2024 Holiday Gift Guide
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This year’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide is packed with gift ideas for everyone on your list. From under $50 kitchen essentials to appliances, gifts for the baker, and holiday gifts for teatime enthusiasts. Plus, I have a few self-care favorites, too.
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Let’s begin the Holiday Gift Guide with gifts for the kitchen, all under $50!
If you’re looking for stocking stuffer ideas, these are the Best Stocking Stuffers for Food Lovers!
Essential Kitchen Gifts (under $50)
These kitchen basics make great gifts!
Electric Milk Frother: For all your hot chocolate dreams or morning lattes!
Salad Spinner: Makes quick and easy works of delicious greens.
Microplane: Perfect for zesting citrus and grating ginger and garlic.
Spider Strainer: For all things pasta and frying.
Favorite Non-Stick Sheet Pan: All-time favorite baking sheet for veggies, cookies, and more!
Citrus Juicer: Perfect for baking, juicing, and tea
Glass Storage Containers: These are all-time favorite containers for meal prep and leftovers. Stackable and space-saving for the fridge!
Wooden Spoon Set: No cook should be without a beautiful wooden spoon set, which also protects expensive pots from scratches.
Knife and Scissor Sharpener: No more dull knives or scissors. A must-have!
Salt Keeper: Beautiful solid natural acacia wood salt holder with marble top at the ready for delicious food.
Tongs: This is an important tool for all kitchens, from grilling to sauteing.
Salt and Pepper Mill Set: Beautiful Acacia wood set!
Fish Tweezers: Makes removing pin bones in a fish fillet so easy.
Peeler: A kitchen essential that I use every day, especially for root vegetable soups!
Grater: Love this grater and the detachable zester is amazing!
Garlic Grater Plate: This makes a great gift!
Ginger Peeler and Grater: This is a fantastic tool if you use ginger in your cooking.
For the Baker
Casserole Set: Set of 3 scalloped stoneware casseroles pretty enough to take to any gathering
Cake Decorating Supplies Kit: Everything you need to create the perfect cake!
Cookie Press: For Christmas cookies, tea cookies, or small decorative cookies all year.
Cookie Scoop Set: A set of 3 scoops for making all your favorite cookies!
Dough Blender and Pastry Set: Top selling combo includes both a dough blender and bench scraper for all your baking needs.
Round Biscuit Cutter Set: 5 sizes of round cutters for biscuits, scones, & cookies.
Measuring Cups: Gotta have a good set that’s dishwasher safe!
Marble Rolling Pin: A great gift for a baker (or yourself).
Mixing Bowl Set: Set of 3 nesting heat-resistant mixing bowls with non-skid bases by Oxo!
Nonstick Baking Sheet: I use this every time I bake a batch of cookies!
Stand Mixer: I use it every day in my kitchen, and it comes in all the colors of the rainbow.
Stand Mixer Decorative Bowls: Refresh the kitchen with these artsy bowl replacements.
USA Pan Bakeware Set: This favorite brand’s set includes everything you need for delicious baking, from cookie sheets to loaf pans, muffin tins, and more.
24 Days of Christmas Cookies: An Advent Baking Journey
If you love to bake or know someone who does, my newest book is under $20 and available in three formats. Get inspired for the season and bake cookies with me, one day at a time.
24 Days of Christmas Cookies
Favorite Small Kitchen Appliances
I use most of these small kitchen appliances daily, and some are on my wish list!
Instant Pot: A kitchen workhorse, this versatile pressure cooker is used nearly every day in my kitchen. It makes soups, stews, and rice dishes, and it even does a fabulous job on Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage!
KitchenAid Stand Mixer: In use — every day!
Bread Machine: A super convenient way to have homemade bread — even daily!
Compact Bread Maker: With 12 programmable options, this best-selling compact bread maker will keep you in homemade bread all year. Easy to use and affordable!
Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker: It is like an ice cream party, but the machine does all the work.
Electric Hand Mixer: A powerful, essential tool in every kitchen.
Crockpot: For all the cozy months ahead, this is a workshop, affordable, programmable slow cooker to make all your favorite recipes.
Ice Cream Maker: An easy and affordable ice cream maker that I’m in love with!
Belgium Waffle Maker: This waffle maker is a new addition to my appliances. It makes picture-perfect waffles every time!
Smart Toaster: Perfect for morning toast, but also for reheating waffles and bagels and even has a warming function.
For the Coffee Lover:
Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine: For a high-end coffee shop experience at home. It makes an amazing latte or any kind of espresso drink you have in mind!
Mr. Coffee Espresso and Cappuccino Machine: If a higher-end espresso machine isn’t in the budget, this is a great machine. It’s the first one I ever owned, and it’s still in use today.
Breville Coffee Grinder: A great coffee grinder is essential to any coffee lover. This adjustable grinder is perfect for grinding fresh beans to the exact coarseness and for pour-over coffee.
Coffee Syrup Dispenser Set: Elevate your coffee bar experience with flavor! Coffee drinkers will enjoy personalizing their cups with their favorite flavors from these stylish dispensers.
Coffee Travel Tumbler: Keep your favorite coffee warm and ready with a top-rated Yeti tumbler. And customize it with your favorite color!
Stackable Espresso Cup Set: This stackable set is perfect for a coffee station and espresso lovers alike. It saves space and comes in a variety of colors—although I love the white!
Cappuccino Mug Set: If cappuccino is more your thing, these stackable 8-ounce mugs are also space-saving, cute, and perfect for morning or afternoon cappuccino.
