Official Cookie Tester SVG

Quality control, one bite at a time

Every kitchen has a volunteer who refuses to measure anything but is always available for sampling. Now that person has a title. Three words stacked in red capitals state the job, with the middle one set in a very thick, chunky face so it fills the width and shouts a little. Above them sits the proof of work: a chocolate chip cookie with a neat bite missing from its upper right edge.

It is a joke that works for a toddler, a grandparent or the coworker who hovers around the break room in December.

Color layers

Base and lines comes first, a dark cocoa brown solid under the cookie that reads as an outline and slender edge. Cookie follows in golden tan, for the bitten round. The chips belong to Chocolate, a milk chocolate brown. Lettering is one deep cranberry red layer holding all three words, and it rests on the open page, so whatever you apply it to becomes the background.

Pieces and weeding

In the solid you will handle 28 pieces and 12 cut-outs. The cookie, the chips and all twenty letters are separate, and the loose insides of letters such as the O shapes are part of the weeding work. Letters in a line this tidy need to keep their spacing, so carry them on transfer tape or glue them to a backing card as you go. It passes our cut checks from about 3 inches wide.

Bake sale table

This one earns its place on a fundraiser table, where a joke sells a surprising amount of baked goods.

• Stick it on a tasting tray card next to the free samples.
• Pin it as a badge on the volunteer running the samples, cut large enough to stay above the minimum width.
• Use it on a tip jar with vinyl on the outer side.
• Put it on paper bags so the joke walks out the door with every sale.

More places to put it

Shirts are the obvious choice, and a child-size tee looks especially good, since the heavy middle word stays readable from a distance. An apron works for a parent who claims the same office. Teachers tend to appreciate a mug or a small kitchen towel with the title on it, paired with a box of something homemade. A folded card with this on the front needs nothing more inside than a signature.

For iron-on, the carrier sheet keeps every letter in position until you press it.

Size guide

The two lighter words are the first to get difficult as the design shrinks, so stay at 3 inches or above. Stickers smaller than that belong with Print Then Cut.

Change it up

Green lettering looks fresh on a kraft bag, and white on a dark red shirt keeps the same contrast with a holiday feel. Our color guide explains swapping any layer before you download.

Pairs well with

The full-size Bitten Chocolate Chip Cookie matches the artwork here, and the Christmas Cookie Crew covers the rest of the kitchen staff. There is more of this humor in our funny Christmas collection.