coming soon New Year and Christmas, so you need to prepare and draw up a menu in advance. In this article, you will learn several recipes for delicious cookies from different test, shapes, decorations and glazes to decorate them.
Recipe content:
New Year is a favorite holiday for many, and cookies these days are a favorite food. On New Year's Eve, you should definitely do, bake and paint New Year's Eve. magic cookie in the form of snowflakes, stars, Christmas trees and angels. In addition, a child can be involved in this creativity.
Cook these cookies self made It is not difficult at all, any dough can be used. The main thing here is to skillfully and beautifully decorate cookies: apply a painting with a smooth, shiny and glossy glaze, which will be a real work of art. Coloring cookies is very interesting and exciting. In addition, glaze is not only elegant and beautiful, but also very useful. Thanks to it, products retain freshness longer. And preparing such a decoration is very easy, simple and not expensive. For the simplest glaze, you only need sugar and water. Although there are many decoration recipes.
In order for baking to be always spectacular, beautiful and fragrant, you need to follow certain rules for preparing glaze.
- The frosting should not be too thick or too runny. Its normal consistency is similar to sour cream. Then it will be well applied to the cookies, quickly grab and will not spread. But if it comes out too thin, then add a little powdered sugar, too thick - hot water.
- When preparing the glaze, often water is replaced with lemon juice, or a few drops of it are added for flavor. It will give a great taste and smell. For strongly sweet pastries It is better to use more lemon juice, this will create a contrasting taste.
- A rich taste, a soft and dense texture, the glaze will turn out on proteins and yolks. The white icing is used to draw patterns, while the yolks give a yellowish tint. For safety, it is advisable to dry such a glaze in the oven. Products are placed in a heated oven up to 100°C. This process will not only bake the glaze, but also protect against salmonella, because. it dies at 70°C.
- Food coloring is often added to the glaze. Cookies with them are bright, festive and cheerful in appearance. Store-bought food coloring is used, but it is better to add natural coloring products. For example, raspberry jam (red color), turmeric and a piece of butter (orange color), crushed mint (green color). Brown color will give chocolate or cocoa powder. But for this it is better to use porous chocolate, and the usual tiled.
- Liquid glaze is applied with a brush in several layers. For drawing, a confectionery syringe or a regular disposable medical syringe is used.
- Plain: Mix 200 g of powdered sugar with 4 tbsp. l. hot water and put on a small fire. Cook for 5-7 minutes until smooth. Drizzle hot glaze over cookies.
- From egg yolks: Whisk 5 yolks with 3-4 tbsp. orange juice to a firm foam. Gradually enter 1.5 tbsp. powdered sugar and stir until smooth. Cover the products with glaze, dry in the oven at t 100 ° C.
- With rum: 1 st. sift powdered sugar. Add 1 tbsp. water and 3 tbsp. Roma. Thoroughly rub and cover the dessert.
- Chocolate: Break 100 g of chocolate, add 3 tbsp. hot water and heat until chocolate melts. Put 1 tbsp. softened butter and 100 g of powdered sugar. Stir and decorate pastries.
A simple recipe for New Year's cookies is a lot of happiness, good mood, a little magic and faith in miracles. Then everything will work out! An important point in the preparation of cookies is strict adherence to the recipe. Miscellaneous dough requires a specific approach. Therefore, do not change the technology of preparation and the number of ingredients.
In the preparation of cookie dough, the process of working with butter is important. If it is mixed with sugar by melting on the stove, the product will be oily. Hard and tough cookies will come from chilled butter. Delicate cookies will be if the oil is thawed in advance. To speed up this process, the butter can be cut into small slices.
It is advisable to knead the dough away from the stove. Often the dough should be pre-chilled in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. To prevent the dough from heating up, divide it into parts - while you work with one of them. When you take the dough out of the refrigerator, knead it a little with your hands, and then start rolling it out.
Making homemade cookies with your own hands is very easy to prepare. By connecting all family members to the cooking process, you can arrange a small exciting holiday.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 368 kcal.
- The number of servings - 10 pcs.
