What are cookie molds and how are they carved?
Cookie molds are “dough shapers” used to produce fancy figure picture cookies. Today, reasonably priced wooden molds for shaping cookie dough are difficult to find. The antique ones are too expensive and rare. Most of the “tourist trade” wooden molds produced today in Europe lack carving detail and artisitic appeal. Holzschnitzer Gene Wilson of Illinois provides the artist’s touch – and his own self taught technique of hand-held, power tool carving – to transform random length and width hardwoods into attractive cookie and butter molds. His reverse (intaglio) carvings are like those produced centuries ago in Europe and in Colonial America. He carves and markets over one hundred different designs of detailed cookie molds. Clean, sharp cuts result from his 30 years of experience, the use of quality hard woods and sharp router bits.
