New Year and Christmas Cookie Cutters

Christmas baking arrives all at once. A tin for the neighbours, something for the school fair, a batch left out on the twenty-fourth, and then the year turns and there is another round of it for the New Year table. This cutter set is built for that stretch of the calendar, covering the festive shapes that carry from early December through to the first week of January. Shapes of this kind are what turn a tray of plain rounds into something that looks intended for the occasion. Gingerbread, shortbread, sugar-cookie dough and salt dough all take a pressed outline well, and a cut batch is far easier to ice and bag up for gifting than a freehand one. It is a set rather than a single shape, so it is worth printing well ahead of the rush instead of the night before the baking starts.