Holiday Gift Guide 2021: The Best Baked Goods Baskets

When it comes to cravings, do baked goods ever come up short? From cookies the size of baseballs and gooey brownies to decadent cakes and one-of-a-kind pies, it’s hard to not be happy in the presence of freshly baked treats. Especially when they’re all wrapped up and festive. This year put a smile on everyone’s face with one of these high-quality baked goodies options. Enough to share for the whole party, here are our top picks for baked treats.

Bake Me A Wish | Incredible Bakery Tower

This massive baked goodies tower comes stacked with everything a holiday party needs. This gift tower arrives with a 4-inch Cinnamon Walnut Coffee Cake; 20 Gourmet Cookies including Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, Snickerdoodle, Butter Pecan, and Ginger Molasses; Six Gourmet Brownies including Velvet Ganache, Fudge Walnut, Peanut Butter Chip, Cheesecake, Raspberry Crumb, and Lemon Blondie; 20 Gold Foil-Wrapped Hazelnut Chocolates and a delicious Triple Chocolate Enrobed Brownie Cake. Good to know? Through the BMAW Cares program 5% of all purchases are made to the charities and causes they support. They will be sending holiday gifts to Veteran’s Hospitals and Public Schools throughout the Christmas season.  This will be the gift that keeps giving this holiday season!

Buy: Incredible Bakery Tower, $125

Wolferman’s Bakery | Deluxe Bakery Banquet Tower

Who doesn’t love fresh baked goodies in the morning? This tower is brimming with favorites such as a variety of their super-thick, traditional, and mini English muffins and English muffin bread; cinnamon rolls and icing packets; indulgent cakes like the chocolate swirl cake and lemon raspberry loaf cake; pastries including baklava and scones; and even coffee. Included is fruity blueberry and strawberry preserves to spread on the baked treats. This tower is the only thing you need for an epic holiday brunch.

Buy: Deluxe Bakery Banquet Tower, $99.99

Harry & David | Bakery Tray – Ultimate

If you crave baked goods and decadent treats, this is the basket for you. This incredible assortment of bakery goods includes desserts like New York-style cheesecake, apple fritter pull-apart bread, honey-sweet baklava, an assortment of cookies that include raspberry galettes, double chocolate cherry cookies, and macadamia nut chocolate chip cookies. In addition there’s several cakes such as the cinnamon swirl and chocolate decadence cake. This impressive selection comes packaged in a decorative pine wood tray, perfect for hosting.

Buy: Bakery Tray – Ultimate, $139.99

Cheryl’s Cookies | Merry Christmas Traditional Gift Tin Tower

If this doesn’t scream happy holidays I don’t know what does. This super festive tower is stuffed with all sorts of colorful cookies, particularly soft, frosted ones. Inside are a selection of buttercream frosted cookies in flavors that include gingerbread, mint chocolate and peppermint; traditional cookies that include oatmeal raisin, rocky road pecan and sugar; chocolate covered oreos and more. There are even fun-size cut out cookies, perfect for sharing.

Buy: Merry Christmas Traditional Gift Tin Tower, $59.99

Olivieri 1882 | Panettone

Celebrate the holidays with the ultimate Christmas treat — panettone! Olivieri 1882 is a 6th generation, family owned pasticceria known for their handmade, artisanal traditional panettone cakes. Made with fine ingredients like hand-minced candied oranges, Tahiti Bourbon vanilla and natural sourdough, this dough passes through a 48-hour double fermentation and is free of preservatives. From the panettone classico to novel flavor combinations like Peach Amaretto Chocolate, Sour Cherry, and Apple Cinnamon Raisin, these are the perfect soft, cloud-like breads to gift this season.

Buy: Classic Panettone, $75

Levain Bakery | Signature Cookie Assortment Gift Boxes

For the cookie lover in your life, gift the gift of the ultra-decadent Levain cookies. All of New York City-based Levain Bakery’s cookies are baked daily in small batches and hand packaged. Rich, thick and indulgent, these cookie have reach cult-classic status in the city. Levain Bakery’s classic Cookie Assortment includes the original four cookie flavors: Chocolate Chip Walnut, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip and Oatmeal Raisin. Each gift box contains either four, eight or 12 six-ounce cookies that are baked to order, wrapped in dainty cellophane bags with hand- tied blue ribbons.

Buy: Signature Cookie Assortment Gift Boxes, 4/ $27; 8/ $49; 12/ $68

Pipeline Bakeshop & Creamery | Best of Pipeline Gift Box

Founded in 2016, Pipeline Bakeshop & Creamery has made a name for itself with their famous Malasadas declared “’The Gold Standard’ of Malasadas” by Eater; giant Monster Cookies; and their trademark Cake Bombs™. Cake Bomb flavors include lemon, strawberry guava, chocolate hazelnut and cereal, which is a fruity pebbles cake with a fruity pebble glaze. The cookies include their best selling Avery & Molly which is a cookies and cream cookie with brownies and marshmallows and a whole Oreo in the middle and the M&M Monster with potato chips and marshmallows. The malasadas range from the classic and chocolate to the lihing, which involves salty dried plum sugar, and coffee. Get a taste of Hawaii with this gift box!

Buy: Best of Pipeline Gift Box, $99.00

Milk Bar | The Gift Givers Set

Christina Tosi’s sweets empire, Milk Bar, has the most indulgent, delicious and nostalgic baked goodies. You cannot go wrong with gifting this set of Milk Bar Pie, which is their signature pie that has the most addictive sticky, buttery, salty-sweet filling in a hearty oat-cookie crust, and their seasonal peppermint pretzel snap tin, which is one of their bestselling treats. Inside these cookies are pretzels, peppermint, caramel, and chocolate, on top of a crisp dark chocolate wafer, which is then dipped in silky white chocolate peppermint bark.

Buy: Gift Givers Set, $78.00