Acorn elf gingerbread cookie cutters

Last year I decided to make my own cutouts for Christmas gingerbread cookies. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a 3D printer at the time, but as a DIYer I managed. First, I fortified myself with a beer and then I cut up the can and made a primitive cookie cutter out of it. Maybe a small tuna can would have been better and more practical, but I liked the beer better :)

But this year we already have a 3D printer, so I started to design the cutters. I drew the shapes in Illustrator and then created printable files using the online tool CookieCut (it can make an STL mold from an image).

I made two acorns, two oak leaves, little cutouts for eyes and a mouth. Then I had the idea to make a gingerbread kit, so I added a cookie cutter for the stick (hand, foot) and a shoe. And finally I wanted to make a gingerbread man :)

Here you have all 9 cookie cutters in .stl format for printing on a 3D printer (I don’t understand 3D printing, my son printed it for me): pernicky.zip

The result looked like this:

Important notice!

Never, I repeat never, put the moulds from the 3D printer in the dishwasher. They’re thin plastic, it’ll come out like this:

So to make linzer cookies, I’ll have to print again :)

Cutters for acorn elves linzer cookies

Since we had already baked the gingerbread cookies, I decided to reprint just a few molds.

And on that occasion I thought of new shapes – the reflection on the acorn and the cut-out on the oak leaf. So I added a couple of new shapes.

Here you can download a new batch of cookie cutters, you can find the eyes and mouth for the acorn elf head in the previous batch.

Gingerbread puzzle

I also thought of making a gingerbread acorn elf puzzle. The cookie cutters are in the first archive mentioned – I just had to cut the stem off the body, otherwise it would have looked “weird” :)

I tried to assemble one acorn elf from the still unbaked dough on the baking sheet: