The Best Cookie Stamps for Making Stunning Designer Cookies!

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Hey Besties! While I spend a ridiculous amount of time playing with royal icing, there is more than one way to make stunning designer cookies! And one of my favorite ways is cookie stamping! They are so simple to make, and no one ever believes they are homemade! Shhh…those you bake for don’t need to know how easy they are to make! Just bask in the cookie compliments! So I’ve heard your requests and I’m excited to share this post as a round-up to the best cookie stamps and how to use them easily for amazing results! Let’s start stamping!

Cookie Stamp Recipes

After MANY failed attempts using the recipes I could find online, I created my own cookie stamp recipe collection! I wanted to easily make stamped cookies that did not require any chilling, were delicious, and perfectly captured intricate designs. Those were my goals, and I’m thrilled to share these recipes for free, and now thousands of cookiers use and love these recipes! Nothing makes me happier than helping fellow home bakers and seeing your beautiful baked art makes my heart so happy!

My Favorite Vanilla Cookie Stamp Recipe

There are not many things in life that taste better than an outstanding vanilla cookie! Evidence by the thousands of vanilla cookies we sell every year. This vanilla cookie stamp recipe captures the amazing flavor, texture and beauty when made with cookie stamps!

But why stop with vanilla?

While vanilla is phenomenal, if you’re only making vanilla cookies, you and those you bake for are missing out! And if you’ve been here before, you know I always give you lots of options! Just like with my cutout cookie recipe collection, you’ve got many cookie stamp recipes to choose from. It’s the easiest way to make your cookies stand out from all the rest on the dessert table! You can find them HERE, or lick on any of these specific flavor recipes you’re looking for.

Salted caramel cookie stamp recipe: Consistently a favorite among cookiers!
Gingerbread cookie stamp recipe: Very popular during the holiday season for its flavor, texture and beauty!
Red Velvet cookie stamp recipe: Popular year-round, but especially during the holiday season and Valentine’s Day due to its stunning color!
Peanut Butter cookie stamp recipe: A personal favorite in our family and among other PB cookie lovers!
Chocolate cookie stamp recipe: I mean, would any collection be complete with chocolate? No-brainer!
Cinnamon spice cookie stamp recipe: One of my all-time faves, especially in the fall, with a warm beverage!
Pumpkin Spice cookie stamp recipe: I’m not a pumpkin spice girly, but I can’t get enough of this recipe! SO delish!
Classic Bake Shop cookie stamp recipe: If you want that nostalgic bake shop flavor, you’ve found it with this recipe!
Lemon cookie stamp recipe: A year-round favorite! The perfect crisp flavor in a soft, chewy cookie!

Play around, find your favorite, surprise those you bake for! And then please report back in our Bestie group to share which are your favorites!!

The Best Cookie Stamps

Metal Cookie Stamps

So we’ve covered the recipes, but let’s get to the FUN part – cookie stamps! I started my cookie stamping adventure using metal Nordic Ware cookie stamps. They have many different sets and there are several I will always come back to. They are excellent quality, considered heirlooms and will last forever!

The stamping technique I use when using metal cookie stamps is included with photos, HERE. It is as simple as rolling your dough into balls, rolling in sugar and then stamping down. You can then trim the excess dough using a cookie cutter to make them perfect! The result is a stunning stamped cookie as shown in the photo above.

These metal stamps work beautifully for designs that are not really intricate. But if you want really intricate designs, wooden stamps, featured in the next section are my favorite!

Wooden Cookie Stamps

After using metal cookie stamps for a long time, I discovered wooden cookie stamps and fell in LOVE! I get my 2.5″ cookie stamps HERE, where you can see SO many amazing designs! They also have 3″ stamps that are even more stunning and intricate, and you’ll find those HERE. Honestly, their 3″ Cathedral collection is what cookie dreams are made of, they are so pretty! I’ll also add that and if any designs I want are out to stock there, I can always find them in their Etsy shop HERE.

Here is a just a couple of beautiful cookie sets I have made with their stamps!

I LOVE supporting this small, family-owned business out of Appleton, Wisconsin. Their founder, Rick McKinney, is a professional potter. Over the course of his career, he created various textures for clay and later transitioned from clay to baking designs. Their family has a love for all things baking and has a true passion around textures. Their stamps are made from hardwood, precision cut with beveled edges for easy release from the dough and treated with food-grade hardening oil for durability and easy cleaning. They are made with love and to last forever! The stamps themselves are truly a work of art, and I look forward to keeping these in my family for generations to come!

Wooden Cookie Stamp Technique

Not only do I prefer the intricate designs of the wooden stamps, but I greatly prefer the stamping technique. It’s as simple as rolling out your dough and then stamping with a well-floured stamp. I usually wet my stamp before starting, just so the flour has something to adhere to and then I dip my stamp in loose flour after every 1-2 cookies. Using this technique, I don’t have any issues with dough sticking and they are super easy to use! My recipes don’t require any chilling, so I simply make my dough, roll out, stamp, cut and bake!

cookie stamping recipe — After stamping!

My cookie stamp collection continues to slowly grow and I’m so happy to share this amazing small business with my Besties! These are the kinds of businesses that we should all be supporting and I’m confident you’ll love their cookie stamps as much as I do! You can support THIS small business while making beautiful and delicious cookies for your family, friends and customers!

Want to take your stamped cookies to the next level?

I rarely ice my stamped cookies since I never want to take away from the beautiful designs. And for those who prefer an uniced cookie, these are perfect! But I do commonly coat the bottoms of my stamped cookies in chocolate for added beauty and flavor. You can see the easiest, mess-free way to do this HERE! Or, sometimes, I’ll dust my stamped cookies with luster dust if I want to add some sparkle and enhance the design. Here is an example of chocolate cookies with added gold luster dust!

Ready to Get stamping?

I hope my cookie stamp recipe collection, instructions contained within each, as well as this post all about the best cookie stamps has inspired you to get stamping! Just wait until you get the “oooohs” and “ahhhhs” from those you bake for!

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