This is the perfect gift basket for the first time or long time cookie baker on your gift list. Anyone with an oven, the perfect recipe and ingredients, can make cookies with these items.
Gift Giving Tip:
If you do decide to give large items such as the baking sheets, cooling racks or pastry board, I'd use them as a "basket" to place the other items your giving them. Enclose your gifts in shrink wrap and tie it with a ribbon.
1. Cookie Sheets
Cookie sheets are very important to the cookie baker. I have a cabinet full of them. My personal favorite cookie sheets are full sided a.k.a. Jelly Roll Pans. There is nothing worse that baking cookies only to have them slide off of the pan. Besides keeping the cookies on the pan and making Jelly Roll Cakes, these pans also make great serving trays. On the other hand, the jelly roll sides allows for less cookies on a sheet. It's up to you.
2. Nonstick Pan Liners
For the novice and experience cookie baker, these are a must. Cookies easily come off of the baking sheet by using these liners.3. Cooling Racks
Cooling racks are extremely important to perfect cookie making. Depending on the recipe, if the cookies are not allowed to cool with complete air circulation, they may become soggy or too hard.4. Pastry Board
I just love my pastry board. It is the best place to roll out sugar cookies. Of course, I also use it for bread baking and pie making. This board from Catskill Craftsmen even has size markings for making pie crusts.5. Rolling Pin
A rolling pin is essential to making shaped cookies. I prefer an old fashioned wooden one, but there are plenty of different types out there.6. Cookie Cutters
It doesn't matter is they are plastic, stainless steel or copper, cookie cutters help make rolled cookies look great.7. Cookie Press
A cookie press is what is used to shape those elegant butter cookies called Spritz. Literally, you can use this machine to press out dozens of cookies in minutes. A fun toy for any cookie maker. I finally broke down and bought an electric one. It made making my Cheese Straws so much easier.8. Dessert Decorator
These gadgets are wonderful for decorating cookie with icing. There are several tips to make shapes like stars and leaves. You can even use them to write with icing. The dessert decorator is perfect when making sugar cookies.9. Decorating Sugars
No cookie baking gift basket would be complete without edible glitter, decorating sugars and other decors. Spritz and Sugar cookies need some type of sprinkles or decoration to look good.10. Cookie Jars
You can't expect someone to bake cookies and then not have a place to keep them. There's such a huge selection of cookie jars available these days that they've become collector's items. When choosing a cookie jar, try to get one that either matches their kitchen or personal whimseys.