Cookie
Cutters
Food Uses
Use to make shaped sandwiches for brown bag lunch boxes or any meal - great for finicky eaters.
Make fanciful sandwich shapes for a child's birthday party.
Make designer pancakes: Use to cut out novelty pancakes (a tempered copper cookie cutter http://www.cakeworkscentral.com can be used, with great caution to avoid burns and should only be done by adults) as a mold right on your hot griddle. Spray inside of cookie cutter before pouring batter in to them. Make a whole barnyard or zoo! Decorate with marshmallows, M&M's, whipped cream (Santa's beard or a snowman), etc.
Use only a tempered copper cookie cutter to fry eggs into novelty shapes (use with great caution to avoid burns; this should only be done by adults).
- Cut out biscuit
dough.
- Cut out bread
dough (after it has risen and kneaded lightly a second time).
- Cut out cracker
dough for shaped crackers.
- Use as a mold
for cheese spreads.
- Make cupcakes
(using tempered copper
cookie cutters , surround cutter with tinfoil and fold
over the edges to seal in batter so it won't ooze out -
put on cookie sheet lined with tinfoil).
- Use mini cookie
cutters to cut pie dough and use on top of pie crust for
decorations (use a little milk to put on top of uncooked
pie crust and bake pie as usual).
- Cut Jell-O
shapes (after it has gelled in the refrigerator).
- Make Tea Sandwiches
for a Victorian Tea.
- Make beautifully-shaped
sandwiches for the more upscale brunch or bridal showers.
- Let's not
forget their use in making home made chocolates either just
to round things off!
- Use to make
shapes out of mashed potatoes and top off with grated cheese
(kids love these!)
- Petit-Fours
(using mini cookie cutters)
- Make shapes
out of toasted bread.
- Use to lightly
imprint buttered toast and sprinkle cinnamon sugar inside
the imprint.
- Use a molds
to make homemade chocolates or other candies.
- Spread melted
chocolate onto waxed paper and when cooled, use a cookie
cutter to make wonderful decorations for professional looking
cakes.
- Use to cut
Scones or other firm pastries.
- Use to make
"designer" French Toast.
- Spray inside
of cookie cutter with Pam and add Sushi Tuna. Fill until
tuna reaches to top of cookie cutter; carefully un-mold
onto plate or on top of cooked rice.
- Make brownies
a little thinner than usual and cut with cookie cutter when
cool.
- Use mini cookie
cutters to cut out bell peppers and decorate potato salad.
- Use mini cookie
cutters to punch out shapes in scooped out pumpkin.
- Chill and
slice butter into pats. Cut with mini cookie cutter and
arrange on plate.
- Make a Flower
Pot Fruit Salad by using a small clay flowerpot and place
a 1-inch piece of Styrofoam in the bottom of pot. Cut fruit
with flower-shaped cookie cutters . Stick on to bamboo skewers.
Add parsley bottom of pot. Fruit needs to be 3/4 inch thick
slices. Use Kiwi, watermelon, apples, bananas, cantaloupe,
etc.
- Use to make
cheese slice shapes to add to crackers for an appetizer.
- Make mini
appetizer sandwiches.
- Make Rice
Krispies treats and when cooled, cut out with cookie cutter.
Buttering the inside of the cookie cutter removal of Rice
Krispies easier to remove. Tip: Wet your hands with cold
water makes handling of the sticky gooey stuff easier).
- Use as a mold
and fill with ground meat for fun hamburgers.
- Use larger
cookie cutter to make an individual meatloaf for each child.
- Wrap cookie
cutter with aluminum foil, leaving one side open. Fill with
fruit juice to make Popsicles.
- Wrap cookie
cutter with aluminum foil, leaving one side open and make
candies by melting hard candy (i.e. Jolly Ranchers) inside
them. When removed from the oven and cooled, pop them out.
- An original
breakfast: Use to make Breakfast Buddies, sort of a take
off on McMuffin. Make fried eggs using cookie cutters. Try
your best to cut the same shapes out of breakfast sausage
patties and cook them. Cut shapes out of store bought biscuits
and split them open. Then. assemble the sandwiches with
the biscuits, sausage & egg and heat them in the oven
until the biscuits are golden brown and warm. Garnish the
Breakfast Buddies with jelly and fruit and enjoy a fun breakfast!
- Cut out designs
in apples or melons.
- Purchase ice cream in rectangle containers; cut into ½-inch to 1-inch slices; use cookie cutters to make ice cream shapes. Drizzle chocolate for design, sprinkles to decorate, whipped cream, too.
