Favorite activity on the eve of the New Year - numerous chores at home and in the kitchen. Christmas cookies you can cook by yourself. Cooked cookies can be hung on a Christmas tree as a decoration, stacked, tied with a silk ribbon and given to loved ones. It's not just food, it's an eternal symbol of the New Year! The most beautiful and expensive biscuits bought in the store cannot be compared in taste and aroma with homemade ones, which are made with love.
A New Year's cookie recipe doesn't have to be complicated and can be made from ingredients you have on hand. Below are interesting, and at the same time simple recipes.
Cookies "Flickering Christmas Trees"
A simple baking recipe that requires the following ingredients:
- 220 gr. Sahara;
- 220 gr. butter;
- 600 gr. flour;
- 2 pinches of table salt;
- 2 eggs
- a few drops of vanilla essence.
Cooking:
- Beat softened butter and mix with sugar.
- Add vanilla essence and egg.
- Sift flour with salt and add to the dough.
- Knead the dough until soft, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the chilled dough into a layer no more than 3-5 mm thick and cut out the Christmas trees. If you want to decorate a Christmas tree with cookies, make small holes in it.
- Place the cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
- Decorate the finished and cooled cookies with multi-colored icing and sugar confectionery balls. Pass the ribbons through the holes.
beautiful and delicious cookies Ready for the New Year!
Fortune Cookies for the New Year
What is the New Year without cherished desires and best wishes! A crunchy and sweet fortune cookie recipe is indispensable. So, the recipe for New Year's fortune cookies is simple and interesting.
Required Ingredients:
- paper strips with printed predictions;
- 4 proteins;
- 1 glass of flour;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 6 art. l. vegetable oils;
- 2 sachets of vanillin per 10 gr;
- ½ tsp salt;
- ½ tsp starch;
- 8 art. l. water.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. butter;
- 500 gr. flour;
- 200 gr. powdered sugar;
- 2 eggs;
Spices:
- 4 teaspoons of ginger;
- 1 teaspoon of cloves;
- 2 tsp cinnamon;
- 1 teaspoon of cardamom;
- 1 teaspoon of allspice;
- 2 tsp cocoa;
- 2 tbsp. a spoonful of honey;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- salt.
Cooking:
- Mix cardamom, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, allspice and baking soda in a separate bowl. All spices must be ground.
- Add a pinch of salt and stir again.
- Sift flour and cocoa, add spices, mix. Cocoa gives the cookies a dark tint. If you want light-colored pastries, do not add cocoa.
- Pound powdered sugar and butter with a mixer, add honey and egg, beat with a mixer. Warm honey a little.
- Add spices to the resulting mass and mix with a mixer or by hand.
- You have a soft and slightly sticky dough. Wrap it in cling film and leave it in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Roll out a layer of parchment 1-2 mm thick and cut out the figures using molds. When placing cookies on a baking sheet, keep a small distance so that they do not stick together during baking.
- Bake cookies at 180 degrees for 5-6 minutes.
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 Christmas. New Year to their relatives and friends. I am one of those for whom a gift, handmade- eat 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 also, in this recipe, I like that only egg yolk is used in the dough, and accordingly we will use the protein for the icing. 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.
Remember how we decorated the New Year tree in childhood, how solemnly our parents took out a box with New Year's toys, with what trembling and bated breath we, fearing to drop and break, unwrapped fragile glass balls and figurines neatly wrapped in paper? What just didn’t happen on our Christmas trees - sparkling toys, and colorful garlands, and sweets in gold wrappers ...
Today, it is extremely difficult to surprise our children with New Year's toys with the current abundance, but still possible. For example, take and bake wonderful New Year's cookies. It can be a wonderful gift, and a delicious treat, and decoration. holiday table And Christmas tree. After all, there is probably no greater pleasure than decorating the Christmas tree with cookies of your own making. And although the assortment of cookies on sale is large and varied, no factory-made pastry can resist originality and taste. homemade cookies handmade and decorated. And what an aroma is in the air, mixing with the smell of green needles, and creates an atmosphere of comfort, warmth, magic and celebration in the house!
