Clothespin Cookies "Lady Locks, Fingers, Cream Horns"

Part of the Wedding Cookie Collection

These clothespin cookies are filled with a sweet butter cream filling, covered in powdered sugar, and melt in your mouth. They freeze excellent. In fact, at home we eat them right out of the freezer!

Everyone has a slightly different version and name of this cookie, but we're confident all will enjoy! We call them Clothespin cookies. We'd love to hear what you call them, and your family tradition with any of these Eastern European treats! Please share your story with us by shooting us an Email Here, Sharing With Everyone Here or at the bottom of this page as a Product Review (we don't care if you haven't tried our products yet, we just love learning more about the history).

Quality Ingredients
Our products are homemade from scratch in small batches, just like our Grandparents did! We use ingredients you can pronounce - eggs, flour, sugar, and of course... butter! What you would consider real food. No artificial ingredients, fillers, additives, or preservatives. Great baked goods start with the best ingredients, and there is no substitute for the flavor of real butter!

And let's talk more about Butter...
As you would expect from the name, we use real butter. No blends that call themselves butter. Blends contain cheap vegetable oils such as margarine and shortening, which are almost always "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated". They are otherwise known as the very harmful "trans fats" you hear about, and they have no business being in any baked good! You've probably heard all the bad about margerine and shortening, but we bet you didn't know that real butter contains vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids that may help protect against heart disease and cancer.

Storage
If you'd like to save some for a later date, freeze them. They freeze excellent. In fact, at home we eat them right out of the freezer! Since no chemical additives or preservatives are in our cookies, freezing is the best natural preservative. They will keep for up to six months in the freezer.

The Wedding Cookie Table
    Is it Youngstown, Ohio or Pittsburgh, PA where the cookie table at wedding receptions originated? We don't think anyone knows for sure. What we do know is they usually only appear in Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about, imagine a wedding where there is an entire table (or more) of just cookies! It is not unheard of for there to be over 20 cookies per person attending. Questions from the reception hall staff include "Where will the cookie table go?" right with "Where will they cut the cake?".
   Credit for "The Cookie Table" is said to go to Italian and Eastern European immigrants who settled in this region. Another theory is that it started during the depression, when flashy wedding cakes were not as common. To reduce the burden and cost for just one family - mothers, grandmas,  aunts, and relatives go to work in the kitchen, baking and freezing cookies until the big day. So, why so many cookies? The tradition is not to try and eat 20+ cookies at the reception (although it sounds like a good time), but to send everyone home with a box of cookies. You bring cookies, eat them, and take some home... that is the tradition.
   Cookie tables in our region don't stop at weddings. They have made their way to graduations as well. And we can't remember a Christmas or Easter without all of these cookies. Any reason to gather with family and friends, and these cookies appear.
   Many have grown up in this region and moved away, and this tradition is hard to fulfill. Or for those who prefer Grandma not have to make 100 dozen cookies, that's where Butter Maid Bakery can help! We ship our wedding cookies anywhere in the United States.

Origin
Our Wedding Cookies have many Eastern European names and spellings. There's a good chance you were looking for one of them, and the keywords below may have made that possible. We don't care what you call them, we just hope you found what you were looking for. If you didn't, please Contact Us! We may have it. Also try our Search bar at the top of the page.
Styles - traditional / home style /homestyle / homemade / home made / old fashioned fashion world / ethnic / overnight
Occasions - holiday / easter / thanksgiving / christmas / xmas / new years / wedding
Origins - hungarian / slovak / slavic / slovenian / croatian / serbian / polish / czech / swiss / german / austrian / eastern or central european / italian / americanized / american / ukrainian
Names & Misspellings - clothespins clothes pin pins ladyfingers lady finger fingers ladylocks lady lock locks mini cream horns.
If we are missing any names / spellings please let us know! There are many variations, and we would love to learn more about yours!