Original Coffee Pour Over: There will always be a place at my coffee station for a pour-over coffee maker. The original is still a best seller and produces a superior cup of morning coffee! If you’re looking for a single cup, this OXO Single Brew Pour Over is a great price!
Tamping Station: This walnut-colored handy tamping station will keep all your espresso and coffee tools organized and contained.
Coffee Canister: Keep coffee beans fresh with an airtight coffee canister
For the Tea Lover
Blooming Tea: Teatime is about a lovely engagement of the senses, from the warm comfort of a fragrant cup of tea to delightful bite-size savory and sweet treats and the company of dear friends. It’s also about beauty. Blooming tea brings a lovely aesthetic to teatime, a conversation starter, and delightful tea. This set is perfect for any tea lover on your list. Also available at Amazon.
On-the-Go Tea: Relaxing with your favorite cup of tea is wonderful, but sometimes you must take it on the go. On those days, traveling with a beautiful tea tumbler makes the trip more pleasurable! This rose-gold traveling tumbler is BPA-free and leak-proof.
Porcelain 3-Tier Tray: Delight any tea lover on your list with a beautiful, collapsible porcelain 3-Tier Tray in a gift box. Easy to put together and perfectly sized for teatime.
Gooseneck Tea Kettle: An essential for tea lovers, this electric tea kettle will brew the perfect cup of tea at the perfect temperature, from green to herbal to black teas. I use this multiple times a day at my house.
Fortnum and Mason Hamper: Bursting with Yuletide essentials and festive treats – from tea to biscuits and chocolate to the all-important Christmas pudding – The Merrymaker’s Hamper is sure to delight any lucky recipient.
Floral Teaspoon Set: Perfect for afternoon tea, this set of botanical 6-inch teaspoons make a lovely accompaniment for teatime and a beautiful gift.
The Art and Pleasure of Afternoon Tea: Inspire yourself or a dear friend who shares your love of tea with an authoritative book from the London Ritz Hotel filled with ceremony tips and teatime recipes.
Tea at Fortnum and Mason: A sumptuous guide on taking tea from the renowned Piccadilly store synonymous with style, elegance, and English charm. A pocket book celebrating everything from the history of afternoon tea drinking to more than 45 recipes for teatime.
Wellness Tea Gift Set: This large assorted tea hamper features a variety of herbal teas to promote health and well-being.
Spode Sugar & Creamer Set: This holiday-inspired set will bring festive cheer to your tea table. Plus, it’s dishwasher safe, which is a very good thing!
Spode Teapot: This teapot is in use throughout the holiday season, and occupies a special place on my Christmas table.
Holiday Teapot: If you’re a tea lover, you likely also collect teapots. In my collection, there is always room for one more, especially when it’s as darling as this Spode teapot, instantly bringing holiday cheer.
Teaset for 6: This affordable, beautiful porcelain tea set includes everything you need for teatime: a teapot, creamer, sugar, teaspoons, strainer, and six tea cups.
Serving Tongs: Perfectly sized for servings at your next afternoon tea.
Tea Strainer Set: With petal handles, these stainless tea strainers make a beautiful gift for any tea lover on your list.
For the Cookbook Collector
Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: Over 500 vibrant and delicious recipes in this best-selling cookbook to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle.
Martha: This landmark 100th cookbook contains all of Martha’s favorite recipes and tips learned over years of cooking, catering, and from her mom.
Ina Garden: Though not a cookbook, this legendary food creator and author of 13 best selling cookbooks, writes an inspiring memoir on her journey citing hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail responsible for her accomplishments.
Grilling: A must-have for grill masters and weekend warriors, packed with delicious recipes and expert tips to make every barbecue unforgettable. (ALSO MAJORLY ON SALE)
Cookies: A delicious collection of classic and new twists on classic cookie recipes for any cookie baker on your list!
Big Book of Bread: From the baking authority, this wide-ranging bread cookbook is a collection of 125 recipes perfect for the seasoned baker and the novice alike.
5-Ingredient College Cookbook: In addition to all the college books necessary for our son’s first year classes, this book was mom’s addition to the stack. Cooking on his own over weekends on campus became easier with these simple recipes.
The Blue Zones Kitchen: Over 100 healthy recipes inspired by the Blue Zones around the world where people live the longest.
The Art of Tea: From the editors of Victoria magazine, readers are invited to savor the pleasures and possibilities of the cherished ritual of tea shared by people the world over.
What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Simple, comforting recipes for days when you want simple, delicious, and effortless!
Weeknight Dinner Cookbook: Recipes designed for families that are simple and easy!
Dinner in One: New York Times columnist Melissa Clark offers over 100 recipes made in one pot, pan, or sheet pan. Recipes that are easy, delicious, and ready in under an hour.
Beauty and Self Care
For stocking stuffers or simply for yourself, here are some products I love that would make great gifts.
- Lip Balm: As the days grow colder, I constantly need lip balm. I love the subtle hint of color, and this product has been a perfect base for adding lip color.
- Lip Color: I’m in love with this lipstick. The color is subtle and warming with a hint of shine.
- Night Cream: Hands down, my favorite night cream. It’s light but effective without being greasy.
- Eye Moisturizer: I use this light but effective eye moisturizer daily. It doesn’t drag on your skin and is richly nourishing.
- Barefoot Dreams Throw: This is the softest, most wonderful throw. I’m in love with all of the Barefoot Dreams products, but this is especially lovely with a cup of tea and a good book or movie!