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- softened butter- 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g for dough, 110 g for glaze
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - 275 g
- Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
- Protein - 1 pc. in glaze
- Food coloring
Step by step preparation:
- Whisk butter with sugar. Add egg, vanilla extract and flour. Knead the dough.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm and, using cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Place them carefully on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool the products for 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then keep on a wire rack until completely cooled.
- For the frosting, beat the egg white until stiff peaks form.
- Add some of the powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth. Pour in the remaining powder and mix. Add dye and stir.
- Decorate the finished pastries with icing and serve immediately for tea drinking.
New Year's gingerbread cookies in the form of fairy-tale characters will give a festive mood and perfectly decorate the New Year's table. And for applying creative painting, attract children and arrange real mysterious magic.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Soda - 1.5 tsp
- Ground ginger - 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Liquid honey - 3 tsp
- Butter room temperature- 100 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- In one bowl, mix baking soda and flour.
- In another bowl, rub butter with sugar. Add egg and honey. Mix thoroughly and put the mass into a bowl with flour.
- Knead the dough until it turns brown. The dough should stop sticking to your hands.
- Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of 7 mm and quickly cut out the figures.
- Put them on a greased baking sheet and put them in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. When the cookies turn brown, they are ready. The bread will be soft at first, but then it will cool and become crispy.
Many people think about what to put under the Christmas tree for family members and friends long before the winter holiday, because it is so difficult to please everyone. There is no more valuable surprise for relatives and friends than the one made with our own hands, because we put our soul and love into it, and New Year's cookies as a gift are the best idea.
Almost everyone loves delicious pastries, and even with an original and even artistic design, such a dessert will melt the hearts of all the recipients and everyone will like it.
And even if sweet cooking looks like something incomprehensible to you, and all these jewelry glaze paintings seem to be the level of great artists, then this article is for you. Today we will prove that it is not difficult to cook delicious, original and simply gorgeous cookies at home! Moreover, these will be the most unusual and beautiful baking options with a step-by-step recipe and photos.
As for decoration, it is not only quite affordable for everyone, but also a very entertaining and interesting creative process. Believe me, there is an artist in each of us!
Delicious Whoopie Pie Christmas Cookies
These American cookies are very similar to the popular traditional French macaroon dessert and even to our Soviet bouchet cake.
Be that as it may, these cookies are very beautiful and have a lot of design options. In addition, it is also incredibly tasty due to the super chocolate biscuit and incomparable cheese cream. Plus, it's pretty easy to make.
Ingredients
- Butter - 175 g;
- High-grade flour - 240-260 g;
- Fine sugar - 140 g;
- Fresh egg CO - 1 pc.;
- Milk - 125 g;
- Baking soda - 1 tsp;
- Powdered cinnamon - ½ tsp;
- Ground ginger - ½ tsp;
- Cardamom - ½ tsp;
- Muscat ground - ½ tsp;
- Tea brew - ¼ tbsp.;
- Curd cheese - 340 g;
- Cream natural 33% and above - 120 g;
- Powdered sugar - 80 g.
- First we need to beat soft butter (115 g) with granulated sugar with a mixer for one minute.
- Then stir in one egg and milk.
- Next, we prepare a dry mixture of flour, spices and soda in a separate bowl, and then sift it directly into the butter-egg mass and mix everything with a mixer until a homogeneous consistency.
- At the end, pour very hot strong tea leaves into the dough and immediately beat again with a mixer.
- The finished dough is fluid, but thick, like a biscuit. We need to transfer it into a pastry bag with a simple nozzle or into a bag with a cut corner, and then squeeze out cakes 1 cm thick on a baking sheet lined with parchment at some distance from each other so that they do not stick together during the baking process.
- At a temperature of 160 ° bake cookies for 10 minutes. You need to straighten the baking sheet only in a heated oven!
- Cooking cream. Whip the cream into a stiff, firm mass. In a separate bowl, beat the cheese with powdered sugar and butter, and then add the cream and mix everything again.
- We fill a pastry bag with cream and apply cream on the entire flat surface of the cookie, and then cover with a second such cookie. So we fill all whoopie pie and paint with glaze at our discretion.
It is better to store such cookies until donation in the refrigerator so that the cream grabs.
