The 25 Best Cooking and Baking Gifts for Budding Chefs
Make your young sous-chef happy with one of these fantastic cooking-themed gifts for toddlers, kids, and teens!
Erica Silverstein and Jack Shepherd

Cooking is basically a delicious science experiment: Mixing things up, sprinkling various ingredients to see what will happen, and heating the whole mess up to watch it change into food (hopefully!). When you look at it that way, it’s no wonder kids love to cook. Toddlers will serve you imaginary tea, while teens will happily destroy a kitchen with their cupcake creations. And if you nurture these instincts by giving your budding chef a cooking-themed gift, then the food (real or imaginary) that they create will be a gift for the whole family.
1. Safety Knife Set
All great cooks — even junior ones — know that gifting knives is not bad luck. Certainly not when the plastic blades allow young chefs to slice and dice veggies without slicing and dicing their fingers.

Mindware Playful Chef: Safety Knife Set
Designed with safety first, these specially-engineered knives let kids do something they usually aren’t allowed to – cut food in the kitchen! The...
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2. Hot Sauce Making Kit
Everyone knows that it’s cool to be into hot sauce, but what’s even cooler is making your own hot sauce. (Technically the coolest thing of all is having two hot-sauce holsters on your jeans so you can walk into a potluck like you’re the last habañero-slinger in the West, but let’s take this one step at a time.) Here’s a hot-sauce making kit for anyone who can handle the heat.

W&P Homemade Hot Sauce Kit
Get ready for hot sauce that packs more than just heat. A collaboration with The Chili Lab, this kit includes the spice blends and tools needed to...
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3. Thumbs Up Burger Speaker
Bert the ADORABLE Bluetooth Burger Speaker will play your favorite tunes for you with a sweet smile on his face while you cook and devour his kindred. OK, there are probably better ways of describing the act of listening to music while you enjoy a burger, but you get the picture.

Thumbs Up UK Burger Speaker
This cute food-shaped Bluetooth speaker is pocket-sized and ultra-portable. What this little guy lacks in size he makes up for in a powerful 2W...
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4. “In The French Kitchen With Kids” Cookbook
Your budding Julia Child will be churning out steak frites and profiteroles by New Year’s once she cracks open this family-friendly cookbook. Note: Some parental assistance may be required.
5. Djeco Tea Time Set
When bunny and dolly need an afternoon snack, this painted wooden tea set makes the perfect serving piece for tea, crustless sandwiches, and petits fours.

Djeco Tea Time
Tea for Two? This elegant solid wood tea set is perfect for your tea party, beautifully decorated with birds in soft pastel colors.
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6. Paint-Your-Own Tea Party Set

Making in the Moment
Older afternoon tea enthusiasts (which, honestly, that’s everyone with taste) will enjoy painting their own ceramic tea set after they’ve whipped up some hot chocolate and raisin scones.
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7. “From Crook To Cook” by Snoop Dogg
In the tradition of instant classics like Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and “Betty Crocker’s Cookbook” comes a culinary masterpiece from an absolute legend. If your teen’s too cool for the Betty Crocker stuff, get them rockin’ in the kitchen with this sizzling-hot collection of recipes from Snoop Dogg.

From Crook to Cook
Delivering 50 recipes straight from his own collection, Snoop's cookbook features OG staples like Baked Mac & Cheese and Fried Bologna...
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8. Gift Republic You Guac Served
Just as guacamole is the pinnacle of human culinary invention, so ping-pong is the absolute peak of sporting competition. (We’re fairly sure this is true, anyway.) So, what if we told you that you could get a guacamole-themed ping-pong set for under $15???

Gift Republic You Guac Served Ping Pong Set
The only thing getting smashed in this game will be your opponent! So avo go at our portable, You Guac Served ping pong game (not recommended for...
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9. Funwares Nachosaurus Snack & Dip Bowl Set
The majestic nachosaurus pauses to refresh himself at the guacamole feeding hole, as the mighty red rivers of salsa froth and crash against the cavernous Snack & Dip Bowl banks. This is literally a perfect gift for anyone who likes anything.

Funwares Nachosaurus Snack & Dip Bowl Set
The ultimate chip and dip set for children, teens, and dino lovers of all ages brings a roaring good time to taco night or any meal or snack time....
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10. Funwares TACOsaurus Rex Taco Holder
Be sure to keep this beautiful thing out of reach of your Snack & Dip Bowl Set above, as the TACOsaurus is a natural predator of the nachosaurus, and things could get messy. But this one’s an absolute beauty as well, and you probably need them both.

