Chinese New Year Lamp

The hanging lantern is the shape everyone associates with Lunar New Year, strung above doorways, along shopfronts and across whole streets for the fortnight of celebration. It also happens to make a very good biscuit: a simple outline, a strong silhouette, and no ambiguity about what it is even before anyone decorates it. This is a single cutter for exactly that shape, aimed at home bakers working through a festival spread, anyone running a themed class, or a party table that needs something more considered than a round. It earns its keep beyond February, too. The same outline serves general lantern-themed baking, birthday spreads and school projects about the festival, so it is not a cutter that sits unused in the drawer for eleven months a year. A good one to have alongside the seasonal standards.