How to Make Your Own Custom Cookie Cutters!

This video demonstrates how to create custom 3D-printed cookie cutters from the images you provide. It also discussed the challenges of using 3D-printed objects with food and suggested best practices.
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Free 3D Printer Models
01:54 Food Safety and 3D Printing
08:25 Finding SVG Images for Cookie Cutters
10:17 Converting SVG Images into 3D Objects
12:00 Customizing Cookie Cutters
18:22 Downloading Your Custom Cookie Cutters
20:27 Quite a Review of the Steps for Making Cookie Cutters
21:08 Baking Cookies
22:31 My Cookie Recipe
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[@moniquebarker2370]

Irv, what a great video. Your instructions are so complete; I love that. I've been casually interested in 3D printing for years, but you've convinced me to take the leap. I plan to start with cookie cutters but already have another product in mind. Thanks so much!!!

[@z60h]

Thank you very much sir, im grateful for your hard work to make this a bit simpler.👍

[@drewmiller9036]

I'm glad you covered the food safety concerns first!

[@ClintGlenny]

Irv videos have the benefit of teaching you something and putting a smile on your face at the same time. Thanks for the great vid!!

[@MakeWithTech]

Your welcome. I have fun teaching so it is a win for everyone.

[@ingzimmerman899]

Happy to see you still alive and KICKING.

[@nunopenaspt]

This method is also amazing to create customized lettering or logos. You just have to print the phrase/word, spread some SMD LED´s and then fill the inner part of the prints with Epoxy resin, coloured/frosted are the best. Thank you for this video, please never stop doing them.

[@nunopenaspt]

Thank you very much Irv, your videos are always inspirational and the way you teach (the way to do it). I've been a scuba diving instructor and I try to teach my students the same way you teach us. I would like to meet you in person on day, as I can tell how such an amazing person you are. Big hug from Portugal.

[@braddixon3338]

wow, a video hot off the press so goes the saying. great video and capability for finding your own designs and how to use your cool software to turn them into stl files. great stuff Irv, thanks for sharing!

[@vinzflores230]

Nicely done irv.🎉 As always your videos are very informative and full of passion

[@jeffpower6558]

The video was just what I was looking for. Thanks.

[@3DGEOPrints]

I LOVE the Enthusiasm.. you hype me up every time LOLOL

[@texasmama4248]

Great video!!

[@michaelgraff6978]

Wooden cutting boards generally handle small nicks and cuts better than plastic ones. Other than that, I agree totally with your breakdown.

[@Appregator]

You are enthusiastic about cookies Irv. Haha, it's a pity I saw your channel after my late wife passed on which who very enthusiastic about making ginger bread cookie shapes.

[@solman93]

Irv, great information as always. The only disappointment was that you didn't bite the ears off of the bunny cookie 😁

[@MakeWithTech]

Funny. Yep, I did consider that, but I promised the cookies to a granddaughter.

[@Palestinian_holocaust]

Have u ever made a Swastika cookie cutter. I have an idea of a tea still life photograph.

[@lllAstridddlll]

Thx u for conseils

[@michaelmorrow2158]

I'm good at working with the machines I have and there not much but thanks to Dr vax I can say I can take these pitiful machines and out do yours hands down and have fun while I'm doing it I've learned a lot but wouldn't be here without this channel there's so much fluff about 3d printing he's always str8 to the business gotta go getting ready for the flea market thanks again

[@jamesmuscato5799]

Good day. Thank you so much your video help this past year. I’m having trouble downloading and processing a cookie cutter. I am able to bring up my svg Perrypiratecookie cutter under the preview of the cookie cutter. (I have adjusted and saved the dimensions) But when I generate the new cutter it processes as the rabbit. What am I missing. I haven’t been able to see my process mistake. Thank you.

[@d1bobbyg]

Awesome way how to teach. Funny, down to earth, grounded and basic. Had a couple of laughs in the mean time too. Thanks Irv! Can you use your platform to create stamps and embossers?

[@MakeWithTech]

Sure that should work. Stamps are best printed in TPU which is a bit harder to work with.

