Cookies are a very popular choice for wedding favors, possibly due to the fact that they are easily customized to suit any wedding, can be produced in large quantities fairly cheaply and edible wedding favors are always a hit with the guests!
Purchasing custom made cookie favors which are iced to your requirements could cost you as much as $8 each, but cookies are so easy to make at home and icing them is really not all that hard!
Here are some ideas for cookie shapes for seasonal weddings which you could use for your favors:
Spring:
- Flowers
- Butterflies
- Birds
- Eggs
- Rabbits
- Chicks
- Blossom branches
Summer:
- Flowers
- Butterflies
- Bees
- Sunglasses
- Flip-flops
- Swimsuits
- Hats
- Hawaiian shirts
- Surf boards
- Cocktails
- Ice creams
- Deck chairs
- Summer fruits such as strawberries, peaches
- Parasols
Fall
- Leaves
- Pumpkins
- Halloween icons such as spiders, bats, black cats, jack-o-lanterns
Winter
- Snowflakes
- Snowmen
- Christmas trees
- Gingerbread men
- Candy canes
- Santa
- Presents
Mostly favor cookies will be plain vanilla flavored cookies, but you could make flavored cookies according to the season of your wedding or to whatever flavor takes your fancy! For instance, chocolate, orange, lemon, cherry biscuits, ginger, cinnamon or treacle are just a few flavors you could experiment with. Winter cookies would be lovely made from gingerbread or flavored with a hint of cinnamon, which would make them smell festive and invoke seasonal cheer in your guests! Whilst chocolate cookies are favorite all year round!
Try baking some at home and adding in different flavors to find which works best. You can then use these to practice your icing skills on, that is if you haven’t eaten them first!
When it comes to icing you can use roll out fondant icing to great effect and only need to use your cookie cutter to cut the fondant to the same shape as your cookies. You can then use pipe icing to highlight any details or to add words, such as your names, your guest’s names (if you use them as place cards as well) or simply ‘thank you’. Cake making supply shops have a range of templates available which can make this very easy.
To wrap your cookies I would use simple plain cellophane bags tied with ribbon at the top. These bags allow your handiwork to be shown off to best effect, whilst protecting the goods inside, they are also very cheap! Be careful not to make your cookies too early either as they may be stale by the time the wedding comes around. Many cake making suppliers sell cookie mixes which can have a long shelf life when baked, but you may want to test them first to see if you like the end result!
And, if you didn’t want to ice cookies then making simple round cookies will do just as nicely! Why not make batches with a range of flavors that accompany the season of your wedding. You could make mini cookies and give your guests a selection of flavors inside a goodie bag. Or alternatively you could create sandwich cookies with a delicious buttercream flavoring inside.
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