Recipes & inspiration
Tried-and-tested bakes that show off your cutters at their very best - from classic shortbread to show-stopping iced sugar cookies.
Brown Butter Chocolate Cookies
Nutty, rich, deeply chocolatey. Cut with your boldest shapes.
Browning the butter transforms these from nice chocolate cookies into something genuinely special — nutty, caramel-edged, with an intense cocoa hit. Use your boldest cutters: the dark dough makes every shape pop.
Royal Iced Sugar Cookies
The show-stopper. Crisp edges, smooth icing, infinite creativity.
These are the cookies that stop a party in its tracks. The base is a classic vanilla cut-out with razor-sharp edges, decorated with silky royal icing you can colour, flood, and pipe to your heart’s content. Worth every minute.
Spiced Gingerbread Cookies
Warmly spiced, perfectly snappy — ideal for festive shapes.
A deeply spiced dough that holds its shape brilliantly — perfect for snowflakes, stars, and any intricate cutter in your collection. Make the dough ahead and rest it overnight for the best flavour.
Classic Butter Shortbread
Melt-in-the-mouth. Works with every cutter in the shop.
The gold standard of cut-out cookies. A short, buttery crumb with just a touch of vanilla — crisp enough to hold every edge of your cutter perfectly. Once you’ve mastered this base dough you’ll reach for it again and again.