How to Make Your Own Celtic Cookie Stamp
Cookie stamps are a great and easy way to add a little flair and personality to home-baked cookies. Cookie stamps are just that--objects used to stamp an image into soft, unbaked dough. Often, cookie stamps are made from ceramic clay, glass, rubber, metal and wood. Sometimes they are even made from vegetables, such as potatoes. Making your own cookie stamp out of potatoes is a great easy alternative to store-bought stamps.
Things You'll Need
- Computer
- Printer
- Photocopier
- Paper
- Pencils
- Pinpoint awl or ice pick
- Knife
- Tape
Instructions
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Decide what you want your stamp to be. Unless you are a good artist, you may want to prepare your pattern on the computer or buy a pre-made template.
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Using a word processing or image program, shrink the image you have chosen to the size of the potato you will be using for your stamp. Print.
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Tape the printed image, face up, to one side of the potato.
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Score the image into the potatoes by poking through the paper and into the skin with the awl or ice pick. Do not pierce all the way through the potato.
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Use a knife to cut away the parts of the image you do not wish, creating a raised imprint of the design. Depending on how complex the image is, you may need to use the awl or ice pick to remove parts of the potato.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep in mind the size of the potato and the cookies you will be making when choosing a design. Depending on the design and the cookie size, you may cut the potato in half widthwise and work from the cut surface, or you may lay it lengthwise and work from that surface. Either way, you will be using half the potato as the stamp and the other half as the handle. Cookie dough made without baking powder or baking soda will rise less, enabling the design you stamp into them to be more distinct. Oiling or flouring the stamp will help keep it from sticking to the dough. You may also use icing sugar, confectioner's sugar and powdered sugar.
