Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Gift Basket for Cookie Bakers

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Gift Basket for Cookie Bakers Dec 5th 2011, 11:01 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 2009 Pricegrabber Inc. Photo 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. Cooling Racks 2009 Cooling Racks Photo by Pricegrabber, Inc., licensed to About.com 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. 3. Pastry Board Photo © 2007 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. 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. 4. Rolling Pin Photo © 2009 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. 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. 5. Cookie Cutters 2009 Heart Shaped Cookie Cutters Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com It doesn't matter is they are plastic, stainless steel or copper, cookie cutters help make rolled cookies look great. 6. Decorating Sugars Photo © 2009 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. 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. 7. Cookie Press 2009 Electric Cookie Press Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com 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. Cookie Jars 2009 Golfers Cookie Jar Photo by Pricegrabber, Inc., licensed to About.com 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.

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