Best Cookie Cutters

If cookie baking is your kind of sport you know that some cutters can be flimsier than others, some don’t retain their shape over time, and certain kinds don’t cut edges as sharply as you want them to. With December being a big cookie-baking month, you may be willing to shell out more cash for a set of cookie cutters that produce sharp shapes, are easy to clean after use, and are strong enough to hold up through this holiday season and well beyond. 

But does a more expensive cookie cutter give you all that and more? I hit my kitchen with three different brands of cookie cutters—at low, medium, and high price points—and several tubes of Pillsbury sugar cookie dough, on a mission to find out.