Christmas cookie material

The right Christmas cookie tools make Advent baking more relaxed, cleaner and your results more even. Butter cookies, cinnamon stars, jam-filled biscuits or brunsli: before you cut out and decorate, you need well-rolled dough, a suitable baking tray and somewhere to cool your bakes. In this category you will find it all: rolling pins in many lengths, guide and spacer rings, silicone rolling mats, plastic and silicone dough scrapers, baking paper on a roll, in a dispenser or pre-cut, aluminium baking trays and round, rectangular and stackable cooling racks. Nothing stands in the way of cookie season.

Rolling pins for even dough

A good rolling pin is the most important tool for Christmas cookies. The range includes the small 22.8 cm rolling pin, rolling pins of 25 cm and 33 cm, wooden rolling pins of 32 cm, 40 cm and 50 cm, the 33 cm beech rolling pin, the 28 cm rolling pin, the 30 cm professional rolling pin and a 50 cm non-stick rolling pin. For children there is a 20 cm Paw Patrol rolling pin. Small rolling pins are ideal for sugar paste, marzipan and small amounts of dough, long ones for large sheets of dough from which you can cut lots of cookies at once.

Guide rings for the perfect thickness

Cookies of the same thickness bake evenly and look nicer on the plate. With the guide rings for rolling pins, also available as a set of 8, you can easily set the thickness you want. The small 22.5 cm rolling pin comes with spacer rings for 1.5 mm and 3 mm, ideal for fine sugar paste or thin cookies. Your cinnamon stars, butter cookies and jam biscuits will be perfectly even, and every cookie on the tray will be ready at the same time.

Tips for Christmas baking

• Let shortcrust dough rest in the fridge before rolling so it is easier to handle.
• Roll the dough between two sheets of baking paper or on a silicone rolling mat, so you need hardly any flour.
• Use guide rings so all cookies have the same thickness.
• Place the cut-out cookies on a lined tray and chill them briefly before baking so they keep their shape.
• Let the cookies cool completely on a cooling rack before icing or decorating them.

Rolling mats, baking paper and trays

A silicone rolling mat protects your work surface and keeps the kitchen clean. The range includes the XL silicone rolling mat in 80 x 60 cm and the large rolling mat in 60 x 58 cm. For the tray you will find baking paper on a roll, in a dispenser, as 25 sheets, in 42 x 33 cm in a pack of 25 and in XL 46 x 38 cm in a pack of 15. For cakes there is pre-cut baking paper for loaf tins and baking paper circles for springform tins. As for trays, choose from aluminium baking trays in 43.5 x 33 cm, 44 x 35 cm and 43 x 35 cm and perforated trays in 43 x 35 cm, one of them with open ends.

Dough scrapers and cooling racks

Dough scrapers help you get dough out of the bowl, portion it and clean the work surface. You will find plastic dough scrapers, a set of 3, two pink scrapers, a set of 2 serrated scrapers, silicone spatulas in purple, pink or light blue, small and flexible models, a square ivory scraper and a 32 cm spatula with probe thermometer. After baking, the cookies go onto the round cooling rack, the rectangular metal cooling rack or the 3 stackable cooling racks, which save a lot of space when baking large batches.

Combinations for your cookie station

Put together a small cookie station: rolling mat, rolling pin with guide rings, baking paper and two trays, so one can be in the oven while you fill the next. Add stackable cooling racks and a dough scraper, and you have everything to hand. For baking with children, the small rolling pin and the Paw Patrol models let even the youngest bakers help.

What to look for when buying

Think about how much dough you usually work with: for large batches, a long rolling pin, an XL rolling mat and several trays are worthwhile. Check that your tray fits your oven and choose baking paper in the right size. If you value even results, guide rings are a must. Wooden rolling pins are classic, while non-stick models make working with sticky dough easier.

FAQ about Christmas cookie tools

What dough thickness is ideal for Christmas cookies?

For most cookies, 3 to 5 mm works well. Guide rings make it easy to achieve this thickness.

Do I need a rolling mat?

It is not essential, but it protects the work surface, prevents sticking and makes cleaning up easier.

Why use a cooling rack?

Air circulates on the rack, so the cookies cool evenly and don't go soggy underneath.

Can I reuse baking paper?

If it is clean and undamaged, you can use it for several batches of cookies in a row.

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