As if offering guests a delicious cookie wasn’t enough, these three bakers up the ante with flawless custom designs. They make a great wedding favor, certainly, but you might also consider them for a fancy day-of treat while getting ready, an addition to welcome bags for guests, or an addition to a “Will you be in my wedding party?” care package. Whatever you decide, don’t forget to share (a few).
Carrie Lilly Cookie Co.
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While planning a baby shower for her sister, Carrie Lilly kept noticing adorable themed cookies on Pinterest. “I thought, ‘These are amazing. I have to have something like this for this shower,’” she says. Trouble was, none of the local bakers in her hometown were able to do such a thing. So she decided to do it herself.
Down the rabbit hole she went, until she found herself with a full-on business decorating sugar cookies. Her signature flavor, vanilla almond, sells for $45/dozen.
Jaclyn’s Cookies
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A scientist by trade, Jaclyn Shaffer always had in mind that she’d bake full-time and stay home with her children. She started her company while working for a biotech company, but the dream became a reality in 2013 when she moved to Crozet.
Each batch—custom-designed for every client to suit the look and feel of their event—starts at $55/dozen. Shaffer says she finds it hard to pick a favorite set she’s made, but that “most of my favorites involve some sort of floral element.”
One Creative Cookie
onecreativecookie.com
The OG of local cookie-decorating companies, One Creative Cookie specializes in everything from decorated cookies (with its signature vanilla-almond glacé icing) to printed cookies (read: sugar cookies with your engagement photo or custom wedding crest printed on its top).
Owner Kelly Trout estimates that she bakes anywhere from 250 to 750 each month, with the bulk of the baking in April to June and September to December (aka, order in advance!). More than a decade into her business, she says, “I’m baking and decorating more cookies per week than I ever would have thought possible.”
