On the front, a round floured baking board with the lettering Plätzchen-Team in an icing look, a rolling pin with snowflakes and two star cutters. On the back, four decorated star cookies; on each sleeve, an iced star with berries.
Product description
This Christmas cookie baking shirt captures an Advent baking day just as anyone who has ever rolled out dough with their family and sneaked a bite will remember it. On the front sits a round baking board made of warm, honey-brown wood with a clearly visible grain. The lower half is heavily dusted with flour, and a few white specks even fly past the edge. Across the upper third, the lettering Plätzchen-Team arcs over the wood. Plätzchen is the German word for small Christmas cookies, so the line simply means cookie team. The flowing script looks like freshly piped royal icing: cream white with a dark brown outline, and a little drip of icing hangs below the ä as if it had only just run down.
A light wooden rolling pin lies diagonally across the board, from top left to bottom right. Its left handle sticks out past the rim, while the right one ends at the lower right edge of the board. Three snowflakes are carved into the roller, like on an embossing rolling pin that presses a pattern into the dough. Bottom left there is a large star-shaped cutter in silver-grey metal, filled to the brim with flour, and a smaller star cutter rests on the right at mid height. Six star cookies are spread around them. Top right sits a six-pointed star with cream icing, top centre a small floured star. Below the middle of the lettering there is a large iced star with six points, a small one beside it on the left and a tiny one right at the edge. At the bottom centre lies the showpiece: a star covered in icing and red sugar pearls.
The festive trimmings are there too. Three red berries on a fir sprig sit below the rolling pin on the left, and four berries with fir green sit below the small cutter on the right. A few stray berries are scattered across the board, one of them dusted with flour next to the lettering, and some scraps of dough are left over at the top left. There are no people or characters in the picture. It tells the story of baking only through what lies on the wood, which is exactly why it feels so cosy. The palette stays warm: wood and honey brown, cream white, cherry red, fir green, silver grey and plenty of flour white, held together by dark brown outlines that give it the look of an illustration from an old baking book.
The back of this Christmas cookie baking shirt shows what comes out of the oven. Four overlapping star cookies are placed high on the back, with no text at all. On the left, a six-pointed star fully coated in icing carries seven red sugar pearls in three rows. Top right is the largest, a five-pointed star where the golden dough shows, with an icing border and a big snowflake piped on top. Lower in the middle, another star has a snowflake and a single red pearl in the centre. On the right, the smallest one is completely iced, with red pearls and a gold pearl in the middle. Crumbs lie all around, as if someone had already sneaked a taste. Both sleeves carry the same small motif: an iced five-pointed star with three red berries in the middle, flanked on each side by a holly leaf with three berries.
The shirt is made for everyone who barely switches the oven off in December. Wear it as a family Christmas shirt on baking day with the kids, as matching outfits for two people who share the dough, or give it to the grandparent who guards the recipes every year. To dress a whole baking crew, simply order several shirts with the same motif. The classic tee is cotton, with a cotton blend in some colours. Each shirt is printed digitally once you order it. A Christmas cookie baking shirt for the weeks when the kitchen smells of butter and vanilla and every worktop has a little flour on it.
