Navigating the sweet spot between childhood and the teen years, tweens often discover a blooming passion for creativity and hands-on activities, with baking rising as a favorite among many.
The joy of mixing, kneading, and decorating, all culminating in delicious creations, can be both an artistic outlet and a delightful skill for this age group.
If you’re seeking the perfect gift to ignite or further fuel a tween’s culinary enthusiasm, you’re in the right place. From stylish aprons to next-level baking tools, our guide is set to unveil a world of gifts that will transform any kitchen into a wonderland of flavors and fun for the budding baker.
Best Baking Gifts for Tweens Who Love to Bake
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Tween Cookbooks
What better place to start when looking for great gift ideas for a new baker than with their very own cookbook.
Bake Up! makes an excellent baking present for your tween as it is specifically designed for a younger audience with easy-to-follow recipes compared to the regular old baking cookbooks.
It teaches your novice bakers the simple basics of pastries, baking cookies and more elaborate desserts – its become my daughter’s go to in the kitchen!
A cookbook is the type of gift that will leave your tween feeling like a pro in the kitchen, thanks to its step-by-step baking photos and technique. There are some great recipes in here that are purposefully age appropriate for a tween to work on independently.
Personalized Apron and Hat
Now before they step foot in the kitchen, your young baker needs to look the part; What would be cooler and more inclusive for your tween than a stylish apron and hat that has their names on? It will build your kid’s confidence a notch higher as they feel they can now handle baking matters.
Aprons are also a great way to keep your kid’s clothes clean from the egg whites and flour involved in baking; thus, a win-win kind of birthday gift for a keen baker.
Cake Pop Maker Kit
Cake Pops are a brilliant way for tween girls and budding chefs to get started in the kitchen. With all the items you need to make some amazing cake pops in this cooking set, including the molds, piping bags, lollipop sticks, bags and twist ties, all you need is the pantry ingredients.
This is a fun gift idea for tweens who love sweet treats and being creative with minimal cooking.
Mixing Gear
The best way of getting your tweens more involved in the kitchen is treating them with all the right tools to get the job done.
Getting them fun mixing gear will be the real deal! This is one of the best cooking gifts for young kids who like to bake as they get to do it in style!
This set includes a rainbow whisk, mixing spoons with fun handles, and bright-colored spatulas, ensuring the mixing and stirrings are full of fun. As an added bonus, they are dishwasher-safe, making clean-up time for your tween a cinch too!
Cupcake Baking Set
This is the perfect cupcake baking set to ensure your tween is ready to bake all they have seen in their cookbooks.
A tween who loves to bake will love cakes and cupcakes, and with this set (which includes pan, cupcake liners, pastry bag for frosting, etc.) in their kitchen inventory, they are super good.
This set is one of the greatest Christmas ideas for bakers as Christmas is the season to make merry and a lot of sugar cookies and cupcakes.
Nifty Measuring Set
When your tween receives this stylish measuring set, they will indeed be on their way to producing the perfect set of cupcakes every time.
A measuring spoon set makes a great stocking stuffer gift for tween girls wanting to up their baking skills.
Cookie-Cutter Sets
What do you get a girl who loves to bake? Of course, cookie cutters are going to be an essential!
These cool baking gadgets are easy to use for kids of all ages and lead to plenty of creativity in the kitchen thanks to the many shapes they will have to choose from.
This particular set is ideal for kids who love being the cookie bakers for the holiday season as it covers ghosts and ghouls for Halloween baking through to Christmas cookie cutters and even Easter sweet treats.
Countertop Oven
If you are searching for ideal baking gifts for 12-year-olds who want to up their game in the kitchen, then gifting your nearly-teen girl her very own easy bake oven that is just the right size is the perfect gift.
This small countertop oven makes baking a cinch since there are no heavy doors to deal with. From pizzas to cup cakes this sort of oven is super easy for young chefs to operate and access.
Colorful Mixing Bowl Set
When it comes to baking gifts for kids, its essential to start with the basics, but it need not be boring with a coloful set of mixing bowls.
These bowls will blend in well with the other fun kitchen utensils you have bought them and come in handy while stirring to make the batter and mixing ingredients.
They can also be used for whipping the frosting. Ensure to grab a set of bowls with a silicone base as it will help stabilize them during the mixing!
