How To Use Ceramic Cookie Molds

You can also use your stoneware cookie mold to mold marzipan or chocolate candies or to make paper casting.

How to use ceramic cookie molds.

Lightly oil mold and blot with paper towel. Using a pastry brush lightly oil your cookie mold with vegetable oil. A mold s intricate designs create bas relief surface on the cookie dough producing cookies that are detailed edible works of art. Press a piece of dough firmly and evenly into the mold.

You can take advantage of the artistic skills of someone else by using cookie molds. For best results mix your dough by hand. Dust with flour as you would a cake pan. Trim the back of the cookie so it s flush with the mold.

They take a special dough that can stand up to being released from the molds. You will have to re flour before each cookie but do not re oil it. I will put 12 for the purpose of this recipe. If you use a regular cookie dough recipe for a cookie mold the cookies may not hold the detail of the mold during baking or the cookies may be too hard or too soft.

Cookies molds enable the artistically challenged. I have several cute ceramic cookie molds that you use to bake in. Blot out the excess oil with paper towel as much as possible. Tap the dough from mold and place on a baking sheet in the top third of your oven until nicely browned about 10 minutes.

This recipe came in a cookie book that came with one of the molds. Lightly flour mold and re flour the mold before each cookie but do not re oil. Molds are available in clay ceramic wood and acrylic and can be found in just about any pattern you can dream of. It is well worth the effort to use a mold specific recipe.