Stacked Pumpkins

Three pumpkins piled one on top of the other, tapering as they climb, with a stub of stalk crowning the top gourd. It is the arrangement people put on a porch step or a doorstep planter through October, compressed into a single readable biscuit outline that still holds its shape at cookie size. As autumn cutters go this one is broader than it first looks. A stack of gourds reads as harvest and hedgerow as much as it reads as Halloween, so it carries from September baking right through Bonfire Night and onto an American Thanksgiving table without feeling out of season. One file, one shape, the sort of cutter that earns its place in the drawer for six weeks a year and then waits. Useful for school bake sales, an autumn biscuit tin, or icing practice, since the three tiers give you obvious panels to flood in different colours.