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Cookie Cutter For A Fun Baking Experience

The humble cookie cutters has been a standard accessory in the kitchen of any mother who wants to teach their children about the joys of baking. We all have childhood memories of baking cookies and making fun shapes with our favorite cookie cutter shapes. Early designs were created by taking iron and dipping the metal in molten tin.

Traditional molds were cut from strips of metal and were then hand crafted to make popular shapes. The edges were carefully smoothed for safer handling before being made available for sale. Other alternatives include detail imprints for creating patterns in cookie dough or cookie molds were made. These were crafted either from ceramic, wood or plastic, debossed with a design that was embossed when imprinted into the dough.

The term cookie cutter is often used to describe a person who has unoriginal ideas and does not try to be individualistic. This is quite an apt description as uniformity is the name of the game when you shape dough using a cookie cutter. For fun there are many various shapes and designs that you can use to spruce up your party table.

Bored with the idea of making the standard gingerbread man shaped cookie? For your next Christmas celebration, you could bake and decorate cute Christmas tree shaped cookies. For Halloween make spooky cookies shaped like winged bats, snarling cats, pumpkins, witches hats, spider webs and big scary spiders.

Having a Valentine themed party or a wedding? Make beautiful cookies in a variety of love themed shapes, from hearts, to winged doves, brides and grooms, lips, wedding cakes, champagne glasses and flying cupids. Have fun with the kids or your friends and bake a batch of Easter cookies. Shapes include Easter eggs, bunnies and more.

For fun make carrot shaped cookies with green icing for the carrot top and orange icing for a realistic look. Make Easter basket shaped cookies and decorate with icing and powdered sugar or chocolate drops. When St Patrick's day rolls around you could create green shamrock biscuits, leprechaun shaped cookies, pot of gold biscuits or cookies in the shape of a cute Irish derby hat?

Celebrate Thanksgiving with style and set out a dish of biscuits with shapes that mimic acorns, maple leaves, pumpkins, oak leaves and squirrels to celebrate the season. For an inventive idea for a children's party you could utilize a party theme. Create a safari theme and bake cookies in the shape of giraffes, rhinos, lions, hippos, camels, alligators and elephants or kangaroos.

You are really only limited by your imagination as there are so many shapes and themes available to select from. Birds make a fun theme or have a party for the youngsters and bake cookies in the shapes of crayons, cars, dolls, school houses, baby rattles, baby booties, baby bottles or balloons.

Fun shaped cookies are ideal for the adults as well, so if, for example, you want to throw a celebration with a nautical theme you could make biscuits in the shape of fish, penguins, starfish, sharks, flamingos, whales, seahorses, seagulls or turtles.