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How-To Create a Heart Wedding Theme : from Details to Decor
A Heart Wedding Theme is a popular, traditional theme for weddings, one that offers a romantic feel for you and your guests. The Wedding Outlet offers so many beautiful heart inspired accessories and favors that finding details and decor for your wedding is easy and fun. Here are some favorites . . .
These Heart Favor Containers are perfect to fill with your favorite treat and give it to those you love. Containers are made from sturdy plastic and may be personalized for any special occasion.
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These Double Hearts Personalized Napkins blend classic and contemporary style together to help personalize your wedding reception or special event. You can choose from 24 napkin colors and 9 imprint foil colors and these 3-ply napkins are available in beverage or luncheon size.
Find more ways to add Heart Details > > >

This Heart and Arrow Photo Backdrop features a Cupid's heart design with a modern and clean look. Can be used as a photo booth backdrop for photo ops for your guests or simply as a decor piece. May be personalized with two custom lines. Features a water-resistant and scratch-resistant coating and has a smooth satin finish.
Find more ways to add Heart Decor > > >

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Heart Inspired Wedding Favors
With Valentine's Day around the corner, The Wedding Outlet is here today to share some of their favorite heart themed wedding favors.
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These delicious Hearts Chocolate Bar Favors are always popular with guests! Personalize the candy bar label with your names and wedding date or two custom lines, plus choose a label color that matches your event colors. Great for weddings, bridal showers, anniversaries and more.

These Heart Acrylic Boxes will make a wonderful keepsake of your Valentine or heart theme wedding. Fill each box with your favorite treat and give them to your guests as a special "thank you" for being part of your special day. Choose the label color and personalize them with your names and date or three custom lines.

Pink favor boxes, featuring heart-shaped, acetate windows, make beautiful thank-yous when filled with colorful treats. (Ribbon and contents not included)
Homemade Heart-Shaped Oreo Cookies for Wedding Favors : the perfect bite-sized dessert

Casey Barber, author of "Classic Snacks Made from Scratch", takes your favorite brand-name bites and turns them into homemade treats {70 of them to be exact}. Recently, Casey wowed everyone at a wedding with her delightful, heart-shaped twist on the homemade Oreo cookie that's in her book. It was the perfect bite-sized dessert. Today, Casey is sharing her recipe with us for the Heart-Shaped Oreo Cookies {plus, I share more on the book and the included recipes below} . . .

homemade heart shaped oreo cookies

Heart-Shaped Oreos®

Drumroll, please. It’s hard to mess with the perfection of an Oreo, the most popular cookie in America—but that hasn’t stopped high-end chefs and home bakers alike from trying. This cookie takes a step away from softer homemade versions for an authentic cookie crunch and firm, sugary center.

Dunk ’em in milk, twist the layers apart and nibble the cream, or eat in one or maybe two big bites—all the classic eating methods apply. Want a Double Stuf Oreo? Just make twice the amount of filling and load up.

YIELD: 3 dozen filled cookies
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours, including dough chilling time
DIFFICULTY: 3
SPECIAL EQUIPMENT: stand mixer, 1½-inch round cookie or biscuit cutter for classic round shapes, or a heart-shaped cookie cutter for heart cookies.

COOKIES
3 cups (12¾ ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
½ cup (1½ ounces) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon baked soda
1½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped (a scant 1⁄3 cup)
8 tablespoons (4 ounces) chilled unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes
½ cup (3¼ ounces) vegetable shortening
1 cup (7 ounces) granulated sugar
2 large eggs

FILLING
2½ cups (10 ounces) powdered sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 tablespoons whole or reduced-fat milk
1 tablespoon vegetable shortening

MAKE THE COOKIES:
Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baked soda, baking powder, and salt together into a large bowl until no lumps remain.

Melt the chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, or microwave at 15-second intervals, stirring between each burst, until liquefied. Set aside to cool slightly.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, shortening, and sugar on medium speed for 3 to 4 minutes, until light, fluffy, and creamy. Reduce the speed to low and add the eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly before adding the next. Pour in the melted chocolate and mix until just combined.

Add the dry ingredients and mix until a soft dough forms. Shape into 2 discs of roughly equal size and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, until firm.

Preheat the oven to 375˚F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or Silpat liners.

On a floured work surface, roll one of the dough discs to ¼-inch thickness and stamp out cookie rounds, using a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Transfer the hearts to the prepared baking sheet and repeat with the remaining disc of dough.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the cookies are slightly crispy at the edges and puffed but still pliable in the center. Cool completely on a wire rack before filling.

FILL THE COOKIES:
Using the stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the powdered sugar, corn syrup, milk, and shortening on low speed until combined, about 30 seconds. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat for 30 more seconds to whip slightly.

With the flat side of a cooled cookie facing up, spoon 1 teaspoon filling onto the center. Top with a second cookie, flat side down, spreading the filling evenly. Repeat to fill all the cookies.

Store the cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to a week.

classic snacks made from scratch

If you love the Brand-Name Treats like Oatmeal Creme Pies, Entenmann's® Donuts, Hostess® Chocolate Cupcakes, Neopolitan Ice Cream Sandwiches, Creamsicles®, Sour Patch Kids®, and others - you are going to love Classic Snacks Made from Scratch. You can now have the ever-popular faved goodies but without the artificial additives and colors. Just think of the fun dessert displays you can create for bridal showers and even weddings with this cookbook. Each recipe also lets you know what special equipment {if any} is necessary - I just wish there were photos for each one. While, of course, it's not necessary because there are complete instructions with each recipe, I'm just a visual person and love to see what the finished treat should look like. But, I guess that just means each of the goodies will have our twist on them, right? Just like the featured heart oreo's above - as you could make them any cookie cutter shape you desire.

PS: While I did receive a copy of this cookbook, the views expressed in this post are completely by own. I'm looking forward to making my daughter her own goldfish crackers, but gluten free of course. I just need to figure out how to make a gluten free version of cake flour. Anybody know?

Friday Favor of the Day : Frosted Glass Heart Candle Holders

Frosted Glass Heart Candle Holders

Hearts are always a sentimental favorite for weddings which makes these elegant frosted glass tea light holders from The Wedding Outlet a perfect favor for your guests. The frosted style will suit any type of decor and offer the perfect finishing touch to your tables. Guest will find this heart shaped favor useful and enjoy them at home. Each package contains two candle holders.

Friday Favor of the Day : Heart Favor Boxes

Looking for a favor that represents love? These adorable Heart Favor Boxes are perfect for any event inspired by love. Whether it's a bridal shower or wedding reception, fill these heart shaped favors boxes with delicious colorful treats and give to your guests as a thank you. They come in five fabulous colors so matching your theme is easy. Add a personalized favor ribbon for a special personal touch and you'll have a favor that looks amazing and shows how much you love your guests.

Featured Colors: Pink Favor Boxes, White Favor Boxes, Red Favor Boxes
Also available in Brown and Black

Wouldn't it be nice to have an extra $500 to shop for your upcoming wedding? You could probably cross off wedding favors, gifts and accessories right from your wedding to-do list, right? The Wedding Outlet is offering this amazing giveaway right now. All you have to do is visit their facebook page and enter to win. Good Luck! Be sure to share this amazing giveaway after you enter for extra bonus entries.