Pastry Shapes To Make Baking Fun
The humble cookie cutter 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.
Amusingly, the term cookie cutter is a term that has been coined to describe someone who lacks originality, due to the fact that a cookie mold repeats turns out exact copies of the same shape. Imaginative shapes mean that cookies or biscuits can be created to match specific occasions.
If you find the traditional ginger bread man a little passe, why not look around for some fun and interesting shapes. Having a Christmas party? Why not decorate the tree with cookies shaped like Christmas trees? For Halloween delight the little ones with cookies in the shape of Halloween pumpkins, bats, angry cats, spiders, webs, new moons or witches hats.
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.
Easter bunnies, carrots, Easter egg shapes, baskets, bunny faces and baby chick shapes are popular choices for this time of year. If you are celebrating St Patrick’s day you could create a series of fun biscuits with shamrock shapes, leprechauns, pot of gold shapes and Irish derby hat shapes.
A little stuck for ideas to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with style? Buy some beautiful themed cutters in shapes that mimic squirrels, maple leaves, oak leaves, pumpkins or acorns. Going away on a dream safari? You could prepare some fun treats for the family, making biscuits in the shape of camels, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, alligators, lions or kangaroos.
There are also elephants, pelicans, monkeys and pelicans to add to your collection. Birds are a great theme for any party, so look out for an astonishingly wide selection. Kids will love biscuits in the shapes of crayons, baby bottles, school houses, ducklings, baby carriages, rocking horses, baby rattles, pacifiers, baby booties, balloons and party hats.
The whole idea is to have fun, so look around and find a theme that works for you. Why not have a party with a nautical theme and find some cute and interesting shapes, like seahorses, seagulls, flamingos, sharks, tropical fish, whales, dolphins, turtles or starfish. Use your imagination with the decoration and create edible masterpieces.
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