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Cutter Canvas

How Cutter Canvas works

From the first idea to the finishing icing. Find your shape, add optional fondant cutters or an embossing stamp, and bring it to the baking table.

Cutter Canvas turns a photo, an SVG, or a plain-English description into a custom 3D-printable cookie cutter — no CAD or design experience needed. Preview it in your browser, then export the STL yourself.

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Start free. Library shapes, SVG uploads, manual design, cutter settings and STL or full-kit ZIP exports need no account or credits. Exact image tracing is also free, but uploads your image for server processing and needs a connection. AI tools require sign-in and credits; their cost is shown before generation.

1. Start with a theme

Not sure where to start? Describe a theme — “dinosaur birthday party,” “cozy autumn pumpkin” — or upload an inspiration photo. Theme Ideas generates a cookie concept with a matching cutter shape and royal icing design, so you can plan them together.

Already have a shape in mind? Go straight to the Cutter Studio.

Explore Theme Ideas

2. Shape the cutter

Choose a built-in shape, upload your own SVG, or start from a picture. Use free exact tracing for your image’s outline, or use credits for AI-assisted cleanup and shape generation.

Fine-tune the cutter’s scale, wall height and blade edge thickness with a live 3D preview. Export a ready-to-print STL for your own printer.

Open the Cutter Studio

3. Add fondant cutters or an embossing stamp

This step is optional. After choosing your shape and size, open Step 3 in the Cutter Studio. Keep a plain cutter, or enable either or both extras:

  • Embossing stamp Press the design into your dough to add detail inside the cutter’s outline.
  • Fondant cutters Make small cutters for the individual parts of your design, ready to cut and assemble as fondant decorations.

If you started with an uploaded image and haven’t chosen separate artwork, the studio uses that image for the extras. You can replace it with your own artwork, or generate a new design with AI for 1 credit.

Check the preview in Cutter, Fondant, Embosser or Whole set view. In the studio’s Step 4, choose Download full kit (.zip) to get separate STL files for the pieces. The cutter-only STL still contains just the plain cutter.

Add extras in the Cutter Studio

4. Design the icing

Describe an icing design or upload a reference photo, then choose a piping style that matches your skill level — from fast bakery flood work to fine linework. The Icing Studio generates a design on your cutter’s shape with a color-matching guide to help plan your royal icing.

Open the Icing Studio

Tools for your baking business

Take the design through the rest of your bake with the Baker Tools hub, built for cottage-food bakers and small cookie businesses.