Whether you are shopping for an avid baker, at-home chef, or your favourite foodie, our collection of some of the best cooking gift ideas is full of awesome culinary picks from local, Canadian businesses. If this past year had you spending more time in the kitchen, then be sure to browse these great finds that will help you spice up your routine. Enjoy!
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Cookbook Stands
Open Cookbook Display
From Inside Style Co. is a Canadian home decor store based in Waterloo, ON. They have an incredible collection of wood cookbook stands. They come in various wood stains and stand up right or lay flat (like the one shown below). They also have some of our favourite wood Christmas decorations.
Cooking Gifts: Tablet Cookbook Stand
If you prefer to follow your recipes on your tablet, Arbol Cuisine Design has a modern solution. This local Quebec business offers a tablet cookbook stand in white oak, walnut or maple wood. You can also use this stand with a phone or traditional cookbook.
We included their incredible handcrafted salt and pepper shakers in our made in Canada wood products shopping guide. They’re stunning!
Customized Cookbook Stand
JM La Bonne Impression is a local Montreal shop that offers a number of customized products like this beautiful bamboo cookbook stand. This would make a great housewarming gift or wedding gift. They also have great BBQ sets that we included in our BBQ gift ideas guide.
Cooking Gift Ideas: Handcrafted Wood Cookbook Stand
- From The Beauty Revival
- Ships from Grande Prairie, AB
Knife Holders
Handcrafted Wooden Knife Holder
Another great cooking gift from local Quebec business, Arbol Cuisine Design, is this handcrafted made in Canada wood knife holder.
Cooking Spices & Mixes: Cooking Gift Ideas
Spice Kits: Cooking Gifts
Totem Tea & Spice is a Canadian tea and spice company that specializes in loose leaf tea and spice kits. Their spice kits come in awesome tin containers and include spices from around the world. This local Montreal shop also have BBQ rub kits which we included in our BBQ gift ideas guide.
Premium Pancake, Waffle & Scone mix
Lannie Rae Gourmet is a local Cochrane, Alberta shop that creates gourmet pancake, scone and waffle mixes. These premium baking mixes come in a variety of delicious flavours and would make an awesome cooking gift idea.
Cooking Gift Ideas: Organic Spice Samples
Canadian seed company and local Toronto shop, Jenno’s Homestead, has a great idea for cooking lovers – organic spice sample packs. These are a great budget friendly gift and also make a great stocking stuffer.
Maple Spice Mix: Cooking Gifts
Thompsontown Maple is a Canadian maple syrup company and local Ontario shop that has crafted a maple spice mix. This is perfect for trying a new spice on chicken, fish, beef, vegetables and more.
Cooking Gift Baskets
Pasta Themed Gift Baskets
Dragonfly Gift Baskets is a Calgary gift basket company that has put together a great gift for cooking lovers. Their pasta themed gift basket includes locally made pasta and pasta sauce, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, tea towels, cheese and grader, along with a pasta server. As you can see it includes everything you need for a pasta night at home. This would be great for a housewarming gift as well.
Canadian gift basket brand and local Ontario shop, Touch Box, has a great cooking-themed gift basket. This Italian pasta-themed gift box has products like pesto, spaghetti, olive oil and more.
Cooking Gift Ideas: Cooking Tools
Cooking Gifts: Olive Oil Dispenser
Montreal pottery studio, Poterie Bonmatin, creates the most beautiful made in Canada olive oil dispenser. They come in a variety of colours so you can choose one that suits the recipient perfectly. These would also make a great housewarming gift.
Canadian hand blown glass studio and local Canmore shop, Miss Mac Glass, makes the most gorgeous glass olive oil dispensers.
Chef’s Knife Set: Cooking Gift Ideas
Local Toronto shop, Capital Crafts Canada, offers chefs knive sets. These hand forged stainless steel and wood knives are incredible. Every cook knows how important a good quality knife is!
Measuring Cups
Another great gift idea from Inside Style Co. are these lovely measuring cups.
Egg Tray
The Pear Co. is a Canadian gift shop and local Ontario business based in Kirkland Lake. They have products from so many different Canadian artists and makers, including this made in Canada egg tray. It’s made by another Ontario business called Stump & Stone.
Bamboo Measuring Spoons
Ola Bamboo is a Canadian eco-friendly store based in Drummondville, QC. Not only doing they have eco-friendly bath, body and home products they also have bamboo products for the kitchen. Their bamboo measuring spoons (shown below) are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic and would make a great gift for cooking lovers.
Update October 27, 2024: It looks like they are no longer selling these bamboo spoons but we will update this guide if that changes.
Recipe Journals & Cards
Cooking Gifts: Customized Recipe Journal
Forest Nine is a local Calgary shop creating beautiful made in Canada leather journals, notebooks, vow and recipe books. Their recipe journals make an amazing gift for cooking lovers that will last for years to come and can be passed on for generations. Looking at, and trying, old recipes from my Grandma is one of my favourite things to do. These are such high quality journals and we also included them in our best journals from Canadian shops shopping guide.
Family Recipe Book: Cooking Gift Ideas
The Joyful Life Company is a local Winnipeg shop that specializes in keepsake, memory books. They’ve put together a ‘Family Recipe Book’ where you can write down your favourite family recipes. This is such a great gift for cooking lovers because it can be passed on from one generation to the next. They also have Grandparent interview books which we included in our gifts for grandma shopping guide.
Recipe Cards: Cooking Gift Ideas
Jaybee Design is a Calgary greeting card shop that also sells really cute recipe cards.
Floral Recipe Cards
Linden Paper Co. has created really nice floral recipe cards that make the best gifts for cooking lovers. They also have journals and greetings cards and this local BC shop is based in Port Moody.
Personalized Recipe Cards
Bureau Home & Gifts is a Canadian gift shop and local BC business based in Surrey. They have recipe cards that can be personalized with the recipients name.
Aprons & Kitchen Items
Cooking Aprons
Canadian eco-friendly store, Your Green Kitchen, has some beautiful cooking aprons to choose from. They have both adult and kids sizes to choose from. These make for a great mommy and me matching outfit.
Personalized Kids Aprons
Tiny Owls Gift Co. offers really cute kids aprons that can be completely personalized with a name. This local Ontario shop based in St. Thomas has lots of other great gifts for kids, including gifts for baby showers.
Kitchen Tea Towels
Pomp & Sass is a local Ontario business that offers high quality Turkish towels in Canada. Their tea towels come in various colours and designs. We chose the green fern design with tassels shown below for a gift recently and the recipient loved it.
Those are some of our best cooking gift ideas in Canada. There’s sure to be something to help you find the perfect gift or addition to your own kitchen. We’ll keep updating this collection of cooking gifts as we discover them.
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