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Edible Favors - possibly cookies
We definitely want to do edible favors for our January wedding. We are considering cookies but do you tihnk people will be sick of cookies after the holidays?
I originally wanted to do the square iced cookies with LOVE on them - but at $4-$5 a piece that's just too much to spend for 150+ guests. I'm concerned with having the time/energy to bake them all as well. For those of you that also did cookies, did you bake them yoursleves? Order them from a bakery?
Also, if anyone has any other recommendations for edible favors, let me know - I'm trying to stay away from M&Ms or mints....
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Re: Edible Favors - possibly cookies
One of the best edible favors I ever received was a single fudge-dipped Oreo in a cute favor box that came from a local candy shop. This is something I would never buy for myself, but of course, it's soooo delicious!
A box filled with 2-3 truffles or chocolates from a local shop is great too!
If you want to do cookies, I don't think people will be sick of them after the holidays. You can make cookies ahead of time, freeze the dough, and do baking closer to the wedding. A simple refrigerator cookie dough or sugar cookie recipe should be fine. If you are making 150 cookies, that's 12 1/2 dozen, and I've done more than that in one day. The frosting can be done up to a week ahead, and you can place them in some sort of baggie or box that doesn't sit directly on the top of the cookie.
You could also do fudge, the chocolate dipped Oreos mentioned above are easy, you could still write "Love" on those with frosting.
Something I've done when I've hosted holiday parties is buy small metal cookie cutters, put them on a piece of waxed paper, fill them with melted chocolate, put sprinkles on them, put them in bags, and they are an edible gift, plus a cookie cutter for later. For January you could do snowflakes or bells (wedding related). Small metal cookie cutters are as cheap as 4 for $1, the chocolate may be pricey, but I just used Nestle's semi sweet chocolate morsels.
Check out Martha Stewart's wedding website for ideas. Google "edible homemade goodies" for ideas. Right now all the holiday magazines are in the grocery stores, a lot of them have edible goodies for gifts.
[QUOTE]We definitely want to do edible favors for our January wedding. We are considering cookies but do you tihnk people will be sick of cookies after the holidays? I originally wanted to do the square iced cookies with LOVE on them - but at $4-$5 a piece that's just too much to spend for 150+ guests. I'm concerned with having the time/energy to bake them all as well. For those of you that also did cookies, did you bake them yoursleves? Order them from a bakery? Also, if anyone has any other recommendations for edible favors, let me know - I'm trying to stay away from M&Ms or mints....
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