Baking/Cooking Gifts

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Teen DC has recently got into cooking and baking so looking for suitable gifts, maybe a kitchen gadget. But we are real foodies ourselves so there's not much we don't already have (bought or been gifted over 20 odd years!).

Would love some suggestions of whats been a hit with your teens especially. I thought a cookery class but we live rurally.

We already have a waffle maker, popcorn machine, chocolate fountain and slushie maker (both great for younger kids), all sizes of mixers, slow cooker, a crimpet. Shelves of cook books, subscriptions, baking paraphernalia.

You seem to have got most things covered! My son likes receiving a bundle of different chocolate chips and cake decorations. We haven't tried coloured chocolate melts.

I think it's possible you need a mini pie maker - think of the unusual combos they could experiment with!

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My teen god-daughters love sushi and really enjoyed this course:
yosushi.com/sushi-school

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The recipes are mostly simple, always clear instructions. The nutmeg cake always gets eaten.

a sushi kit (although not if you're too rural for really fresh fish - useless around here!), ebelskiver pan, or a rice cooker if they like the whole Korean/Japanese thing teens tend to at the moment.

cookbook wise Kim Joy of bake off fame has some cute cookbooks - Bake me a Cat is really cute and the Christmas one is also good although after the first one ideas tend to be a bit repetitive I feel so pick the best for your teen! or again, a Korean cookbook and some ingredients

Possibly a Spicery Kit and a dedicated spice mix blender if you don't already have one? Or the Ninja Creamy if you have the budget and don't mind delayed gratification.

Pizza stone for the oven

Kitchen tweezers? I love mine!

I think we do need this!

Knives, the best you can afford.

You can actually go on a course to learn how to sharpen different knives.

Tickets to the Good food show? You said you are rural so maybe make it an overnight stay?

My mum has a pie maker that cooks four individual pies at once in case you want DC to cook for the whole family OP 😂

What about a soup maker? Or an unusually shaped cake tin like a Bundt tin?

A set of piping nozzles and some disponibile bags. They’ll last forever and go from basic (donut filling) to professional cake decorating.
A French macaron sheet?
SIL bakes her own bread to a high standard and swears by Le Creuset baking tins. If like me you have a motley selection, you could start replacing them.
Good knives.

Ice cream maker

An overnight trip somewhere for a class with a restaurant visit?

A very good knife, it doesn't have to be a Japanese one for £xxx.

Spice kit, I had the subscription for The Spicery twice, they do plenty of varieties and you can swap if the suggestion is not for you.

Baking kit subscription? I had one for 2 years and it was nice to test some different things.

@Sgtmajormummy - a Macaron sheet is on my list to get.

I got my DS who loves to cook (and who doesn't live at home, so I am unsure about the gadgets he owns) various baking subscriptions. There was one where they send you the ingredients to make various cakes - one a month for six months, and another one the same only for bread. You keep the recipe cards and can recreate it all afterwards if you want to but it did expand his baking and bread making repertoire.

OMG.
You’ve just found DD’s Christmas present.

My 14 yo DS loves making homemade pasta - would a pasta machine be a handy addition to your kitchen? Lots of online recipes and videos for ideas (and it packs away reasonably small in between uses). He also loves tempering chocolate but the equipment is a bit more pricey, as is the chocolate!