Customizable edible wedding favors and treats are a popular trend for wedding receptions. You can make money on Zazzle by selling cake pops, brownies, cookies, drink mixes, and chocolate boxes. Post these edible items for sale in your store with your unique designs on them. The average wedding has about 100 guests.  Ten dozen cake pops at $39.00 US per dozen means the bride pays $390 US and you, as the designer, receive a $39 US royalty payment (with at a 10% royalty). That is a substantial amount to make from one customer sale. You should consider having these product types in your Zazzle store. In this article, I will show you 3 popular item categories you can sell as custom edible treats for wedding receptions, bridal showers, or any other special occasions such as graduations, wedding anniversaries, and milestone birthdays.

Sell Edible Wedding Favors and Make Money on Zazzle

Zazzle provides you with the opportunity to sell products from well-known brand names such as Veronica’s Treats (brownies,  shortbread cookies, chocolate covered Oreos™), Modern Bite (sugar cookies), Totally Chocolate (chocolate boxes) and McStevens (instant drink mixes). Take advantage of the licensing agreements Zazzle made with these brands and manufacturers. Sell these products with your designs on them through your Zazzle store and earn any royalty you set. I suggest somewhere in the 10% to 15% range.

If your store does not focus on weddings or special occasions, you can always promote other designers’ edible products and earn 15% as a referral income as an affiliate (or Zazzle associate).

There are also other options for the type of occasions and events these products can be used for. I will go into that in more detail later in the article.

How to create your custom edible treats from the blank Zazzle templates

To find the Zazzle templates for these products go to https://www.zazzle.com/custom/chocolates+and+treats

If you want to find it in the future you can start at https://www.zazzle.com/create and then select “Home and Pets” then “Kitchen and Dining” and then “Chocolate and Treats”

Click on one of the items like a brownie or cake pop. Then select “Add Image” or “Add Text” to have the edit menu come up. Add your design and/or custom template fields and then click “DONE”. Then click the “Sell It” option. Complete the product information page that pops up and then “Posts for Sale”.

Follow Copyright Rules and Respect Everyone’s Copyright

The examples that I show you here in this article and all other blog posts on this site (as well as any items on Zazzle) are copyright protected. Even though I am showing you these designs in a teaching article here on my blog, you CAN NOT COPY these designs in any way.

You will be served with a takedown notice and reported to Zazzle for copyright infringement. Zazzle is serious about copyright violations. I have been successful in the past in having infringing products (and stores) deleted from Zazzle and Amazon for infringing on my copyrighted designs.

Thank you for adhering to the copyright laws.

Edible Wedding Favor Product Type #1 – Cake Pops

Personalized cake pops are perfect for a wedding reception as part or all of the wedding cake or the wedding dessert table. Click this link to check out the ways cake pops can be used as wedding favors or as part or all of the wedding cake.

On Zazzle, the cake pops have a flat area where you can add a design, photo, and or text. Then the bride can choose the flavor of the cake and the color of the icing. See the image below for a few of my cake pop design examples from my Zazzle store.

Edible Wedding Favor Product Type #2 – Cookies

Customizable edible print cookies and cookie pops are also popular choices for brides who want unique wedding reception gifts for guests. Brides can personalize the cookies with a photo and the bride and groom’s names. Make sure you have photo template and text template designs to make it easy for customers to add their own photos and text before ordering.

The cookies come in different sizes, shapes, and ingredients. There are small square shortbread cookies, circular sugar cookies, as well as a jumbo shortbread cookie (11.25″w x 8.75″l; Net Weight: 18 oz. or 510g) that comes in a gift box. There are also chocolate-covered Oreos that come with (cookie pop) or without a stick.

The image below shows some examples of different types of cookie options with copyrighted protected designs from my Zazzle store.

Elke Clarke’s Recent Sale from a Cookie Pop

Now that it is wedding season, I am earning money from cake and cookie pop sales. The image below shows one of my latest sales emails.

Edible Wedding Favor Product Type #3 – Chocolates

Chocolate boxes personalized with a personalized engagement photo or a monogram design or a design theme, such as pink roses in a watercolor design, are several designs I have for sale in my Zazzle store.

The box cover is a full bleed print area for your designs and you can choose the type of chocolate and what is imprinted on the chocolate. For wedding designs, I use the “Thank you” option as you can see from 3 of my designs which I show in the image below.

Sell Chocolate boxes for different Special Occasions and Events

When designing a chocolate box for sale, you can use the drop-down menu to see what type of sayings and special occasions are available in terms of the chocolate imprinting. Use those as a guide for what occasions you want to design for and how they fit into your niche.

Here are just a few ideas: Mother’s Day, Get Well, Birthday, Valentine’s Day, Baby, Graduate, Christmas, Congratulations, Thank You, and more. Depending on if you pick the solid one-piece format or the 45-piece option, you will have different “occasions” options.

Be creative and have fun. Look for unique niches and uses to sell chocolate boxes in your Zazzle store.

What You have learned from this article:

1. Custom edible wedding favors are a popular trend
2. Earn you a large dollar royalty payout per customer sale if you design edible favors for events with many people.
3. Sell custom edible ink cookies and cake pops from well-known industry brand names like Veronica’s Treats through your Zazzle store
4. You can add your designs on chocolate boxes to allow customers to personalize them for many different occasions, not just weddings.

Let’s start the conversation.

Have you had any success with selling edible items in your Zazzle store?

What have you learned from your experiences?

I would love to hear from you.

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