Planning a wedding is both a great joy and a great stress, however, taste testing desserts to serve your guests is definitely a plus.

Although a cake is typically the most typical dessert served at a wedding, many brides and grooms are now starting to offer cookies as a fun and easy alternative.

Wedding cookies can serve as another element of the theme or design within your venue of choice. You can easily create the cookies to match your color scheme or décor so that they will fit seamlessly into the room! Choose some of your best cookie recipes and offer brides and grooms samples of each in order to choose. Make sure you have a variety of types and flavors in order to appeal to all tastes.

Sugar cookies can be easily decorated to match lots of different themes from hearts to wedding dresses. Make sure you have a few recipes on hand for sugar cookies, believe it or not, they are all different.

Bite-sized anything (from chocolate chips, to macaroons, to ladyfingers dipped in chocolate) will be big crowd-pleasers. Guests will also love cookies they can dip into a chocolate fountain which also can serve as a really elegant touch at a wedding reception.

Couples may also want to offer cookies as their wedding favor—cookies can be painted with the date and the bride and groom’s name, and packed in individual boxes or bags.

Traditional wedding cookies and cakes from around the globe usually feature a buttery delicious batter, coated in confectioner’s sugar. When the bride and groom come in for a cake tasting, offer them a few and see if they want to add them to the dessert bar to add some variety!

Contact Empire Bakery if you need to order equipment like cookie depositors before the wedding season goes into full swing.