Many people who stay in the hospital for any length of time get to know the nurses and internal medicine doctors pretty well. When they are released, they want to do something nice for them and baking them cookies is one nice way to show their appreciation for taking care of an individual while they were in the hospital.

A countless number of nurses wear Disney scrubs so Mickey Mouse Cookie Cutters with a couple of different recipes for cookies and perhaps ingredients for making one batch all bundled in a basket would make a perfect gift for a nurse who likes Disney and helped to get you back on the road to recovery.

And don’t forget the ambulance drivers who safely got you to the hospital. If you don’t know their names or where they are located, you could check with the nurses on your floor or the nurses at the emergency room in the hospital you were brought to and they should be able to help you locate them. There are a number of ‘hospital’ style cookie cutters but the most appropriate one for an ambulance driver would certainly be cookies cut from an ambulance cookie cutter. If you have the time and energy, you could use food coloring to ‘paint’ the hospital’s colors on the cookies or simply frost them with icing and use colored sugar in the appropriate places.

Showing your appreciation for the doctors and interns might require a little more thought, but perhaps your doctor recently took a trip to Ireland and likes castles in which cookies made from a castle cookie cutter would be greatly appreciated. There are castle cookie cutters that represent different styles of castles from all over the world, not only Ireland, but this is where the majority of castles are still standing today.

On the Internet are numerous healthy cookie recipes to make the nurses and doctors cookies from and then one could write the recipes on fancy recipe cards to give along with the cookies and perhaps some or all of the ingredients to make the cookies. Sometimes people purchase canning jars and add all the ingredients to the jar and tie a recipe card to it as a presentation of appreciation.