Fall & Winter 2016 A magazine for the latest cookie decorating trends
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Note from the Editor
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Back to School Cookies
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Fall Forest Pie
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Featured Fall Cutters
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Fall Instagram Inspiration
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Festive Snow Globes
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Featured Winter Cutters
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Winter Instagram Inspiration
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New Year’s and Party Cutters
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Party Instagram Inspiration
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Baking Basics: Seasonal Flavors
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Cookie Trends
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Custom Cookie Cutters
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Fall Winter Coupon Code
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Spring Preview
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Acknowledgements
@beatandbakebiscuits @yohko_ycsweets
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Hey Baking Friends! We’re back with a Fall Winter Issue! This time, we’ve filled the magazine with more cookie inspiration and new cookie cutters. We’re introducing 100+ new cookie cutters. Check out Venus Flytrap, Pinecone, Dreamcatcher, Eskimo, Alarm Clock, and more! If you don’t find the one you’ve been dreaming of, you can use our Make-Your-Own Cookie Cutter Tool to create any shape you want. We’ve also got a great collection of tutorials to inspire your next baking project. Looking to use your cutters for something other than cookies? Sam of @elleventy shares a wonderful fall forest pie using cookie cutters for the crust. Michele of @lucky_bites has the perfect back-to-school cookie for teachers. If you’re looking for a winter cookie to bake, Marisol of @tinykitchentreats shares a how-to for a magical winter wonderland snow globe. We love hearing from y’all! If you want to share something about this magazine or about any of our products, please feel free to always message me (Alice!) alice@cookiecutterkdom.com. I also love seeing your finished cookie products, so please send me photos or share it on Instagram and tag us: #cookiecutterkingdom @cookiecutterkingdom For more tutorials, check out our blog here. Happy baking! Cheers,
Alice and the CookieCutterKingdom Team 3
Back to School Cookies
Send the kids back to school with a sweet treat, or have them say hello to their new teachers with a little pick me up!
by @lucky_bites
• CookieCutterKingdom 2” & 3” Apple Cutters, 3” Rectangle Plaque Cutter • Sugar cookie dough
1. Roll dough to ⅜” thick. Dip cutters in flour for a clean cut and cut out the cookies. Use the straw to make binder holes in the left side of the rectangles
• Royal icing • Flooding consistency in white, red • Piping consistency in white, red, green, brown • Plastic drinking straw
2. Bake and cool completely.
• Toothpicks or scribe tool • Food pens: red, blue, black • Piping bag or squeeze bottles
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3. Use white royal icing to outline the holes and border of the rectangle. Let dry for a few minutes.
4. Flood rectangles with white icing. Set aside to dry for 1-2 days. This will help avoid color-bleeding with the food pens.
5. Using red icing, outline and ood the apple cookies.
6. While the red is still wet, add a highlight with white icing. Allow apples to dry for at least 30 minutes.
Here’s to the start of a new school year!
See the full tutorial here! 5
Fall Forest Pie by @elleventy
Optional: Egg wash (whisk 1 egg, 1 tablespoon milk)
Pie Pastry • 4 cups all purpose flour • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar • ½ teaspoon salt • 1 ¾ cups cold unsalted butter or solid vegetable shortening • ½ cup ice cold water • 1 tablespoon vinegar • 1 egg • CookieCutterKingdom Autumn Leaf Cutters
Apple Filling • 5 cups apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced • ¾ cup granulated sugar (more or less depending on the sweetness of the apples) • 2 tablespoons flour • 1 tablespoon lemon juice • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
1. In a very large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar and salt. 2. Cut butter into chunks and add to bowl. Now with a pastry blender or two knives, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it is very crumbly and resembles coarse oatmeal. 3. In a smaller bowl, beat together the water, vinegar and egg until blended. Stir into the flour mixture, tossing gently until everything is evenly dampened and forms a soft dough. Make sure not to mash, you want the whole mess to stay lightly mixed.
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4. With well-floured hands, form the dough into 2 equal pieces, patting them into flattish disks and flouring the outsides well. Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour. 5. Take out the pastry disks and on a well-floured surface, with a rolling pin, roll one disk as evenly as possible until it is around ⅜” thick.
