18 Festive Christmas Cookie Cutters For Unique Sweet Treats
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Baking cookies is a popular family tradition during the holidays and a joyous activity for bakers of all ages—and we've got you covered. Here's the only sugar cookie recipe you'll need. We've also rounded up the best cookie cutters to make memorable treats you'll be proud to bring to holiday parties and send as gifts to friends.
Most cookie cutters are affordable and come in sets with various shapes. Or, snag a single-shaped cookie cutter to make a batch of uniform cookies (think all nine reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh!). There are also unexpected cookie cutters out there if you really want to surprise your family this year, like leg lamps (fans of A Christmas Story will know!), Star Wars, and cocktail glass cookie cutters. Once you decide on the perfect shape, bake and cool your cookies, we've got you set with an icing recipe for the decorations.
Whether you're adding cookie cutters to your cart for yourself, or as an early Christmas gift for the baker in your life, they're an affordable buy that make your holiday baking traditions special. Plus, if you buy now, you'll have the cookie cutters before the season even starts, letting you start baking as soon as you can. Get rolling that dough, pop those sweet treats in the oven and enjoy the time and creativity decorating your festive dessert.
This cookie cutter set comes with 16 different stainless steel molds, ranging from a classic gingerbread man to Santa. We like the range of shapes and how the top of the cutter is folded, so it should be more comfortable to press into the dough.
Straying from a traditional and plain candy cane shape, this cookie cutter adds a unique twist with a bow on the bottom of the cane. It gives you another opportunity to have some fun creating a design with frosting.
A picture of Christmas, this pickup truck has a tree loaded up in the back. It's definitely a cookie you can have lots of fun frosting. The cookie cutter is dishwasher safe and is on the bigger side, fitting about the size of an adult's hand.
Gingerbread cookies are classic treats reminiscent of Christmas. These molds have a PVC lining on the top making them comfortable to press down, and so it's obvious which side of the mold is sharp.
This set of cutters will take your Christmas cookies to the next level: they make mug-hugging cookies! Each cookie is a cutout that can balance on the rim of your favorite mug—a guaranteed crowd pleaser at your holiday party. This also makes a great gift for bakers because the set comes in cute packaging tied together with a ribbon. (FYI: it will work best with a harder cookie dough, like gingerbread).
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Inspired by the classic movie A Christmas Story, this cookie cutter is not *fragile* and cuts cookies into the shape of the infamous leg lamp. It's definitely a decorating opportunity, and if the Christmas movie is part of your family tradition, the mold makes for extra fun movie-night treats.
No snowflake is the same, and while this set does give you the same shape of snowflake, you're getting five different sizes. The stainless steel and dishwasher-safe cutters create pretty six-pointed treats that are a great reminder of the snowy weather on the way.
This pack of 10 cookie cutters and stampers creates a range of shapes, from gingerbread people to a tree with ornaments and garland. The set also comes with cookie stamps that let you impress on the dough to create guides for decorating and icing. The cutters and stampers are made from a durable plastic as opposed to stainless steel.
These ornament-shaped cookies will look pretty on your dessert tray at holiday parties. The set comes with three different ornaments, and you can have lots of fun coming up with your color scheme, theme, and ornament design.
This reindeer cookie cutter is just over five inches wide and made from stainless steel, so it can go in the dishwasher. You can have a lot of fun imagining different reindeer designs with frosting.
Snag this set, which gives you six different stamps to press onto circular cookies to create lines for decorating. The silicone stamps pop onto the handle and can be swapped out easily. If you love decorating and frosting, this is a great set to add to your Christmas list (or Amazon cart) right now.
This nutcracker cookie mold comes in four different heights. Whether you opt for the three, four, five or six-inch cookie cutter, it gives you the option to create fun and merry treats. The points in the middle won't cut through your dough so you'll just get the shape without the inner details.
These are five of the most classic cookie shapes for Christmas, with an evergreen tree, a snowman, candy cane, snowflake and gingerbread man mold. The set of stainless steel cookie cutters comes in at just $8.99 so it's definitely a budget friendly pick.
You get a whopping 27 cookie cutters in this set that includes nine different shapes, with each shape coming in three different sizes. It's a great buy if you're looking to change up the size and shapes of all your cookies and the different sizes will look beautiful on Christmas treat displays.
Ann Clark Cookie Cutters Winter Snow Globe Cookie Cutter
Create cute and wintery scenes in a snow globe with this novelty cookie cutter. It gives you both the base and the globe itself, so you can get inventive with your designs. Whether you go with a classic snowy scene or something more intricate, this mold gives you a great cookie canvas to paint on.
A great gift to pass along to your '90s sitcom-obsessed pal, this cookie cutter set comes with five shapes inspired by Friends. It includes a lobster, turkey, coffee mug, couch, and door frame-shaped stainless steel molds.
May the force be with you while you cut, stamp, and decorate these cookies. The set comes with a Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, and C-3PO molds that have stamps built into them, giving you lines for decorating the characters with detail.
Make holiday party-themed cookies with this set of five drink- and cocktail-inspired molds. The metal cookie cutters make champagne glass, pint glass, martini, margarita, and beer bottle treats that bring the party right to your baking sheet.
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