For the manufacture of festive New Year's cookies, all kinds of molds are used in the form of Christmas trees, stars, little men, houses, cones, snowflakes, animals, etc. Such molds can be easily found at retail. If you want to do something unusual, but the necessary mold is not at hand, in this case you can cut out a template from cardboard, and use it to cut out whatever you want from the dough. Ready-made New Year's cookies are decorated with sugar or chocolate icing, confectionery powders, beads and even ready-made sugar figurines - in our supermarkets there is plenty of all this.
How to cook white icing you, of course, know, but just in case, it would not be superfluous to recall the recipe: combine 200 g of powdered sugar with the juice of one lemon and protein raw egg. Beat the mass with a mixer until the volume increases by 2-3 times. If you decide to decorate cookies with multi-colored icing, stock up on the necessary food coloring or use natural ones: replace lemon juice with various vegetable juices to get the desired color. So, by adding beetroot juice to the glaze, you can get shades from pale pink to lilac. Carrot juice will give an orange color, sage broth - yellow, spinach or broccoli juice - green, red cabbage juice - blue or blue. For a brown glaze, add 1-2 tbsp. cocoa, and a red tint will give the juice of fresh strawberries. Before applying the icing to the cookies, lightly dampen the surface with water, and after applying the next layer of color coating, place the baking sheet with the cookies for several minutes in hot oven so that the frosting dries faster.
Do not forget to make holes in the cookies so that this yummy can be hung on the Christmas tree. To do this, take the thinnest medical syringe and carefully cut off the part to which the needle is attached. Raise the plunger and cut holes in the raw cookie, then simply squeeze the dough out of the syringe and use it to roll out the next batch of cookies.
Choose any of the New Year's cookie recipes that we offer, stock up on beautiful baking molds, and then it all depends on your mood and your imagination. And be sure to call the kids - they love to conjure with their mother in the kitchen!
Christmas cookies "Flickering Trees"
Ingredients:
300 g flour
1 egg
110 g butter,
110 g sugar
a few drops of vanilla essence
a pinch of salt.
Cooking:
Beat butter in a bowl until soft, add sugar and beat. Gradually add egg and vanilla. Sift the flour and salt, then add to the dough and stir until combined soft dough. Wrap it in cling film and let it cool for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floured table into a layer 3-5 mm thick, cut out the Christmas trees, make holes, transfer to a greased baking sheet, put in an oven preheated to 190 ° C and bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool, decorate with white icing, balls and thread a ribbon through the hole.
Ginger Christmas cookies "Merry Snowmen"
Ingredients:
450-500 g flour,
3 eggs,
150 g sugar
200 g butter,
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp ground ginger.
Cooking:
Thoroughly mix butter with sugar and vanilla sugar, add ground ginger and eggs, mix again and add flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and roll it into a thin layer (3-4 mm). Cut out snowmen with a cookie cutter. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and put cookies on it, put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Cookies cover with glaze and let it harden. Make eyes for snowmen from beads, draw a mouth with melted chocolate.
Christmas cookies "Crystal Dreams"
Ingredients:
For test:
300 g wheat flour,
200 g rye flour
2 eggs,
200 g butter,
250 g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground dry ginger
1 tsp cinnamon,
¼ tsp ground nutmeg,
¼ tsp ground cloves,
¼ tsp ground cardamom,
¼ tsp ground coriander.
For glaze:
200 g powdered sugar,
50 ml orange juice.
For decoration:
50 g dark chocolate,
2 tbsp sugar snowflakes (decorative topping),
1 tsp sugar beads.
Cooking:
Beat the softened butter, eggs, sugar and spices cut into cubes with a mixer until smooth. Then add the sifted rye and wheat flour with baking powder, knead the dough and divide it into three parts. Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Then take out each part in turn, roll it between two layers of parchment to a thickness of 5 mm and cut out different figures with the help of molds. Put the finished figures on a baking sheet lined with parchment, bake for 12 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. Mix powdered sugar with orange juice. Transfer the finished icing to a tight bag, cut off a corner of it, apply icing on the cookies and let it harden and apply a pattern with melted chocolate on the icing, also placing it in a bag and cutting off the corner. Decorate cookies with beads. Some of the cookies can be completely covered with chocolate and decorated with sugar snowflakes.