If you want to make vanilla whoopie pie, then replace the spices with vanilla sugar (2-3 tsp), and hot tea with boiling water. For chocolate whoopie pie, you need to take cocoa instead of spices (3 tsp), and replace tea with hot coffee in the same volume.
Unusual Christmas cookies as a gift
For this cookie, classic crumbly shortbread dough, as for kurabye. These baked goods are amazingly delicious. The cookies literally melt in your mouth. Plus, they cook pretty quickly. 
Ingredients
- Extra flour - 290 g;
- Peasant oil - 0.2 kg;
- Egg white - 2 pcs.;
- Powdered sugar - 0.1 kg;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 packet.
How to bake Christmas cookies as a gift
- Beat soft butter together with powder and vanilla with a mixer to combine the ingredients.
- Next, we introduce egg whites into the mass and bring the composition to homogeneity.
- Pour the sifted flour in portions into the mixture and knead with a spoon, controlling the density of the dough. The ideal result is a very soft, thick, non-sticky plastic mass.
- Next, we fill the pastry bag with dough and squeeze the rounds onto a greased baking sheet through a simple nozzle or a cut corner.
- In an oven preheated to 200 °, bake cookies for 10 minutes.
Ready and cooled livers can be decorated according to your taste, using our tips:
Christmas cookies "Candy Kane" as a gift
Ingredients
- Dark chocolate - 120 g + -
- - 113 g + -
- - 2 pcs. + -
- - 200 g + -
- - 125 g + -
- - 3 g + -
- Baking soda - 3 g + -
- Cocoa powder - 60 g + -
- Large chocolate chips- 170 g + -
- Red and white caramel cane— 1-2 pcs. + -
For this recipe, artistic skills are not required, because these cookies look great and very appetizing in their original form, without painting, but decorated with traditional Christmas candy.
This is real homemade baking, cozy, funny and very tasty. The recipe with photos is given step by step.
We combine chocolate (120 g) with butter and melt them in a water bath, after which we cool the resulting mixture, stirring.
In a dry bowl, mix flour with baking soda and salt.
Drive 2 eggs into a separate deep bowl, pour a glass of sugar and beat everything intensively with a mixer for 3-5 minutes. Then add vanilla and pour the cooled chocolate mass in a thin stream.
As soon as the mass takes on a uniform color, we begin to pour portionwise flour mixture into the dough, but now we will mix the dough with a spatula. And then add cocoa and mix everything again.
When the dough acquires a uniform texture and color, pour large chocolate chips into it and mix again so that the pieces of the tile are evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the dough.
Using a round spoon, spread the dough on parchment with balls at some distance from each other.
Christmas cookies handmade as a gift is the best sign of attention and the most delicious and pleasant surprise for all those who are dear to you!
cook delicious cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to recipes with photos as easy as shelling pears!
On the eve of the New Year, it's time to think about what you will treat the guests who have come to the light. Mandatory component holiday table- sweets. For example, you can make themed New Year's cookies. Subsequently, it is served on the table, used as Christmas decorations or decor elements for photo shoots.
Of course, many stores sell ready-made cookies, but we suggest baking them yourself. How to cook fragrant cookies for the New Year with your own hands?
The New Year's name of the cookie is justified, because it has the shape of a spruce.
Ingredients:
- citrus - 1 pc.;
- butter - 150 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- vanillin;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- baking powder - 2 tsp;
- flour - 500 g.
Note. Butter can be substituted for margarine if desired. Of the citrus fruits for cookies, an orange is best.
Cooking:
- Remove the zest from the orange. Squeeze out the juice from the fruit.
- Rub sugar with vanilla.
- Whisk the eggs into the sugar.
- Add juice and zest. Stir.
- Pour in the flour.
- Knead the dough carefully. Roll it out.
- cut out thin dough Christmas trees using special culinary forms.
- Prepare a baking sheet: grease it with oil or cover it with special paper.
- Place the cookies at a distance from each other (at least 5 centimeters).
- Bake for up to 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Dip each cookie into the prepared frosting.
- Let the dessert dry before serving.
