Dick Cookie Cutter )

A novelty cutter for the rude end of the baking drawer. The outline is precisely what the name promises and makes no effort whatsoever to be coy about it, which is the entire reason anyone prints one. This is hen-night and stag-do territory: the biscuit that appears at a milestone birthday, a divorce party, or an office leaving do where somebody has decided decorum is finished for the evening. Rude baking is a small British institution, and shapes like this turn up on party platters where they reliably get more attention than the sandwiches. The silhouette is unmistakable at biscuit size, so nobody has to have the joke explained. Supplied as a single file. Treat it like any other outline cutter and it suits shortbread, gingerbread and sugar-cookie dough, with plenty of flat area for royal icing if you want to push the gag further.