Edible Wedding Favors
By Guest Bride Blogger Madeleine Hill
Wedding favors express your appreciation to all of the guests that helped make your day special. Give a meaningful favor that represents your interests or wedding theme, and your friends and family will leave happy, with a memory of the celebration. From crafty DIY favors, to edible treats or monogrammed novelties, the resources for finding the perfect gift are endless. And with so many options out there, your favor doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming. After doing our own favor hunting, we came up with a few ideas that really fit our wedding.
Canned goodies:
We decided to give homemade pickles, pesto, jalapeno jelly, and rhubarb preserves as wedding favors for our summer wedding. Trying not to procrastinate, we got the process started and stocked up on fresh cucumbers and bushels of basil last weekend at St. Paul’s downtown farmers' market. When preserving edibles, make sure you properly sterilize the jars, keep your workspace clean, and follow the canning directions to guarantee a proper seal. For step-by-step instruction on preserving read the Ball Blue Book and used fresh dill and cucumbers from the farmers' market. To make seven pints of pickles, the recipe calls for four pounds of cucumbers and a brine made from mixing three cups of white vinegar with three cups of water, 1/3 cup of pickling salt, peppercorns, and dill seed.We also prepared a batch of lemon-basil pesto from a favorite recipe. You can't go wrong with a combination of basil, Parmigiano-Reggiano, pine nuts, olive oil, and lemon juice; it will surely be a crowd pleaser!
Custom Fortune Cookies:
Paul asked me to marry him last spring while we were on an extensive trip in Southeast Asia, so we wanted to incorporate our travels abroad into our wedding somehow. I found a Groupon for a fortune cookie bakery a few months ago that specialized in custom cookie messages and flavors, and thought it was a fun [and tasty!] way to share our engagement with our guests. For 70 cents a cookie, you can choose a flavor (lemon, cappuccino, vanilla, chocolate, etc) and up to five personalized messages or fortunes. One of our messages contained lyrics from the song we chose for our first dance, and the other four, quotes from our favorite authors. Check out Fancy Fortune Cookies for more ideas.
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Paul asked me to marry him last spring while we were on an extensive trip in Southeast Asia, so we wanted to incorporate our travels abroad into our wedding somehow. I found a Groupon for a fortune cookie bakery a few months ago that specialized in
EE and her husband, EE too, have been married 19 years and still are regretting that they missed their own wedding cake, a delicious version that was "a white almond-flavored cake made by a Chattanooga cake maker. We have not been able to find a recipe
In small glasses, layer cake scraps and cream cheese filling, ending with a dollop of filling on top. Drizzle with leftover frosting. Let us know if you decide to try out any of these recipes or if you need any more gory wedding tips.
In regular bakeries there seem to be endless opportunities for cross-contamination; a chocolate chip cookie may have been baked alongside a walnut cookie, or stacked on top of one afterwards, or removed with the same spatula that touched the walnuts.
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Mexican wedding cookies are my all-time favorite. Every year my friend Kereese and her mom make dozens and dozens of these little bite-size balls for Christmas. Her family calls them ‘snowballs’, and I’ve also heard of another alias: Russian tea cookies. To me, they’re Mexican wedding cookies, but I could be biased since I’m half-Mexican from my father’s side. I love these cookies so much that I had to have them for my wedding and Kereese’s mom painstakingly agreed to make 300 of them to be placed into a cookie jar for my wedding cookie table. Before we even took off on our honeymoon the next morning, I managed to stuff my belly full of them. I was in a major cookie comatose on our flight to Barcelona.
A year and a half has passed since then and I hadn’t seen them until Kereese brought over a small tin full of them, AND, our friends Mike and Miwa brought a whole batch over Christmas day. I guess it’s feast or famine with these little bites. I think I ate more of those cookies than I did real food. Seriously. I’m almost ashamed of myself. Almost . Now I have the recipe to make them any time of the year, which could be dangerous. I didn’t want to ruin perfection, so I tried to stick to the recipe completely, (a first for me) except for a minor adjustment to the flour. I cut the flour with whole wheat pastry flour, and honestly did not taste the difference!
The moral of this story is: please make these cookies. Thank you.
1 cup pecan pieces or halves 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups powdered sugar, divided 2 cups all-purpose flour, divided (I used half whole wheat pastry flour, and half regular all-purpose flour) 2 teaspoons vanilla 1/8 teaspoon saltDirections
Place pecans in food processor. Process using on/off pulsing action until pecans are ground, but not pasty. Beat butter and 1/2 cup powdered sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Gradually add 1 cup flour, vanilla, and salt. Beat at low speed until well blended. Stir in remaining 1 cup flour and ground nuts with spoon. Shape dough into a large ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour, or until firm.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Shape tablespoons of dough into 1-inch balls. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until pale golden brown. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Meanwhile, place 1 cup powdered sugar in 13×9 (inches) glass dish. Transfer hot cookies to powdered sugar. Roll cookies in powdered sugar, coating well. Let cookies cool in sugar. Sift remaining 1/2 cup powdered sugar over sugar-coated cookies before serving. Store tightly covered at room temperature or freeze up to 1 month.
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