I was roaming around Albertson’s the other day, in search of something cheap to buy so that I could get cash back when using my debit card. Immediately, I went to the bakery section. After passing by various cakes, bite-sized brownies, and lofthouse cookies, my eyes stumbled across this pretty little thing. There were actually four different designs.. a butterfly, a bee, a flower, and something else that I can’t quite remember.
So why did I choose the bee? It was the cutest one! And plus, we need to save the honey bees! Did you know that honey bees alone are responsible for 1/3 of the crops that we eat? If honey bees were to become extinct, the human population could only survive for 4 years before becoming extinct as well (according to Albert Einstein). The weird thing is, no one really knows why they are dying out. We know that hives are experiencing Colony Collapse Disorder, where bees desert their hives for no apparent reason and die. Haagen-Daz has been really active on saving the honey bees and you can even find more information at their website, HERE.
To be honest the cookie wasn’t very good. It was a lemon sugar cookie with royal icing, but I was never really a fan of lemon baked goods. At such a steal for $1.99, it doesn’t hurt to buy the cookie just to look at. 🙂
I’m almost at 200 followers and just wanted to celebrate with a giveaway! I’m giving away a pastry dough scraper from Crate & Barrel. The rubber grasp makes it easy to grip and work with, while the ruler on the stainless steel comes in handy when trying to measure out the dough (one side is in inches and the other side is in centimeters.. perfect!).
For a chance to win, just leave a comment with your favorite sugar cookie shape by next Monday, August 3rd, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Good luck!
My favorite sugar shape to use is a flower! I love those huge cutters with the rubber grips. =)
-Mr. just recieved a cookie gram bouquet from being in the Hospt. in race car shapes…very cute, but the cookie was almond flavored -not my fave.
Haha – I’m probably really really odd but my favorite shape is a BAT… as in… the animal 😉
I’m addicted to Batman, so whenever I bake a bunch of cookies, I usually bake lots of little bats… I have like 3 different shapes at home 😉
favorite sugar cookie shape…I’m going to go with alphabet cookie cutters! Does that count? haha. I love making alphabet cookies for special events. It makes it more personalized, in my opinion :]
<3 keep on baking, we love it!
I have a footprint shaped cookie cutter which I love!
Heart shaped cookies are my favorite. 🙂 But I’ll certainly take any shape if the cookie is delicious. 😉
definitely star shaped ones! 🙂
Snowflakes! Lots of different shapes, and then decorate them with royal icing. 🙂
I like people shaped cookies. That way, I get to bite their heads off! :-p
Baseball mitt. I’m a huge baseball fan, so it comes in handy when tailgating!
love that Haagen Dazs has been behind the honeybees cause, their honey-related ice cream flavours are soooo good! and if buying Haagen Dazs helps the honeybees, well i guess i’ll have to keep eating ice cream all the time, oh darn.
My favorite cookie shape is a butterfly.
Katy
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Aww that is super adorable! I would have bought it just because of how it looked too.
My favorite is the star shape. You can decorate it numerous ways and be inspired by its symbolism at the same time 🙂
My favorite sugar cookie shape has to be the POODLE. My mom made 60 poodles, I kid you not, with lovely filled icing. One for each student in my class, and extra for my coworkers. My students were over the moon 🙂
And here it is: http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff134/layers_of_eli/Cooking/Mom%20meals/poodlecookies2.jpg
Bees are definitely my favorite, since my name means honey bee. 🙂
I love anything to do with holiday sugar cookies, but my favorite would have to be Christmas cookies ~ Can’t get enough Santa’s and Snowmen 🙂
my favorite sugar cookie is most definitely a star shape! great for using to make snowflakes in the winter time, too!
my favorite shape would probably be girly shapes like the princess crown cause all little girl love it!
A good ol CIRCLE!
First time commenting! My favorite cookie cutter shape is a cupcake! Then you get to decorate it with frosting and sprinkles just like you would a real cupcake, but it’s not quite as diet crashing as the real thing (as long as you stop at 1 – which come on, no one ever does!) 😛
My fav shape for cutout cookies is a heart. I collect cookie cutters, so I have a TON, but love the heart best 🙂
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My favorite sugar cookie shape is a candy cane! I had a set of about 50 Christmas cookie cutters, and I loved making the candy canes the most.
