Ann Clark Ltd. Brings Timeless Style to the Holiday 2026 Cookie Table

Vintage-inspired holiday baking arrives with rich jewel tones, shimmering details, classic plaids, and nostalgic cookie shapes

RUTLAND, Vt. — Ann Clark Ltd., North America's leading manufacturer of cookie cutters, is helping bakers bring this season's most nostalgic trends to the holiday cookie table with heritage-inspired shapes and decorating essentials designed for Holiday 2026.

This year, timeless style is making a return. Holiday décor and gifts are trending more nostalgic and heritage-inspired, defined by rich jewel tones, polished plaids, delicate bows, and equestrian touches. The look feels collected rather than coordinated, pairing the warmth of holidays past with details that feel fresh for 2026.

That same sensibility is making its way to the cookie table. With Ann Clark's holiday shapes, food coloring gels, and sanding sugars, bakers can capture the vintage aesthetic in deep reds, forest greens, and rich blues, finished with subtle shimmer, sparkling sugar, and classic plaid. Whether decorating for a gathering, making homemade gifts, or spending an afternoon baking with family, this year's trends offer a fresh way to make holiday traditions feel both nostalgic and new.

"The holidays have always been about gathering the people you love and making something together," said CEO Ben Clark. "There's a reason these traditions — the sleighs, the bows, the cookies cooling on the counter — never really go out of style. Our hope is that families reach for our cutters and decorating supplies and, in the process, create the kind of memories they'll want to pass down."

Put a Bow on It

Few details capture the Holiday 2026 aesthetic quite like the Bow Cookie Cutter. Bows continue to appear across fashion, home décor, holiday wrapping, and seasonal accessories, making the classic motif a natural fit for festive baking. Decorated in traditional red, deep green, rich burgundy, or shimmering gold, bow cookies can bring an elegant finishing touch to cookie trays, place settings, and edible gifts. See Ann Clark’s Bow Decorating Tutorial for guidance on decorating with this shape.

The nostalgic look continues throughout Ann Clark's holiday collection with the Holiday Sleigh, Star, Snowflake, and Christmas Tree cookie cutters. Together, the shapes evoke familiar holiday imagery while offering plenty of room for decorators to interpret this season's trends, from jewel-toned trees to shimmering snowflakes and intricately decorated sleighs.

Ann Clark's Food Coloring Gels make it easy to create the deep, saturated colors defining the season, while Sanding Sugars add sparkle, texture, and a subtle touch of holiday glamour. Bakers can finish the look with classic tools, including Ann Clark's Perfect Cookie Rolling Pin, designed to help roll dough to a consistent thickness for evenly baked cookies.

A Holiday Tradition with a Nod to Ann Clark's Beginning

For Ann Clark, embracing nostalgia is particularly fitting. The Vermont-based, family-owned company traces its roots to founder Ann Clark and one of her own folk art designs: a pig. Ann transformed the design into her first cookie cutter, helping launch what would eventually grow into a collection of hundreds of shapes.

This holiday season, that original inspiration comes full circle with Ann Clark's Pig Cookie Cutter and the nostalgic tradition of the peppermint pig. The holiday custom of breaking a peppermint pig and sharing the pieces offers an unexpected way to incorporate the shape into seasonal celebrations. Bakers can use Ann Clark’s Natural Peppermint Flavoring to bring out the flavor of this classic holiday treat. For a twist on the tradition, think pig-shaped cookies frosted in peppermint-inspired pinks, reds, and whites in a whimsical homage to both holiday history and Ann Clark's own roots.

Holiday 2026 invites bakers to rediscover the elements that make the season feel timeless, from bows and sleighs to glistening sweets and rich seasonal hues. With Ann Clark's assortment of cookie cutters, decorating supplies, and baking utensils, bakers can bring the coziness of tradition to the table while making it uniquely their own.

Availability

Ann Clark's holiday cookie cutters, food coloring gels, sanding sugars, baking mixes, including Gingerbread and Sugar Cookie, and baking tools are available now at Amazon, Walmart, and on the brand's e-commerce website.

Learn to Decorate: Find a Cookie-Decorating Class Near You

Ann Clark invites customers to use its Cookie-Decorating Class Finder, a free online tool that connects bakers with cookie-decorating classes, workshops, and instructors across the country, making it easy to learn the art of flooding, piping, and finishing cookies with professional results at home.

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About Ann Clark

Ann Clark is the largest manufacturer of cookie cutters and the fastest-growing maker of food coloring in the United States. The product line includes baking essentials, from rolling pins to baking parchment, plus more than 700 cookie cutter shapes, each handmade out of USA steel. In addition to hard goods, Ann Clark Ltd.’s product line includes premium ingredients and gourmet baking mixes made with the same uncompromisingly high quality standards that the Ann Clark Ltd. brand is known for. Building upon three decades of industry experience, Ann Clark has become a steadfast ally for cookie and cake decorators, bakers, and chefs seeking inspiration and the best possible products to add to their kitchens. Learn more at Ann Clark's website and find Ann Clark on Amazon.