Weddingbee Blog

Miss Pug here!

As I mentioned, my sister developed an immutable ambition to create the following for our wedding as favors:

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We’re not sure yet whether the wedding cake cookie towers (WCCTs) will work out, but even if they don’t, she is trying a bunch of cookie recipes along the way, as well as testing their freezing power. If the WCCTs don’t work out, at least we will still have a cookie recipe to use for plain ol’, non WCCT favors.

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Hi, y’all! I am 3pugmama, the magnificent, the marvelous, the sister of the mostest Miss Pug! She asked me to write a ‘guest post’ re: the Making Of The Favor Bag Cookies. Since I am, well, DOING ALL OF THE WORK.

To begin.

LovelyPug (as I like to call her when I am feeling affectionate) told me of her vision of lime and lavender shortbread cookies.

Nothing too complicated, she said. Just throw ‘em in a bag, tie a name and table# to them, and set ‘em out on a table, she said. How wonderful! I said. What a lovely complement to your overall wedding color scheme! Not to mention LovelyPug is, some would say unreasonably, obsessed with lavender.

Wait a minute, I said. Where the hell are these cookies coming from?

“You’re going to make them!” PITAS said (Pain-In-The-Ass-Sister, as I like to call her when I am feeling annoyed).

And she commenced with the furious emailing of potential cookie recipes. Out of the contenders, I narrowed it down to shortbread (this, this, and this) and sugar cookies. I decided to find us the best recipe, which could then perhaps be used in the WCCT. I also wanted to test how well the dough froze.

So one fine morning when I was feeling particularly energetic, I catalogued my pantry, and made a quick trip to the local Whole Paycheck for extra ingredients (must. use. fair. trade. must not contribute to grower enslavement).

For Xtreme lime flavor, I used lime zest, juice and extract. For ultimate lavender flavor, I used organic lavender buds (from my garden! Picked and dried by yours truly and the PITAS) whizzed with sugar, as well as homemade lavender extract.

Since this was going to be purely for taste and longevity (the real cookies will be baked at a later date and then frozen for the event), it was a simple matter of rolling the dough into logs for the fridge.

For the real thing, we’ll roll out the dough and use a round cookie cutter. For now, feast your eyes on raw cookie dough logs.

After a couple of days’ chill in the fridge, and on a morning when I was feeling particularly manic (read: being completely ignored by the husband), I sliced those babies up and baked them.

I was optimistically worried I would have a problem narrowing down the options. STOOPID. The first batch, um, MELTED.

The second batch tasted like flour and butter, which would be fine, except that I had wanted them to taste like LIME COOKIES. Luckily, the lavender shortbread and both lime & lavender sugar cookies were a hit. With the husband. And, well, the 3 pugs.

(Ignore the marred one in the middle — I may have gotten a little too eager)

They’re all now safely tucked away in the freezer. Waiting for the moment a month from now, when I will present them to PITAS and get the final verdict – which cookie will reign supreme?!

Which cookie sounds the most delicious to you?