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How to Make Edible Cookie Dough Cutters to Gift

By: Author Amanda L Grossman

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A unique sweet treat to gift to someone around Christmas time: edible cookie dough cutters. Featuring safe-to-eat raw cookie dough!

Cookie cutters are used mainly around Christmastime, so they make a great gift.

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And what takes a cookie cutter to the next level?

If it has safe-to-eat, raw cookie dough in it.

You can bet I would LOVE to be the recipient of a cookie cutter I can use over and over again, as well as yummy cookie dough I can eat right away.

How to Make Edible Cookie Cutters

People have made entire businesses by selling safe raw cookie dough.

What makes it “safe” is you heat-treat the flour, and use pasteurized egg whites in the recipe (if the recipe contains eggs). You can read a lot more in Kristen Tomlan’s book Hello, Cookie Dough.

outer space cookie dough cutters next to bowl full of safe cookie dough to eat

Here's what you'll need to make this unique sweet gift for someone:

  • A safe raw cookie recipe
  • Ingredients for raw cookie dough
  • Cookie cutters (you might want to get plastic ones, so there’s no potential for rust)
  • Little spoons (I got the silver ones in the photo from Dollar Tree)
  • Plastic bag for packaging
  • Ribbon for packaging
  • Parchment paper

Instructions:

  1. Make the cookie dough recipe.
  2. Wash the cookie cutters and dry them thoroughly.
  3. Cut a square of parchment paper big enough to place underneath each cookie cutter. Place each cookie cutter on its square.
  4. Stuff raw cookie dough into each one (I did about 1/2 way up). Set it back down on its parchment square.
  5. Include one cookie dough cutter in a bag, with one silver spoon, and tie it with a ribbon.

These make great sweet teacher appreciation treat gifts (the planet cookie cutters are adorable for that!), Christmas treats to gifts, sleepover snacks, date night desserts, and so much more.

Make sure you keep these edible cookie cutters refrigerated before you gift them! If you can keep them around that long without eating them all…(can't just be me, right?).

Here are 4 other easy Christmas treats to gift.

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Amanda L Grossman

Personal Finance Writer and CEO at Frugal Confessions, LLC
Amanda L. Grossman is a writer and Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI®), Plutus Foundation Grant Recipient, and founder of Frugal Confessions. Over the last 13 years, her money work has helped people with how to save money and how to manage money. She's been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Business Insider, LifeHacker, Real Simple Magazine, Woman's World, Woman's Day, ABC 13 Houston, Keybank, and more. Read more here or on LinkedIn.