Heart-Shaped Wedding Favors

People used to just get married, decorating around the chapel and reception room with flowers and bows, but nowadays its much more exciting. A bride now creates a theme for the wedding and sets about producing a look that will match that theme. The cake, decorations and even the party favors are then made or bought to go along with the chosen theme. One popular theme for any wedding - beach, chapel or otherwise - is a heart theme. Its not at all hard to find or make heart-shaped decorations and accents for the wedding and reception.Your guests will have many delicious foods to sample at the wedding reception, and going along with the heart theme, a delicious favor as well. Make heart-shaped pop-tarts and youll create party favors which are as beautiful as they are scrumptious. Even if your wedding doesnt necessarily have a heart theme the pop-tarts will fit right in.Use frozen pie crust or dough to make the heart desserts for the wedding. Start by allowing it to thaw then rolling the dough out just a bit. Dont make it too thin; just roll it out so that youll have a bit large dough piece with which to work. Alternatively, you can make your own dough.Use a large, heart-shaped cookie cutter to make hearts or just use a paring knife to cut out heart shapes. Youll need two heart shapes for each pop-tart you make. Set one shape from each pair onto a baking sheet.Spread a teaspoon of the chosen food on top of each heart shape thats on the baking sheet. This can be jam, preserves, peanut butter, chocolate or another choice. Spread the food nearly to the edges of the heart shape but not all the way to the edges.Use a small paintbrush, dip the brush in milk, then apply it around the edges of each heart. Lay the second heart on top of the first one, and do this to all of the pop-tarts. Use a fork to press down on the edges to crimp them shut. If you want, sprinkle on red baking sugar. If not, you can later make the pop-tarts whatever color you want. Bake the hearts until they just start to brown.After cooling the wedding desserts, and if you didnt use colored sugar, frost them with icing. Youll give them a much more elegant appearance; frost them in colors of white, pink and/or red.Freeze the cookies for a few hours so the frosting will harden. Place each cookie in a clear cellophane bag and tie it shut with a colorful twist-tie or a piece of curled ribbon. They favors are scrumptious, beautiful and fit right in with nearly any wedding theme.See heart pop-tarts here.