Stamped Cookies
May Day and Mother’s Day are perfect opportunities to try this “food as art” project called Stamped Cookies. In essence, they are shortbread cookies imprinted with a rubber stamp. There are “official” cookie stamps that you can buy, which cost extra and create a more uniform, picture perfect design for your cookies. Using rubber stamps, however, yields a […]
By Bonnie Thomas|Apr 06 2015|
Stamped Cookies
Credit: Bonnie ThomasMay Day and Mother’s Day are perfect opportunities to try this “food as art” project called Stamped Cookies. In essence, they are shortbread cookies imprinted with a rubber stamp. There are “official” cookie stamps that you can buy, which cost extra and create a more uniform, picture perfect design for your cookies. Using rubber stamps, however, yields a more rustic and artsy-looking treat. The other advantage to using rubber stamps is that you have many more choices for designs and patterns.
Credit: Bonnie Thomas
May Day is a great holiday for making these – you could tie a stack of stamped cookies together to put in a May Basket. They are also wonderful treats for Mother’s Day or for sharing with friends over coffee or tea.
Credit: Bonnie Thomas
Materials Needed to Make Stamped Cookies:
- A batch of shortbread cookie dough
- Rubber stamps of your choice
- Circle, square, or heart shaped cookie cutters
- Rolling pin
- Powdered sugar
- Spatula
- Parchment paper
Directions for Making Stamped Cookies:
- Wash and dry your rubber stamps prior to use.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar on a clean, dry, and flat surface.
- Place your shortbread dough on the powdered sugar.
- Sprinkle more powdered sugar on top of the dough (this will help to keep the dough from sticking to the rolling pin).
- Roll out your shortbread dough to a 1/8″ – 1/4″ thickness.
- Lightly coat your rubber stamp with powdered sugar. If any sugar gets stuck in the stamp, tap the stamp to release the sugar.
- Stamp your cookie dough. If you are using alphabet letter stamps, you may need to go back and re-stamp some of them – sometimes the letters get compressed or distorted as you write out a word (if your dough is soft, this is more likely to happen).
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out a shape around your images and words.
- Line a cookie sheet with a piece of parchment paper.
- Use a spatula to move the cookies to a cookie sheet.
- Bake your cookies according to the recipe you used.
- Allow the cookies to cool throughly.
Credit: Bonnie Thomas
As you can imagine, there are endless ways to combine shapes of the cookie with varied images. For example, heart shaped cookies with a rose image stamped in the center could be made for Valentine’s Day. Have fun coming up with your own unique design for Stamped Cookies!
