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Gingerbread house cookie cutter

A gingerbread house front with an overhanging roof and a chimney. The whole Christmas village, one cookie at a time.

3D render of a teal green 3D-printed gingerbread house cookie cutter next to two golden baked cookies in the same shape
Cookie dough ~8 g Pro early access

The front of a little gingerbread house: square walls, a pitched roof that overhangs them on both sides, and a chimney on the right slope. It is a flat cookie, not a kit to glue together, with big plain areas for piping windows, a door, roof tiles and snow. Good for Christmas cookie trays, advent calendars, holiday baking with kids and gingerbread decorating parties. The cookie comes out about 90 by 86 mm.

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Made with our free cookie cutter generator, not modelled by hand: we drew the silhouette, uploaded it to the tool and set the cutter size to 90 mm. The STL in the zip is exactly what the tool gives you: a 0.8 mm blade, 14 mm tall, with a 4 mm rim to press on, exported rim down so it prints without supports. The silhouette is in the zip too, as an SVG, so you can make it bigger, smaller or add a matching stamp.

Pipe the roof first: a thick line of white royal icing along both roof edges, pulled down in little drips over the eaves, reads instantly as snow. Then add the door and windows, and a few sprinkles or candy pieces pressed into the wet icing.

Shown as a 3D render of the printed cutter and two cookies in its shape, not a photo.

What you need

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  • Rolled cookie dough that holds its shape: sugar cookie or gingerbread, with little or no baking powder
  • A rolling pin, and two 5 to 6 mm guides for an even thickness
  • Flour for dipping the cutter, and baking paper
  • About 8 g of PLA or PETG, ideally a food-contact filament

How to use it

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  1. Print the cutter as exported: rim flat on the bed, blade pointing up, no supports.

  2. Wash it in warm soapy water before the first use.

  3. Roll the chilled dough 5 to 6 mm thick between two sheets of baking paper.

  4. Dip the blade in flour, press straight down with your palm on the rim, and lift.

  5. Chill the cut cookies for ten minutes, then bake.

  6. Wash the cutter by hand straight after use and let it dry. PLA softens in a dishwasher.

Print details

50 minPrint time
~8 gFilament
1Printed parts
98 × 94 × 14 mmSize (W x D x H)
All print details
Print details
Works withCookie dough
Printed parts1
Size (W x D x H)98 x 94 x 14 mm
Print bed needed98 x 94 mm, 14 mm tall
Filament~8 g
Layer height0.2 mm
Infill15%
SupportsNot needed
DownloadZIP: cutter (STL) + print and food-contact sheet + silhouette (SVG) + README
Added2026-09-25

Pro early access until October 25, 2026, then free with any account.

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Made with the free Cookie cutter generator. Upload your own shape and get the same kind of tool built from it, in your browser.

Free for personal use. Selling the pieces you cast needs a commercial licence (Pro or Founder); passing on the file itself is not permitted on any plan. Full terms.

New to casting? Read the cutter guide.

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Questions about this design

Can the gingerbread house cutter make a 3D house?

Not on its own: it cuts the front of a house as one flat cookie, the way you would decorate it on a tray. For a standing house, cut two fronts for the front and back, and cut the side walls and roof panels from the same dough with a knife.

How do I pipe windows and a door on the gingerbread house cookies?

Let a white or pale base coat set, then pipe a door in the middle of the wall and two square windows either side with a small round tip. Fill the windows with yellow icing and they look lit from inside. The roof takes rows of little scallops for tiles.

Will the chimney break off the gingerbread house cookie?

Not at this size. The chimney is a solid block over a centimetre wide that grows out of the roof, not a thin post. Roll the dough 5 to 6 mm, bake until the edges colour, and let the houses cool on the tray before moving them.

Can I make the gingerbread house cutter bigger or smaller?

Yes. Upload gingerbread-house.svg from the zip to the free cookie cutter generator and move the Cutter size slider (this one is 90 mm). You can also switch on a matching stamp there, or change the blade height and rim.