You can find me baking all year round, but there’s something extra special about baking in the fall. Warm pastries, cakes, and cookies packed with pumpkin, apple, and cinnamon? Sign me up! In an effort to make my cookies in particular feel extra, extra special, I picked up an adorable set of cookie stamps that all my friends and family are about to become very familiar with. I already can’t wait to make my next batch of spice cookies!
What You Should Know About Nordic Ware’s Fall 3D Cookie Stamps
It comes with three cookie stamps made from cast aluminum (so they’re durable yet light) with wooden handles. Each square stamp features a different design — a maple leaf, a pine cone, and an acorn — and a unique pie crust-inspired border. All my cookies come out looking like little pieces of art! Plus, the stamps are about the size of a set of sticky notes, so the cookies are a pretty decent size. The set is intended to be hand-washed, which I found to be easy and quick.
My Honest Review of Nordic Ware’s Fall 3D Cookie Stamps
After making the dough, I rolled it into little balls and pressed my stamps into them one by one on my baking sheet. My favorite of the three designs is the maple leaf. It looks great every time and has deep grooves that make the shape stand out. The pine cone stamp was also really nice and clear — I just happen to like the maple leaf design a teeny bit more. But they’re both so adorable!
I did have a little bit of trouble with the acorn stamp. Its grooves are shallower, so the design gets a little blurred during the baking process. That said, I took these cookies to a get-together, and one of my family members immediately recognized what the acorn cookie was.
The stamps were pretty easy to work with. I was initially concerned about the dough sticking, but I didn’t find that to be a problem — especially with chilled dough. Sometimes I would have to peel the cookie out of the stamp, but the design stayed fully intact.
I honestly can’t rave enough about the cookie recipe itself, either. They tasted just like Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts (my fave!), and they baked up so cute in the oven. Beyond loving the sweet shapes, my sister thought the cookies tasted amazing too. I can’t stop thinking about when I can make them again — using my new favorite cookie stamps, of course.
Buy: Nordic Ware Fall 3D Cookie Stamps, $29.95 for three stamps at Williams Sonoma
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