When it comes to making cookies, an item a baker cannot do without is the cookie cutter. The cooking cutter is what shapes the cookie dough into whatever mold you have conceived in the mind. Aside being used as a tool for cutting out the dough, cutters could serve as a utensil for imprinting specific signature on your cookies. It is now commonplace to see custom-made cookie cutters [designed to meet a specific need] around.

Types of Cookie cutters

With the numerous designs of cookie cutters available, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the kinds that are obtainable. Nevertheless, we shall be highlighting some types for your reading pleasure:

Cookie Gun

Cookie gun is an automated or hand-operated device used for making pressed cookies. The device features a cylinder and a plunger. It can be used to cut out different shapes of cookies.

Detail Imprint

This kind of cookie cutters, not only cut out the cookie but they are also employed in marking the surface of cookies- thereby they are useful for making ‘signatures’ on the cookie. Detail imprint cookie cutters are made from plastic, metal, ceramic or wood.

Cut out

This is about the most fundamental type of cookie cutter. The cut out cookie cutters are easy to use; they are pressed into the dough in order to bring out the cookie pieces. Aluminum, plastic, and stainless steel are some of the materials used in fabricating them.