Things You'll Need:
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. baking soda
- Whisk
- Mixing bowls
- 2 sticks butter
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- Electric Mixer
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- Rollig pin
- Wedding-cake cookie cutters
- Pizza cutter
- Cookie sheet
- Spatula
- Waxed paper
- Icing
- Favor bags
- Ribbon
- Name tags
- Baskets
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Step 1
Prepare to make cookies just two days before the wedding to ensure that they stay fresh. Gather the necessary materials ahead of time. Purchase wedding-cake cookie cutters at a craft store or online wedding retailers.
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Step 2
Whisk flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl until well blended. In a separate bowl, combine butter and sugar with a mixer until it has a fluffy texture. Add eggs and vanilla to this mixture, and stir until blended.
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Step 3
Combine the flour mixture with the butter and sugar mixture, and combine until blended together. Dough will begin to form from this mixture.
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Step 4
Place dough on a flat, flour-covered surface. Cut the dough in half and roll one-half of the dough out on waxed paper until it is about 1/3-inch thick. Set the other half of the dough in the refrigerator.
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Step 5
Use the rolled-out dough and cut out shapes with wedding-cake cookie cutters. If a cookie cutter is not available, trace the shape of a three-tier cake onto a piece of cardboard and cut it out. Then, with the cardboard as a guide, use a pizza cutter to cut out the shape from the dough. Place cookie-dough cake shapes on a nonstick cookie sheet.
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Step 6
Grab the dough from the refrigerator, and roll it out just like the first dough half. Cut out cookie shapes, and add to the first batch of cookies on a cookie sheet.
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Step 7
Bake cookies in a preheated oven at 350 degrees. Leave cookies in the oven for 12 minutes.
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Step 8
Allow the wedding cake cookies to cool. Remove cookies from the cookie sheet with a spatula, and place them on waxed paper. Apply icing and decorations.
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Step 1
Allow cookies to cool overnight before you assemble the favor bags. Set everything out in the order that you will need to put the favors together.
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Step 2
Place the desired amount of cookies into each bag (either cellophane or favor bags).
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Step 3
Tie each bag shut with a ribbon. Use ribbon that matches your wedding colors.
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Step 4
Personalize the favors by printing tags with your guests' names on them. If printing the tags is not an option, purchase wedding favor tags to hand write each guest's name.
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Step 5
Place the wedding favors on reception tables as centerpieces or as placeholders.
