Cookie decorating guides, dough recipes and honest advice on getting the most out of a 3D printed cutter.
Pressed mooncakes need a mould, lye water and a day you don't have. Rabbit and full-moon cut-out cookies need a bowl, a cutter and a good story. A dough that holds its shape, the Jade Rabbit tale for the chill, and three ways to get the mooncake look without a press.
A new shape takes about four days, and most of that is not printing. Here is what actually happens between your sketch and the cutter landing on your doormat.
PLA is food safe, sturdy and completely intolerant of your dishwasher. Five minutes of care and a printed cutter will outlast the metal one it replaced.
Stiff, piping, flood - three consistencies, one bowl of icing. Here is how to hit each one by counting seconds instead of guessing.
Most "my cutter did not work" problems are really dough problems. Here is the no-spread recipe we test every new design against, and the three things that make it behave.