Stack of Gingerbread Cookies SVG

About this design

This gingerbread man found the cookie stash. He leans happily against a tall stack of three thick cookies, smiling, with two buttons on his chest and wavy icing on his arm and leg. The cookies behind him have icing dripping down their sides, and the top cookie is scattered with round sprinkles. It is a cheerful, homey design that says “fresh from the oven”.

The design is three pieces with twenty-seven cut-outs, mostly for the icing drips and sprinkles. In the layered version, all of those show the cream backing, so the stack looks generously iced. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches tall.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the icing and sprinkles
• Design in gingerbread brown, the cookies and the gingerbread man

Projects for bakers

• Cookie exchange invitations and labels.
• Bake sale signs.
• Baking aprons and oven mitts.
• Cookie tin lids.
• Kitchen wall art.
• “Santa’s cookies” plates for Christmas Eve.
• Shirts for a baking club or bakery staff.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches tall. With twenty-seven cut-outs, weeding takes a few minutes, so use a fine hook. For felt or glitter cardstock, cut at 5 inches or more. For an apron, 7 to 9 inches tall.

Step by step: cookie swap label

1. Set the design to 3.5 inches tall and download the color SVG.
2. Cut the brown layer from kraft cardstock and the backing from white.
3. Glue the brown layer onto the backing.
4. Glue it to the top of a cookie box and add a tag with the cookie name and the baker’s name.
5. Tie the box with red-and-white baker’s twine.

Color ideas

• Brown with cream icing, the classic
• Brown with pink icing and sprinkles for a sweet bakery look
• Brown with red and green sprinkles painted on
• Dark brown with white for chocolate cookies

Good to know

The sprinkles on the top cookie are small round cut-outs, so they make a nice place to add color. On a cardstock version, glue a sheet of rainbow or red-and-green patterned paper behind the top cookie instead of plain cream, and the sprinkles will show in different colors.

Variations to try

• Mirror it in the editor so he leans from the other side.
• Add the editor’s offset border for a die-cut sticker.

Pairs well with

The Rolling Pin and Cookie is another baking-day design, and the Gingerbread Man and Milk brings the drink.