Ingredients:
4 stack flour,
1 egg
250 g butter,
1 stack Sahara,
100 ml of water
2 tbsp honey,
1 tbsp soda,
1 tbsp ginger powder,
1 tsp ground cloves,
1 tsp cinnamon,
1 tsp vanillin.
For glaze:
food colorings red and green colors,
3 egg whites
1 tbsp lemon juice.
Cooking:
Mix flour, soda and spices in one bowl, and in another - melted butter, egg, water, sugar, vanillin. Gradually mix the contents of the first bowl into the contents of the second. Divide the finished dough into 3 parts, roll into layers 4 cm thick and refrigerate for 3 hours. Then roll out layers 1 cm thick and cut out the figures. Place cookies on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour and place in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10 minutes. For glaze, mix egg whites, powdered sugar, lemon juice, food coloring and stir until smooth. Cover the finished cookies with multi-colored icing and apply a pattern to it using a pastry syringe.
Ingredients:
300 g flour
1 egg
120 g butter,
4 tbsp granulated sugar,
4 tbsp sour cream
100 g nuts
1 can of boiled condensed milk.
Cooking:
Rub the egg with sugar, add melted chilled butter, sour cream and flour. Knead the dough, divide into 3 parts and freeze. Taking out the frozen dough, grate it on a coarse grater and put the crumbs in a thin layer on a baking sheet covered with paper. Bake in several batches for 10-12 minutes at 180°C until golden brown. Mix baked crumbs with chopped nuts and boiled condensed milk. Form bumps with a glass, periodically wetting it with water so that the mass does not stick. Put the finished cones on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Ingredients:
230 g flour
1 egg
150 g butter,
16 chocolate truffles
6 tbsp brown sugar
½ tsp baking powder,
1 tsp vanilla,
a pinch of salt.
Cooking:
Mix flour and baking powder, add salt. Whisk softened butter with 4 tbsp. Sahara. Add egg, vanilla and beat well again. Gradually adding the dry mixture to this mass, knead the dough. Roll into 16 balls the size of Walnut. Pour the remaining sugar into the cup and roll each ball in it. Place the balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at some distance from each other and bake for 10 minutes at 180°C. Put the candy in the freezer for 5 minutes. Remove the finished cookies from the oven, and in the center of each, while they are hot, press the candy. It's okay if the cookies are covered with small cracks. Let the cookies cool for 30 minutes and serve with tea.
Ingredients:
350 g flour
2 eggs,
200 g butter,
100 g sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
2 tsp baking powder
jam or thick jam.
Cooking:
Rub butter with vanilla and simple sugar, add eggs and stir. Then add flour, baking powder and knead the dough. roll out ready dough on a table sprinkled with flour, in a layer about 3 mm thick and cut out cookies. Leave half of the cookies unchanged, and cut out the middle of an arbitrary shape from the second. Put the prepared cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and put the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, for 10-15 minutes. When the cookies are ready, let them cool a little and spread the whole cookies with jam, and top them with the cookie in which the holes were made.
Ingredients:
350-400 g flour,
3 eggs,
150 g sugar
100 g almonds
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla sugar;
1 tsp ground ginger;
1 tsp cinnamon.
For glaze:
500 g of powdered sugar,
7-8 tablespoons of any syrup,
food coloring (optional)
Cooking:
Pour 2/3 of the total number of almonds with boiling water for 10 minutes to make them easier to remove the skin. Chop the remaining nuts. Pound butter, sugar and vanilla sugar, add eggs to this mass and mix. Then add cinnamon, chopped almonds, ground ginger and mix. Add flour and baking powder and mix well hard dough. Then shape into cookies and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press a whole almond into each cookie and bake for 20-25 minutes at 180°C. For the glaze, mix the icing sugar with the syrup and put the resulting mixture on low heat. Cook the glaze, stirring with a spatula, for about 5-7 minutes (until it evenly coats the spatula). Add food coloring to the frosting, if desired. Dip the finished cookies in warm glaze and let it harden.
