Cute Fall Baking Gadgets

6 months ago

I saw these cookie cutters, hand pie molds, cookie stamps, pie punches and baking pans on Wms Sonoma/s site. I don’t need any but thought these versions were all so cute. (plllog, did you once mention having some of the molds or punches?)

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morz8 - Washington Coast

6 months ago

I am always so tempted by their displays but truthfully I bake infrequently. Somehow I've become the family holiday meal pie maker and I do have a few of the punches in leaf patterns. I do use those to decorate pie top crusts. I really don't enjoy making cookies, I'm more enthusiastic about a pie or cake, something one dish and completed than fooling with all those little individual 'thingies'.

I had a neighbor who would make the most intricate and gorgeous platters of assorted cookies. She would begin baking with her two sisters (they could have gone pro) the day after Thanksgiving and they would mix and roll for 72 hours barely taking a break. When her husband retired, they built a small home on the other side of the state where they summer and a house in Nevada desert where they spend the winter. Before leaving the area, she and her sisters had a cookbook made of their favorite cookie recipes and that last year instead of cookies, I was given the book. I've made her Mexican wedding cakes a few times, they are simple enough and I do like them. They are not pretty like most of the offerings.

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plllog
6 months ago
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Those are what a friend would call "stinkin' cute"!! Harvey sized rabbit hole opening before me of Things-I-Do-Not-Need! I would love to play with all of those, but I have a pumpkin mini cheesecake pan and some nice leaf shaped metal outline cookie cutters. And a round mini-pie mold. I do have some cutters that are similar to the plastic pumpkins and leaves, but they're simple geometrics and create little wells in the middle to be like ersatz Linzers, with the dollop of jam, but no second layer. Those might be what you were thinking of. I also have jars of random cookie cutters, both my mother's old ones and my own, and a couple different alphabets. Everybody's watching their sugar nowadays, even the young ones, so I rarely get a chance to use all these fun things. I love baking, but have no one to eat my wares. :( Thank-you for sharing all the cute, though!
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chloebud
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6 months ago
“Harvey sized rabbit hole opening before me of Things-I-Do-Not-Need!”

LOL, rabbit hole for both of us!🥴 The last thing I need are more cookie cutters. Our garage has numerous Rubbermaid containers of them labeled by season/event. I’m also not about to spend $50 on one of the cake pans. Still, hard not to appreciate the CUTE!
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chloebud
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6 months ago
You’re a bad influence…and I’ll go check.😉
chloebud
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6 months ago
morz8, I do know what you mean regarding the ”thingies.” I used to spend hours decorating cookies. These days it’s much less time. I do think the cookie stamps in the photo are nice, and would work with my shortbread. I still have all my shortbread molds (from Brown Bag Cookie Co.). They’re nice but stamps are quicker/easier with cut+design all at once.
plllog
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I love baking cookies! When we were kids, it was a whole production thing and we were the Cookie People. Nowadays, people eat healthier (but less happy!) and I don't have people to eat the cookies anymore. If I bake cut cookies it's decor, and not really worth the process at that. Sur La Table sent a similar e-mail today, but fewer cute, more things like Halloween dishes and linens (trying too hard to be elegant, which doesn't really work well), and a few of the cute pans and cutters. There is a black 3.5l Staub pumpkin CI. I had a flash of a thought that it's a size I don't have, forgetting the 4l Staub bread pot. (I have the original Le Creuset orange pumpkin CI 2l.) Nope. Don't need 3.5 at all. ;)
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