourdough in recent years. This specially shaped whisk has the power to work through tough flour-based mixtures. Jillmo’s Danish dough whisk, recommended by Epi’s editors, has a stiff, food-grade stainless-steel body with strong wires that can hold their own against particularly dense doughs.

Pronounced “lahm,” meaning blade in French, the specialized tool will allow your recipient to score their boules and baguettes like a pro. Splurge on this black walnut lame: The whole tool is about the length and weight of a butter knife and features thumbnuts for quick and easy blade replacement. It’s both functional and beautiful.

If the baker in your life has been using a Dutch oven to make sourdough, this Le Creuset pan designed specifically for bread is a worthy upgrade. The rounded top makes it look so cute and cozy, but it's actually super useful: that domed lid helps steam circulate. The flat, low-sided bottom allows for much easier dough transfer; simply slide it onto the preheated pan without worrying about the loaf losing its shape in the process of maneuvering into a high-sided Dutch oven.

A good serrated knife is one of the few knives you absolutely need to have in your kitchen. The Wusthof below might feel wildly expensive for such a utilitarian tool, but the bread baker in your life will really appreciate an upgrade. After all, they're doing more than the average amount of slicing into crusty loaves. This knife is double-serrated, which means it contains tiny serrations within the larger ones. This allows the user to get the same cutting power while exerting less pressure—it also means it'll stay sharper longer (read more about that in our full product review).

If your beloved breadhead already has a round proofing basket/banneton, up their game with a ring-shaped basket to make a perfect couronne. This basket is nearly 9" in diameter and made of rattan. It also comes with a removable cotton liner.

A personalized loaf pan makes for a meaningful, if delightfully kitschy, gift. Emblazon the side with their name, an inside joke, or a bread-related pun, if you must.

While you’re at it, snag a personalized stamp. When they tote their latest creation to the birthday party in a cake box, it'll feel like it came from their own professional bakery.

The title says it all. The Perfect Loaf comes from Maurizio Leo, whose blog, also called The Perfect Loaf, serves as a guide for beginner bread makers on the internet. For anyone in your life who’s learning the ins and outs of baking bread, this cookbook will be extremely helpful in matters of fermenting, shaping, and, of course, baking.

A home baker’s worst nightmare is watching their creation crumble during transport. This handcrafted reusable, personalized birch wood box is an excellent way to make sure pies (and other baked goods) remain intact and beautiful.

A rolling pin has the potential to make or break (literally) your pie crust and sugar cookie dough. A well-maintained rolling pin can develop a good patina and last for years; this one features the classic French handleless design, with tapered ends for easy gripping when you’re rolling out pie, tart, and cookie doughs.

Judy Kim, food stylist and recipe developer, swears by these crust cutters for making decorative finishing touches on her baked goods. They give pies or tarts “that little extra pizazz, and leaves are beautiful year-round,” she says. Kim recommends freezing the cutouts and attaching them with egg wash before baking so that they hold their shape.

This dish was the winner of our pie plate product test due to its sturdy metal body, which produced the most even golden brown pies of any model we tested. Unlike some fancier and frillier pie plates, this one made it super easy to remove a cooled slice, and the ceramic-based coating is built to last.

Epi contributor David Tamarkin is a must-have-cake-in-the-house kind of person, and in attempting to up his decorating game, he discovered this inexpensive, highly effective turntable. The width of a dinner plate, it spins easily to allow for seamless frosting application and is, according to David, “[a] thrill to use.” Get this for the burgeoning cake boss in your life and cross your fingers that you’ll get to reap the benefits on your birthday. Or go for a luxe glass stand purely for a stellar display.

Is a cake knife an absolute necessity? Most people will say it’s not. But Epi editor (and talented cake baker) Joe Sevier begs to differ. He believes that if you’re a cake enthusiast, you need a knife especially for cake. It’s easier to use, it makes cleaner cuts, it’s longer, and it doesn’t cut just cake.

Fat Daddio’s wins Epi’s cake pan product trials every year. Made of sturdy lightweight anodized aluminum, the pans turn out golden brown and straight-sided cakes. They’re durable and easy to clean. Plus, their rolled edges make them easy to handle while wearing bulky oven mitts.

Make sure to grab a few bottles of high-quality vanilla extract. This set of three features selections from Mexico, Tahiti, and Madagascar. Each brings a distinct flavor—the Mexican extract offers a creamy and spiciness and the Tahitian is fruity, while the Madagascar Bourbon vanilla is smooth, sweet, and subtle.

This spice grinder came out on top during our product testing and quickly became a favorite in our reviewer’s home kitchen because of its unmatched versatility. Use it to create freshly ground alt-flours from nuts and grains or make flavorful sugars with whole spices and other ingredients (try your favorite tea or dried flowers!). It’s small enough to stow away when you aren’t using it, but an avid baker will be pulling it out again and again.

Transform your cookies and pies into works of art with an embossed rolling pin. These sturdy handmade pins, made from highest quality beechwood, come in a variety of patterns like paisleys and snowflakes. Use them on fondant and fresh pasta, too.

Kitchen thermometers are not just for meat and vegetables. You should also use one to get a precise read on whether your cakes, breads, and other bakes are finished. Epi’s editors love the Thermapen One. It’s fast, accurate, and durable—and it’s water- and heat-resistant to boot.

This book was a James Beard finalist and lauded by our colleagues at Bon Appétit as the “definitive book on Southern baking.” It's also full of rich culinary history, looking at the way Black women shaped the recipes, and the very idea of, Southern baking. Give your loved one the best pound cake recipe, four different types of biscuits, lavender lemon crinkle cookies—and so much more. We’d consider this encyclopedic book an essential for any baker.

A fluted tart pan with a removable bottom makes every baked good look fancier. Bake brownies (even a box) or bar cookies in this crimped-edge number, plop a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle, and watch dinner guests be impressed.

The aptly named Fancy Sprinkles brand makes a vast array of great-looking sprinkles, edible glitter, and icing stickers. These make a fabulous stocking stuffer or an extra something to throw in a gift bag.