What are Molded Cookies?

My mother used to make all of her molded cookies by hand and she was really good at it. It always amazed me how well she could create shapes just using her fingers.

One of the hardest things is that with most cooking dough, if you handle it too much, the final product won't come out light and fluffy. My mother was always scolding me for taking too long to make my own shapes.

Some of the easiest things to make are angels and Christmas trees, which we always did during the winter holiday.

@MissCourt - Making cookie molds really isn't that hard, but it totally depends on what kind of shape you are looking for. For myself I just used to buy pieces of thin sheet metal, some pincher pliers and some good quality shears.

It really requires you to think in 3D though, as you'll need to make allowances for how deep you want your cookies. Basically you just trace whatever shape you want onto the thin sheet metal, and give it an inch or so border all the way around. You cut it out with the sheet metal shears and mold its final shape using the pliers. It really isn't too hard, just make sure you wear safety gloves.

@amsden2000 - Does anyone know how to make cookie molds?

I always make small cookies because I like the chocolate mold shapes better than the cookie ones. Valentines chocolate molds come in all kinds of cute shapes like hearts with lace around them.

A lot of cookie molds are based on animals -- which is fine for most holidays, but not very romantic. I suppose I could dress up a cow with heart spots, but I would really just like hearts themselves.

Is there any way to make cookie molds? Any help would be great.

I like to make a really decadent variation on a thumbprint cookie. I make an especially thick dough and then I make traditional thumb print style cookies but with an especially deep depression.

After the cookies bake and cool I fill the thumbprint with a layer of peanut butter and then a layer of melted dark chocolate. I put them in the fridge and they are ready to go about an hour later. They are so rich and so good and a big hit at parties and with kids.

My grandmother used to make these incredible cookies every year around Christmas. They were really thick and chewy and flavored with a little almond extract. What was cool about them though is that she made them on a waffle iron.

The dough would go in kind of thin and then poof up in the waffle iron. As a kid I used to love watching it pop out of the sides of the iron. They were so delicious and I could have eaten just about as many as you could fit on a plate.

I still have the recipe but I've never been able to duplicate it. I'm not much of a cook and to be honest the recipe is kind of tricky recipe. Wish she was still around to make them.

@Almita - You must make really good cookies. I have always used cookie molds, they are way easier than cutting the cookies out. I still spend a lot of time glazing them, but as you said -- no more rolling out the dough.

My favorite set is a mold that looks like different types of nuts. The walnut cookie mold is kind of big, but they are just so cute.

I only ever make cookies for my friends and they never really care what shape the cookie is in. Once the tin lid's off -- there's aren't any cookies left to see.

@w00dchuck41 - Cookie molds definitely make things easier for the holidays. I have a really big family and they all love my cookies. So every year, I make cookie baskets to hand out. After a couple years of doing that -- everyone was horrified when I said that it took too long to cut out every single cookie.

That Christmas, I got five different sets of cookie molds, ranging from Santa to Batman. Everyone apparently missed my cookies more than I thought.

So now, I'm still stuck with making dozens of cookies -- but at least they are all preformed. It save me from rolling the dough out and moving all of the crumbling cookies to the pan. Phew.

The molds for cookies that I have are shaped like little farm animals. I have a pig, sheep, chicken, cow, dog and cat in every batch.

Me and my daughter make cookies for almost every holiday and we dress the little farm animals up for the holiday. On the 4th of July, we gave them red, white and blue party hats and on Christmas -- they all had little Santa hats.

Now that my daughter is a little older, people still except me to make themed cookies for every holiday -- with her help or not. Luckily, I have my mold ready!

.i think the rolled cookies and molded cookies are the same, but i like this article. thanks for the info.