One of the only silver linings of COVID is that weddings during this time have become more intimate. You’re forced to pare down your guest list to those that are truly nearest and dearest to you, and I think that makes for a very special day. Plus, with only 10 guests, a huge wedding cake is not needed!😉

My oldest son got married this past weekend and we were indeed an intimate group of 12, including the bride and groom. My son and daughter-in-law planned the entire day and it was perfect. They rented a charming stone coach house in rural Guelph Ontario. They held the wedding outside on the lush grounds surrounding the house. Everything was in bloom and it was an overcast day, which, if you’re a photography person, is ideal. Clouds are nature’s diffuser and make for the dreamiest, softest light.

As a family of mostly introverts, we were secretly (well maybe not so secretly) happy with the small guest list. I was thrilled that my 85 year old mom was able to attend. Of course she cried! It’s a standing joke in our family that it’s not a successful family gathering unless Moppy (that’s what her 14 grandchildren call her) cries. The groom is her very first grandchild and the first of the bunch to get married.

I did not volunteer to bake the wedding cake. I have made one wedding cake in my life and it was a very stressful experience that is best left to the professionals! I did offer to make wedding cake cookies as favours for the guests.

The cookies were my favourite chewy brown sugar cookie recipe. I filled them with blackberry buttercream and a dollop of tart blackberry jam. I used royal icing to stack the sandwich cookies and glue on the sugar flowers.

I packaged them up in these adorable clear little boxes and made labels to match.

They were really yummy, so delicious in fact that my daughter, who is getting married in August, asked if I could make them for her wedding guests. It will be my pleasure!

Sources for supplies

• Sugar Flowers
• Cookie Stamp
• Template for Label
• Clear Boxes