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A Cookie Cutter Cabinet of Curiosities
This year, Philadelphia's fantastic Mütter Museum of medical oddities is upping the holiday cookie plate ante with its exclusive tasteless-yet-utterly-awesome Conjoined Gingerbread Men Cookie Cutter.
Inspired by the concept of eating Chang and Eng in cookie form, I wondered what other cookie cutter curiosities were lurking out there, in the dusty corners of the internet. As it turns out, only the timid need to stick to bells, stars, and snowflakes this holiday season. This slideshow is your guide to the ultimate in baking things that look like other things, from cephalopods to leg lamps.
There will, of course, be a prize for anyone who makes them all and sends in a photo of the resulting cookie plate mayhem.
This fetus cookie cutter (suitable for baby showers, perhaps?) is appropriately described by its online vendors as \"not only disturbing but also hilarious and ridiculous!\"
Kama Sutra cookie cutters, for the next church bake sale.
Gingerbread yogi cookie cutters, sold as two kits—the Lotus Group and the Downward Group.
Ninjabread Men—\"they\'re cut out for action!\"
The Crucifixion Cookie Cutter (perhaps more appropriate for Easter than Christmas), as featured by Wired.
ABC—\"Already Been Chewed\"—Cookie Cutters.
ABC cookie cutters, this time shown with the cookies themselves (minus one, which has clearly ABE).
Star Wars cookie cutters (pancake molds also available).
Eat, or be eaten! Pac-Man and three ghosts in cookie cutter form.
This versatile Copper Steampunk Cookie Cutter \"can be used as a dirigible / airship / zeppelin, or turn it over and make it a submarine!\"
From the Hero Gear Store, cookie cutters in the shape of military helicopters. For those of us who are not military buffs and/or plane spotters and might not be able to tell one he
Cooking is chemistry, and here are the test-tube, beaker, flask, and atom-shaped cookie cutters t
Reinforce gender roles by tying on a pinafore and baking a batch of these tool-shaped cookies for your guy. Tractor and hand saw cookie cutters also available, plunger and lawnmower sadly not.
Recreate the entire world in cookie form, from the exotic to the mundane: (left to right, top to bottom) secret agent, toothbrush, syringe, stomach, cellphone, hairdryer, dumptruck, digger, and computer-shaped cookie cutters. Many, many more everyday obje
Letter-shaped cookie cutters are nothing to write home about, unless the font is Helvetica, of course.
This World Landmark cookie cutter set contains Big Ben, Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Eiffel T
Seafood that tastes like cookies: yours to savor with these marine creature cookie cutters. What\'s more, part of each cookie cutter purchase goes toward protec
A match made in heaven: Stonerware cookie cutters, for when the munchies strike. Brownie pans also available.
Sorry, these do not count towards your five-a-day. The ultimate in edible denial:
The weirdest of them all? No mean feat when the competition includes conjoined twins and military helicopters, but this leg lamp cookie cutter pretty much
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