To please the sweet tooth on a holiday or without much reason, you can make homemade cookies. Wonderful delicious souvenirs in the form of confectionery will give a charge of good mood. To make them beautiful and original, cookie shapes will help. Manufacturers offer these kitchen accessories in a large assortment.
Types of cookie cutters
Today there are a huge number of different confectionery equipment. Bakeware has been used in culinary art for centuries. Nowadays, this tool for cutting dough has become widespread. And all because with it, cooking becomes convenient, easy and quick.
Forms for cookies can be called differently: cutters, cuttings, cutters. They differ in type, size and material. Usually sold sets with a different number of accessories in the kit. Thus, you can collect a collection of curly shapes for home baking for any occasion.
By the number of prints emit:
- single contour felling;
- leaf forms (tablets).
The former are used to cut out individual elements from the dough. To speed up the cooking process, take large leaf-forms. They have several curly holes. Therefore, with their help you can get a large number of cookies at the same time. Roll out the dough and cut immediately on a baking sheet, which saves a lot of time.
There are forms for preparing flat or bulk baking. An excellent modern assistant to the hostess in the kitchen is the form press (plunger). This tool can not only cut out cookies, but also apply a relief pattern with a silicone stamp.
What material to choose
Different baking dishes have their advantages and disadvantages. To make the right choice, pay attention to the material from which the confectionery equipment is made. It could be:
Metal accessories for cutting dough are made of stainless steel. These are classic molds that are the most practical and durable. They do not fight, do not wrinkle and do not rust. Metal cookie molds will delight their owner with confectionery products with perfect even lines for a very long time. Steel cutters do not contain harmful dyes. But you need to be careful when using them, since the edges can be sharp.
With the participation of children, it is better to choose plastic equipment for cutting cookies. For such products, the edges of the torch are dull. For their production, they take durable environmentally friendly food-grade plastic. Advantages of such molds: affordable price, light weight, wide assortment and easy care.
Silicone cookie baking dishes are the most modern accessory in the kitchen. Cuttings are made from special food rubber, which is completely non-toxic. The dough in such molds is baked evenly, does not stick and does not dry out. Due to the softness of the material, finished products can be removed very easily. Can be used in the oven and microwave.
The downside of silicone is that it is easily damaged by cutting kitchen tools. Therefore, it is not necessary to extract pastries from such forms with forks and knives. If necessary, take a silicone spatula.
Figures for baking for every taste
A huge number of different forms are sold in stores. The simplest are the familiar geometric shapes for cookies. This is a rhombus, triangle, circle, oval, star, heart, flower, drop.
More complex figures will look more interesting. For example, silhouettes of animals. No child will refuse such a delicious game in the zoo. You can make cookies in the form of numbers and letters. It will turn out whole edible inscriptions, names and names of holidays. It will also be an exciting educational game for children to learn the alphabet and the basics of arithmetic.
In the assortment you can find very original forms for cutting dough. It remains only to choose the silhouettes to your taste: fruits, transport, food, dishes, clothes, cartoon characters, marine themes and much more.
Holiday Dough Bakeware
For each solemn date, you can prepare an original treat. A favorite holiday for many is the New Year. In his honor, you can make beautiful themed sweets. Buy for this silicone, plastic or metal Christmas cookie molds. You may come across such figures:
- Ded Moroz and Snegurochka;
- herringbone;
- deer, angel, sand man;
- winter clothes (boot, mitten, hat);
- various holiday accessories (Christmas toys, bell, candy).
The most popular Christmas silicone cookie mold is snowflake. She has a very beautiful openwork ornament.
Easter molds are sold: hare, egg, butterfly, bird, cross, chicken, cockerel, basket. For Halloween: pumpkin, bat, ghost, bowler hat, shoe, cat, spider, broom and witch hat. In honor of the wedding: groom, bride, dress, tie. You can easily pick up figures for February 23, March 8 and other equally wonderful holidays.
Instructions for cutting dough using a mold
Using cookie cutters is very easy. Before the first use, wash them with soap in warm water and dry with a towel. To avoid sticking the dough, it is recommended to use flour. Follow this cooking scheme:
- Roll the dough into a layer with a thickness of about 5 mm.
- Dip the tenderloin in flour.
- Put the mold on the dough and push on it.
- Collect unused leftovers, and then repeat the steps.
The unusual shape is now ready, and it remains to bake it. Grease a baking sheet with oil or lay a special parchment on it.
If we are dealing with volumetric molds, then we need to act differently. Put the silicone utensils immediately on a baking sheet. Then fill out the cookie forms with the dough and send to the oven. In this case, there is no need to use parchment paper. Manufacturers recommend lubricating silicone molds with vegetable oil only before the first use.
How to decorate ready-made curly cookies
Want baked goods to be more palatable? There are many options for decorating it:
- Glaze. Apply with food colors, special markers or icing.
- Stamp. Decorate your pastries with a confectionery print with an inscription or pattern.
- Figured rolling pin. Such a tool imprints patterns on the test, which simplifies the creation of creative baking.
- Confectionery stencils.
- Multi-colored topping.
- Mastic - confectionery "plasticine" based on powdered sugar.
- Nuts, raisins, sweet jelly beans.
How else can you use molds
With the help of pastry cutters get a lot of interesting products. Forms for cookies come in handy when creating curly sandwiches and jelly. In addition to direct use, they are used to cut out figures from mastic, cheese and other products.
Thanks to the bright design of the molds, participating in the preparation of sweets will be even more interesting. Make homemade cookies more often to surprise and delight loved ones!