9. Roll out the second disk on a well-floured surface, dip cutters in flour, and cut enough leaf shapes to cover the pie. You can also use a combination of leaves and strips to create a lattice or braids 10. Optional: Using a pastry brush, brush on the egg wash. 11. Preheat oven to 375°F and bake for 60 minutes or until golden brown on top. 12. Remove pie from oven and let it stand to cool slightly before serving. Enjoy!
6. Carefully transfer it to the pie pan, folding the pastry in half or quarters to make it easier to handle. 7. Center the pastry in the pan and gently press it into place. Trim off the excess pastry overhanging the edges of the pan. Don’t panic if you make a hole in the crust, just patch it up with a little bit of dough. 8. In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients for the apple filling and pour into prepared pie crust. 7
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Snoopy on Pumpkin
Halloween Cookie Cutters
Cute Spider
From cute to spooky, we have so many fun shapes to choose from!
Cute Fox
Bunting Skull Crossbones
Round Candy
Cute Turkey with Pilgrim Hat
Thanksgiving Cookie Cutters
Pumpkin Truck
Whole Pie
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Use our Custom Cookie Cutter Tool to create your own cutter!
Add some sweets to your feast - we have Thanksgiving foods as well as cute creatures and decorations.
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@iheartbaking @hol_fox
@sifts_and_giggles
Fall Inspiration
From the #CookieCutterKingdom Community! @lucky_bites
@lucky_bites
@freshbakes
@mindysbakeshop
@hayleygolightly_ 10
@janaleesbakeshop @hellobaked
@iheartbaking @mindysbakeshop @bakedtomeasure
@freshbakes
@tinykitchentreats
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w o n S e v i t s e F s e b Glo
by @tinykitchentreats
• Sugar cookie dough • Royal icing • Rolling pin (Tip: guides help you keep even thickness) • CookieCutterKingdom 4” Snow Globe Cutter • AmeriColor gel food coloring - royal blue, black • Piping bags/piping bottles • Decorating Tips 1 & 2 • Optional: silver luster dust and a little bit of vodka
1. Roll out your cookie dough to ⅜” thick and dip your cutter in flour to get a cleaner cut. Bake according to cookie dough recipe.
2. While your cookies are cooling, make royal icing and tint half light gray. Make piping consistency for the gray and 15 second consistency for both. 3. Begin decorating by outlining the globe with your gray piping consistency royal icing.
4. Then, fill in the middle of the base with 15 second gray icing.
5. Let dry for 10 minutes, then add the top and bottom sections of the base and get that nice dimension. 12
6. Using silver luster dust mixed with a tiny bit of vodka, paint the base and outline of the snow globe.
7. Fill the snow globe with white royal icing (15 sec).
8. Let dry overnight so that you have a sturdy canvas to paint on.
Now sit back and enjoy your little work of art. Happy treat making!
See the full tutorial, including how to paint your snow globe, here! 13
Cute Reindeer
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Use our Custom Cookie Cutter Tool to create your own cutter!
Wide Candle
Santa Stuck in Chimney Ugly Sweater Igloo
Grinch
Snow Globe
In cold weather, nothing
Featured
Winter
Cookie Cutters
Eskimo
warms you up like freshly-baked cookies! Decorate sweaters and caps with your favorite colors, or Christmas
Winter Cap
characters like the Grinch and Cute Reindeer.
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Winter Inspiration From the #CookieCutterKingdom Community!
@dearlizas
@makefabulouscakes
@thedessertpantry @ardycakes
@vickiee_yo
@mountaintreats
@districtbakingco
@tinykitchentreats 15
@reabakes @ardycakes @janaleesbakeshop @thedessertpantry
@briezacher
@janalaurene
@bluesugarcookieco
@ardycakes
@hol_fox 16
2017
Masquerade Mask
Confetti
Hourglass
New Year’s Cookie Cutters Martini Glass
Whether for the big countdown, or for any celebration this season, bring on the most festive of cookies!
Firework
Alarm Clock
Champagne Bottle Noisemaker Party Hat
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Use our Custom Cookie Cutter Tool to create your own cutter!