My favorite cookie shape is star! They’re just so cool. lol
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i love your blog because i’m a college student as well, so it is fun to see somebody my age with such a great food blog…and my favorite sugar cookie shape is a pig 🙂
my favorite cookie shape is a clover. somehow it looks so cute and it puts a smile on my face. =)
a bear. or hello kitty.
(what a coincidence – i literally put a dough scrapper on my “to buy” kitchen tools list yesterday!!)
I gotta say that my newest favorite sugar cookie is actually the sugar cookie bar! Does that count? LOL
~Michelle
My favorite would have to be anything with a head…so I can bite it off!! 🙂
WOW!
This is a cute Bee!
My favorite cookie shape is star.
Fun giveaway! My fav shape is a mitten- it can be decorated in so many cute ways during the winter holiday season!
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I’m actually not a fan of sugar cookies– eating them, that is! I’ve just never liked them. But decorating them is always fun, especially around Christmas time!
-Heidi
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haha this might sound wierd, but my lab at my graduate school has the logo of 3 rats and I have been trying to find a rat cookie cutter everywhere! I wanted to make the rats all black and then put a little autism awareness ribbon (our specialty is in autism) on them to take to a cook out that we are having soon, but I don’t know if that will happen. Any ideas?
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My favorite sugar cookie shape kinda sounds lame but it is the circle! But really there is so much you can do with a circle. All sorts of balls, Baby bib, flower basket, bullseye, hoola hoop, vinal record, suns… the possibilities are endless.
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my favorite shape is a rectangle because I make envelope designs on it for valentines day!
I love the star-shaped cookie cutters!(:
That thing about Haagen Dazs and the honeybees was interesting… I never knew that. But you learn something new every day.(:
What an adorable bee 🙂 My favorite would have to be the tree shapes, I love decorating them lke tiny little Christmas trees!
What a cute bee!
My favorite shape for sugar cookies is a butterfly, and second to it is the snowflake.
my favorite cookie cutter shape is a ballerina, but unfortunately i have never been able to actually cut out a perfect ballerina in the dough..her arm or leg always breaks off 🙁
Sweet! I tend to only make sugar cookies around charismas, so my favorite is a snowman. They’re my favorite to decorate and eat! thanks – love your blog!
My favorite shape is a star- mostly because my husband and I saw one on our very first date. And we also saw one on the night he asked me to marry him. 🙂 So that’s why it’s my favorite. Love your blog by the way!
I make wedding shower cookies to pay for tuition…I love making wedding dress-shaped cookies because they’re so much fun to decorate (especially with those edible silver bead sprinkles!!), and it’s definitely a crowd pleaser with the wedding guests! Plus, I’m always bound to have a few broken ones since the top of the cookie is so much smaller than the bottom. That means I get to snack on a few while baking without feeling like I’m stealing from my tuition fund which is always a plus 🙂
-Courtney (ckcottrell@gmail.com)
Oh goodness I just saw the picture of the poodle sugar cookies someone was talking about…that definitely wins for best cookie cutter. Seriously SO cute!!
I am a big Disney fan so my favorite is our Mickey Mouse head with ears of course!
definitely my dinosaur cookie cutters!
My favorite are Halloween themed cookies like ghosts, pumpkins, and bats.
Mine would be a penguin! I love them!
I must admit, my favorite shape is a plain old round cutter. You can do so much with a bit of imagination! Cut a round and then move the cutter over to make crescent moons for Halloween. Decorate with icing to make basketballs, soccer balls or volleyballs for different sports. Cut out a little square and attach it to the top, engrave some dents and you’ve got a plump, round pumpkin for Halloween. Line three rounds up and you’ve got a winter Snowman. Circles are just perfect jumping off points!
Ooh ooh! I want a free thingy! Ok, so it was funny you said you don’t care for lemony things because I just made Lemon Butter Cookies today and they were pretty refreshing. Too bad, you’re missin out!
Ok, so my favorite sugar cookie shape has to be a heart. I know that’s generic, but I love hearts, I can’t help it. Of course if I weren’t madly in love with my man than I’d probably choose a sugar cookie the shape of a gun. ha….
