How to Use Cookie Wedding Favors For The Ultimate Reception

Cookie wedding favors is a literally fresh idea to use at your reception. It offers versatility and lots of room for creativity both flavorwise and aesthetically.

It is a well rooted tradition that wedding guests usually small fancy boxes, perhaps with a pastry inside.  These were originally "invented" when sugar was still quite expensive and anything including it was therefore considered to be true delicacies. These days nothing could be further from the truth (what with all the "sugar is your enemy" diets"). Nevertheless, cookies are still a popular choice of gift to give your guests as most people opt for other alternatives today. Cookies and other baked goods make for great wedding favors, as there are so many variations available from very similar basic ingredients. Cookie wedding favors can come in the form of anything from a basic cookie to frosted cookies, or even ones that have fancy looking inscriptions upon them. To summarize: it is truly an idea with a lot of delicious potential.

How to pick Cookie Wedding Favors

As the purpose of any wedding favor is to thank the guests for coming, most brides usually want to pick something they can relate to on a personal level. Cookies as favors is a great choice in this regard, as there are so many various types available that can also be adapted an built upon. One idea could be to have the cookies double as place cards, writing the name of each guest on them. Or why not make and edible centerpice or combine them with flowers in some artistic way?

Any local bakery should be able to easily cater to your need for custom made cookies. Most often, these are available in the shape of sugar cookies and are also frosted as such. Naturally, you can choose from many traditional wedding themes, contain poetry in some shape or form and even be quite intricate or lavish.  In fact, technology of today ha made it possible for photos to be transferred onto the cookies. This "ink" that is literally good enough to eat is produced by ink jet printers on layers of frosting.  In order to do this, specialized printers that are only used for this purpose are necessary. Thus, don't try this at home!

Another option to consider is to purchase cookies in bulk and then place them in cute little boxes for guests to take home with them. If you choose to go this particular route, good cookie alternatives to purchase are either Danish shortbread, fortune cookies or perhaps some Mexican wedding cookies.

In this article we have only scratched the icing of the recipy of possibilities for having cookies as wedding favors. Even if nice cookies will always be, well...nice, adding your own creative ideas into the mix will make them into wedding favors to remember (although they have literally been consumed).