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Use a Cookie Template to Make Your Customized Cookie Cutter
Making cookies is fun, and you can do this fun activity with your children during your spare time. However, cookies can get messy to shape since it’s pretty difficult to shape the dough; especially if you are inexperienced. To help you with that, there are tricks to make the cookie dough pretty. One of them is by using a cookie template. With this template, be ready to say goodbye to messy cookies!
What is a Cookie Template?
A cookie template, or more widely known as cookie stencil, is a kind of tool used by bakers in order to shape their cookie dough. This cookies template is widely used especially if the shape of that cookie is quite difficult to shape without hands.
Although there is a tool already called a cookie cutter, this template can be beneficial especially if you are unable to find any cutter that resembles the shape that you want. Hence, the cookie can be shaped by using this. With this template you can also make yourself the DIY cookie cutter if you have the utensils and materials required.
How Do I Make a Cookie Template?
In order to make your own cookie cutter, you will need these items below:
- Aluminum strips
- A string, this is to measure how much aluminum strips you are going to use
- A cookie template or images of anything. Let’s say, if you want to make the cookie round in shape, all you need to do is to get a round cookie template.
- Needle nose pliers to help you bend the aluminum strips better
- Scissors
- Some tapes.
The main procedure is to measure how long you will need the aluminum strips. Then, cut it off, and start bending it with the pliers according to the template that you’ve prepared earlier. Lastly, to secure the end of the strips, use some tapes.
What Can I Use Instead of a Cookie Cutter?
Instead of using a cookie cutter, you can shape your cookie with a cardboard ‘cutter’. For this purpose, you will also require a cookie template before cutting the cardboard following the pattern of the planned cookie.
How to Make Cookies with Cookie Template?
A cookie template is a helpful tool to cut your cookie in a well-designed form. As mentioned earlier, custom metal cookie cutter can also be made from this template as well. Indeed, as a baker, this will ease you for making an unconventional shape of cookie, right?
How to Use a Cookie Template?
If you’re already prepared with the materials needed to make the cookie metal cutters/cardboard cookie cutters, then the cookie template can be traced to build it.
All you have to do is to print the cookie template and trace its outline on the cardboard; then cut the cardboard. The same thing goes as well if you want to make a metal cookie cutter. Bending the strips is way harder, but as you finish the strips, you can use it to cut your dough – even for a thousand times.
