Wedding Favor Cookies

Wedding favor cookies are easy to make and your guests will enjoy eating them. Let them know that you made them yourself. Have a tag printed with the name of the cookie and be sure it says "homemade by _____________".

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You can either put together your favorite sugar cookie recipe or to save time, buy a roll of cookie dough already made in the dairy section of your supermarket. This is what I did today when I took the photos.

You will need:

baking parchment paper and baking sheets

one roll of sugar cookie dough or a batch of your favorite sugar cookie dough

3 different flavors of fruit preserves or jams

Place a piece of parchment on a cookie sheet.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Pinch off balls of cookie dough, about one inch around. Roll into a nice looking ball and place on cookie sheet parchment. Then roll two more balls and put all three together in a triangle so they are touching. This triangle is one cookie.

Make more cookies and place them at least one inch apart from the other wedding favor cookies on the parchment.

Using the back of a wooden spoon, slightly flatten each triangle.

Using the handle of a wooden spoon, poke a hole into the middle of each flattened ball. Do not go all the way through to the parchment.

Place about 1/8 teaspoon of each fruit preserve in the three holes in the triangle wedding favor cookie. If you use three different colors, it looks really pretty. I used strawberry, apricot, and peach. The peach looks yellow so they came out looking very colorful.

Bake them for about 20 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. Depending on how your oven is set, you may want to check them at 15 minutes so they don't get too dark.

Let them cool on the parchment paper.

Keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week with parchment paper between layers.

So this means you can bake these a week before the wedding and store them. Then a day or two before the wedding, put in the decorative cookie bag and seal so they are fresh for your guests.

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