Cookies can be used to decorate spruce. To do this, it is necessary to make a small hole in each product in advance, where a thread or ribbon will subsequently be inserted. To make a hole in the New Year's cookies, use a wooden stick.
How to cook New Year's cane cookies?
Cookies in the form of canes look original on the New Year's table. Such sweets are especially common in American Christmas comedies. In Russia, so far, canes are not so wildly popular. Time to fix it!
Cooking such cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with a photo is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.
Ingredients:
- flour - 160 g;
- dyes;
- butter - 110 g;
- yolk;
- salt;
- powdered sugar - 50 g.
Cooking:
- Whip the butter in a bowl.
- Add powdered sugar and beat again.
- Crack an egg into a glass. Separate the yolk from the protein.
- Add the yolk to the rest of the ingredients. Whisk.
- Divide the dough into three pieces. Add green dye to one part, pink to the other, and yellow to the third.
- Divide the flour into 3 parts. Add to each part of the test.
- Knead into tight balls. Wrap them in cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
- Divide three balls into small parts. Roll each into a sausage.
- Twist two sausages and bend at the end. Do the same with the remaining test.
- Place the canes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes at medium temperature.
When baking New Year's cookies, pay attention to the light part of the canes. It shouldn't burn. Control the baking temperature yourself.
Optionally, you can use any other colors in the decoration. Gel dyes are best suited for the test.
Delicate gingerbread cookies
A particularly popular type of cookie, which housewives prepare with their own hands for the New Year, has been ginger for several years now (see photo above).
There are many recipes on how to bake this delicious beauty! Someone prefers round and dense cookies. Others prefer thin and crispy ones.
By the way, these cookies can also be hung on the Christmas tree as edible toys. Before baking, it is enough to make a small hole in each cookie so that it is convenient to hook it on a spruce branch.
Ingredients:
- brown sugar - 110 g;
- flour - 200 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- egg;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- cinnamon;
- ginger.
Cooking:
Gingerbread cookies - cut out the shape
- Heat honey in a water bath. Use the ingredient in an amount of 3 tsp.
- Beat butter and sugar. Whisk the butter separately first without adding other ingredients.
- Add sugar. Keep whisking.
- Mix dry ingredients (baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, flour).
- Whisk 1 egg into the butter and sugar. Add salt and honey to it.
- Beat with a mixer at medium speed.
- Add dry ingredients. Whisk again.
- Knead the dough with your hands until smooth.
- Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
- Divide the dough into thin layers.
- Gently roll it out with a rolling pin.
- Using special molds, cut out various shapes from it.
- Bake at medium temperature for 15-20 minutes.
Decorate with icing if desired. It is not necessary to cook it yourself, use ready-made products.
If there are children at home, invite them to decorate beautiful fragrant cookies for the New Year, prepared according to our recipe. They will definitely enjoy this pastime.
Recipe for gingerbread cookies from Yulia Vysotskaya
Let's take a look at the recipe gingerbread cookies for the New Year (see photo) from the culinary specialist Yulia Vysotskaya. What the master prepares is very easy to bake with your own hands. The ingredients used are well known to all housewives.
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 cups;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- sugar - a glass;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- butter - 100 g;
- cloves - 6 pcs.;
- egg;
- ginger root - 2 pcs.
Cooking:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Peel the ginger and grate.
- Grind the cloves in a mortar.
- Mix flour with baking powder and spices.
- Whisk butter and egg. Add egg and flour with spices to them.
- Knead the dough carefully. Roll out the resulting mass. Sprinkle the table with flour first to prevent the dough from sticking.
- Cut out any shapes from it. To do this, use the forms.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil. Sprinkle some flour on it.
- Lay out the cookies. Bake no more than 25 minutes.
Remember to keep an eye on the pastry so it doesn't burn. After the cookies have cooled, they can be painted with icing. Chocolate can be used as an alternative. Such cookies can be presented as edible.
How to make cookies in the form of numbers?
Number cookies 2018
On the New Year's table it will be interesting to look at cookies made in the form of numbers. From the delicacy, you can add the number 2018. Naturally, it is necessary to bake not only these numbers, but also others. Ready cookies are served on the table or decorated with spruce.
