2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Cooks & Teatime
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Welcome to our annual Holiday Gift Guide for Cooks & Teatime. This year's list is filled with my favorites for bakers, tea lovers, home cooks, and anyone who finds joy in the kitchen.
Many of these gifts are tools I personally use every day (or give regularly), and a few are fresh finds for 2025. If you're looking for thoughtful, practical, and beautiful holiday ideas, this guide will help you shop quickly and confidently.
New for Holiday 2025 with fresh ideas and longtime favorites. Many of these links are affiliate links, which help support 31Daily at no extra cost to you. Thank you for cooking and baking along with me all year long.
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How to Use This Gift Guide
How to use this guide:
- Start with the Top 10 Editor's Picks below if you're short on time and just need one or two sure-thing gifts.
- Browse the whole sections for Essential Kitchen Gifts, For the Baker, Coffee & Tea Lovers.
- Look for gifts that pair well together-like a teapot and a favorite tea-for an extra-special bundle.
- Don't forget to bookmark or pin this page for next year; I update this guide annually with new finds.
Top 10 Editor's Picks for 2025
- Barefoot Dreams Throw - The softest, coziest throw-perfect with a cup of tea, a good book, or a holiday movie. A beautiful self-care or "for the person who has everything" gift.
- KitchenAid Stand Mixer - A true kitchen workhorse I use almost every day. Perfect for bakers, bread makers, and anyone who loves to cook and bake at home.
- Instant Pot - My go-to for soups, stews, rice dishes, and more. A wonderful gift with quiet technology for busy cooks who still want cozy, homemade meals.
- Bone China Tea Gift Set - For teatime on a moment’s notice, this tea set saves space while offering all you need from a teapot to teacups, saucers, and teaspoons.
- Porcelain 3-Tier Tray - A beautiful, collapsible stand that's perfectly sized for afternoon tea, holiday brunch, or dessert displays-and it comes gift-ready.
- English Chintz Tea for One – Celebrating Royal Albert’s 100 years, this 1940s-era tea-for-one set is a personal gift to cherish.
- Grandma’s Story - A sweet guided journal with beautiful illustrations that helps archive stories that will last.
- Personal Blender - Compact, sleek design that’s perfect for blending smoothies, creamy purees, small batch soups, or salsas.
- Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook - A best-selling cookbook with over 500 vibrant recipes, perfect for anyone wanting to cook a little healthier in the new year.
- 24 Days of Christmas Cookies: An Advent Baking Journey - My cookie book, under $20, with recipes to bake your way through the season-one cookie at a time. Lovely for bakers or anyone who loves holiday traditions.
Visit my Amazon store for this Top 10 Gift List
Essential Kitchen Gifts (under $50)
These kitchen basics are the workhorses of my kitchen and make thoughtful, budget-friendly gifts for any home cook.
- Electric Milk Frother: For all your hot chocolate dreams or morning lattes at home.
- Salad Spinner: Makes quick and easy work of delicious greens.
- Microplane: Perfect for zesting citrus and grating ginger, garlic, and hard cheeses.
- Spider Strainer: Ideal for lifting pasta, dumplings, and fried foods from hot liquids.
- Favorite Non-Stick Sheet Pan: All-time favorite baking sheet for veggies, cookies, and more!
- Citrus Juicer: Perfect for baking, juicing, and making lemon water or tea.
- Glass Storage Containers: My go-to containers for meal prep and leftovers. Stackable and space-saving in the fridge.
- Wooden Spoon Set: A beautiful set that every cook needs, and is gentle on pots and pans.
- Knife and Scissor Sharpener: No more dull knives or scissors-such a practical, everyday upgrade.
- Salt Keeper: A beautiful acacia wood salt holder with a marble top, perfect for keeping salt close at hand.
- Tongs: An essential tool for grilling, sautéing, and serving.
- Salt and Pepper Mill Set: A classic acacia wood set that looks beautiful on any table.
- Fish Tweezers: Makes removing pin bones from fish fillets so much easier.
- Peeler: A kitchen essential I use daily, especially for root vegetables and soups.
- Grater: Love this grater and the detachable zester is amazing!
- Garlic Grater Plate: A clever little tool that makes a charming and useful gift.
- Ginger Peeler and Grater: A fantastic tool if you cook often with fresh ginger.
For the Baker
For the cookie bakers, cake decorators, and weekend bread makers in your life, these gifts will see a lot of use in the kitchen.
- Cake Decorating Supplies Kit: Everything you need to decorate beautiful cakes at home.
- Cookie Press: Perfect for Christmas cookies, tea cookies, and pretty bite-size cookies all year.
- Cookie Scoop Set: A set of 3 scoops for making all your favorite cookies!
- Dough Blender and Pastry Set: A top-selling combo with both a dough blender and bench scraper for pies, biscuits, and more.
- Round Biscuit Cutter Set: Five sizes of round cutters for biscuits, scones, & cookies.
- Kitchen Scale: Accurately measures baking ingredients for the best possible results. This is the scale I own.
- Measuring Cups: A sturdy, dishwasher-safe set-always essential in a baker's kitchen.
- Marble Rolling Pin: A beautiful, functional gift for rolling pie crusts, cookies, and more.
- Mixing Bowl Set: A set of three nesting, heat-resistant bowls with non-skid bases by OXO.
