My daughter in law asked me if I have a cookie cutter for St. Nicholas.
Or if I would consider making cookies for Aidan for that day in December.
I looked at my cutters and I have many of St. Nick dressed up as Santa- but none in his bishop’s robes. So I am going to cut them out freehand and decorate the cookies with appropriate crosses and mitres and bishop’s crook.
But seriously, I have hundreds of cookie cutters. I have made thousands of cut outs over the years I have been baking professionally and you would think I had at least one St. Nick.
I have bears and soldiers, snowmen and bells, pigs and cats, flowers and horses-
rabbits and lions and gingerbread boys and girls.
reindeer, woodland deer and moose- hands and feet.
Ra bbits and birds…
teapots and teacups.
And santas…
But not even one St. Nicholas.
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No, not one- but possibly two.
I was w
orking with some rather strange shaped “santas” last night and look what I came up with!
Some cookie cutters just don’t look like anything specifically.
Decorating them can be a real art project!
I am surprised! I will keep my eyes open, if spotted, it’s yours.
Just do a search on Google and you will find lots of pictures and ideas. Here is a link to cookie cutters you can buy (if you want to). Lilly
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=474
Thanks Cynthia!
Lilly- I think I’m just going to make my own template and cut them by hand. I don’t mind paying $8 for a cutter, but I don’t want to pay $5 for shipping and handling .
omgosh – that is so cool that you have THAT many cookie cutters! Love the idea for Aidan….
And that is only about half of my collection (sheepish grin)- for a while there, I was just buying whatever I could find. I should probably try selling them on Ebay- I have multiple cutters in some series.
But at one time I was making a LOT of cookies for the Bake Shop in Ghent, and I needed cutters in all shapes and sizes- cutting by hand from a template is not time effective. 🙂
I LOVE your decorating ideas! I think you’ve got this…
That is a lot of cutters. Does Aiden ever help you make cookies? All those choices for a little kid- my monkeys would be in heaven.
Thanks Elizabeth. We need to make cookies together sometime!
Brydie-
Aidan and I have decorated cookies, but not actually made any together from the cutter on up. Hopefully this year we will have that joy!
That’s a huge collection of cookie cutters – do you have a great collection of never fail recipes to go with them in metric, well maybe just one little recipe for me in metric? A christmas cookie. OK I’ll stop going on now. I love your cutters and your St Nicholas is going to be great I know it!
Yea! I’m happy you found two that will work for you. Aidan will love them, anyone would.
What a wonderful collection, Heidi! I’m grinning ear to ear looking at them. You know, I bet those strange santa shapes actually were St Nick cutters…
I think so, too, Celia. I had been using the smaller one as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle- and I bent the larger one to make it fit into the image I had- bent beyond repair- so it will stay a St. Nicholas cutter from now on!
Joanna-
I’m working out a recipe into conversion for you.
When I make the cookies, I’ll post both metric/grams and cups recipes.