2023 SAB Edit Gift Guide
Gifts for bakers
Mooncake Mold
While we usually make and mooncakes during Mid-Autumn Festival, you can use these pretty and versatile molds all year long, and yes, you can use them to make cookies too!
High Quality Spatula Set
A good spatula set is long lasting, durable, and heatproof. Flexible spatulas are super tools for the bakers in your life, so gift a high-quality set they’ll always use and appreciate.
Glass Food Container Storage Set
When heated, even the safest plastics can leak microplastics in the lining. We never microwave our food in any plastic containers anymore. Anyone, especially Hello Kitty lovers, can appreciate a cute glass food container set. There’s a Disney set as well.
Stand Mixer
This is the stand mixer Kat Lieu has used since 2017 for small-batch baking. Its compact size makes it perfect for people with smaller kitchens and less storage spaces. It comes with three attachments (balloon whisk, paddle, and dough hook).
Digital Scale
Using a precise scale eliminates the need to wash extra tools like measuring cups, and improves baking with accurate measurements of the weight of ingredients. This is the model tried and trusted by the SAB team.
Food-Safe Reusable Silicone Baking Mats
While we love to line our baking sheets with parchment paper, it’s more environmentally friendly to bake with reusable and easy-to-clean food-safe and non-stick silicone baking mats. While Silpat from France is the most coveted brand, there are many questionable reviews regarding authenticity in reviews on Amazon, so we’re recommending a generic Amazon Basics product.
For Cookbook Lovers
Modern Asian Baking at Home
Cookbook lovers, this is the first modern cookbook all about Asian baking, written by an Asian baker (and the founder of Subtle Asian Baking plus admin of this website!). #representationmatters
The Korean Vegan
Gorgeous photography, beautiful reflections and stories, The Korean Vegan cookbook is perfect for anyone looking to add amazing recipes to their repertoires, especially for those who love Korean food and want to eat more plant-based meals or convert to veganism.
The Flavor Equation
An illuminating, beautiful, and geeky book for those who want to master flavor pairings, and learn all about “perfect mouthfeel.” Plus, this book looks great on a coffee table too!
For the Kiddos (and Kids at Heart)
subtle asian baking merch
All net proceeds of subtle asian baking merch go to charity to help #stopasianhate
Cute Cuddly Plush Gnome
At first, we didn’t think we’d be into plush gnomes, but the kids in us fell in love as soon as we unboxed a pink glittery and cuddly gnome. Check out all the amazing gift baskets, handmade nutcrackers, and gnome-themed gifts available from our friends at Christkindl.Live
A Soothing Purrble!
When we learned about the Purrble, we just had to get one for ourselves. It’s like a Furby but quiet and less annoying, and has a beating heartbeat that can be calmed when someone pets it. The Purrble may be the best “fidget toy” of the year and can help children learn to self-soothe and self-regulation emotions.
Junior’s Baking and Cooking Tool Set
Want to encourage the next generation to bake and cook? Here’s a gender-neutral cooking/baking tool set complete with a cute storage case. The food-safe tools are not dangerous, even for the clumsiest little hands!