Easter Sparkle Window Cookie Cutters

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This is a cookie cutter set for baking Sparkle window biscuits for Easter, (Sparkles are colourful, hard boiled, sweets which are available in south Africa), they melt in the oven to make beautiful window panes in the baked biscuits. Cut the biscuit dough and lift the complete biscuit shape onto a baking sheet, which is lined with baking parchment. Now weed out the bits where the Sparkles go and pop in the Sparkles or any other hard boiled sweets. Bake normally, like you would bake your plain biscuits. When cool ice, if you want to and then remove from the parchment and pack individually in cellophane packets, to prevent the biscuits sticking together. Give them away, hide them in your garden for the children to find, have fun, be blessed and please upload pictures of your Easter Sparkle Window biscuits. Update: 2018-02-27 During production last year, the floppy eared bunny caused problems, because the candy did not flow into the ear every time. To solve this problem the bunny has been enlarged. Print Settings Printer: RepRap - Ecksbot ZA Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: 0.25mm layer height Infill: 100% Notes: My printer has a 0.5mm nozzle and I prefer to use Slic3r 0.9.9. dev with the config file I have uploaded, as the blade prints as a single extrusion, which keeps the cookie cutter strong and the blade does not delaminate, like it sometimes does, if it is printed as 2 thinner walls. Update: 2018-02-27 I have subsequently found the setting which adjusts the extrusion width in newer versions of Slic3r, so I have successfully printed single extrusion blades with Slic3r 1.2.9. I have uploaded this config file as well. Post-Printing As the plastic cools in the corners it sometimes contracts and makes "high spots". If you place the cookie cutter on a marble slab, you can see light between the slab and the blade, because of these "high spots". If this happens I use 600 grit water paper on a piece of glass to sand the "high spots" back. How I Designed This I use the Cookie Cutter generator by Guru to generate the individual components of the various cookie cutters. I use Netfabb Basic to position all the individual pieces of the cookie cutter and save them in their new positions. I use Pronteface to compose the individual pieces and then export a single composite STL. I use Netfabb Azure cloud service to repair the cookie cutter.