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@reabakes
@hol_fox
@mindysbakeshop
Party Inspiration From the #CookieCutterKingdom Community! @mountaintreats
@mindysbakeshop
@mindysbakeshop
@hol_fox
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The Baking Basics
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Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies
Ingredients • • • • • • • • •
đ cup butter 1 cup white sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1 tablespoon milk đ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 đ cups flour Ɖ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons pumpkin spice powder
Directions 1. In stand mixer, combine butter and sugar until smooth and creamy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla and cream together.
@merci.bakery
2. In separate bowl, blend flour, salt, baking powder, and pumpkin spice powder. Add the mixture to stand mixer; mix on low speed until dough just comes together. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. 3. Preheat the oven to 375° F and line a pan with parchment paper. Lightly flour surface and roll dough to 1/8 inch thick. Cut into shapes and transfer to lined pan, leaving at least an inch of space between cookies. 4. Bake for 6-8 minutes, checking frequently. As soon as edges are pale gold, remove from oven; transfer immediately to a cooling rack. Freeze or store, covered, at room temperature. 20
Ingredients • •
1 box powdered sugar (1 pound) 2 egg whites •
CookieCutterKingdom
Royal Icing Recipe
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Substitute with 5 tablespoons meringue powder for children and pregnant women
đ cup water
Directions 1. Combine powdered sugar and egg whites in a bowl. 2. Mix at low speed and slowly add in the 1/2 cup of water. Change speed to mediumhigh for about 5 minutes. It should take around 7 to 10 minutes of mixing to get a ribbon-like trail when you dip and lift a spatula into the royal icing (almost a runny caramel consistency).
@hol_fox
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Photos by @yohko_ycsweets
New Trend Alert!
Cookie Shakers
We love this creative trend! Cookie shakers make use of candy melts to create a transparent window. First, you’ll need to cut an inner window from your original cookie shape. Attach two cookies together for a space that you can fill with goodies of all kinds - like sprinkles, candies, and chocolate chips! 22
Custom Cookie Cutters @lifewithkahlua @bobbiandbambisdogbakery
Create your very own cookie cutter with our custom tool! Our tool is easy to use – simply upload your image and it will automatically generate a custom cutter that you can preview before ordering. Check out some custom creations to the left! @elleventy
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Use coupon code
FALLWINTER2016 for 15% off your purchase
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@thesweetesttiers
Spring Preview:
Decorating with
Piping Tips
@ohhhchelsea @mindysbakeshop
@sugarcreamandpeonies
Piping tips are an easy way to add a pop of texture to your cookies. As spring arrives, this is the perfect way to create beautiful flowers that are perfect for the season. Dress up one of our plaques with these colorful blooms! Or add some interest to your favorite cookie shapes.
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Special Thanks ACK NOWLEDGEMENTS Cookies made with the following CookieCutterKingdom cutters are pictured throughout the magazine. The following Instagram accounts are featured:
Cover: Ugly Sweater, Thin Snowflake Page 10: Anatomical Brain, Apple, Milk Carton, Toast Page 11: Fall Leaf, Maple Leaf, Madrid Plaque, Pie Slice, Pumpkin Page 15: Antlers, Candy Cane, Cute Reindeer, Donut, Fat Christmas Tree, Soft Cloud, Ugly Sweater, Winter Cap, Page 16: Polar Bear, Snoopy, Square Page 18: Beer Mug, Champagne Bottle, Champagne Glass, Diamond, Diamond Ring, Party Hat, Martini Glass, Naples Plaque
Cover (clockwise from top left): @vickiee_yo, @asami_kamioka, @sweetciaobella, @reabakes, @districtbakingco, @tinykitchentreats Page 19 (clockwise from top left): @asami_kamioka, @kisstorta, @bakedideas, @tinykitchentreats, @iheartbaking, @alanakysar
Page 19: Kitchen Aid Page 20: Budapest Plaque Page 26: Arrow, Christmas Light Bulb
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@vickiee_yo
@beatandbakebiscuits
@ocd_obsessive_cookie_designer
@asami_kamioka
Where there’s a whisk, there’s a way! Connect with us today!
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