Ingredients:
150 g flour
75 g butter,
3 art. l. liquid honey,
1 tsp ground cinnamon,
¼ tsp ground ginger.
Cooking:
Sift flour and spices into a bowl. Add the butter cut into pieces and rub it into the flour with your fingers until the mixture resembles crumbs. Then add honey and mix to make a soft dough. Put the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, wrapping in cling film. On a floured work surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-6 mm. Cut bells out of it. Put the finished figures on a baking sheet, greased with oil, and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10 minutes until golden brown. When the cookies have cooled down a bit, cover them with colored icing, let it harden and decorate the bells with edible snowflakes and beads.
Ingredients:
500-550 g flour,
2 eggs,
1 orange
150 g butter or margarine
150 g of sugar;
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2 tsp baking powder.
For decoration:
bitter chocolate,
silver beads.
Cooking:
Remove the zest from the orange. Then squeeze the juice out of it (you will need it too). Mix butter with sugar and vanilla sugar, add eggs to the resulting mixture and mix. Add lemon zest and juice. Add flour and baking powder and knead the dough. Roll out the finished dough into a layer with a thickness of about 2-3 mm and use the template to give the cookies a horseshoe shape. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (or grease with oil), place cookies on it, place the baking sheet with cookies in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 10-15 minutes.
... Isn't this the most real New Year's miracle, created by one's own hands? May your New Year be as bright, joyful, tasty and unforgettable as magical cookie figures merrily looking from spruce paws.
Happiness and joy in the New 2014!
Larisa Shuftaykina
What is the New Year without sweets? Tangerines and sweets, lollipops and nuts, truffles and chocolate are obligatory companions of the New Year holidays. And, of course, pastries. We put it on the festive New Year's table, treat our friends, pack New Year's pastries in beautiful gift boxes with our own hands, and even decorate the Christmas tree.
Therefore, we have prepared for you the most popular recipes and ideas for New Year's baking. Meet new and traditional recipes baking for the New Year.
The tradition of cooking gingerbread cookies came to us not so long ago, but quickly became a favorite. What a delight, under the twinkling lights of garlands, to chew delicious and fragrant gingerbread cookies that are baked once a year, especially for the New Year holidays.
And the painting on such gingerbread is a separate issue, as it makes the baking itself unique, and its preparation is a real creative process. Therefore, this is an ideal New Year's baking for children, who can be involved in both cooking and decorating gingerbread.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- butter - 100 gr.;
- white sugar - 100 gr.;
- cocoa - 1 small spoon;
- cinnamon - 1 small spoon;
- nutmeg - 1 small spoon;
- ground ginger (powder) - 1 small spoon;
- ground cloves - 1 small spoon;
- ground pepper - 0.5 small spoons;
- flour - 180 gr.;
- baking powder - 1.5 small spoons;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- salt.
To prepare the glaze:
- egg whites - 1 pc.;
- powdered sugar - 0.5 cups;
- lemon - 1 tablespoon;
- turmeric and other food colorings;
- toothpicks.
Baking New Year's gingerbread begins long before the holidays, as it is perfectly stored and only becomes tastier from time to time. So already in mid-December, you can safely start the process, or even earlier. Especially if such New Year's pastries are prepared as a gift for the New Year.
Pour sugar into a metal container. We add oil to it, cinnamon, cocoa and nutmeg will also go there. Slightly add the mixture. We put the container on a small flame and heat until all the sugar has dissolved, but do not allow boiling.
Leave the mixture to cool while preparing the dry mixture. Mix flour with baking powder and remaining spices. Now pour the heated mixture into this dry mass. And knead the dough. You should get a homogeneous mass, to which you need to add more and fresh eggs. Knead the dough again.
It should be flexible and well behind the hands. If the density is insufficient, it is better to cover the dough with a film, expose it to the cold. In the cold, the mass will become thicker.
