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Six autumn leaf cookie cutters with vein stamps: maple, oak, ginkgo, birch, sweetgum and linden.

About this design

Six real tree leaves for an autumn baking day: a maple with its three big lobes, a wavy oak leaf, a fan-shaped ginkgo with the notch in its edge, a pointed birch leaf, a star-shaped sweetgum and a heart-shaped linden. Every cutter has a stamp that presses the leaf's own veins into the cut cookie, so a tray of plain dough already looks like a pile of fallen leaves. Good for autumn baking, Thanksgiving tables, harvest festivals, back-to-school treats and fall weddings.

All six were made with our free cookie cutter generator, not modelled by hand: we drew each shape with its stamp's lines inside it and uploaded it with Generate stamp switched on. The zip holds exactly what the tool gives you, one STL per shape with the cutter (a 0.8 mm blade, 14 mm tall, with a 4 mm rim to press on) and its stamp side by side, plus each drawing as an SVG. The cookies come out 90 x 88 mm (maple leaf), 65 x 90 mm (oak leaf), 85 x 74 mm (ginkgo leaf), 51 x 85 mm (birch leaf), 81 x 90 mm (sweetgum leaf) and 74 x 85 mm (linden leaf).

Split one batch of dough into three and knead a little cocoa into one and a few drops of red and yellow colouring into the others, then press scraps of two colours together before rolling: every leaf comes out marbled like a real one turning, and the stamped veins show through without any icing.

The cutters and stamps print flat with no supports, in PLA or PETG. A cutter touches dough for a minute, but a 3D print has fine layer grooves where crumbs can sit: pick a food-contact filament if you can, wash each part by hand in warm soapy water before and after use, never in a dishwasher, and flour the blade and stamp before every press.

Shown as a 3D render of the six printed cutters, their stamps and a stamped cookie from each, not a photo.

Made with Meshcast

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How this was made

The model is parametric: it is generated by Meshcast's own code, not made by an AI. The pictures are rendered in Blender. We use AI to assist our work (ideas, writing and checking), so this design carries Thingiverse's AI label to be on the safe side.

Selling what you make?

Free for personal use under CC BY-NC. Selling what you cast or print from this design needs a Meshcast commercial licence (Pro or Founder): meshcast.app/licenses

Print settings

Estimated from the files, not sliced, on the same basis as our sliced cutters (PrusaSlicer 2.7.2): 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers, 3 perimeters, 15% infill, MK3-class speeds, for all six files one after another. Cutter rims and stamp backs flat on the bed, no supports. PLA or PETG.

What you need

• Rolled cookie dough that holds its shape: sugar cookie, shortbread or gingerbread, with little or no baking powder
• A rolling pin, and two 5 to 6 mm guides for an even thickness
• Flour or cornflour for dusting the cutters and the stamps, and baking paper
• About 104 g of PLA or PETG for the whole set, ideally a food-contact filament

Steps

1. Print each file as exported: the cutter rim flat on the bed with the blade pointing up, and its stamp beside it, no supports.
2. Wash every part in warm soapy water before the first use.
3. Roll the chilled dough 5 to 6 mm thick between two sheets of baking paper.
4. Dip a cutter's blade in flour, press straight down with your palm on the rim, and lift.
5. Dust its stamp, press it into each cookie that cutter cut, about 2 mm deep, and lift it straight up.
6. Chill the stamped cookies for ten minutes, then bake.
7. Wash the parts by hand straight after use and let them dry. PLA softens in a dishwasher.