The 5 Best 3D Printers for Making Cookie Cutters

An upgraded version of the popular Ender 3 V2 printer, the Ender 3 S1 boasts a new line of features for easier and more accurate printing. For example, the new “Sprite” dual-gear extruder is built to handle flexible filaments like TPU. With its all-metal gears and direct drive system, it performs much better than the Bowden system on the original. While TPU isn’t a good material for making cutters for cookies, it is suitable for things like cookie stamps, dough texturing sheets, and other baking applications.

The S1 is quiet during printing. While the original Ender 3 runs anywhere between 58-70db, the S1 consistently performs under 50 dB during the print process. This makes it perfect for users who want to run it within their kitchen, living, or dining room.

The heated build plate comes with a removable magnetic sheet that bends to allow for easier removal once the print is done. This is a helpful feature since cookie cutters can be somewhat fragile where the base meets the thin cutting edge. Breaks and other damage during removal from the print bed are common problems.

With the S1, this is not an issue. If you are looking for the all-around best 3D printer for cookie cutters, the Ender 3 S1 is it.

The Anycubic Kobra line of printers is already considered to be some of the best 3D printers for the money on the market, and the Kobra Go is no different. For just $149.00, you can buy a machine that can 3D print cookie cutters all day without trouble.

The Kobra Go has a standard build volume of 220 x 220 x 250 mm. This is more than enough space to make cookie shapes and other kitchen-related items. The extra room lets you make bigger cookies and gives you the freedom to experiment with all kinds of exotic cookie-cutter designs.

Add to that the printer’s automatic bed leveling system. By measuring 25 places on the heated print bed, the Kobra Go can instantly correct for any unevenness in your printing surface. Most cookie-cutter designs have thin edges, so this trait is very useful. Thin lines don’t stick well to surfaces that aren’t level and the bed leveling probe fixes this exact problem.

Some of the things about this 3D printer that aren’t ideal are the DIY setup and plastic parts, like the extruder and fan cover. Anycubic had to keep costs low, so these are to be expected, but they do affect the user experience to some degree.

All things considered, though, the Kobra Go is a great choice for people who are just starting out. At around $150, it’s hard to find a better printer. It’s a great deal for new cooks and cooking fans on a budget who want to get creative in the kitchen.

These days, everybody wants a Bambu Lab printer for their fast print speeds, amazing set of features, and superb print quality. The Bambu Lab P1P adds to this energy. It’s a stripped-down version of the BambuLab Carbon and X1 printers, but it has the same speed and print quality.

The P1P has a strong CoreXY system with a 256 x 256 x 256 mm print size. The CoreXY design lets you print at speeds of up to 500 mm/s with high-quality results. Imagine 3D printing cutters from start to finish in only a couple of minutes!

The Automatic Material System (AMS) from Bambu Labs also works with the P1P. With the AMS, you can print anywhere from 4 to 16 filaments at once. You can use food-safe filaments and make a red cookie cutter, a blue cookie cutter, or one that is both red and blue without manually switching materials.

Bambu Labs has kept the printer’s source code pretty secret, which is one of the issues we have with the machine. All of the spare parts are also unique and expensive. In addition, when you use the AMS, you’ll find that a lot of filament goes to waste.

But if you care most about speed, print quality, and an easy-to-use printer, the P1P checks all the boxes. It broadens your ability to be creative and lets you print models quickly without losing the details.

The FlashForge Adventurer 3 is a user-friendly and intuitive 3D printer that is easy to use and gives you excellent print quality more or less straight out of the box. Its fully enclosed design keeps printing fumes contained and makes it safer to use in your home. It also allows you to print high-temp filaments like ABS without having to deal with excess warping.

Its hot end uses a special quick-swap chassis that allows you to easily change the nozzle. This is useful in the event of a clog or if you want to switch to a different nozzle size. Using different nozzle sizes can speed up or slow down the printing process, with larger nozzles printing faster but with less detail while smaller nozzles take longer to print but have much better detail.

It runs on FlashForge’s proprietary slicing software FlashPrint, which is also designed to be clean and user-friendly. It has a simplified mode that loads in printer settings for fast, normal, and high-detail printed objects, with an optional advanced mode for fine-tuning your settings as needed for different projects.

With its enclosure and easy-to-use slicer, it is perfect for kids to make their own cookie cutters. They can simply load in the cookie-cutter design, set it to high detail, and let the Adventurer 3 do its thing. You’ll have a cookie cutter that is accurate down to the smallest detail in no time at all.

There’s no doubt that resin 3D printers make the best quality prints. The Elegoo Mars 3 Pro printer lives up to this promise and lets you do this on a budget.

Elegoo released the Mars 3 Pro, a 4K resin 3D printer, as a follow-up to their Mars 3. It has a 4K monochrome LCD screen with a resolution of 0.035 mm on the XY line. It means that, in theory, you could print details as small as a grain of sand. It’s enough to say that Mars 3 Pro is more than enough for 3D printing cookie shapes.

The Mars 3 improves upon its predecessor by including improved FEP film, an air purifier, and a compact yet functional touchscreen interface. These parts work well together to make it easy to print high-quality resin prints.

Its lack of WiFi and the smaller build volume are the main things we don’t like about it. You only have a USB port to print files directly. These aren’t deal-breakers, but we think you should be aware of them.

Compared to the Mars 3, it only costs $50 more. The small price difference is worth it in our opinion. The Mars 3 Pro can be a great tool for your kitchen 3D printing projects if you care about print quality and an affordable resin 3D printer.