How to Make Your Own Throw Away Cookie Cutters

Make your own throw away cookie cutters with a foil pan.

Do not let a lack of a cookie cutter keep you from making your own cut out cookies. Make your own disposable cookie cutters from objects around your house. By making your own cookie cutter shapes, you do not have to rely only those found in stores. The low cost and ease of making these cookie cutters means that you can throw them away after use or save them for your next batch of cookies.

Things You'll Need

• Cookie shape design printed on paper
• Tape
• Wooden board
• Scissors
• Finishing nails
• Hammer
• Disposable aluminum foil baking pan

Instructions

1. Tape the cookie cutter shape design paper to a wooden board.

2. Hammer finishing nails through the paper and into the wooden board at all of the bends in the cookie cutter shape, leaving the 1 to 2 inches of nail exposed over the surface of the wood. For instance, if you wanted to make a square cookie cutter, you would hammer a nail into each of the four corners of the shape.

3. Cut off the side edges of the aluminum pan using the scissors, and trim the corners and bottom off the sides, leaving four strips of aluminum foil pan.

4. Trim the bottom of the aluminum foil pan around the shape to have a heavy foil shape for the cookie cutter.

5. Bend the sides cut from the aluminum foil pan around the finishing nails to create the cookie cutter. Use more than one of the sides for larger cookie cutter shapes, taping the foil edges together where they overlap.

6. Press the cookie cutter into rolled dough to make shaped cookies and throw away or hand wash for another use.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a simple, boxy shape rather than a curved design for your first trial at making homemade cookie cutters.

References

• Jumping Frog: Make Your Own Cookie Cutter
• Sonic Gear: Sonic Cookie Cutter Instructions