Recipe please so I can use my new Christmas Cutters!

[macnab]

On a whim (what's new ) I bought some festive pastry cutters. I never bake anything that requires cutting! Can anyone suggest a recipe that I could use these with?! A quick look at cookie recipes on bbcgoodfood site is suggesting that you just spoon blobs of the mixture onto a tray and then bake, so no need for cutters. I thought it would be nice to do some baking with DD ahead of the school Christmas Bake Sale. Any ideas would be hugely welcome

[MrsHathaway]

My favourite shaped bake - successful over and over again including last week for Hallowe'en using a cat cutter and a ghost cutter - is cheese puffs.

Jus Rol puff pastry. Brush with milk*. Sprinkle over a little finely grated cheese. Bake.

• optionally add ground mustard or paprika
  
  Also marking place for good biscuit recipes esp gingerbread. I agree that they often grow sideways too much which is no use for intricate designs.

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I would use Nigella's recipe for butter cut-out cookies. I can't post a link as the page won't load properly on my phone but the recipe is on the internet or in her domestic goddess book.

[BrieAndChilli]

There are recipes for biscuits that hold thier shape.

You could also use the cutters to cut pastry shapes and put on top of a pie/ mince pies

[SandLand]

321 biscuits.

Cream 100g sugar with 200g of butter. Mix in 300g of plain flour.
Roll out, cut.
10 mins in the oven at 180.
Can be iced.

Cariatiobs: teaspoon of ground ginger in mixture, or orange/lemon rind, or replace some of the flour with cocoa.

[DeadDoorpost]

I might try out that 321 recipe thank you for That!
I like baking thin cakes and cutting the shapes out afterwards and decorating them. Or making gingerbread but I don't have the recipe... my mum does and she's very secretive of it as it's her own one she worked on. Same as her cookies 😭 I'd love to get hold of them but even the written recipe is in code

[TheKitchenWitch]

I bake a LOT of cut biscuits as I have a massive collection of cutters.

Best recipe imo is here:
www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2011/06/basic-sugar-cookie-recipe-2/
Gives consistently perfect flat biscuits that don’t spread at all.

And if you want a gingerbread-type dough you can roll and cut really well, then this one is perfect:
www.google.de/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3000/gingerbread-trees%3famp
I’ve used it to make hundreds of gingerbread men!

[TheTurnOfTheScrew]

yy to the Nigella butter cut-out cookie recipe - works really well with fiddly shapes. you can make it a bit more festive with some mixed spice without affecting the texture.

[macnab]

Thank you all so much!

DD will have great fun icing the cookies

[Etymology23]

That 3,2,1 recipe is my shortbread recipe! I add vanilla essence too.

[LostMyRubySlippers]

I was also going to suggest the Nigella one mentioned above as they hold their shape well