culinary rabbit holes

[kaberett]

One of the gifts I received for my birthday was the Ottolenghi Sweet cookbook (a selection of online recipes). I'm faintly embarrassed by the extent to which the soft gingerbread cookies with rum butter glaze are precisely my #aesthetic, which obviously (obviously) means that I desperately need cookie stamps.

(I don't. I have an entire cupboard full of bakeware. All of it does get used, but also, I have an entire cupboard full of bakeware plus the heavy-duty baking sheets that don't fit anywhere plus the like three different rabbit moulds I inherited from the mouldering ancestral pile; I do not need more rare-use high-space-occupancy baking bullshit.)

As best I can tell, the specific pictured (beautiful!) cookie stamps are largely those produced by Nordic Ware, a US company that sells sets at something like forty quid for three (plus! shipping!) where I... really only want one or two stamps from most of the relevant sets, because I am a parody of myself and also utterly captivated by the photographs illustrating this recipe in the book.

It is a problem.

Comments

[lunabee34]

When I graduated college, the library staff (I had been a student worker there for two years) all gave me gifts, and the special collections director gave me a Beatrix Potter cookie stamp. It's very cool.

[hilarita]

I accidentally ended up making an otter cookie stamp (it was meant to be a cookie cutter, but I got the dimensions Rong when 3D printing it). It does work Quite Well to put Otters on things, though.

[phi]

I have only just started to bake since the pandemic started, and still, in my attempt to just acquire a plain 9" round cake tin, nordicware tempted me into also buying a cake mold shaped like insects. And I still don't have the round cake tin because they mis-packed the box and sent me a bread pan instead!

Anyway, Nordicware is dangerous, is all.

[alexseanchai]

am now wondering how one might improvise a cookie stamp

[ursula]

Keep an eye on ebay? I built a collection of krumkake irons that way. Alternatively, I bet these are also sold in Sweden, if you can work out the right search term.

[aldabra]

Was going to suggest: buy a set, sell n-2 of them of them individually on eBay, use the proceeds towards the next set...

[watersword]

King Arthur Flour recently posted about how to improvise cookie stamps.

[ironed_orchid]

I really like this!

I have a couple of wooden block print stamps which I only use for baking, a few years ago all my colleagues got peacock stamped gingerbread cookies at Xmas.

[ludy]

That's really useful, thank you for sharing (though if anyone could translate "Kaiser roll stamp" into UK english i would be less confused). I'd always gone for the fork option and hadn't realised stamps could be used for biscuits/cookies that weren't already cut into neat rounds

[recessional]

You know someone on etsy could probably make you clay versions of those stamps cheaper. :P

[madgastronomer]

A lot of ceramics people make cookie stamps, you should look for those.

[vass]

They do look pretty. None of them look much like a rabbit hole, though...

[ludy]

I know it's just how the word stamp translates and i am sure i should be much more grown-up and sensible about such things but i am distracted by French cookie stamps being called tampon à biscuits...