I have always liked hand washing dishes. When I am in the kitchen, there is a dish tub full of hot soapy water ready to help tackle my mess. I know I am a weirdo but, you love me anyway. Don’t you??

How to dry cookie cutters:

Anyway, after I bake my cookies and remove them from the oven, I let them cool off a little. When they are cool enough to remove from my baking sheet, I wash the baking sheet and cutters right away. I place the clean cutters on the clean baking sheet.

Then, I place them in the warm oven. The temperature of the oven is usually between 150-200 degrees but turned off. (It looks like my oven is on because I wanted to show you the temp.) I use the warm air to dry my baking sheets and my tin and copper cutters.  I simply place them in the oven while I color my icing. When when I am done mixing and stirring, the cutters are nice and dry. This doesn’t work with plastic cutters or the ones with the grip around the top. I think even the low oven temp would melt them.

You put your tin and copper cutters in clean and wet.

They come out dry and spot free!

Look at those happy little cutters! No ugly spots so they will last for years. In case you are wondering, I got the cutters from Karen’s Cookies. Click for the baby, girl and the boy.

If you do have a tin cookie cutter with the rusty colored spots on it, you can save them with a little work. I will show you how.

All you need is a green scrubby thing, some good old baking soda and some elbow grease.

Before: Look how sad this poor cutter is!

After! Almost new again! I could have saved myself a lot of time and work if I would have washed and dried it as soon as I finished using it. But I am happy to know how to save them if I do leave them in a pan full of water overnight. I can clean them and don’t have to worry about using cutters that look bad. Clean cutters make me happy.

If you are looking for more tips and tricks, you may enjoy the  “Beginners Guide to Cookie Decorating”.

Bear hugs,

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