Santa Clause Cookie Cutter

Father Christmas reduced to a single clean outline for pressing into rolled dough. The silhouette is the one every child can name from across a kitchen, hat and beard and the round bulk of the coat, and it works as happily on gingerbread as it does on shortbread or a plain sugar biscuit. Christmas baking tends to be a group activity, and a cutter like this earns its keep by turning the fiddly part into an assembly line. Roll, stamp, lift, repeat, then hand the tray over to whoever has claimed the icing bag. It is a single model, so there is nothing to assemble, and it stores flat in a drawer with the rest of the seasonal kit for the eleven months of the year when nobody wants a Santa-shaped biscuit.