Ingredients:
- butter - 125 g;
- cocoa - 1 tbsp. l.;
- powdered sugar - 125 g;
- milk - 3 tbsp. l.;
- flour - 225 g;
- honey - 1 tbsp. l.
Cooking:
- Turn the powdered sugar and butter into a voluminous fluffy mass. Add flour and beat.
- Heat the honey in a water bath if it is frozen. Add it to the dough.
- Pour milk into the dough (2 tablespoons). Mix everything again until smooth.
- Knead the dough, after sprinkling the table with flour. If the mass sticks to the hands, they must be greased with butter.
- Divide the dough in half and wrap one half in cling film.
- Knead the second half again and add cocoa powder, as well as milk (1 tbsp. L.). If everything is done correctly, the dough will acquire a uniform structure.
- Also wrap the second part of the workpiece with cling film.
- Put the blanks in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Roll out the dough, after sprinkling the surface with flour.
- Cut out numbers from it using special molds.
- Do the same with the second part of the test.
- Bake dessert at medium temperature for up to 20 minutes. The finished cookies should be golden brown.
It remains to paint the numbers with icing or chocolate. Add the number 2018 from the cookies.
Such pastries can serve as a decoration New Year's table 2018!
Bunny Cookies
Cookies bunnies
Unusual, and most importantly very tasty, are cookies in the form of hares, baked with your own hands. On New Year's Eve, they should definitely be prepared for the festive table.
Ingredients:
- flour - 3 cups;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- dry yeast - 1 sachet;
- salt - tsp;
- egg;
- sour cream - 1 cup;
- water - ¼ cup;
- butter - 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking:
Cut out the shape
- Mix sour cream and butter.
- Add water and put on a slow fire.
- Blend ingredients until smooth. It is important that the mass does not boil.
- Sift the flour. Add an egg to the dough.
- Add all remaining ingredients to the sour cream mixture. Knead the dough.
- Wrap it up and put it in a warm place. If it has risen by 2 times, then you can continue to cook cookies.
- Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
- Put small balls of dough on it.
- Using scissors, make ears for each ball.
- Eyes are easy to make with a toothpick.
- Bake hares at 190 degrees for 15 minutes.
Ready-made hares do not need to be decorated with something. They will look very good on the New Year's table.
The secret to making Swedish New Year's cookies
Why not treat your loved ones on holiday with an interesting Swedish dessert. The cookies turn out incredibly fragrant and tender. The perfect dessert to start the morning of January 1 with a mug of cocoa and something sweet.
Ingredients:
- flour - 200 g;
- soda - 2/3 tsp;
- brown sugar - 60 g;
- cloves - ½ tsp;
- soy sauce- 3/2 tbsp. l.;
- ginger - ½ tsp;
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- cinnamon - ½ tsp;
- water - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter - 60 g.
Cooking:
- Mix honey, water and sugar and transfer to a saucepan. If the honey has frozen, there is no need to first melt it in a water bath.
- Put the ingredients on fire.
- Soy sauce, oil and spices should also be added there.
- Do not remove the dessert blank from the heat until the ingredients have turned into a homogeneous mass.
- When the mixture cools down a bit, add baking soda. If the mass starts to foam, it's okay. That's the way it should be.
- Transfer the dough to a bowl and add flour. You should get a dense elastic mass.
- Wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Take out the dough and roll it out.
- Using special molds, cut out various figures. It is allowed to use both different forms, and one.
- Bake cookies for 5-10 minutes at 180 degrees.
To paint it or not, remains the choice of the hostess. Usually dessert is eaten as it turned out during baking.
How to make icing sugar for cookies?
Having figured out how to cook cookies with your own hands (see photo) for the New Year, we offer you to find out the recipe icing sugar for him.
Ingredients:
- squirrels - 3 pcs.;
- powdered sugar - 700 g.
Cooking:
- Whisk the egg whites into stiff foam.
- Sift the powdered sugar.
- Add it to the proteins in parts, not forgetting to beat with a mixer. You should get a dense white mass.
