Sleigh Decal

Father Christmas's sleigh, reduced to the parts that matter: curled runners, a swept prow and the high back of the seat. It is a shape that survives being simplified — even as a bare outline it still reads as a sleigh from the other side of the kitchen, which is exactly what a seasonal design has to do. This sits in the cookie-cutter family as a decal, a detail piece for impressing the design into biscuit dough, fondant, sugarpaste, icing plaques or air-dry clay. Christmas is one of the few points in the year when a household genuinely turns out dozens of identical shapes, and a sleigh is a welcome step past yet another tree or star. One file, and the sort of thing worth adding to whatever seasonal shapes are already rattling around the baking drawer.