No Christmas baker would let the season pass without creating plates full of decorated holiday sugar cookies and gingerbread men and women. Collect an assortment of traditional and inventive cookie cutters by shopping these online stores.
These bell, star, tree, snowman, reindeer, and angel cookie cutters at HearthSong will make your cookies stand up and get noticed. All in one set, the six designs have two parts that, when cut out of cookie dough, fit together to make a three-dimensional Christmas cookie. Price: $15.99 (sale); shipping is $6.95.
Kitchen Kapers offers a great price on plastic cookie cutters that create three-dimensional characters from the movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The set includes cookie cutters to make stand-up versions of eight characters, including Rudolph, a reindeer, Bumble, Santa, Sam the Snowman, Yukon Cornelius, Hermey the elf and Santa’s sleigh. Store the cookie cutters in the house-shaped box included with the set. Price: $9.99 (sale), shipping, $5.50.
For bakers who churn out dozens and dozens of cut-out cookies each holiday season, Wilton saves your fingers with a collection of traditional stainless steel cookie cutters with a cushioned grip. The padded top also gives extra stability for cutting into foods other than cookies, such as brownies, biscuits, sandwiches, sheet cakes, cheese, crispy treats and fudge. The Christmas and winter holiday comfort-grip cutters include a snowman, Christmas tree, gingerbread boy and star. Size: approximately 4-by-4-by-1-3/4 inches deep. Price: $2.99 each; shipping starts at $7.
The H.O. Foose Tinsmithing Co. makes more than 700 tin cookie cutters by hand, including dozens for Christmas cookies. Choose an angel, tree, bell, cross, or candy cane shape for your cookies, or get more adventurous with a running gingerbread boy or a leaping reindeer. The large (5-inch) ornament shaped cutters ($1.50 each) can also double as tools to cut out salt dough decorations for your Christmas tree. Can’t find the design you want? The Foose company also sells a cookie cutter crafting kit for $19.95 that includes everything you need (aluminum strips, adhesive, tools) to make your own cookie cutters. Shipping starts at $7.95.
Solid plastic cookie cutters with stamped designs create ready-to-decorate cookies and easy salt-dough ornaments. Leave unfrosted or simply pipe frosting using the indents from the cookie cutter as a guide. Cookie Craft sells three sets of Christmas cookie cutters, each with 12 individual cutters. Price: $8 per set; shipping is $5.50.
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