Cookie Cutter

Not every cutter needs a gimmick. This is the plain, single-shape sort that gets used most — the one that comes out when there is dough on the counter and half an hour before people arrive, and goes back in the drawer without ceremony. Printed cutters like this earn their keep because they cost almost nothing to replace, which makes them the sensible choice for baking with children, where cutters get bent, dropped and occasionally taken outside to the sandpit. Losing one stops being an annoyance when another can simply be run off. One file, one shape, nothing to assemble. It suits anyone starting a printed baking set from scratch, or anyone who has inherited a drawer of tired metal cutters and would rather rebuild it a shape at a time.