Ceramic Mold Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until they are fluffy. Beat in the egg and the milk/cream.
• Add vanilla. Add in the flour and salt at this point. Remove dough from the bowl onto a lightly floured surface.
• Knead dough briefly (not too long or it will be a tough cookie) and form into a ball. Wrap with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes (or you can quick chill in the freezer for about 10).
• While dough is chilling, preheat the oven for 350°F Take your mold and lightly brush oil on the baking surface of the cookie molds. Flour the mold(s) and tap out excess flour.
• Take a piece of dough and starting at one side, press it firmly into the mold, adding more dough as needed. Be sure to level the back of the cookie.
• Now, turn your mold over and strike it a couple of times to release the cookie. The cookie should come right out. Repeat the flour dusting of the mold before molding another cookie. (do not use oil again).
• Place the formed cookie on a baking sheet with detail side up and bake in the top 3rd of your oven. This helps highlight the nice detail of the cookie. Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes.
• HELPFUL HINTS.
• Don't be timid about striking the mold on a cutting board; it will not break if you hold it upright while striking it on its edge.
• If the cookie does not release, you have used too much oil. Clean the mold with a stiff dry brush, re-flour, but don't re-oil, and try again.
• If your cookies are puffing up and losing detail, use a smaller egg. If they are spreading out and losing detail, use less sugar.
• Chill the cookie mold as well to ease in the release of the cookie.
• If you are using a mold with multiple sections like the one in the photo, do one cookie section at at time - not the whole mold.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F In a medium mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add 2 cups flour and mix until dough is smooth. If dough feels sticky add additional 1/4 cup flour as needed.Dough should be soft but not sticky.
• Spray cookie mold lightly with vegetable pan spray.
• Flour mold, shake out excess. Firmly press dough into mold, making sure dough is even.
• Prick surface with fork and bake in mold 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool in mold 15 minutes.
• Loosen edges of shortbread with tip of knife and flip mold over onto cooling rack. Makes 4 cookies.
• Note:For Cookies Press dough in mold and bake flowing recipe directions. For best results, bake in mold. For easier handling, place mold on a cookie sheet before baking. If desired, to make more than one cookie at a time, you may release dough from mold and bake directly on cookie sheet. To unmold after cooling, run knife blade on the edge of mold and release.
• For Candy: Freeze mold at least 20 minutes before molding candy. Melt Chocolate or confectionery coating as directed on package. Fill mold cavity to top; freeze approximately 10 minutes to set and release.
• For Rolled fondant: It's easy to create a fondant "plaque" to add dimension to any type of cake. Press fondant paste lightly into cavity, then release.
• Cool mold completely before washing. To clean hand wash in warm soapy water; rinse thoroughly.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Coat an 8-inch ceramic shortbread mold with cooking spray; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together butter and sugar until well combined. Add flours and mix until just combined and a shaggy dough forms.
• Firmly press dough into mold in an even layer. Bake until edges just begin to turn golden, about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Remove from oven; turn oven off. Let shortbread cool in mold 10 minutes.
• Invert a parchment-lined baking sheet onto back of mold. Carefully re-invert, turning mold onto sheet; lift off mold. Using a sharp knife, cut shortbread into wedges. Separate wedges, then return sheet to oven until shortbread is dry, at least 1 hour. Let cool completely.