Christmas Cookie Cutters, Plastic & Metal Cookie Cutters, Cookie & Cake Decorating Supplies, Candy Making Supplies

I have had the pleasure of making Santa cookies for the past 45 years. My children, their friends, my grandchildren and now my great grandchild looked forward to having these cookies each Christmas.
The first year I made these cookies, I borrowed the cutters from a friend, I didn't hesitate to place my order for Gramma's cutters, I still have my original cutters and directions.
I would like to share with you a picture of some of the cookies I made this last Christmas.
Mary M Cousins

As a child in the mid-west my mother had Aunt Chick's cutters and made them for all of our school events. Not only the santa, star, stocking, but the other cutters for other holidays.

I moved to the East coast and eventually overseas and lost the cutters. I was elated a year ago when I heard about them and ordered and have made them for events at the US Embassy where I now work. I've lent them to friends in the Embassy community who will also be ordering them.

Karen

I was given my set of Aunt Chick's cookie cutters by the mother of a dear friend in the early 1960s, and I have been making them ever since. It wouldn't be Christmas without them!

Twenty-three years ago, I asked my cookie exchange group if they would like to decorate the Santa cookies and give them to Meals for the Elderly for only those on the neediest routes. This came about when I learned that an elderly friend had kept her Santa carefully wrapped in her fridge one year because she said sometimes she just needed to see a happy face. I thought if it meant so much to her who had so many friends, it would mean so much more to someone who had very little.

My friends jumped at the chance to do this. Three of us made and baked two recipes each of Santas, and on the appointed day, all gathered to decorate over 150 Santas. To see that many beautiful smiling faces was wonderful! Even better was when we delivered them to Meals for the Elderly!!! The joyful response was overwhelming!!!

Each year after we decorate the Santas, we then exchange our cookies - each of us goes home with 12 dozen cookies of all different kinds - no duplications because we go "first come" on recipes. I make up a "cookie cookbook" each year of all the recipes, and now we have two large loose-leaf folders full of recipes.

This has been a very gratifying experience for all of us, and we plan to continue as long as we're able to "make and bake"! Our children are now involved, and sometimes we have 3 generations at the table. Everyone has a set of cutters, too. Thank you, Aunt Chick, for helping us help others and make wonderful memories!

Sandy Whittley
San Angelo, TX

It is January 2nd, 2008 and I am sitting here at the computer eating the last of the Santa cookies that I baked for Christms. There is a picture in my parent's family photo album dated Christmas 1957 that shows a tray of beautiful cookies that my mom baked using her Aunt Chick's cookie cutters. I assume that is the first year that she had them and it was also the year I was born. I always thought my mom made the most beautiful and delicious cookies in the whole world. Neighbors, friends, teachers, etc. who received Mom's cookies at Christmas time thought so too. Mom bought her sister and her mother a set of the cookie cutters, but only Mom could make them turn out perfectly year after year. When my brother got married in 1974 Mom ordered a set of Aunt Chick's cookie cutters for her new daughter in law. A few years later when my other brother was getting married, she found the cookie cutters were unavailable. Mom even had friends in Oklahoma searching for the company's address thinking maybe the company had just moved. Mom's cookie cutters were getting small cracks in them by this time, but she still made the cookies each year. I inherited the cookie cutters from my aunt and grandmother as they were not using the cutters. I searched antique shops and eventually did find some Aunt Chick cookie cutters as I knew mine would some day wear out from use. My sister in law finally found this website and we now have new cookie cutter sets for us and also our children who are now adults. This year for Christmas I made up a shadow box for each of my two brothers. I put in 2 of the old cracked Aunt Chick cookie cutters along with mom's handwritten sugar cookie recipe that came with the cookie cutters. There was not a dry eye in the room when the shadow box gifts were opened. Mom's Santa face and stocking Christmas cookies are probably my most precious childhood Christmas memory. I am keeping the tradition going as Mom is no longer with us and I always strive to make my cookies as beautiful as hers. Mom's secret ingredient was "love" and I always try to make sure my cookies are also baked with love. Thanks for helping our family keep the 50 year old Christms cookie tradition going.

I remember when my Mother first made the Santa Claus cookies at Christmas. I was about 5 years old and have had them every year thereafter for 55 years. We have two cookie cutters and the old receipe and the cookies look and taste great and I really look forward to them every year. In fact, today I decided to check the web to see if the cookie cutters still existed and found your website. Next year, I plan to order the Santa Clause kits and give them to my son and daughter who are 27 and 25 and keep the traditon going. Thanks for the fond memories!

