Best baking subscriptions and baking kits

When ordering a baking subscription, consider what else you might need to bake your perfect sweet treat. Some kits include extra bits of equipment, but if not it's easy to build your own collection. For intricate biscuit decoration, we've reviewed the best piping bags, for Victoria sandwiches and more we've tested the best cake tins, while a wire rack will help bakes cool evenly. Take a look at our round up of the best baking essentials once you've caught the baking bug.

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Best baking subscription boxes to try at a glance

• Best advanced baking subscription: Mon Dessert, from £19.95
• Best baking subscription for families: Honeywell Biscuit Co., from £15.99
• Best sustainable baking subscription: BakesterBox, from £59
• Best trend-based baking subscription: Baker Boxx, from £12.95

Best baking subscription boxes to buy

Mon Dessert

• Available from Mon Dessert, from £19.95

Mon Dessert creates luxurious dessert kits to enhance your baking skills, with recipes including macarons, madeleines and an impressive raspberry charlotte. Alongside the dry ingredients, kits contain relevant equipment, a detailed recipe card and QR code to a video tutorial of the recipe.

Kits can be bought individually or you can get a subscription starting at 3-months for £59.99. If you receive a recipe you particularly like as part of your subscription, there are refill kits available to buy so you can receive the ingredients again without doubling up on equipment.

We tested the mille feuille recipe kit. The kit feels high-quality and professional. Alongside the recipe and ingredients (packaged in three simple paper bags – all that needs to be added is butter and milk), there is plenty of equipment. Extras include a reusable piping bag and nozzle, a ruler and pizza cutter for accurately cutting the dough and a cocktail stick for perfecting the feathered icing finish.

The recipe is a lengthy 36 steps, which initially seems intimidating, but each step is clear (including a few diagrams) and breaks the recipe down into bite-sized pieces. You can also crack on with the next steps while other elements are chilling, which means this complex recipe doesn’t actually take hours to make. Our top tip is to make sure you read the recipe carefully before you start – some important details are added in small asterisks. We also suggest scanning the QR code to watch a short video of the recipe, which is useful for elements that are clearer when visually explained. Our finished mille feuille have buttery, flaky pastry and a sweet crème patissiere filling – an impressive dessert.

A Mon Dessert subscription is a great way to learn new baking skills and try recipes that may seem intimidating without the extra guidance from the kit. Considering the equipment included, the subscribe-and-save model is excellent value for money.

Available from:
Mon Dessert, from £19.95

Honeywell Biscuit Co.

• Available from Honeywell Biscuit Co. (from £15.99), Not on the High Street (£47 for 3 months)

Best baking subscription for families

Honeywell Biscuit Co. offers a range of beautifully decorated biscuits, as well as four different baking subscriptions: the Bread Bakers Club, Bakers Club, Young Bakers Club and family Bakers Club (combining one young bakers recipe and one Bakers Club recipe). These letterbox-friendly baking boxes come filled with pre-weighed dried ingredients and recipe cards highlighting the perishable ingredients to source yourself. The additional ingredients we needed were butter, eggs, milk and soft cheese.

Our Young Bakers Club recipe, designed for kids, was for a cookie dough pizza. The method was pitched for a child, with a few more steps than you’d have otherwise. Language-wise it was also carefully written and our six-year-old tester was able to understand it and take the lead. Once the giant cookie pizza was baked and cooled it was great fun to decorate with melted chocolate spread, dried strawberries, white chocolate shavings and caramel fudge. An impressive overall effect and generous in flavour.

Our Bakers Club baking kit for ginger & apricot creams was pitched for adults. The recipe was easy to follow, although the various stages of chilling and cooling meant that it took a little over an hour. The kit included a disposable piping bag for the soft cheese centres, making the finished product look uniform and professional. The white chocolate and crystallised ginger topping added to the taste and cute appearance.

Available from:
Honeywell Biscuit Co. (from £15.99)
Not on the High Street (£47 for 3 months)

BakesterBox

• Available from BakesterBox (from £59 for 3 months)

Best sustainable baking subscription

BakesterBox was launched in 2020 by a Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef. The bakes on offer fall into three categories: cookies and cakes, tarts and puddings, and bread and scones. Recipes include chocolate and walnut cookies, a Valrhona dark chocolate tart, cinnamon or cardamom buns, and much more. As well as the dry ingredients, each BakesterBox includes the mould or ramekin needed to bake your treats, plus a recipe card and card featuring some useful tips to get your bake just right.

Kits are available to buy individually and range in price from £14 up to £32. Alternatively, you can buy three- and six-month subscriptions, which cost £59 and £110 respectively. If you try a kit that’s an instant hit with your friends and family, you can order simple refill kits that just include the ingredients, without the additional equipment.

We tested the passion fruit fondant puddings kit. Housed in a neatly packed cardboard box are all of the dry ingredients, which, although they come in individual packets, are all made from NatureFlex™, a fully compostable film – extra points from us! All we needed to do was add the eggs and butter (these can be provided for £4 more). The four ramekins and pastry brush all came securely packaged too.

These passion fruit fondants are made in just nine steps. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the accompanying imagery makes this dish easy for even the most inexperienced baker. Scan the QR code on the instruction card to find an especially useful video tutorial. Additional storage information is also provided.

Our baked fondants were pure luxury! The passion fruit flavour was tropical, sweet and sour in equal measure, and the cake was soft with a delightfully crisp exterior. As suggested, we served ours with double cream, which made for the perfect pairing.

BakesterBox offers a variety of bakes ranging from the classic and traditional to bakes with a twist. High-quality ingredients and equipment, plus eco-friendly and fully recyclable packaging make this the perfect subscription for the environmentally conscious, inquisitive baker.

Available from:
BakesterBox from £59 for 3 months

Baker Boxx

• Available from BakerBoxx (from £12.95), Not on the High Street (from £35)

Best trend-based baking subscription

Whether you're a savoury fan or you have a sweet tooth, Bakerboxx has you covered. These simple baking kits start at just £10 per month, which we think is great value for money. There are three subscriptions to choose from: the Bread Boxx, Trend Boxx or Family Boxx. The Bread Boxx features a different loaf every month and comes with everything you need to get your baking journey started. We tested the rosemary and focaccia loaf, which was bursting with herby flavour. Crispy and golden brown on the outside, while fluffy and chewy on the inside. The directions were easy to follow and simple enough for beginners.

In our Trend Boxx, aimed at current popular bakes, we baked a batch of filled chocolate and hazelnut cookies. They were super decadent and tasted straight from a bakery. All we needed to provide ourselves was 125g of butter. Stuffed cookies with chocolate piping on top can seem intimidating but these were very easy to assemble, a definite perk of attempting a more complicated recipe using a baking kit to get you started. This was a super creative recipe we wouldn't have found elsewhere.

Both kits come with clearly marked labels with sleek, minimal packaging. Overall, these unique recipes and easy directions make these kits well worth it.

Available from:
BakerBoxx (from £12.95)
Not on the High Street (from £35)

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