Cookies & Milk Party

Fun ideas for a cookies and milk party or dessert table. These are great for bridal showers, baby showers, and birthday celebrations.

outside table set up with cookies display.

Think cookies and milk parties are just for kids? You won’t after seeing these stylish ideas!

Streamline your next dessert table with a focus on milk and cookies for gown ups. Serve several different flavors of each so your guests can pick and choose to their liking.

We have some beautiful inspiration from Love and Lavender and Jonda Spurbeck Photography!

cookies displayed in various bowls and dishes on dessert table.

Bake your own cookie recipes and mix in a few store-bought classics like Oreos and Nutter Butters.

Display them in a variety of bowls and dishes. Have some spilling out the side of baskets so they look bountiful and ready for the taking.

two images side by side with one showing a menu on wood board and the other with flowers displayed in vintage flour sifter.

Decorate the table with a fun menu, and put small flower arrangements in vintage flour sifters for a cute themed display.

rolled up napkin tied with twine with heart shaped cookie cutter attached.

Dress up your napkins with twine and tie on a cookie cutter. Guests can take them home as a party favor.

mini milk bottles filled with cookie making ingredients, topped with fabric lid covers.

Send guests home with a layered cookie mix that’s displayed inside mini milk bottles. Tie on a fabric topper to each lid to make it even cuter.

rustic table with decorated chocolate cake on cake stand.

Take a cue from Anne Powers of A Party Style and include a cake that goes with the theme. This is a perfect addition for a milk and cookies birthday party.

Mini cakes are decorated to look like cookies and placed on the top, while fondant milk bottles adorn the side.

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milk and cookies party table set up outside.
lots of cookies displayed in large and small jars on brown table.

Display a variety of cookies in large glass canisters. Add a label to each one so guests know what they’re getting.

milk bottles displayed in large galvanized tub filled with ice, on table outside.

Use flip-top bottles to serve milk in, as well as a large jug or growler. Serve a variety of milk including skim, whole, soy or almond milk, chocolate and strawberry milk.

This next trick is sheer genius! Stock up on plain white plates and stamp them for each event to give them a personalized look. Use a new, un-inked stamp pad (making sure it has never had ink on it), soak it with gel food coloring (use a knife to spread it all over the pad). Then use a rubber stamp which coordinates with your theme (again, one that has never touched ink) and stamp it into the gel pad and onto the plate as usual. The key is to go straight down and back up so as not to smudge the image. If it does smudge it is easy to wipe off and start again. These are food safe and you will never have to buy a themed paper plate again!

double photo collage with baby in high chair and milk bottle on ice.

Repurpose Frappucino bottles to use as party favors. They make the perfect little milk bottles so fill them with milk and tie on a bag of cookies and a straw. Put them on ice near the exit so guests can grab one to take home.

Cookie Recipes

Here are some of my favorite cookie recipes to help get you started on your milk and cookies party or dessert table.

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8 Comments

  1. Such a classic color scheme– I love the brown and white polka dots– and who can resist cookies!!

    P.S. — Finally got my own personal blog up, though just an intro post! Check it out if you get a chance 🙂 — Jess (formally of The Finer Things)

  2. Very adorable theme — and the colors are so perfect! Also, love the use of the old style milk bottles too!

  3. OMG! For some reason today I was craving cookies instead of BBQ. Then I opened your blog..thanks for the cookies eyecandy! Cute!

  4. SUPER cute! I now have a craving for chocolate chip cookies… Thanks for sharing!

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