The cookies decorated with chocolate look beautiful. In order to decorate such a decor, you do not need to specially prepare some special cream. It is enough to melt the chocolate, gently cover the cookies with it and wait until they dry.
If the finished cookies for the New Year, made with your own hands according to recipes with a photo, were intended as a gift, take care of beautiful design. In the New Year 2018, everyone will be pleased to receive such a delicacy!
Hi guys!
Do you want to make Christmas cookies with your own hands as a gift for your loved ones? So you've come to the right place.
December is already gaining momentum, and many began to think about what to give for the New Year to their relatives and friends. I am one of those for whom a gift, handmade- there is the most valuable and sincere expression of feelings. Therefore, I very often practice hand-made gifts myself. And the only possible option homemade gift for me and my not-quite-to-the-place sewn-on handles is edible gift.
I usually make cupcakes or cookies for gifts. But for the New Year, it’s still better to give a box of cookies, because something cookies that we will learn how to make today will be suitable not only for a “side dish” for tea, but also to decorate the Christmas tree.
Can you imagine how nice it will be to receive pre-holiday boxes or bags with sweet gifts to your work colleagues or teacher in kindergarten, or a lonely neighbor grandmother ... In general, the list of happy recipients of gifts can be listed indefinitely.
But I'd better list mine favorite and proven recipes for New Year's cookies. There are only 5 of them.
Well, so that our delicious gift also smells like the New Year, we will fill it with the aromas of vanilla, ginger, cloves and cinnamon. And our gift, prepared from the bottom of our hearts and with best wishes, will certainly be appreciated.
Yes, and I’ll tell you a secret: I decorate with such painted New Year’s cookies New Year's cakes. It turns out very cool.
And the last moment: for painting cookies, I almost always use the same glaze: 1 egg white rubbed with a spatula with 200 gr. powdered sugar and a few drops of lemon juice.
1. New Year's ginger and honey gingerbread
At the first place new recipe. I tried it for the first time this year. And she was very satisfied. Gingerbread cookies are tender, soft, slightly layered... Actually, they resemble gingerbread. At the same time, they are moderately spicy and not cloying. I definitely like these cookies, although I am not a fan of spices in desserts.
By the way, very cool gift boxes for such cookies can be choose here .
For gingerbread we need:
- sugar - 160 gr.
- flour -350 gr.
- butter, cold - 110 gr.
- salt - 1 pinch
- honey - 50 gr
- ground cinnamon - 2 tsp
- nutmeg - 1 pinch
- ginger - 2 tsp
- cloves - 1 pinch
- soda - ½ tsp
- egg - 1 pc.
This is in case you thought about preparing your gifts at the last moment. If you prefer thin and crunchy cookies, then this simple recipe is for you.
And yet, in this recipe, I like that only egg yolk is used in the dough, and accordingly we will use the protein for the glaze. Here is such a coincidence))
For the gingerbread cookies we need:
- butter - 125 gr.
- brown sugar - 125 gr.
- white sugar - 35 gr.
- egg yolk - 1 pc.
- milk - 1 tbsp.
- flour - 250 gr.
- salt - 1 pinch
- ground ginger - ¼ tsp
- ground cinnamon - ¼ tsp
- ground cloves - 1 pinch
- ground nutmeg - 1 pinch (optional)
And this recipe is for those who do not recognize ginger and other spicy spices. As a rule, these are men. Therefore, for them, loved ones, you can prepare this soft, crumbly biscuits with almond flour and light fragrance vanilla. Only it will not work to decorate a Christmas tree with such cookies - they are painfully tender.
For almond cookies we need:
- flour - 300 gr.
- ground almonds - 120 gr.
- sugar - 120 gr.
- butter, softened - 180 gr.
- egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- vanilla pod - 1 pc. or vanilla essence - 1 tsp or vanillin - 1 pinch
And this, on the contrary, is the most spicy, the most fragrant, the most rich cookie from the entire list. We add as many as 5 spices to it: cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cardamom.
For New Year's gingerbread cookies we need:
- flour - 250 gr.
- butter, cold - 100 gr.
- brown sugar - 250 gr.
