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Holiday Baking Essentials
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items Everything you need for holiday baking — mix the batter, measure it right, bake it even, and decorate it pretty. Practical baking tools for cookies, cakes, pies and everything in between — shop the essentials below.
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Mix, Measure & Prep
Pans, Mats & Bakeware
Cookies, Cooling & Decorating
Mix, Measure & Prep
The tools that get the batter right — mixing, measuring, and checking the oven temperature before anything goes in.
A stand mixer is a commitment — a good hand mixer is the everyday answer. Nine speeds take you from gently folding flour to whipping cream, and it comes with beaters, a whisk, dough hooks and a blending rod in one storage bag. Light enough to grab fo...
KitchenAid 9 Speed Hand Mixer KHM926 Silver
Most ovens lie about their temperature — by 25 degrees or more. This big-dial thermometer hangs on the rack and shows the real number at a glance, so cakes rise right and cookies don't burn on the bottom. Cheap insurance for every bake.
Taylor Analog Oven Thermometer - 3 Inch
Baking is chemistry, and chemistry needs weighing, not scooping. This scale measures to the gram up to 11 pounds, and the display pulls out so a big mixing bowl never hides the number. The zero button tares the bowl away. Serious bakers swear by it.
OXO Good Grips 11-Pound Digital Kitchen Food Scale
Pans, Mats & Bakeware
Pans, mats, and bakeware that help cookies and cakes bake evenly and release cleanly, batch after batch.
If there is one pan every baker reaches for, it is this one. The half sheet handles cookies, roasting, and sheet-pan dinners, and the encapsulated steel rim keeps it from warping in a hot oven. Made in the USA and built to last for years of holiday b...
Nordic Ware Aluminum Commercial Half Sheet
Cookies that slide right off, no parchment, no greasing, no scrubbing the pan after. Silpat is the original silicone baking mat — fiberglass mesh inside food-grade silicone for even browning — and one mat lasts thousands of bakes. It fits a standard ...
Silpat Non-Stick Silicone Baking Mat, Half Sheet
A Bundt cake looks like you tried much harder than you did — the pan does the decorating for you. This 15-cup Anniversary pan holds big holiday recipes, releases cleanly, and the cast aluminum gives crisp, detailed flutes. A dusting of powdered sugar...
Nordic Ware Anniversary Bundt, 15 Cup, Silver
Two pie dishes for the price of one set — because holiday dessert is never just one pie. The deep dish holds taller fillings and the glass lets you see the crust browning. Dishwasher, microwave and freezer safe, so the leftovers go straight in.
Pyrex Deep 2-Pack 9.5" Round Glass Bakeware
Cookies, Cooling & Decorating
Everything for the finish — cooling racks, scoops, parchment, and decorating tools that make holiday cookies look as good as they taste.
Holiday baking means batches — and batches need somewhere to cool. This rack stacks three tiers in the footprint of one, so three trays of cookies cool at once without taking over the counter. It folds flat for storage when baking season is over.
Wilton Excelle Elite 3-Tier Cooling Rack Black
Even cookies bake even — and a scoop is how you get there. This medium scoop portions 1.5 tablespoons every time, so every cookie comes out the same size and finishes at the same minute. America's Test Kitchen's pick, with a soft spring-loaded handle...
OXO Good Grips Medium Cookie Scoop
The cheapest upgrade in this whole list. Line the pan, bake, lift the whole batch off — no sticking, no scrubbing, and the pan stays clean for the next round. Unbleached and chlorine-free, oven-safe to 425°F, and one roll lasts the whole season.
Reynolds Kitchens Unbleached Parchment Paper Roll
The fun part of holiday baking is the decorating — and this kit has all of it in one case. Eighteen stainless tips, twenty-four disposable bags, a coupler and an angled spatula, so swirls, rosettes and borders are all covered. A great starter set for...
Wilton Cake Decorating Kit, Spatula Tips, 46-Piece