[@d1bobbyg]

@@MakeWithTechthanks for your prompt reply. Should have specified stamps as in cookie stamps, staying on the subject 🙂

[@thomasheisler]

Ok the best option is this, print your design, then use food grade silicone then use food grade 2 part resin. now you should be good. I do believe.👍 Edit: Or you could coat the print in 2 part food grade resin.

[@ebuneci]

Dear Irv, this is amazing! I tried this out with my new 3D printer, just in time for the holidays! I am so sad to see that the website is however shutting down. I do have two questions: 1) Re: custom models: I noticed the template rounds sharp edges in the shape (say if I have a star with sharp corners, this template changes my original svg file and now I get a star with rounded corners). Still nice, but unexpected. Is there a way to disable this option? 2) Re: website service: I just joined the 3D printer community and as a n00b, i found your videos very useful! since the service will be shutting down, will there be another way to contact you/the service for support and questions?

[@anywaaayeee]

Are you able to share the files that came with the Monochrome Delta 3d Printer? My card broke. I appreciate it.

[@GreenAppelPie]

I’ve used stable diffusion to get cookie cutter outlines with decent luck

[@susan3156]

Hi Irv, I’m totally new to 3D printing and want to make pottery clay cutters from my own drawings. Question… can I modify the height of the cutting wall? Eg say I want it to be 15mm high? Also, I need to create inserts that fit within the cutter, eg say I make a round cutter and want to create a round insert plate so that I can push the cut clay out from inside the inside without using my fingers to avoid finger prints and thus fussy clean up. TY

[@MakeWithTech]

Yes. Absolutely.

[@bobbydigital9323]

He's a maker AND a baker!

[@Urbakingbros]

I have tried uploading an SVG image several times, from my download file. I have doubled and trippled checked that the "Please enter a file to upload below" has been selected... I am able to see the image in the "Preview box, but once I hit the "Generate" button and retrieve the image once completed, it's Always completes the image of a Rabbit.... no mater what image I have saved and sent to be completed...

[@jamesmuscato5799]

I am having the same problem.

[@Appregator]

Haha

[@tejebonito]

Dear sir, me and my husband are about to buy an Elego Neptune 4 Pro, i want to start a small business of cookie cutters (small ones, for polymer clay to make fantasy jewelry)...i dont know if the printer is too much for this kind of use...what do you think?

[@IndianaGraphics]

Is a food processor easier to clean than a mixer??? I think not. JS

[@MakeWithTech]

Maybe not but it was more convenient at the moment and the cookies came out great.

[@JottyHB]

New channel name: Bake With Tech 😊

[@busybody57]

I didn't find bake with tech

[@JottyHB]

@@busybody57 Try harder!

[@BaronOfDaker]

Just FYI, I totally understand what you're saying about wood vs print layers, but wood is intended to absorb and draw bacteria down to an anerobic layer where it kills the bacteria. Bacteria on 3D print layers can remain and thrive within those voids. The odds are very, very much in your favour, however, as long as you practice good food safety!

[@Floridakeys_agent]

I was so excited to try this but the cookie cutter did not save and kept saving the rabbit. I followed the instructions exactly as indicated. And after a few tries the website no longer would let me move forward because it required an upgrade to my membership:( disappointed.

[@KathyJurek]

You seem like such a nice man. I wish you moved a little quicker through the video though. It was really draggy and I didn't make it to the end. Sorry

[@charlesrestivo870]

Find your site very confusing sorry models by makertech is not that well developed

[@Appregator]

Hygiene is not even a factor on a washed cookie cutter. I see the guys outside my house digging in the weekly refuse bins every week and hauling out the old food. Their constitutions must be amazing as the same ones are there almost every week. Dangerous old food is not doughy or plant based I don't think. Fish or chicken is the big danger after staying out of the refrigerator for too long. PETG can be printed pretty much water proof anyway. Even then, I was in an African country up north from us and they used an old corrugated zink roof sheet to sell their raw meat daily. The sheet iron was never washed and was black ! Theses guys survived and COVID hardly affected Africa, despite the people refusing to wear masks or to do social distancing. 🤣🤣🤣

[@bigchrisrogers]

For a man of logic and science, I'm surprised you use units like a STICK (of Butter) or CUP (of sugar). Sticks and cups come in all sorts of sizes.