- soda - 1 gr. (≈ ½ tsp)
- ground cinnamon - 4 gr. (≈ 2 tsp)
- mix of spices (ground ginger, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg) - 5 gr.
- milk - 30-40 ml
And for the laziest - the fastest and easiest curly cookies, which can also be prepared as a gift. In addition, this is a win-win option for the most hopeless conservatives who do not recognize any newfangled trends and will only be happy with a good-looking shortbread cookie.
For a quick shortbread cookie, we need:
- flour - 175 gr.
- butter - 100 gr.
- powdered sugar - 25 gr.
- egg yolk - 1 pc.
- zest of ½ lemon
- cold water - 1-2 tbsp.
Happy New Year everyone! And a lot of delicious gifts!
Good luck, love and patience.
realhousemoms.comIngredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 240 g flour;
- 40 g cocoa;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 2 tablespoons of milk.
For glaze:
- 90 g butter;
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- confectionery topping - optional.
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla with a mixer. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda and salt and beat until smooth. Pour in the milk and mix well again.
Roll out the dough and cut out circles or figures of the desired shape. Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 13 minutes.
While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting. To do this, put the butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the butter is melted. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar and mix thoroughly.
Pour over cookies chocolate icing and decorate with candy sprinkles if desired. You need to do this right away, because the glaze hardens quickly. If the glaze has thickened, simply heat it over the fire for 15-20 seconds, stirring constantly.
thecreativebite.com Ingredients
- 180 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- 140 ml sour cream.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Put flour, baking powder, soda, salt, nutmeg and sour cream and knead the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight or at least a couple of hours.
Roll out the dough and cut out shapes. Put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should brown slightly. Let it cool before applying frosting. You will find three glaze recipes at the end of the article.
homecookingmemories.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 60 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 teaspoon mint extract - optional
- 1 egg;
- 300 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon red food coloring
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar, powdered sugar, vanillin, mint extract and egg in a mixer. If you can't find mint extract, replace it with a pinch of cinnamon. The cookies will have a different, but no less pleasant winter taste and aroma. Then add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
Divide the dough into two equal parts. Add food coloring to one of them to make a bright red dough. Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Then pinch off some of the dough from both pieces. Using your hands, roll them into thin sausages about 12 cm long. Roll them into a pigtail and form a “candy cane”. Do the same for the rest of the test.
Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. Finished cookies can be decorated with powdered sugar.
spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 130 g of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon baking powder;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon + more for garnish
- 360 g flour;
- ½ cup chopped walnuts+ a little more for decoration;
- ½ cup white chocolate chips + more for garnish
- 1 large apple;
- ¼ cup caramel sauce.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, soda and cinnamon. Stir until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough.
Add chopped nuts and chocolate chips to the dough. You can make it yourself: just chop finely White chocolate. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut it into small cubes. Add the apple to the batter and stir.
Shape the dough into small balls and place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Slightly flatten the balls with your hand, make a small indentation in the middle of each and fill it with caramel. Sprinkle with nuts chocolate chips and cinnamon. Flatten the cookies with a spatula to make them flat.
Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 minutes until the cookies are browned. Cool it completely before serving. By the way, the next day these cookies will be even tastier than immediately after cooking.
recipes-plus.com Ingredients
- 220 g butter;
- 5 tablespoons of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 240 g flour;
- 240 g chopped walnuts;
- 200 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until creamy. Then add vanilla and salt. Gradually add flour, constantly beating the dough. Add nuts and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough in two, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 45 minutes.
With your hands, form small balls of about 2.5 cm in diameter from the chilled dough. Place them on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 12-14 minutes, until the cookies begin to brown. Don't bake too long or the balls will break apart.
Roll the still warm cookies in powdered sugar. Let it cool and roll in the powder again.
bettycrocker.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 300 g flour;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 250 g sugar;
- 120 g butter;
- 100 g ricotta;
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
For glaze:
- 280 g of powdered sugar;
- 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice.
Cooking
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the sugar, softened butter, ricotta and lemon zest with a mixer. Continuing to beat, add the eggs one at a time. Add flour mixture and vanilla and mix until smooth. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Shape the cooled dough into balls about 2.5 cm in diameter. Place the balls on parchment-lined baking sheets, slightly flattening them at the bottom. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 9-11 minutes until lightly browned.