- Nonstick Baking Sheet: A reliable, everyday sheet for cookies and sheet pan bakes.
- Stand Mixer: A true kitchen workhorse I use daily-it comes in so many beautiful colors.
- Stand Mixer Decorative Bowls: Refresh a well-loved mixer with these artful replacement bowls.
- USA Pan Bakeware Set: A favorite brand's set that includes everything you need: cookie sheets, loaf pans, muffin tins, and more.
24 Days of Christmas Cookies
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.
Favorite Small Kitchen Appliances
I use most of these small kitchen appliances daily, and a couple are still on my wish list. They're practical gifts that make cooking and baking even more enjoyable.
- Instant Pot: A true kitchen workhorse for soups, stews, rice dishes, and more.
- KitchenAid Stand Mixer: In use almost every day in my kitchen and worth every inch of counter space.
- Bread Machine: A convenient way to enjoy homemade bread, even on busy weekdays.
- 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: Like throwing an ice cream party at home-the machine does all the work.
- Electric Hand Mixer: A powerful, compact tool every kitchen needs.
- Crockpot: For cozy months ahead, this affordable, programmable slow cooker will be a workhorse for soups, stews, and more.
- Ice Cream Maker: An easy and budget-friendly ice cream maker I absolutely love.
- Belgium Waffle Maker: A newer addition to my kitchen that makes picture-perfect waffles every time.
- Smart Toaster: Great for toast, reheating waffles or bagels, and even keeping items warm.
For the Coffee Lover
From espresso devotees to weekend latte makers, these gifts will delight the coffee lovers on your list.
- Breville Espresso Machine: For a high-end coffee shop experience at home. It makes incredible espresso and lattes. This is the one I own and use daily.
- Mr. Coffee Espresso and Cappuccino Machine: A more budget-friendly espresso machine that still makes delicious drinks.
- Breville Coffee Grinder: A good grinder is essential. This adjustable grinder makes it easy to grind beans for everything from espresso to pour-over.
- Coffee Syrup Dispenser Set: Elevate the home coffee bar with flavored syrups in stylish, refillable dispensers.
- Coffee Travel Tumbler: A top-rated Yeti tumbler to keep coffee warm on the go-available in so many fun colors.
- Stackable Espresso Cup Set: Space-saving and pretty-perfect for espresso lovers and small coffee stations.
- Cappuccino Mug Set: Stackable 8-ounce mugs that are cute, practical, and perfect for cappuccino.
- Original Coffee Pour Over: The classic pour-over that still makes an exceptional cup of coffee. The original is still a best seller and produces a superior cup of morning coffee!
- OXO Single Brew Pour Over: A fantastic single-cup option at a great price.
- Tamping Station: A walnut-colored tamping station to keep espresso tools organized and tidy.
- Coffee Canister: An airtight canister to keep coffee beans fresh and flavorful.
For the Tea Lover
These gifts are made for tea drinkers and afternoon tea enthusiasts-beautiful, useful pieces that make teatime feel special.
- Blooming Tea: Teatime engages all the senses, and blooming tea adds such beauty and drama to the table. This set is a lovely gift for any tea lover.
- On-the-Go Tea: For busy days, a pretty tea tumbler makes taking your favorite tea along feel like a small luxury. This rose-gold tumbler is BPA-free and leak-proof.
- Porcelain 3-Tier Tray: A collapsible porcelain stand that's perfectly sized for afternoon tea and arrives beautifully boxed for gifting.
- Gooseneck Tea Kettle: An electric kettle that heats water to the perfect temperature for green, herbal, oolong, and black teas. I use mine multiple times a day.
- Floral Teaspoon Set: Botanical teaspoons that make a charming addition to any tea table and a lovely gift on their own.
- The Art and Pleasure of Afternoon Tea: An inspiring book from the London Ritz Hotel, filled with teatime ceremony tips and teatime recipes.
- Tea at Fortnum and Mason: A sumptuous guide to tea from the iconic Piccadilly store, with over 45 teatime recipes and stories.
- Wellness Tea Gift Set: A generous assortment of herbal teas designed to promote rest, comfort, and well-being.
- Spode Sugar & Creamer Set: A festive holiday-inspired set that brings Christmas cheer to the tea table-and it's dishwasher safe.
- Spode Teapot: A teapot that has a special place on my Christmas table every year.
- Holiday Teapot: If you collect teapots, this charming Spode teapot is one to treasure-it instantly brings holiday cheer.
- Teaset for 6: An affordable porcelain tea set that includes a teapot, creamer, sugar, teaspoons, strainer, and six teacups.
- Serving Tongs: Perfectly sized for serving sandwiches, pastries, and treats at your next afternoon tea.
- Tea Strainer Set: Stainless steel tea strainers with petal handles-both beautiful and practical for loose-leaf tea.
- More Tea Gift Ideas - Additional tea-inspired gifts in my Amazon shop.
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 use lip balm more often. I love the subtle hint of color, and this product has been a perfect base for adding lip color.
- Shower Steamers: Made with natural ingredients, they come in a variety of herbal and floral scents for a deliciously relaxing aromatherapy experience.
- Cloud Socks: Keep your feet cozy and warm this winter with these soft, stretchable sleep socks.
- 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!
