Recently I have been getting frequent messages online with requests for good gift ideas for bakers. If you are gifting to an aspiring or hopeful baker, you may want to start them out with my book for beginners and it’s accompanying techniques video class and head over here to my basic materials and tools list. However for this list, I will assume that we are talking about what an established baker (aka me!) might love for Christmas.
!. A giant tub of Maldon Sea Salt Flakes! These are my favorite flaky sea salt for sprinkling on the top of focaccia, or on top of chocolate chip cookies just before baking. They have a unique shape that is beautiful and this tub might last a whole year! Affordable luxury.
This is one of my favorite chocolates the flavor is beautiful, I love the little bean shapes. They look great in a cookie, fit nicely into pain au chocolat, and are fun to eat directly out of the bag too. There’s also a 6 pound bag if you really like someone.
More salt? Yes! Grey salt has the nicest flavor, I don’t know if I represent all bakers in saying this, but I have an obsession with different kinds of salt. I love using this salt in my pastry doughs, I feel like I can really taste the difference.
Tea is an extremely important part of baking for me, it’s the perfect thing to do “in between” activities. I love loose leaf tea since it doesn’t make any waste. This chai is one of my favorites, especially with sugar and milk.
Vanilla bean paste is another one of those things that is a a bit pricey when considering buying it for yourself, but just the right price point for a special gift.
Buckwheat flour is one of my favorite specialty flours to work with. Buckwheat is beautiful for adding to brownies, chocolate chip cookies, tart pastry, and for making beautiful crepes. The gift of experimenting with new flour would be welcome to any baker.
Baker’s live their lives by timers, and I have used SO many different ones. I now know that I like a timer without batteries, with a mechanical twist to set (pushing a button 45 times to set a timer for 45 minutes? NO!) a loud alarm and a magnet so I can stick it on the oven/mixer/fridge etc. This timer meets my many demands! Merry Christmas!
Bakers tend to get up very early in the morning, and cozy socks are an essential part of staying motivated to get up and turn the oven on. Socks for Christmas may seem sad, but I absolutely love colorful, friendly, warm socks.
If you are new to baking you might not yet have noticed that Birkenstocks are kind of the unofficial footwear of bakers and homebakers alike. While I prefer my leather Birks for production work since they are easy to clean and extremely comfortable to work in, these shearling felt gems would be amazing for cozy home baking with my kids through the winter.
Well, that’s my baker’s Christmas wish list if I was buying a bunch of little things for myself! I hope you find something for someone you like or just for yourself! Have a happy holiday! I’m an Amazon Affilliate, so if you order items through my links, I receive a few cents commission for recommending things that I like at no extra charge to you.
Bonus Secret Item that I really want….
