You may be referring to cookie cutters, which can be made of plastic or metal. Old style cookie cutters are made of strips of tin. The plastic itself might be a specific brand, such as Tupperware. Otherwise, it is simply called plastic.
Rather than stamping or cutting your cookies into shapes you can make them into bar cookies by cutting them into bar shapes or by baking the cookie dough in one piece on a pastry tin, marking it into bars lightly with a knife before baking and then breaking into bars when baked and cooled.
Die cutting is a specific type of crafting which cuts different materials into different shapes. Die cutting can make pieces from metal, wood, plastic, or fabric. These shapes can be used in countless different crafts including scrapbooking, wood-cutting, and painting.
Before biscuit (cookie) cutters were manufactured commercially, people simply used knives, or cups, mugs or glasses to cut shapes out of dough for baking. Biscuits were frequently baked in squares or other straight-edged shapes such as triangles and diamonds.Later, short pieces of thin metal tubing were used for cutting dough, and later still, were sold commercially.Now, metal and plastic cookie cutters are available in all shapes and sizes, but we can still use a glass or knife to cut shapes from dough if we want to.The main exception is scones, which should be cut with a sharp-edged cookie cutter or metal ring, or sharp knife; it's also important never to twist the cutter, or to use the knife in a sawing motion: this will prevent the scones from rising properly.
Pottery tools can be made out of plastic, medal or plastic. These tools are used to refine shapes.
Cookies come in all shapes and sizes.
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A cookie press is not essential to making cookies, even if specified by the recipe; the cookie press simply compresses the dough and forces it through a hole designed to create various cookie shapes. You could simply roll out the dough (another way of compressing it) and cut or stamp into shapes as required, using a knife or cookie cutter. Cookie molds are also available, to shape dough or as ovenware to cook dough in various shapes.
Most commonly gingerbread is shapes into cottages, "people", and trains. However, like any cookie cut out gingerbread can be made into the shape of any cookie cutter.
cookie cutters. different shapes of metal to cut out cookies.
Spritz cookies are a rich, buttery Scandinavian cookie that is formed into a variety of shapes when the dough is forced through a cookie press. This cookies are typically seen at Christmas time, although they are easy to make and are a good cookie to have anytime of the year. Spritz cookies are typically decorated with colored sugar sprinkles and are found in a variety of shapes.