Girls Just Gotta Have Fun

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GIRLS JUST GOTTA HAVE FUN – PLAN A PRETTY & PINK

BACHELORETTE PARTY

WOODRIDGE, Ill. – (January 2008) – Treat your best girlfriend to a night of fun before she says “I do.” Just “think pink” while planning the party to celebrate her last night on the town as a single gal.

Get the party started with a hot-pink cocktail – add a dash of cranberry juice to champagne and float a fresh raspberry in each glass. Serve an assortment of cocktail nibbles and Hot Lips Cookies. Just use a lip-shaped cookie cutter to make cutout cookies and jazz up these sexy sugar cookies with icing and sparkling pink sugar.

Deck the wedding belle out in a sash announcing her bride-to-be status and a faux gemstone silver tiara, complete with veil. Give the rest of the girls buttons to identify their role in the wedding festivities. If it’s going to be a night on the town, throw a few hot-pink wigs, boas and feathers into the mix and you’re sure to turn heads.

Make sure the bride has her own keepsake of her grand night out by supplying guests with disposable cameras or taking photos that can be downloaded to a CD. Print up CD cover cases at http://www.wiltonprint.com to commemorate the evening.

For more fun and fabulous bridal ideas, visit www.wilton.com.

SIDE BAR

Play a game to kickstart the fun

It’s a Date! Give each guest a name tag inscribed with a date important to the bride and groom: their first date, birthdays, or first kiss. As guests mingle, they can ask three questions in order to identify the importance of the date. There’s bound to be stories attached to each date – encourage everyone to share.

Who knows more? Divide guests into two teams, the marrieds versus the singles, and take turns using wedding trivia coasters to test everyone’s matrimonial knowledge.

Be sure to plan prizes for the winners!

Hot Lips Cookies

Makes about 3 dozen 3-inch cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1-1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 egg

1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

White Ready-to-Use Decorator Icing

Pink colored sugar

Preheat oven to 400ºF. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Do not chill dough.

Divide dough into two balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick. Cut out cookies; dip lips cookie cutter in flour before each use.

Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 6 to 7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool completely on wire rack before decorating.

To decorate:

Decorate cooled cookies as desired using icing and colored sugar.

Time-saving Tips: Substitute 2 tubes (16 oz. ea.) refrigerated sugar cookie dough for homemade cookie dough.

Cutline: Think Pink! when celebrating the bride-to-be’s last night outas a single gal!

Recipe and Photo Courtesy of Wilton Enterprises.

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Wilton Enterprises, Headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois, has been a leader in cake decorating since 1929. Today, the company is also the market leader in cake, candy, cookie, wedding, bakeware and home celebration products. From the hottest licensed characters to specially shaped holiday products, Wilton offers cake pans, cookie cutters, baking cups and traditional pastry decorating tools. For the latest information on Wilton products and ideas for all occasions, visit Wilton online at www.wilton.com. To locate the closest Wilton Method Cake Decorating classes, call 1-800-942-8881.

Wilton items:

Bachelorette Party Buttons

Wedding Trivia Coasters

CD Favor Tins

Lips Cutter

White Ready to Decorate Icing

Pink Colored Sugar