These are the cutest mugs for your morning coffee, best mugs for tea, and the best mugs for mug cakes too! This is a huge selection of the most adorable and creative mugs to keep you happily caffeinated. These fun mugs make the perfect gift for friends, coworker gifts, gifts for neighbors, teacher gifts, or self care gifts!
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Mug Love
I am in several ways, mug obsessed.
Mug cakes are the perfect little baked treat if I do say so myself.
Coffee is my morning love (sorry husband).
I look forward to my afternoon tea break with a cute mug and something munchy on the side.
There is something so comforting, so cozy about a warm mug of something in your hands. It’s a few minutes (or seconds – depending on the age of your kids at home!) of relaxation, of me-time.
Drinking coffee or tea out of a mug slows you down. It can be almost meditative.
Getting a new mug is a fun pick-me-up when you need a little boost. Fun mugs also make a perfect inexpensive gift for friends, coworkers, neighbors, lots of people!
With that, let’s check out this epic round-up of the best mugs out there…
Best Mugs for Coffee, Tea, and Mug Cakes
To make this super easy, all these mugs can be found on Amazon. Here are the cutest, coziest, most coffee-loving, best mug cakes I found:
1. Owl Mug
This owl mug is my current favorite mug so it earns the #1 spot on this roundup of best mugs. Look at the cuteness. I always reach for this cute little guy for my afternoon tea or latte.
2. Donut Mug
In second place of mugs I use all the time, is this adorable donut mug. Pink frosting and sprinkles? My daughter’s face lights up when I bring this mug out and so does mine! 🙂
3. Elephant Mug
I adore the unique shape of this sweet elephant tea mug. This fun elephant mug holds your tea in the body, while the head stores the tea bag.
4. Best Mugs for Idle Hands: Lego Mug
Although it’s called a brick coffee mug on Amazon, this coffee cup is Lego compatible! Other than just being fun for most people to play with, this would be a great drinking cup to get for someone who has trouble sitting still or needs to fidget, whether that’s a kid or adult. It will keep hands occupied while having a meal at the table.
5. Best Mug for Taking a Break: Sloth Mug
A great reminder to start your mornings off gently, with this adorable sloth mug.
6. Cherry Blossom Mug
This pretty cherry blossom mug is double-wall insulated to keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold. It comes with a lid, and is microwave-safe, dishwasher-safe, and freezer-safe (though I don’t usually put my coffee in the freezer…)
7. Panda Surprise Cute Coffee Mug
The adorable panda hiding in your coffee mug beseeches you to have just one more cup. How can you resist this cute panda mug?
8. Best Mug for Mom
“That moment you realize…this is my circus and these are my monkeys” I can relate to the saying on this fun mug a bit too much and I’m sure I’m not the only one!
9. Ceramic Campfire Coffee Mug
This “cup of sunshine” coffee mug is sturdy and big! It will hold all the coffee you NEED, and is the best mug to bring on camping trips. Because of its size and how wide it is, it can double as a cute cereal bowl too!
10. Gold Initials Ceramic Mug
When my daughter and her little bffs turned one, I bought monogrammed cups (not breakable!) for their birthdays, and they were a huge hit!
These pretty white mugs would be a thoughtful gift for friends, your kids’ teachers, a stocking stuffer or white elephant gift, or a gift for yourself! These monogram mugs are dishwasher and microwave safe, and come with a nice gift box, so they are all ready for gifting!
11. Mermaid Mug
I showed this pink mermaid mug to a couple of my friends and they loved it. I love the mermaid scales and the gold tail for a handle. Cute touches for this sweet mug, which would also make a unique (and useful!) Mother’s Day gift.
12. Fox Mug
“Oh for fox sake!”
This funny mug will make the perfect gift for any fox lover or pun lover, or will start your own day with some levity.
13. Stoneware Mug
These beautiful mugs are works of art. Sip your coffee or tea in one of these handcrafted and hand painted mugs. I love that this mug has a square bottom and a large handle. Plus, owls.
14. Best Fall Mug: Pumpkin Spice Mug
This fall vibes mug is perfect for all the lovely warm drinks you consume during pumpkin spice season. For pumpkin spice lattes, and apple cider, and cozy hot chocolates, and chai tea lattes (as well as chai tea mug cakes!) this cute mug has you covered! It also keeps hot drinks hot for longer than most mugs!
15. Best Mugs for Tea: Blown Glass Tea Cups
These glass tea mugs look delicate, but are sturdy and made of heat-resistant glass. There are several flower and color options, and each glass tea cup comes with a matching spoon.
16. Best Mugs for Disney Fans: Beauty and The Beast Chip Tea Cup
The next three mugs are for the Disney fans out there. This first one, Chip from Beauty and The Beast is perfect for your daily cup of tea.
Though this list is for best mugs for adults, this Chip mug is so cute you might have to share it with your kids. And even if your kids aren’t super careful (are any little kids??) hey, it already has a chip in it because accidents happen. 🙂
17. Best Villain Mug
If you prefer to cheer for the villains, not the heroes, here is a great mug for you. This Ursula mug (the sea witch who steals Ariel’s voice in The Little Mermaid) is a large mug with one of Ursula’s tentacles as the handle.
18. Best Color-Changing Mugs
This mug is black when it’s empty or filled with cold liquid, but watch it transform when filled with hot coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. There are lot of different variations of this morphing mug. The mug below is Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map (“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good”. There are a few other Harry Potter mugs, and many color-changing Disney mugs too.
19. Best Friends Mug
This big Central Perk coffee mug will have any Friends fan reminiscing about their favorite episode (the one with unagi).
You can get this Friends mug in several sizes, including “oversized” or 24 ounces, for those of us who reaallly love (need?) our coffee.
20. Best Mug for #goals
Because some days, that’s about all you can do, and that’s okay.
21. Best Mug for Playing With Your Food
I don’t play basketball, but I definitely want to shoot hoops with marshmallows into hot chocolate. This fun mug is on my own Christmas list (sending this article to my husband…)
22. Best Mugs for Photography Buffs
This camera lens coffee mug is crazy unique. It looks like something you should keep liquid far away from, but it’s actually a travel coffee mug. It comes with a spillproof lid, and a sipping lid and is a replica of a Canon camera lens. This camera mug is not microwavable but for good reason – it has stainless steel on the inside. It also fits a typical car cup holder.
23. Expert Advice Mug
My husband tells me I talk to myself when I’m concentrating with work, and I’ve caught myself doing it. It’s left over from university, when friends and I would study out loud to make sure we understood the more complicated concepts.
For the people in your life who talk to themselves (for whatever reason!), this expert advice mug will help them (us) justify it.
24. Toilet Mug
This toilet mug would be a hard no for me…but we all have different, uh, tastes. This most definitely unique mug would make an interesting novelty gift, white elephant gift, gift for a coworker (or boss?), etc.
And you will be happy to know that this is Amazon’s number 1 pick for “toilet mug” – which I just learned is a category.
25. Smug Mug
When you’re feeling pretty darn good about yourself, celebrate it with this fun mug!
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