Hope all’s well with you in the post-graduate world.
luv,
heather
am i glad u have this giveaway while im still in california for the summer! im working at the santa cruz beachboardwalk u see!
anyway my favourite sugar cookie shape would be a snowflake!
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I love my Winnie the Pooh cutter, which I bought in Disneyland Paris. It came in a cute cookie-box, and also includes a Piglet-shaped one 🙂
I just got a dog bone cutter & made the pooch some peanut butter dog treats. I will probably only use it for humans around Halloween time.
That bee looks rather delicious! 🙂
My favourite shape is gingerbread man. lol ^^;
I also like bird shapes too.
I like this one I have that’s in the shape of a witch’s hat. I use it on Halloween. I’m also a fan of the plain old ginger bread (gingerbread?) man cutter.
That is a cute bee, too bad he wasn’t very tasty!
Favorite cookie cutter? Hmmm. Probably hearts.
Hi Kimmy!!! 😀 My favorite is the teddy bear! Also, it’s because that’s the only shape I own 😀
Cool! I love stars, they’re so cute.
Stars or anything cute. Even in the shape of cupcakes. That would be adorable….
🙂
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I have a sick obsession with cookie cutters so i enjoy sugar cookies in any and all shapes. I do love my dinosaur shapes though…
I love all the dress cookies, especially the wedding dress!
I have a cookie cutter I bought on vacation that is in the shape of a lobster. I’ve only used it twice but I love it!
i LOVE flower cookie cutters..oh the possibilities.
I don’t know if it’s partial to my name … or if that’s just a coincident but I really love flower shaped cookies!
Thanks for a chance to win!
Flower
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That’s an adorable cookie. I think my favorite cookie cutter shape has to be a christmas tree. It was fun times at christmas.
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Every year for the holidays when I was a kid we made sugar cookies. Now that I have a little girl who is going to be 2 this Christmas I am going to start the tradition. I only make sugar cookies for the holidays so my favorite shape is the Christmas tree. I love putting on the sprinkles in different ways to decorate and if you can find them those gold and silver little balls.
-Jennifer-
We would only make sugar cookies at Christmas as a kid. I loved the santa and tree shaped cutters. Not only were they fun to decorate they were also fun to eat because they were the biggest!
I love elephant cookies!
Yay for giveaways! I love cookie cutters shaped like letters of the alphabet.
It’s a little obscure, but I love the sailboat shape cookie cutters. My little brother and I used to make unorthodox holiday cookies, including these sailboats that we would decorate the sails of in all kinds of crazy patterns and designs.
I love flower shaped cookies. I made them for my daughters first birthday and they were a hit!
My favourite sugar cookie shape is hearts! 😀
Btw, I checked out the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bees site, I had no idea about the whole honey bees situation before! I’m definitely worried now… :s
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i honestly really love those cookies that you find in stores, but i hate how you can just look at them and you just crave and want them. So you buy them, and what happens? you take great big bite and it doesnt taste that great. OH WELL! IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED!
favorite cookie cutter shape… a santa clause i have and a tiny bunny rabbit!
any Christmas shape!
Cute, congrats on 200 readers, how exciting!!!!! My favorite sugar cookie shape would be a flower, because I like the bite the petals off first. My BF said he likes crescent moons the best – kind of surprising and weird. I wonder what favorite sugar cookie shape says about somebody!
gingerbread man shaped, so you can bite off the heads first!
hey, I’m Jess… I like ones in the shape of different fruits. Lemons, apples, oranges, bananas, and decorating them in that color.
My email is:
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I love star shaped sugar cookies. That’s always stuck with me from my childhood.
I love to make stars!
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The classic heart is my favorite shape. But I’ll eat a cookie of any shape, I don’t discriminate!
Regular circle shaped sugar cookies
I love any kind of cookie cutters that come in the shape of animals. Elephants and giraffe ones are my fave.
I love to use flowers or hearts!
hey ppl, i need major help with baking cookies. it’s coming out with a bread like texture these days and it’s never happened before. so if anyone sees this..help!
My favorite shape is a dinosaur– stegosaurus, specifically. 🙂