Pantone Revealed Its 2025 Color of the Year

Every December, we eagerly await Pantone’s pick for “Color of the Year,” and the brand’s most recent selection might just be our favorite yet. Don’t get us wrong, we loved 2023’s bright magenta and 2024’s soft peach, but 2025’s hue is timeless, earthy, and the perfect choice for kitchens: mocha mousse.

This color exudes warmth and celebrates nature, which are two qualities we love to champion in our own homes. While we would normally hesitate to recommend buying expensive kitchen gear based on a trend that has a one year expiration date, mocha mousse is chic enough to last forever. Shop the tools that remind us of this gorgeous color, starting at $13. 

Favorite Kitchen Gear in Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year

• KitchenAid Design Series Evergreen Stand Mixer, $700 at williams-sonoma.com 
• Sonder Los Angeles Large Walnut Wood Cutting Board, $128, originally $160 at amazon.com 
• Earlywood 10-Inch Wood Cooking Utensil, $19 at amazon.com
• Lodge 6-Quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven with Lid, $80 at amazon.com 
• Acacia Tall Salad Bowl, $100 at williams-sonoma.com
• Lipper International Acacia Salad Hands, $13 at amazon.com 
• Famiware Set of 2 Milkyway Kitchen Utensil Holders, $30 at amazon.com 
• Emile Henry 5-Quart Rectangular French Ceramic Baker, $140 at williams-sonoma.com 

KitchenAid Design Series Evergreen Stand Mixer

Shoppers were divided by KitchenAid’s nature-inspired evergreen stand mixer, which has a walnut bowl and brass accents instead of the brand’s more typical stainless steel. The striking redesign split the internet but ultimately won over a legion of fans who called it “the most beautiful mixer” they’ve “ever owned.” Regardless of how you feel, it certainly catches the eye. 

Sonder Los Angeles Large Walnut Wood Cutting Board

Another way to bring mocha mousse into your kitchen is by investing in a large wooden cutting board like this one from Sonder Los Angeles. It’s 17 inches long, 13 inches wide, and 1.5 inches thick, making it the perfect pick for everything from slicing vegetables to serving charcuterie. The best part? One side of the cutting board has three compartments built into the edge for prepping and serving food. 

Earlywood 10-Inch Wood Cooking Utensil 

Amazon shoppers and Food & Wine editors alike love Earlywood spatulas for their versatility. The brand’s shockingly simple design hides a multitude of uses, including stirring, flipping, mixing, tossing, scraping, just to name a few. Out of the more than 1,100 reviewers who gave this 10-inch stick of wood a perfect rating, one wrote that it’s “part utensil, part work of functional art.” 

Lodge 6-Quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven with Lid 

Nearly 31,000 Amazon shoppers swear by Lodge’s 6-quart enameled cast iron Dutch oven for its “great value,” “quality” construction, and “gorgeous” color options. Inspired by Pantone, we’re shopping the brand’s burnt sienna hue to add a splash of luxury to our cookware collection. It’s subtle, understated, and reasonably priced at $80.  

Acacia Tall Salad Bowl 

A wooden salad bowl like this one from Williams Sonoma is simultaneously one of the most useful serving vessels you can possibly own and one of the most beautiful. The pattern changes from bowl to bowl because of unique variations in the wood grain, but whatever you get, it’ll be striking. Keep it dry and oiled between uses and it will last for years in your kitchen.  

Lipper International Acacia Salad Hands

If you buy these acacia salad servers to match your acacia salad bowl, you’ll have yourself a gorgeous serving set. Because they’re shorter than average, they’re easier to control and take up less space in your drawers. One Amazon shopper wrote that they “should have bought them years ago,” adding that they’re “easy to hand-wash after use.” Grab them now for just $13.   

Famiware Set of 2 Milkyway Kitchen Utensil Holders

Good chefs all have one thing in common: an organized kitchen. The truth is that you can’t cook efficiently if you don’t know where any of your tools are, which is why utensil crocks like this set from Famiware are so important. Without costing you more than $30, they’ll organize your utensils, declutter your drawers, and add some personality to your kitchen counters.

Emile Henry 5-Quart Rectangular French Ceramic Baker 

If you take the warmth of mocha mousse up a notch, you’ll have yourself this caramel-colored Emile Henry ceramic baker. It’s 18 x 11.25 x 2.5 inches, capable of holding up to 5 quarts of food, and safe for the oven, broiler, dishwasher, and microwave. Talk about multifunctional.