How to Make "Will You Be My Bridesmaid?" Cookies

Ingredients: 

Sugar cookie recipe and ingredients or refrigerated cookie dough 

Frosting or royal icing 

Food writers (optional) 

Useful things, such as stencils, rubber stamps and food coloring gel, or piping bag 

Small candies (optional)

Sure, you could just call up one of your girlfriends and ask her to be one of your bridesmaids. But that's a little feeble, isn't it? I guess you could actually meet her for lunch or something and then ask her. But if you really want to surprise her, and gift her, and ask her to be your bridesmaid, make cookies. Great for each bridesmaid, as well as the maid of honor, the pretty cookies can be made to suit your style.

Sugar cookies make wonderful bridesmaid cookies but you could also use a different type of cookie. Just make sure that it has no protruding goodies, such as nuts or chunks of chocolate. They will get in the way of you decorating the cookies to ask your important question. Mix up your favorite recipe or just use refrigerated cookie dough.

The shape of the cookies is up to you. Choose to make circles, squares, or even hearts. Bake, according to the recipe or package instructions, and allow to cool completely. After that, there are various ways to make the bridesmaid cookies, so choose the one that you like.

One way to turn ordinary cookies into pretty bridesmaid cookies is to frost them with royal icing. It dries smoothly and has an elegant look. Plus, you can write directly on the cookies with a food marker. If the royal icing seems like too much trouble, frost the cookies with ordinary frosting, and spread it to be very smooth. Freeze the cookies until the icing has hardened and then you can write on them.

Sugar sheets are available in colors, animal prints, and many other patterns, making them a fabulous choice for decorating the bridesmaid cookies. Simply cut a shape from the sugar sheet to match the size and the shape of the cookie. Follow the package instructions to apply the sugar sheet pieces to the cookies.

Write "Will you be my bridesmaid?", "Stand with me at my wedding?", or your own phrase. Further decorate the cookies with candies, by stamping them with food coloring gel and rubber stamps, by drawing on them with a stencil and a marker, or just by piping flowers or other embellishments onto them.

Package the cookies in a box and deliver them - or have them delivered - to each bridesmaid, as well as the maid of honor. The cookies will ask that important question while giving your friends delicious gifts.