Hand Electic Mixer
When it comes to kids baking gifts, a great place to get started is with an electric hand beater.
While most kids will no doubt start learning to beat and mix manually with a wooden spoon, an electric mixer is such a time saver and a small, portable unit is ideal for small hands.
Look for a mixer with variable speed settings and a place to keep the blades.
Personalized Recipe Book
Encouraging your little bakers new found passion, gift her her very own personalized recipe book to record her own kitchen creations and ideas.
A lovely personal touch can be to add some famiy favorite recipe cards inside to get her started with some great ideas.
Kids Knife Set
Want your tween to gain even more confidence in the kitchen? This is one kind of gift that will help ease your tween into proper kitchen prep work when they are ready to do the chopping, cutting, and dicing.
With a blunt end but serrated cutting edge, they can safely learn the right techniques for using kitchen knives before touching your proper chopping block.
It comes as a beautifully presented set of kid-proof knives, a chopping board and cut-resistant gloves that help keep minor accidents at bay.
Oven Mitts
Your tween loves spending time in the kitchen trying out new ideas for baking, but there’s nothing more off-putting to their baking adventure than scolds.
Grab your budding tween chef a trendy set of their own oven mitts to protect little hands. We love these character silicone mitts that can double as a hot pot stand and withstand temperatures up to 446°F.
Unicorn Baking Set with Storage Case
This is a gorgeous baking set gift that your younger tween will adore. This set comes loaded with basic cake baking and decorating supplies that will benefit your tween when baking.
It is an ideal kit for your novice baker including not just cake decorating tools but all the preparation and kitchen tools they need too, including knifes and cutting boards, measuring spoons and rolling pins – plus a coordinated unicorn apron.
Your young baker can keep everything organized when they’re finished thanks to its storage case. An ideal baking gift for a 9-year-old girl.
Cake Color Set
Fun cake colors to decorate their creations makes baking even more fun for your tween. This color set will be the perfect finishing touch and really help them stamp their personality on their baked goods – all those junior art classes and years of learning color mixing rules will finally pay off when they finish their masterpiece!
Flower Baking Molds
Helping your junior baker to make sweet treats, a set of fun baking moulds is the perfect addition to her kitchen kit. Beyond just baked goods, these heat resistant, non-toxic silicone trays can also be used for jello, chocolate and candy making.
Cake Decorating Kit for Beginners
An all-in-one cake decorating kit, this is one of the best gifts you can buy a tween who wants to be a budding chef.
This baking kit has many creative extras that others miss including piping bags with 24 different styles of icing tips to try, a turn table and several different spatulas and leveling tools to really develop their skills.
Baketivity Kids Baking Set
This is a great beginners’ baking set for tweens. It’s an ideal gift for as it is expansive and comes loaded with lots of cake-baking and decorating supplies to make cake pops.
A cute and colorful gift your tween would love to receive includes staples of flour, salt, flavoring sugar, chocolate chips, and food colors. Not leaving behind the sprinkles, which are everyone’s favorite, helps to garnish your tween’s masterpiece.
This kit helps keep you on a budget and has easy step-by-step instructions for your tween.
Cup Cake Carrier
Whilst we might think of everything our junior baker needs to make cakes, don’t forget they’ll need some where to store their new creations!
A cup cake carrier made with food safe plastic and muffin pans is the perfect way to store and transport their beautifully baked goodies – one of the most practical gifts for tween bakers.
DIY Galaxy Donut Kit
Baking for tweens just got even easier with this DIY Galaxy Donut Kit. Everything you need neatly delivered in one box to your door, this is a superb unique gift set for a tween.
Organic and all-natural ingredients along with the plastic donut mold and beautiful glaze mix and sparkles for an out of this world result! Ready made kits like this make excellent Christmas gifts for tween girls.
Personalized Baking Tshirt
Not all gifts for young bakers need to be about the kitchen. Your tween baker will love this cute and colorful tshirt, the perfect finishing touch to a tweens wardrobe and rounding out our collection of awesome baking gifts for tweens.
Tweens love helping in the kitchen and other areas around the house – if they have the right tools to pursue their passions. If your tween has started showing interest in the kitchen department and especially baking, the above gift ideas will get a shrill out of your tween.
Let us know which baking gift ideas will best suit your tween in the above categories or otherwise. We would really love to hear your big ideas!
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