Party Cookies Recipes

You must be thinking what party cookies are? Party cookies are the cookies served in a small party with tea or coffee. If you are planning to throw the small bridal shower with limited guests, then party cookies are the best option as a bridal shower food in that case. This is simple and elegant menu for the bridal shower party. However, if you have planned to have three course meal for the bridal shower, you can serve party cookies as starters or side dish. Party cookies are generally served with tea or coffee. One needs to determine whether those are served with tea or coffee after considering the choice of would be bride.

One can make cookies at home in that case. You can get recipes in different recipe books or you can find the recipes on different websites through internet. You can make those in different shapes and sizes matching your wedding shower theme. For example, if your wedding shower theme is picnic, you can make party cookies in the shape of picnic baskets.

If the bridal shower party does not have any specific theme, you can make party cookies in regular shape and give it a little twist by drawing flowers, butterflies or messages on it with the help of cream. You can also keep some cookies blank and serve those with cream for guests to write messages for bride.

You can make plane party cookies or make these party cookies in any other flavor like chocolate, vanilla, raspberry, etc. You can even make two or more types of cookies for bridal shower party. However, in that case you might need some helping hands. Whilst making decision about ingredients for the party cookies for bridal shower you need to make sure that you select bride’s favorite ingredients and flavors. It is better to have 2-3 types of party cookies because if in case, any guest is allergic to any flavor or any guest do not like one flavour, can eat other type of cookies.

Cookies are an all time favourite with tea or coffee. They are ideal to be served if you have a tea party in the afternoon. You can schedule the bridal shower in the afternoon and serve various types of cookies along with the other finger food. There are many varieties you can make. Instead of traditional cookies you can serve Mexican cake. These are soft balls more or less like cookies. These go very well for parties and otherwise also as a tea snack.

You can get creative and decorate the cookies in your own style. You can write special messages on these cookies for the bride or draw a design that is relevant to her wedding. You can do this with a cone filled with icing or an icing tube. You can choose the bride’s favorite colors and flavors of icing. You can write something like Best wishes to (bride’s name) or draw a small 3 tiered cake with a couple cake topper on it. This should all be symbolic as you would have limited space to draw or write.

One more nice idea is to keep some plain cookies in a tray and keep an icing tube filled and ready. This would give your guests a chance to write messages for the bride on the cookie.

Recipe for sugar cookie-These are easy to make and also very tasty.

Ingredients :-

4 cups flour
2 egg yolks
2 whole eggs
4 tea spoons Vanilla extract
2 tea spoons Almond extract
1.5 cups butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups sugar

Method :-

Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl till it blends well. Add the two eggs and the egg yolks and again blend the mixture.
Add the vanilla and almond extracts and mix well
Take the flour in a separate bowl. Add the baking powder and salt to this and mix well.
Add this mixture into the butter mixture. Blend it well to make a dough.
Wrap this dough and refrigerate for an hour
Pre heat the oven at 350 degrees and take out the dough from the refrigerator. Cut it into the shapes you want and bake these for about 8 minutes.
Your cookies are ready

You can prepare the icing by mixing the following ingredients :-

1 cup castor sugar
1 drop lemon juice
1 tablespoon milk
1 table spoon light corn syrup

However if you are not confident about making party cookies for bridal shower, you can order those from a bakery. However, before ordering the cookies from bakery taste their cookies and if you like those then order those for the shower. You can get readymade cookies in different flavors and shapes. Some bakers also make custom made cookies in a shape and flavor of your choice. We hope this article helped you to serve the best cookies in the bridal shower.