I am one of 5 kids. My mom always made Jolly Santa cookies every year for all our classes. When my youngest brother got out of grade school, she actually had one of the teachers ask her to make some more cookeis for her class. She declined because she then had grandkids classes to do. Over the years that plastic Santa has been taped together many times, and yet mom still used it. I got the brainy idea of looking on the web and through GoodSearch, I found exactly what I was looking for. (Goodsearch is for your favorite charity to receive points and money if you use it.) She will be so surprised when she gets this package. And not only that, I live in Brazil so they will be made here next year.

Every Christmas during the 60's and 70's there were three or four magical days in my mother's kitchen as we baked these beautiful cookies! My sister and I would help stir the dough, until it became too stiff to stir for our untrained muscles! Then Mom would take over and refriegerate the dough. We couldn't wait for it to set and be ready to roll out! My mom had a table full of colored frostings, coconut, silver balls, red hots, colored sanding sugar which she made herself, and food color paint to add color and adhesive for the sugars. My, did we have a ball baking and decorating with holiday music in the background. Each year my sister and I brought trays of the santas to our holiday parties at school. After I left home to go to college, I left that tradition of baking cookies behind. When I had my own three daughters I then rediscovered it when bringing the girls home to grandmas and finding the cookie baking still going on. My sister, now Aunt Jane, also rediscovered the tradition. My mother unfortunately had to give up baking as she came down with ALzheimer's. But she still lives on in the tradition of these beautiful cookies. For years though, I was frustrated as I couldn't remember the cookie dough recipe. My Mother couldn't give it to me as she had Alzheimer's. My sister found what she thought was the recipe and it worked somewhat but was not the same. Then, when visiting my Mom's home, one of my daughter's discovered the original paperwork which had accompanied the Aunt Chick's cookie cutters. On it was the recipe! This year, tears filled my eyes as the familiar scent of the cookies I remembered filled my kitchen and then the taste! Also the features of the Santa, Star, Stocking, and tree came out beautifully! How happy I was and also transported back in time. I could almost hear my mother's happy whistle and her familiar humming as she decorated the cookies when we were little. Thank you for preserving these happy times and keeping those we love alive in our memories...God Bless you!

Evelyn Riley
North Carolina

It just turned 50 this December and every year that I can remember we have made Santa Clause Cookies and now our own children are also! I am giving these cutters for christmas gifts this year to keep the family tradition going.Thank you for all of the memories this cutter has brought our family. I still use the one from when I was little! It is in sad shape but still so much fun.Back then the cost for the set with Santa was $2.00 ppd! Merry Christmas! Cathy

My mom (now 89)would bake these cookies every year for Christmas. My dad was a dude guide and had many wealthy clients. They would give us expensive gifts every year for Christmas. Our family would spend lots of fun hours decorating these cookies to make them worthy of our friends as our gift to them!.

I still have the cutters my mom used. They are cracked and fragile now. I love seeing they are available again. Thanks for bringing such a smile to me !

I live in Northern Ontario, Canada and am now 63 years young. Here is my story!
My mom who just celebrated her 86th birthday, purchased the set of four Granmma's Cutters in our local grocery store in the early 1950's. Our favourite was the santa face and each year, like the magic she brought to our celebrations, our mother ensured these fully decorated cookies made their way to the Christmas table. We loved them and Christmas would not be special without them. She used white icing for Santa's beard, then immediately sprinkled icing sugar over the beard. Santa's hat was also trimmed with the white icing as were his bushy eyebrows. She then mixed a bit of red food colouring into the icing and gave him rosy cheeks before adding yet more red colouring to give his hat a deep red look. His eyes were bright with raisins and his nose was also decorated with a raisin.
My mom continued the tradition, each year making enough cookies for her three girls, then later, their husbands and each of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Note that her grandchildren are between 42 years to 28 years and they still need grandma's santas for Christmas! Unfortunately our mom's eyesight no longer allows her to make the treasured cookies so I decided I would carry on her tradition and try to make them as a surprise for the family. Her santa cookie cutter is now very, very fragile and with each cookie I cut out, I breathed a prayer that I wouldn't break it.
Just this December my sister decided to try to find a facimile cutter but our children insist it won't be the same if it's not the one grandma used.
What incredulous joy and yelps of glee to find that we can purchase these favourite santa cutters after 55 years. Bravo to you. Each of us have ordered one for ourselves and one for our children. The tradition is alive and well, thanks to "Gramma's Cutters."
Thank you from Northern Ontario and Merry Christmas.
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