Cheap Pastry/Cookie Cutters?

sp1987

Hello all,

Do any of you know where I could go to get a big bag of varying cookie cutter shapes?

I know you can get big bags of like 50 different shapes designed for use by children. That is ideal, they do not need to be the posher metal sort. It is variety I need as the user collects them and has quite a few already.

Ideally as cheap as possible and I would like as many as possible.

Ebay have them but with big bags of them postage is quite high and the item itself is quite cheap. Ikea do little sets of say 6 for £4 and Lakeland are silly expensive (like £3 each which is fine until you want more than 10, lol). I wonder if any of the supermarkets have them in at the moment in childrens sections?

I will keep hunting but hopefully someone has tripped over a big bag of them in somewhere like Wilkinsons. :rotfl:

Do pound shops sell this sort of thing? (I've never looked for any before)

angeltreats

I'm sure I've seen them in big clear plastic tubs in the pound shops. I also got a gingerbread family set from the pound shop recently - a large man, a large woman, a small boy and a small girl, all for £1.

I know you've already mentioned Ikea but they do have some nice ones, I have a set that includes a large moose, a squirrel, a fox, a hedgehog, a whale and something that might be a bear. It was £4.19 for 6.

sp1987

angeltreats wrote: »

I'm sure I've seen them in big clear plastic tubs in the pound shops. I also got a gingerbread family set from the pound shop recently - a large man, a large woman, a small boy and a small girl, all for £1.

I know you've already mentioned Ikea but they do have some nice ones, I have a set that includes a large moose, a squirrel, a fox, a hedgehog, a whale and something that might be a bear. It was £4.19 for 6.

Thank you for your reply

The big clear tub style is exactly what I am looking for. I am imagining the ones for kids play dough and wondering if there is any reason they would not be suitable for food?

My friend is in her 20s but will literally jump with joy if she gets a big box of them, she is very keen on anything remotely related to cooking. She takes pictures already of her growing collection, bless her. Since I started looking for them about an hour ago I have started to see the appeal (so may need 2 boxes, lol) :eek:

Do you know if that was a big chain pound shop like poundland or if it was just a local one?

ALIBOBSY

I have some like that (I am obessed with cutters lol), mine are the plastic ones and came in tubs from aldi. There are about 20 cutters in each and I think they were about £2 ish. Trouble is its one of those things they get in now and again rather than all the time.
I got some good xmas and halloween ones from poundstretcher. My cutters get used for pastry,sugar craft, cookies, play dough and salt dough and for drawing around (not at the same time lol). I have loads. watch out it can be obsessive. I have the 3 bears-great for ginger bread families, ducks, teddies, dinosaurs, rabbits, christmas stuff, numbers, elehants, letters, halloween stuff, easter stuff, even a pudsey bear etc etc etc.

The plastic ones are great for the kids and are really cheap, but I do covet the fancy metal ones and have some that cost a couple of £ each. They are fab for doing birthday cakes as you can cut out shapes and numbers etc from fondant icing for quick toppers or by gently pressing the cutter into the icing leave a guide line for you to pipe icing onto.

Guess you can tell how sad I am over these cutters lol, beware they are addictive and you keep thinking of new ways to use them.

ali x

I have some that came in playdough sets of the kids that I liked so they went into my baking box-the kids still use them but we just make sure they are washed in between-lets face it kids playdough and simular have to be nontoxic as kids like to put stuff in their mouths even when they aren't supposed to.

laurel7172

When my children were small, I bought those packets of biscuit mix with a cutter included-it was the cheapest way to get, say, a Thomas the Tank Engine cutter. Needless to say, we didn't buy biscuit mix for the next time!

The trick with cutters (I also have a big bag) is to think ahead and buy unseasonally. In a couple of weeks, there will be lots of cheap bunny cutters in the shops...

I'm pretty sure I've seen sets of cutters in Poundland, though...

pol2012

Not a large pack but tesco had packs of easter ones reduced to 75p today. I think they had about 6-8 cutters in them.
Also if you search for cutters on the early learning centre site they have tubs of plasticine cutters for 6 pound.

Rachel021967

Robert Dyas sell 100 plastic cookie cutters for £9.99. It comes in a clear plastic tub called Tea Party.

V.Lucky

Tubs of them in my local Poundland last week too, not sure what was inside them but a tub with at least 10 or so in them. We also had the gingerbread family, which was very cute, and metal cutters for only a pound. Bargain!

sp1987

Oh I love you all.

I knew the Old Style board would help.

Any other ideas keep them coming. I have until May to source these but I thought it may be a luck thing so will have a chance to look at ALDI/LIDL site over a few weeks to see if they have them in. I know when I've bought stationary (I spent my degree buying post in notes in bulk every few months because I'm sad) in their 'random collections of moderately related stuff' weeks the themes come round every so often on repeat anyway. Hopefully home baking week will be soon.

Thank you very much!

babyshoes

Try freecycle and charity shops too - I got loads from a charity shop a couple of years ago - ended up not using them for what I had planned, but passed them on to a friend today. The pound shops here often have them in varying (un)seasonal designs, and if you are near a wilkos it may be worth popping in. I noticed some in there as part of a kiddy baking set the other day, and they may have them separately too.

Aarons_mummy

I've bought them in poundland a couple of times, my local one has winne the pooh ones in at the moment. Only 4 in the pack but they're the metal ones.

I got a pack of 6 at one point of easter ones eggs, rabbits, chickens etc.

I also got a 12 clear plastic tub in there and it had a variety of animals. I would look out in the pound/99p stores they always have various varieties