Baking
Ok, so some bake because it’s meditative. Some bake because they like the smell of freshly baked bread to fill their house every Saturday morning in November. Some people bake because their primary love language is feeding people and they happen to be really good at it. Either way, the baker in your life will not be short of passion. And they are probs also owned by ten or twenty recipe books already. But what they might need is something that will make the whole experience even better. That standout tin that makes cakes rise beautifully because it conducts the heat just right. The kitchen scale that is precise and just doesn’t lie. That one piece of kit they’ve been saving up for but haven’t bought themselves because it feels too indulgent.
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That is exactly what we have picked out for them.
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We have carefully selected everything in this collection after thinking hard about what home baking aficionados actually use as opposed to what just looks cute in a store and then collects dust in a cupboard. There’s a difference between the two, and it matters. So many baking gifts fit into the novelty category. Shapes that resemble kitchen tools, aprons with cheesy jokes stitched across the front, cookie cutters that you only need once a year. We’re not going to waste your time with that. Instead we’ve picked things that earn their keep in a kitchen that gets genuinely used, the things that get flour sprayed all over them and loved for years to come, rather than weeks.
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We also spent a lot of time thinking about the different types of people who bake. Because it’s not just one kind of person. There’s your experienced baker who’s been at it for thirty years and will tell you the precise temperature that butter should be for cake making. There’s your friend who discovered sourdough two years ago and you still haven’t heard the end of it. There’s probably a teen in your life who has recently discovered they’re good at baking and need a few hints and tips along the way. We’ve picked things with all of them in mind, without making the collection so niche that only half of these gifts appeal to you.
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None of the items here were chosen because they’d look good photographed next to each other on our Instagram page. They were all chosen because we would happily gift any of them to ourselves. The best baking gifts are the ones that aren’t just trotted out on birthdays or holidays. They’re the ones that end up being used on an Tuesday. Cheers for baking.
