My daughter loves my mom’s Chocolate Bar Cookies. The giant sweet treats are filled with coarsely chopped Hershey bars instead of traditional chocolate chips. While they may not taste exactly like an ordinary chocolate chip cookie, they look just like the popular snack. At least they did before my daughter came up with the brilliant idea to use her favorite dinosaur cookie cutter on mounds of dough.
Truth be told, the cookie cutters work better on sugar cookie dough, but my daughter was determined to make a chocolate chunk dino and didn’t seem to mind that her T-Rex came out looking more like a deformed ear.
My daughter’s cookie experiment got me thinking about how versatile plastic cookie cutters really are. I have a weakness for cheap cookie cutters. I stock up on them at post holiday sales. WalMart and Target always carry seasonal cookie cutters at Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Valentine’s Day. I simply wait until the after holiday sales and scoop up cookie cutters in various shapes for 50 to 80 percent off.
When they aren’t being used to form cookies, the cutters make great stencils. My daughter has used candy cane, Christmas tree, bells and Santa-shaped cookie cutters to design holiday cards. Plastic cookie cutters can also be used to make felt or paper ornaments. Simply trace, cut and string them together with yarn and place them on the Christmas tree or use as garland and hang them on the mantle. You can even use them individually as tags for holiday gifts.
Smaller cookie cutters can be used to make clay jewelry. My daughter uses mini star, heart and gingerbread man cookie cutters to design Play-Doh pendants. She then attaches the pendants to a plastic bracelet or a piece of ribbon and pretends that she is a “rich lady.”
Cookie cutters also work on a variety of other food items, such as sandwiches and fruit. Mini cookie cutters work exceptionally well on thinly sliced melon. You can also make heart-shaped French toast and dog-shaped cheese snacks with cheap cookie cutters.
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