Even if you're not baking, break out the cookie cutters to make pizza, fruit, sandwiches and even salads a whole lot cuter. Kids can help punch out fun shapes and will be excited to eat their artful creations. 

Coat a cookie cutter with nonstick spray and place flat in a skillet, then ladle your batter within the outlines. 

Nothing says "I love you" like heart-shaped pepperoni slices on a cheesy pie. This also works with salami on a snack tray.

Use a large cookie cutter to make your brown-bag PB&J a little sweeter. Bonus: no crusts!

Punch out fruit — melon, pineapple, apples — with small cutters to upgrade a margarita or martini. Or stick wooden skewers in the fruit for mini pops.

If the idea of weaving a lattice crust makes your brain hurt, try this instead: Cut out pie dough shapes with cookie cutters, arrange them in an overlapping pattern on top of your pie, brush with milk and a sprinkle of sugar, then bake. Or glam up a single-crust pie (pumpkin, sweet potato, pecan) by arranging dough cutouts along the edge.

Use a cookie cutter to cut rounds from slices of store-bought pound cake, stack the layers with frosting in between, then top with a berry for single-serving desserts that look like they came from a bakery.

Fresh mozzarella cut into shapes will wake up a ho-hum bowl of pasta or tomato-and-basil salad.