Delicious organelles: mitochondria and chloroplast cookie cutters

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I made some biology cookie cutters for funsies. They're an easy print. Mitochondria and chloroplast! Powerhouse and solar power plant! Yummmmm! I based them on Robin Young's awesome diagrams that she uses in her teaching (one of them shown, grabbed from her lecture). I used Cookie Caster and TinkerCad to get the model together. Maybe you also have nerdy friends, and/or are a nerdy person yourself, who would love to make these. Hurrah! Cookies actually turned out, too. My baking recommendations: find an easy sugar cookie recipe and make it. Roll out the dough and then put it in the fridge for a bit. Put flour on the cookie cutters, and use a rolling pin to tap the cookies out of the cutter. A chopstick also helps if small bits get stuck. Bonus points for food colouring to match the organelles. Also posted on the NIH 3Dprint Exchange!