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[Blk&GoldFan]

Please spread the tradition. All the different colors and types of cookies are so lovely on the table. Many of us provide ""take-out"" containers for the wedding guests to load up and take to their tables and home with them. Our reception venues do wonderful displays of mixing the trays with assorted cookies for a great presentation. Some people have the cookies out as guests arrive. Many of us don't put these out till after the cake is served.

[justmeagain]

I freeze the dough and then bake the week of the wedding. My nephew is getting married August 9th and our freezer is full of different doughs. It is a wonderful Pittsburgh tradition. Friends and family all bake for each other. My nephew's venue suggests 1 1/2 - 2 dozen per guest because people expect to take some home at the end of the evening.

[ROMARY]

I wish I had the patience and ambition! Good for you! (I'd probably just buy a huge selection from our local bakery.........lol..........). I'm so glad that this tradition is still alive and well. In our large family, there was only one person who loved to bake 'wedding cookies', and she was quite proud of it, too! So funny seeing her going around the reception tables, serving her cookies, and reminding everyone that she baked them! (So cute!)

[Sakuya]

I have heard of a dessert table but not a cookie table. Fun! A wedding screams black tie cookies, doesn't it?

[chrystaltree]

I love the idea of the Wedding Cookie Table, my friend'd daughter is planning a December wedding and they are going to do one. We are just starting to see them at smaller, less formal weddings here. I don't know about freezing baked cookies, I never did that. For the holidays, we freeze the cookie dough. The cookie table will take the place of favors. They are planning to buy some white bags and decorated them and the wedding guests will fill their bags with cookies.

[ahoymate]

On 7/16/2014 happy housewife said:

Pizzelles - you don't need to freeze them they stay fresh in a air tight container for ages.

I have not heard of anyone making cookies for a wedding in ages and ages - how refreshing that someone is doing this again. I always enjoyed sampling the cookies table at someones wedding. My Mom, grandma and aunts baked their fingers off for my wedding and most everyone went home with a plate of cookies.

Many types of cookies can be made ahead and put into air tight containers and then into the freezer. Leaving them out in only air tight container I would NOT do. I hate the taste of day old cookies. Fresh is what U want. Especially for a wedding.

Get Martha Stewart's Cookie book for great ideas.

[cater]

Southwest Pa. we are known for our cookie tables. Some of our cookie tables take up 5 or 6 tables full of different types of cookies. I bake constantly for weddings and when frozen correctly they will be wonderful on the wedding day. I keep mine frozen and on the morning of the wedding they are put on trays right out of the freezer and they are perfect. If you make some that have to kept in the refrigerator put them on trays and take them out prior to opening the cookie table for guests. Just remember to leave a space for that tray. We are now doing a candy table with tons of different candies and guests are enjoying this also.

[ahoymate]

On 7/21/2014 cater said:

Southwest Pa. we are known for our cookie tables. Some of our cookie tables take up 5 or 6 tables full of different types of cookies. I bake constantly for weddings and when frozen correctly they will be wonderful on the wedding day. I keep mine frozen and on the morning of the wedding they are put on trays right out of the freezer and they are perfect. If you make some that have to kept in the refrigerator put them on trays and take them out prior to opening the cookie table for guests. Just remember to leave a space for that tray. We are now doing a candy table with tons of different candies and guests are enjoying this also.

Absolutely! Take the cookies that have been baked & frozen out of the freezer & serve. They defrost so quickly and yet maintain that freshly bake taste we all love in homemade cookies.

Martha Stewart's Cookie book has lots of recipes, ideas, tips, suggestions. Give it a look.

[cater]

Just was at a wedding for over 450 guests everyone baked for the event. The cookies were beautiful there were maybe over 200 different kinds all neatly baked none were burned all decorated they also had trays of nut rolls, poppy seed roll and apricot and cheese rolls. Lots of compliments were given to the family for the beautiful baking. It was fun to listen to the ones who did all the baking as they told which cookies were the ones they had baked. Cookies are almost a must for our Polish wedding receptions. When I got married over 50 years ago we even had a cookie table then. My Mom did a lot of the baking for it and some of my aunts also helped baking some of their favorite different cookies. I know my one aunt made the cream horns and probably made over a 1000 of them (clothes pin) cookie and everyone raved about them.

[lovesrecess]

On 7/21/2014 chrystaltree said:

I love the idea of the Wedding Cookie Table, my friend'd daughter is planning a December wedding and they are going to do one. We are just starting to see them at smaller, less formal weddings here. I don't know about freezing baked cookies, I never did that. For the holidays, we freeze the cookie dough. The cookie table will take the place of favors. They are planning to buy some white bags and decorated them and the wedding guests will fill their bags with cookies.

How fun this sounds! I think this is a wedding favor that guests won't leave behind/