While the cookies are cooling, mix in the icing sugar and lemon juice. If the frosting is too thick, add a little more lemon juice. Drizzle ½ teaspoon of frosting over each cookie. If desired, you can decorate cookies with confectionery sprinkles.
dinneratthezoo.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 30 large marshmallows (can be replaced with soft marshmallows);
- 1 ½ teaspoons green food coloring
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 350 g corn flakes;
- a little vegetable oil;
- red dragees - for decoration.
Cooking
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely dissolved. If you are using marshmallows, cut them into small pieces and pour a little water into the pan.
Remove the pan from the heat, add the food coloring, vanillin and cornflakes. Mix everything thoroughly. Spread a tablespoon of this mixture on parchment, greased vegetable oil. While the mixture has not cooled down, use your hands to form New Year's wreaths from it and decorate the dragee. Leave cookies to cool on parchment at room temperature.
And this video clearly shows the process of making these "wreaths":
bhg.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 270 g flour;
- 1 tablespoon cocoa;
- 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
For filling:
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 30 g butter;
- 2 teaspoons of ground coffee;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- some milk.
Cooking
Make the dough first. Mix butter, sugar, baking powder and salt with a mixer. Add the egg and vanillin and achieve a homogeneous consistency. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. Divide the dough into two parts, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
On a floured surface, roll out the dough into thin sheets. Cut out figures from the dough, put them on baking sheets covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 8-10 minutes.
Mix ingredients for filling, adding milk as needed. You should be able to thick cream. Spread a teaspoon of coffee filling on one cookie and cover with a second one. Combine cocoa and icing sugar and sprinkle over sandwiches.
wellplated.com Ingredients
- 200 g of sugar;
- 240 g butter;
- 80 g cream cheese;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 egg;
- 270 g flour.
Cooking
Mix sugar, softened butter, cream cheese, salt, vanillin and egg yolk until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight.
Turn the chilled dough out onto a floured board and roll into a thin sheet. Do not roll too thin, otherwise the cookies will turn out hard. If there is too much dough, just put the excess in the refrigerator until the next time.
Cut out shapes from the dough and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 7-10 minutes until lightly browned. Let the cookies cool before decorating.
cookingclassy.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 100 g of honey;
- 1 large egg;
- 2 tablespoons of water;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon;
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add honey, egg and water and stir. In another bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients and gradually add them to the dough, stirring constantly. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer on a floured surface. Cut out figures of men from the dough and put them on baking sheets greased with vegetable oil or covered with parchment. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are golden brown.
Now that you've baked delicious fragrant cookies, it's time to make them a real decoration of the holiday table. Thanks to a variety of molds, delicious glaze, food coloring and a culinary syringe, you can create real works of art. Here are some ideas for inspiration:
1. Classic glaze
thekitchn.com Ingredients
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 4 tablespoons of milk;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until smooth. The icing should not spread, but at the same time, you should be comfortable decorating the cookies.
If the frosting is too thick, add a little more milk. Keep in mind that it will increase in volume even more. Then, if desired, you can add food coloring.
This glaze dries for several hours. But if you want to decorate cookies with some kind of confectionery topping, then it is better to do this immediately after applying the icing. So the jewelry will grab better.
There are many original designs for New Year's cookies:
2. Protein glaze
kingarthurflour.com Ingredients
- 2 egg whites;
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- 330 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Whisk the egg whites and lemon juice with a mixer. Add the sifted icing sugar and beat until smooth. If the frosting is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar, and if it's too thick, add a little water.
Here are some ideas on how to decorate cookies with egg white frosting:
3. Butter glaze
taste.com.au Ingredients
- 75 g melted butter;
- 500 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 5 tablespoons of milk.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until creamy. If the frosting is too runny, add some milk.
See how easy it is to decorate cookies with buttercream icing:
You can decorate with such beautiful cookies Christmas tree. To do this, you need to make holes in the cookies before baking, and then insert thin ribbons there. And it can also be an unusual gift.
