KitchenCraft Let's Make Mini Metal Cookie Cutters with Storage Tin - Assorted Flower / Butterfly Designs (11-Piece Set)

As compared to the star cutters also made by lakeland which I have reviewed, this are much easier to use, and allow you to use your own personality. I think an 8yr old child would get pleasing results. The snowflakes s are larger than the star cutters. (See 2nd image, also 1st image shows snowflakes from each method. I used a design I found on google (Salt dough snowflakes). Roll out circle of dough. make a hole in the centre. Very lightly mark 2 diameters at right angles. Use the tear drop cutter and cut 8 holes in a ring evenly around the centre. Build your pattern around this, again in a circle using the diamond.I found the cutters exactly the right size for the project. Quite often the dough come away with cutter, but if not I used a lino-cutter took, but a cotton bud or a vegetable knife are alternatives.A 2'' across circular metal cutter is a good size to work with for your base to cut shapes out of.Decoration etc. Dry out the salt dough in a slow oven, Then I used a very gentle spray of red paint over part of each, then smeared gold metallic acrylic paint and acrylic iridescent paint. I used a tiny amount of paint on my finger and smeared it on, building up the effect I wanted. (I happened to have these. Acrylic paint is fine , and try smear it in various coloursRelatively quick to make and a set of nice individual presents at a ver cheap price. (Since used gold and silver foil and tiny 'washers from a broken necklace - just enjoy! If they break, with care I used fast setting woodworker's adhesive and found it works very well. Don't forget to make a hole for the ribbon, but you can also glue the ribbon, but they does not hang as well.I pulled my mark down as to sturdiness, as they can fall on the floor and cannot cope with the heavy foot! Once squashed they are tricky to force back to their original shape. Several designs in the selection I will never use. and some repetition of shapes. They are just the right thing for this task although it os not listed in the description.Childen would love to make their Christmas decorations, and with care they could last several years. (No doubt grannies will enjoy helping them.

I’m not one for leaving bad reviews, but unfortunately in this case, I am unable to contact the seller.I bought these a month ago in preparation for a Thanksgiving cake I was making this weekend. I bought them early enough so that if they needed to be sent back, I had time to source something else.They ended up being perfect. Until I washed them. Now they are all rusty and I am unable to use them again. It’s a real shame, because this set is lovely. But I didn’t expect to only be able to use them once.

As there wasn't a review for the set of 12 shapes, I got the tape measure out and I went over the description thoroughly, but when they arrived today if never seen anything so small, the size on the description is for the tin, maybe I should have realized this!!! There around 3cm at height and width!! I'm just going to have to make a hugh amount and revert to making my own shapes 😐 if you want really small then there ideal, I haven't used them yet though!!!

I purchased these as I wanted to bake a jammy dodgy type biscuit; a two layer biscuit with a hole in the top layer to allow you to see the icing which sandwiched the two together, these cutters worked brilliantly and I successfully made an assortment of biscuits.They are very small, the tin they come in fits easily in the palm of your hand. I would guess each cutter is approximately 1-2cm accross. There is a nice selection of shapes.They are quite deep so you are able to easily use them on thick dough, icing or marzipan. I had no problems with dough sticking to them and they cut nice, sharp edges. It is also easy to push out the shape which has been cut.Overall, I am very pleased with the purchase and would recommend them to anybody who enjoys baking. They are well worth the money, and look like they will last a long time. It is also very handy to have them all in one place.

Unfortunately these are SO small that A) the sugar paste has trouble popping out without destroying the shape, and B) when you DO eventually get it out, there's a rough bit/tag sort of piece left where the metal is joined around on the cutter itself (if that makes sense!) . I think this isn't a problem with larger cutters, but as these are so small it is very noticeable and you wind up spending tons of time fixing the rough bit.Also they rusted within a couple of weeks of just sitting in my cupboard in the tin! so obviously the silvery coating is not lacquered properly. I gave them to my 4 year old to play with her play dough, and she gave them back! lol that says everything...

A bit disappointed as they were not as big as I had expected, in fact quite tiny, but they are well made and will do the job. My fault, I should have read the description which gives the size of the tin and one of the answers to a question also gives the exact sizing of the leaves so I could have worked out how big they were.On the plus side they will make lots and lots of one bite size biscuits and the selection of leaf shapes is excellent - far more than others I've seen. I'm sure they'll be useful - could also use them for decorating cakes and as templates for craft work.

Very disappointed said different flowers ,3 same and 2 of them were out of shape I only brought them because I thought they were miniature but smallest was too big...Maybe I should of really looked

I bought these for polymer clay and was expecting a mix of flowers and butterflies. I received 2 flowers and the rest butterflies which was a real disappointment as I wanted the flowers more.