Martha Stewart would tell us that sugar cookie scraps don't make the prettiest cookies and to throw them out. But what if you could use every last inch of dough in a single rolling? What if you only needed one cookie cutter to make 4 or 5 different shapes? Is that sort of efficiency too good to be true? Well, wait no more, your dreams have come true. What? Don't tell me I'm the only one who dreams about cookie cutters!
20 years ago Keith Kritselis from Austin, Texas was watching cookies being made. It occurred to him that the amount of scraps left over from the process was quite ridiculous and that if you had a more efficient cookie cutter in the first place, the entire process could be more streamlined.
His recent Kickstarter project has reached his goal and his designs are now being put into production. This style of cutter would be great for holidays when you're making multiple designs at once. It's a fun idea that allows every bit of dough to be used without any re-rolling of scraps, or making new dough.
The idea is a great one and for general cookie making will be a great asset to many kitchen, the only hiccup we can see is that to create the separation between each cookie, the sides of the cutters need to be tapered. It helps them separate, but it makes your edges thinner, which will cause them to brown faster than the rest of the cookie. What do you think? Would you purchase this for your kitchen? We'll let you know once they're available for sale. Each cutter is set to retail at $12.
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Very clever!
love this!
This Farming Man is right! Martha would NEVER suggest throwing out cookie scraps as she is known to be fanatical about never wasting a thing.
However, cookie doughs suffer each time they are re-rolled so the idea for this cookie cutter is pretty ingenious. I bet anyone owning a good collection of cutters already does something similar to maximize the real estate on the first roll-out of their dough.
But... if there are no scraps, then WHAT WILL BE MY EXCUSE TO EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH?!
Clever idea. I never throw out the scraps, but I dread how long it takes to roll and re-roll and re-roll dough, so I often just avoid cutout cookies altogether. The dough seems to go on forever!
Genius, pure genius! Like Slow Loris points out, I do spend a bit of time laying everything out to try to minimize scraps, but it's inevitable with normal cutters. This would save so much time from having to re-roll the scraps over and over (and you wouldn't be left with that lump that's too small to be re-rolled to a cutter size that ends up being a lump-shaped cookie)
Although I do agree with Schewd on that downside.. some scraps do tend to make their way into my mouth rather than being re-rolled.. hehe
Maybe I'm just tired but I didn't follow the comment about them having to be tapered...can someone explain that further?
Are there actually people who TROW OUT THE SCRAPS instead of rerolling them!?!!?? I can't believe that. Sooo wastefull and stupid! Please tell me that nobody has ever done that!
I've sen these similar styled (or even cooler, the ones that roll like a rolling pin and boom, whole sheet of cookies done) for a long time. They are cool but not for me, personally. I'm too particular about shapes I want/flexibility to limit myself to the couple shapes on the cutter.
It's not that big a deal to reroll for me plus, I thought tons of people do this, I "flour" with powdered sugar so my scraps never get tough. I can reroll til my heart is content!
This is fantastic and I would totally buy one just for fun.
What kind of dough is that, by the way? It may just be the lighting but looks almost pumkiny.
I have one of these, but it's a vintage (I'm guessing WWII era?) cookie cutter. It's supposed to be a selection of "Christmas" shapes, but there are definitely some (read: most) shapes that take a bit of interpretation. Like... that COULD be the virgin mother, or it COULD be some kind of amoeba.
Schwed, that was my exact thought when I read this. That's kind of the best part of making sugar cookies.
Ah, thumbs up to folks who 'utilize' their scraps by ingesting them - however, I usually throw the bits onto the sheet tray to cook before enjoying. Never could get on board with eating cookie dough raw!
fulinlin: Nobody does that. Ever.
@herzsprung: Thank you! Danke.
I like the way you think Schwed! But this is a brilliant idea!
This would certainly make cookie baking more efficient.
However, the best part of christmas cookies for me is making them with my kids. We use my grandmother's old cookie cutters. There is a lot of dough-eating, re-rolling and the dough gets man-handled, but those cookies are my favorites.
This is AWESOME!
This is the most brilliant thing I have seen in a long time! I'm constantly rerolling and cutting out from the scraps, so to be able to just do this once or twice efficiently would be a joy. Thank you! Now, on to different cutters...