New additions to the pastry chef's pantry. (If Mom passed her legacy on to you, bake her some cookies to make the gift sweeter.)

Container Idea:

A 64-ounce Pyrex cup. Measure and mix the dough in the same spot.

Contents Ideas:

Alphabet cookie cutters. She'll be able to spell out anything: "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Take Out the Trash."

Wooden spoon. The essential and inexpensive kitchen tool.

Flexible spatula. Supple enough to wiggle under soft dough.

An apron.

Brown-sugar body polish.

Real Simple's sugar-cookie recipe.