It’s not just winter or Christmas. Oh no. It’s also cookie season! ‘Tis the season when even complete novices break out the cookie cutters and baking trays. Whipping up a frenzy of fun biscuits for everyone is wonderfully sweet (pun fully intended) and fun. Bake snowflakes and dust with icing sugar, bag up and slip into everyone’s stockings for a winter-y treat. Make lots of sprinkle studded stars for Christmas dinner favours. Or get creative with a towering gingerbread house adorned with royal icing snow. Check out our top 10 Christmas cookies baking essentials list for some handy tools and ideas!
Our top 10 Christmas cookie baking essentials!
01:Mixing bowls!
It sounds like a cliché, but you can never have too many mixing bowls… especially any by Mason Cash. We absolutely love them. They’re super sturdy, plus they come in a variety of gorgeous colours. This particular bowl is amazing. It’s a whopping 29cm in diameter plus it’s not too tall which means it’s perfect for hand mixing various cookie doughs from sugar to chocolate chip!
02: Stars!
It’s Christmas so sprinkling stars onto everything is more then acceptable right now. Royal ice your sugar cookies and sprinkle with confetti style star sprinkles. Use sugar stars to gently mix into sugar cookie dough for a sweet surprise.
Star sprinkles by Edible by Design
03: Copper cookie cutters!
Copper cookie cutters have a wonderful vintage feel to them which instantly say Christmas time! We love that copper kitchenware have grown more and more popular each year. This festive season use a pretty copper reindeer cutter to bake fun cookies. Ice them with initials for cute personalised gifts, use as table dressing pieces or tie with bows onto jar cookie mixes for a great gift idea!
Copper reindeer cookie cutter by Eddington’s
04: Cookie / biscuit jar!
Obviously you’re going to need somewhere to keep all your homemade cookies. Where else then a glass cookie jar so that everyone else can see just how gorgeous your biscuits are during the holiday season. You can even make it super festive with a white box and some golden bells tied around it’s neck!
05: Spatulas!
This Mason Cash (we don’t work for them… honest) spatula is seriously our favourite. We rave about it on a regular basis. One of the worst things when hand mixing doughs is a cheap spatula with a rough wood handle that makes your skin sore. This spatula is super smooth, plus its perfect for doughs, batters and even folding macaron mixture.
06: Snowflakes!
These intricate snowflake cookie cutters are gorgeous. If you’re scared about icing or decorating cookies then utilising more design-led cutters (that feature stamped or cut out detail) is the way to go! Cut, bake and then dust with icing sugar and you’re done!
Snowflake cookie cutters by Lakeland
07: Royal icing!
We like to make our’s from scratch, but it’s pretty understandable why anyone would rather opt for a mix when it comes to royal icing. This pre-made royal icing mix by Squires Kitchen is perfect for decorating cookies. Simply whip up as per the instructions, add gel or paste food colour (if needed) and ice away!
Royal icing mix by Squires Kitchen
08: Stylish mugs!
We fully advocate taste testing so obviously you’re going to need a sweet Christmas-y mug to help you out. We love this stylish mug by Bombay Duck. What’s not to love about it… it’s got a touch of gold and it has a perfect festive message!
Be bright & sparkle mug by Bombay Duck
09: Sugar sprinkles!
Sprinkles are a ridiculously quick way to make any bake fit a theme or holiday. These cute white snowflake sprinkles can be added to freshly iced cookies as well as festive cupcakes. You can even add to the inside of cool piñata sugar cookies for a surprise!
10: Cookie baking trays!
Cookie baking trays don’t sound very exciting do they, but gold ones do. Or at least they do to us (incase you can’t tell we love gold). Glam up your bakes with this simple yet stylish golden cookie tray!
Gold cookie baking tray by KitchenCraft
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