Are any of you that collect baking items--Are you familiar with Brown Bag Cookie Molds?
Back in the late '80s when we had our wholesale/retail Bird business we had a booth in Chicago at a trade show.
When I was walking around I spotted this company and fell in love. This was a wholesale trade show-so all the prices reflected that. Of course I went crazy and bought lots of different molds at wholesale prices. These are pottery molds that make large cookies, they also had several small square or round shortbread molds. Each mold was inserted into a brown bag-thus the name-Brown Bag Cookie Molds. Over the years I bought several more pieces.
I love all things kitchen items and I have a pretty huge collection of molds, cutters, stamps for cookies.
Anyways the instructions were not to bake in the molds. but form the cookie in the mold and then take out and bake. I didn't always have great success-especially with a gluten free dough.
I dug out a Halloween shortbread mold and was looking for a recipe. I found this awesome video and she bakes in the molds. Wow game changer haha.
Here is the video sorry the video showed up but then when I posted said not available-strange.
In the video you can see the molds. I looked online-Ebay and Etsy- and molds from this company are now considered vintage-so I guess I am more vintage than I thought-haha
I looked online for a photo of my Halloween mold but couldn't find one-so here is a photo of mine
You remember a month and a half ago , maybe two months we had that deluge of 10" of rain! We haven't had any since either... Very warm and dry October... chance of rain next week though... fingers crossed! I have not heard of brown bag cookie molds.. although i do admire many molds i do not have any... I have been eyeballing a patterned rolling pin though. I think that would be fun.. do you have one of those?? Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteHi Deb I have eyed those rolling pins for a very long time. the good ones were always made in Germany and now very very expensive. I don't want one from china.
Deletewe used to shop for lots of items at garage sales and I did find a short one. looked like i was cut off for some reason and new handles added-so I do have that one.
I don't thinkg the brown bag molds are made in anymore. but if you search etsy and ebay you will see some of them. I do have lots as I always loved them
No package yet-perhaps today-hugs
ooops sorry for all the typos
DeleteI don't know what would hold that package up... Its just a flat envelope with some magazine pages in it and a Bday card... grrr... I hope its still coming to you and not back to me for some reason... Hugs! deb
DeleteI thought for sure it would show up today-saturday's mail- no show-wonder if the package had gotten torn or something in the mail. we get our mail pretty fast here at the lake as we are in between StLouis and Kansas City
DeleteMan.... so disappointing... the USPS has let me down too often this past year... fingers still crossed... Hugs! deb
DeleteHugs we had a lot of issues with the post office when we lived in the woods-took forever to get packages-what took a week to 10 days there I get in 2 to 3 days here at the lake thinking it either got misdirected or the package got damaged-we'll see may just show up on monday
DeleteHappy Mold Cookie Baking!
ReplyDeleteThis is new to me. I've not used a cookie mold before. I have one star mold press with a knob handle. I didn't know what it was, but bought it anyway. It will be nice to use on ginger cookies.
Have fun with it
DeleteVery nice molds.
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DeleteI have a couple of these molds. That is a good video. I watched it and she had some great suggestions. I can also recommend Anne Watson's book Baking with Cookie Molds. Have a great weekend. hugs-Erika
ReplyDeletethank you for the book suggestion I will look for it now that I know I can bake in them anxious to use them hugs
DeleteHave fun with your molds. I had not heard of these. Very interesting. Janice
ReplyDeleteThis was an awesome company-I love all the molds-need to get them out and use them this year
DeleteI have LOADS of these -- both the large shortbreads and the individual cookie ones. I've made butter molds, cookies and beautiful paper ornaments with them. Love 'em!
ReplyDeleteAwesome-I love mine too Have not baked with them for years am going to soon
DeleteThose molds look great.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a happy rest of the weekend :)
All the best Jan
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thank you
DeleteDear Kathy, I love baking. I don't have such pretty molds for it... I'll keep an eye out for it... it's definitely a lot of fun to bake with.
ReplyDeleteA hug for you from Viola
Good morning, hoping you find some there are other companies that make them also vintage molds made of wood as well
DeleteI had several of these molds and used them to make beeswax ornaments years ago. I got rid of most of them but kept the christmas shortbread pan. I see these molds in thrift stores very regularly here.
ReplyDeleteCathy
I have never seen these here in thrift shops or garage sales. I really love them-hoping to make the shortbread this week
DeleteAs you know I do a lot of baking. However, I don't have molds. I will have to look for some.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, they are fun to work with-can be expensive now though
DeleteBOO, I love that! Scary hugs to you and the lake :-)
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