Funwares TACOsaurus Rex Taco Holder
Thought to be extinct the prehistoric TACOsaurus Rex is back and ready to carry two of your favorite tacos on its back! It's simple, Dinosaurs +...
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11. Streamline Cheeseburger Mug
It’s inconceivable, in this day and age, that anyone still chooses to drink out of a plain mug when they could be quenching their thirst from the epic gloriousness that is an oversized ceramic cheeseburger. Do your part to rectify this terrible wrong today.
12. Melissa & Doug Pasta Set
A is for angel hair, B is for bowties. … Begin your kids’ pasta education with this pretend play pasta-making kit, and perhaps they’ll learn that spaghetti is more than something to throw at the wall.

Melissa & Doug Prepare & Server Pasta Set
The maître d' leads you to the kitchen door, through the frantic clatter of pots and pans, and seats you at the best seat in the house. You order...
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13. Gumball Poodle Cheese Ribbed Gym Socks
Lots of people claim they love cheese, but then you’ll take one look at their socks and they won’t have “cheese” written on there even once. 🙄

Gumball Poodle Cheese Ribbed Gym Socks
Spread these socks on your favorite crackers (or maybe just wear them)! One size fits most.
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14. Areaware Little Puzzle Thing: Strawberry Scoop
The most delicious looking puzzle you ever did see. This one’s for anyone who likes ice cream, and the prize for completing it is going out and getting a double-scoop at the ice cream shop. Hey, we don’t make the rules!

Areaware Little Puzzle Thing: Strawberry Scoop
little puzzle thing jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each...
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15. Kendall The Kale

Oli & Carol
If you’re hoping to raise baby as a foodie, start the vegetable education early. When this kale-shaped teething toy soothes his sore gums, it will be the beginning of a lifelong love affair with all things green, leafy, and delicious.
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16. Fred Food Face Plate

Fred
All chefs know that presentation is as important as preparation. Your aspiring Top Chef Junior contestant can practice his plate drizzles and garnishes with Fred, a face on a plate just waiting to be spruced up with edible creations.
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17. Modern Sprout DIY Seed Ball Kit - Pizza Garden
Until they invent an actual pizza plant, we’re going to have to continue to do this the hard (and, honestly, extremely rewarding) way! This seed ball kit has everything you need to grow your own pizza toppings and start your own farm-to-table operation right in the backyard!
18. Gift Republic Pizza Kite
*In hushed, reverential tones* “What is that majestic beast, gracefully soaring through the blue skies like a golden eagle? Could it possibly be? … Yes! … It is! It’s a pizza kite. ’Tis the greatest of all omens to witness such a glorious vision.”
19. Melissa & Doug Smoothie Maker Blender Set
If your play kitchen is lacking a Ninja-style blender to make healthy kale smoothies and protein shakes, this smoothie maker set will make breakfast in the playroom more satisfying. Just keep Kendall far, far away...

Melissa & Doug Smoothie Maker Blender Set
Yo, bro. Want to come back to my place to slam some protein after the gym? I just got this blender that makes killer smoothies, so we can get what...
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20. Penguin Random House "Julia Child" Book

Penguin Random House
If you have to ask the question, you need the book. This chapter book for young readers will take them through the life and food loves of chef and TV star Julia Child.
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21. Farm Steady Rainbow Bagel Making Kit
It is said that every time someone makes a rainbow bagel, a unicorn gets its horn. And if it’s not said, it really should be. Anyway, bagels are awesome, and rainbow bagels are even better!
22. Farm To Table Play Kitchen

KidKraft
Give your kid the hipster kitchen you always dreamed of with this play set from KidKraft. It’s got vegetable boxes in the window for your organic urban garden, a stylish back splash, and a much coveted water and ice dispenser in the fridge.
23. Everything Bagel with Cream Cheese Making Kit
Give a teen an everything bagel with cream cheese and they’re hungry in an hour. Teach a teen to make their own everything bagel with cream cheese and … they’re still hungry in an hour. Teens are very hungry. But it’s a very fun thing to know how to do!

Everything Bagel with Cream Cheese Making Kit
Everything you need to make a dozen everything bagels and homemade cultured cream cheese all in one convenient package for the whole family. Rope,...
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24. He said She said PIZZA Necklace
When you’re truly in love, it’s customary to proudly wear a beautiful necklace with the name of your lover. Here’s a necklace for a love that will never, ever die.

PIZZA Necklace
Gold plated brass - 16" with 2" extender.
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25. Burrito Blanket
For the burrito-lover in your family, so they can dream about being beans, rice, cheese, and hopefully guacamole!

Burrito Blanket
With this giant tortilla blanket, you can become a taco, quesadilla, tostada, enchilada, burrito, taquito or use your imagination. Fun for 1, 2, or...
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