Decorate Your Own Cookies--Budget Friendly and Personal Favors

Photo from Galaxy Cookies

Always wanted to learn how to decorate cookies and make them look like the pros? Head on over to Cookin' Canuck for a step by step DIY cookie decorating post.  While the cookies demo'd are for Easter, the basic tenets are the same no matter what occasion the cookies are made to celebrate.  The good thing about wedding cookies is you won't need as many different colors since many wedding cookies are white on white or white with blue or pale pink.  Dara, the author of Cookin' Canuck, gives you tips and techniques to help ensure your cookie making is successful.  Visit her site to see how to make and ice your own wedding cookies.  All budget conscious brides will agree, who wants to pay $3 to $7.00 for a cookie you can create yourself?  Making your own cookies makes your cookie favors both more personal and more budget friendly. 

Decorating Wedding Cupcakes and Cookies the Easy Way

Think making those fancy cupcakes and cookies is too hard? Actually with the help of the company Fancy Flours at their web site http://www.fancyflours.com/ you can easily add those creative touches that are usually the hallmark of elite bakers.  The site offers everything from wafer paper that you apply on top of cookies or cakes to fondant decorations, to stencils and sugar flowers.  Photos here are courtesy of their web site.