First Communion cookies make a sweet party favor or treat for your guests to take home after the reception. From simple and sweet to stunningly detailed, your perfect sugar cookie design is here!
When my daughters each celebrated their First Communion, we hosted a special family party at our home after the ceremony.
Since we moved away from my hometown, our party was limited to just godparents and grandparents, but I still remember the giant parties the kids in my Catholic school class each had when we were growing up.
If you're planning to host a special event for your child's First Communion, you're probably already thinking of the special dessert you'll serve or maybe the party favors you'll send home with guests.
In either case, a custom tray of First Communion sugar cookies checks both those boxes! What sweeter way to celebrate the rite of passage than with cookies that match your little one's favorite color or details from their outfit of the day?
These sugar cookie designs feature all the symbolism of First Communion:
- First Communion white dresses
- Elegant crosses decorated with floral details
- Golden chalices and grape vines
- Rosaries and Bibles
- And so much more
Mix and match your favorite designs to bake your own cookie platter. You can even freeze them ahead of time so you can enjoy the process far in advance of the event.
Or, you can use this to help inspire that custom cookie order from a local baker near you.
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First Communion Cookies Decorating Ideas
This stunning collection of cookies by Lakeside Cookie Company features a pretty pastel pink and botanic green color palette. I adore the mix of simple round flower cookies with larger, more detailed 3D roses, and the matching floral design on the crosses.
The sweet gingham hearts add a lovely texture to the cookie tray.
You don't need a lot of color for a breathtaking cookie tray as this simple set of fluffy white lambs and elegant floral crosses show. I love that the pale yellow roses are featured at the center of each cross as well as on each of the lambs' ears. What a sweet way to tie it all together.
The First Communicant girls tend to get more attention because of their sweet dresses but it is darling to see these handsome young boy cookies.
They feature a simple blue necktie that matches a pale blue chalice with host. Add your little man's name to the cookies for a personal touch.
I love the muted color palette of this elegant cookie set featuring pale green olive branches, light blue crosses, and matte gold chalice with hosts.
Many of these designs could be done on almost any cookie cutter shape.
The delicate details of this gorgeous white dress cookie would take just a little more time and patience, but at least you only need one color of icing!
The piped frilly edge of the dress is all the decoration this cookie needs!
Another lovely design that works for both boys and girls and would be easy to do for even beginner cookie decorators.
I love the scalloped edge of these square cookies. The simple rosary decoration is all the cookie really needs, but the personalized name is a fantastic finishing touch.
Looking for a simple shape to mix into a more complicated cookie tray? Check out those adorable little Bible cookies. You could customize the color of the text on the front of the cookie, or leave off the writing and simply place a larger gold cross on the book.
Another gorgeous example of matching details across cookie designs, this cookie tray by Bake Waltham has the sweetest little spring flowers accessorizing the white communion dresses, the center of the cross, and the top of the scalloped rosary cookies.
If brighter colors are more your style, purple is definitely the shade of the day! How fun are those textured bunches of grapes?!
The purple color is then tied in on the striking bold cross cookies and the backdrop of the chalice cookies. To keep things light and festive, the gold doves on white are a brilliant addition.
This two-color cookie palette is right after my own heart. Mix an almost all-white cookie tray with just the tiniest touch of an accent color and then use that accent color in a bold, beautiful flower cookie.
See how the giant roses match the delicate flower on the waistline of the dress and the center of the cross? So very lovely.
This cookie dress design is probably the easiest I found and would require the least amount of piping work to do.
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