Home-made shortbread cookies are a welcome alternative to sugared almonds, which half the guests leave sitting on the table. You bake them the day before, set one at each place, and they actually get eaten.
With a personalized cookie cutter, the child's first name is pressed straight into the dough: there is nothing to write in icing afterwards.
Cookies to give the guests
Slipped into a little bag, these cookies make a Communion keepsake that is both personal and inexpensive, prepared by the family rather than bought.
Something to do with the child
Baking the cookies the day before with whoever's Communion it is often becomes part of the memory — and it puts the previous day, usually the tensest one, to good use.
A cookie cutter that gets used again
Unlike a decoration bought for the occasion, a cookie cutter comes back out for every birthday snack in the years that follow.
Made in France, and dishwasher safe.