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âMost of my cookies are not made to be eaten,â says Christine Dutcher of Hamilton, Ont. âTo me, they are pieces of art made using food ingredients.â
Dutcher is part of a global community of cookiers, decorators who specialize in designing and decorating elaborate sugar cookies that many in the community consider a form of art.
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A cookie canvas is usually made of sugar cookie dough, although some experiment with other types, such as gingerbread. Decorated cookies usually are four to five inches long, depending on the shape, but some are more than a foot in diameter and others tower over a cookie base in sculpture form.