| No Images? Click here  Our Favorite Gifts for Your Very Own Pastry Wizard We've got way more than a baker's dozen of gift suggestions for you, but here, we'll take the opportunity to highlight some of our favorites.   BraveTart, the Book! Filled with fascinating histories that honor the American tradition of dessert-making, along with tons of irresistible recipes you won't find on Serious Eats, BraveTart, by our very own Stella Parks, is literally the best gift for bakers (providing they don't already have it).  Anodized Aluminum Cake Pans These cake pans are extra deep, which makes them perfect for messy baking projects that tend to bubble up in the oven, like sticky buns.  A Good Food Processor Food processors are incredibly useful for cooks generally speaking, but for bakers especially, they can be absolute necessities—some techniques, like the one Stella uses to create highly stable fruit-flavored whipped cream, won't work without one.  A Cast Iron Combo Cooker This piece of equipment is for the committed bread baker. Thanks to the superlative heat-retention powers of cast iron, this cooker gets extremely hot and stays that way. Meanwhile, the tight-fitting lid creates a little sauna for the bread, trapping in steam to help produce a crackly crust.  Piping Tips While piping tips are often considered exclusively for pastry projects, these tips are large enough to be put to a variety of non-baking uses, like filling up deviled eggs and packing buttery baked potato flesh back into its jacket. Of course, your giftee will find plenty of dessert-related purposes for these, too: dispensing whipped cream, piping cupcake frosting, portioning out chocolate mousse, you name it. 
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