Spiderman 1

Web-slinger baking, reduced to a stamp. The outline follows the familiar masked head, with its pointed eye shapes and the web lines that make the character readable from the other side of a kitchen, which is the sort of shape a five-year-old names before you have finished asking. Cutters like this earn their keep once a year and get talked about for months afterwards. Roll out chilled shortbread or gingerbread, stamp the shapes, and the superhero birthday table is sorted without paying party-shop prices for themed biscuits. The same outline presses neatly into fondant for cupcake toppers, or into salt dough when the children want something to hang up rather than eat. It is a drawer item with a long life, coming out for birthdays, half-terms and wet Sunday afternoons for years. As with any printed cutter, wash it by hand and it will keep its edges.