If this method did not help thicken the dough, add a little flour, but not more than a couple of tablespoons. A lot of flour will make the dough more viscous, but the gingerbread will turn out to be quite tough.
We divide the already prepared dough into four parts, so it will be easier to roll it out later. Since the dough becomes more viscous again when heated, it is better to take the balls out of the cold in turn, and not all at once. We put all the balls in a bag and send it to the refrigerator for two hours.
We cover the baking sheet where we will bake the gingerbread cookies with baking paper and grease with butter.
To roll out the dough, we use a rolling pin and a board that needs to be greased with vegetable oil.
We take out one ball from the cold and immediately roll it into a layer. The thickness of the gingerbread will be about 8 mm. To cut out figures, you can use not only New Year's molds and New Year's cookies, but any available in the arsenal.
We quickly transfer the figures to paper. They increase in size during baking, so you need to leave a distance between the gingerbread cookies. Baked ginger New Year's gingerbread in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 10 - 15 minutes.
You need to orientate by the appearance and smell of the gingerbread. The aroma of spices will tell you that it's time to take the gingerbread out of the oven.
It is better to withstand such pastries in a bag or jar, where they are placed still warm. This will help the cookies stay soft longer.
Immediately prepare the glaze for drawing. Beat the egg whites into a thick foam, gradually adding powdered sugar to them. At the very end, add lemon juice.
It remains only to paint the figures. This is not difficult to do using a culinary syringe. You can also use a paint brush or a regular toothpick. If you want to get multi-colored figurines, color the icing in different colors using turmeric, beetroot juice, or just dyes. This design of New Year's baking will make them unique and irresistible.
Painted gingerbread, perhaps the most beautiful pastries to the New Year. They look great on the Christmas tree in the form of decorations, and as New Year's gifts to friends.
Baking on a New Year's theme: cookies "Stars"
Star and Star Cookies are another great idea for original baking for the New Year.
We will need:
- flour - 1 cup;
- sugar - half a glass;
- butter - 150 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 small spoon;
- citric acid - ¼ small spoon;
- egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- condensed milk - 100 gr.;
- powdered sugar - half a glass.
Mix flour in a bowl along with other dry ingredients, that is, sugar, citric acid and baking powder. We change everything.
Separate the yolks from the proteins and send them to the dry mixture. Once again, knead everything.
Now add the already chopped butter, which you need to chop with a knife along with other ingredients.
Knead the dough, only very quickly so that the butter does not melt much.
Immediately send the dough to the refrigerator, where it should spend at least two hours.
We take out the dough of their cold and roll it into a thin layer - the thickness is not more than 1 cm. Immediately cut out the figures in the form of stars and transfer them to a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
Bake cookies will be no longer than 15 minutes. The temperature in the oven should be 200 degrees.
When the cookies are baked, take them out and leave to cool. Fold the already cooled cookies in twos and coat with boiled condensed milk.
Put the finished stars on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Such beautiful cookies will be a wonderful decoration for both children's and family New Year's tables. This is a beautiful and tasty New Year's baking and not much time and effort is spent on its preparation.
Baking for the New Year: honey painted gingerbread
This is a recipe for fragrant, fragrant New Year's gingerbread.
They are not only insanely delicious, but also stored due to the natural preservative of honey for up to six months. But for so long, these magic gingerbreads still do not age, they are very tasty. And you can paint them in any style.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- buckwheat dark honey - 165 gr.;
- cane sugar - 100 gr.;
- butter - 125 gr.;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
- yolks - 4 pcs.;
- flour premium wheat - 450 gr.;
- rye flour - 100 gr.;
- natural cocoa - 2 tablespoons of powder;
- soda - 1 small spoon;
- spices - 2 small spoons;
- salt.
To prepare the spice mix:
- cinnamon - 4 parts;
- ginger powder - 1 part;
- cardamom - 1 part;
- coriander - 1 part;
- nutmeg - 1 part;
- allspice - 1 part;
- cloves - 1 part.
To prepare the glaze:
- chicken protein - 1 pc.;
- powdered sugar - 250 gr.;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp.
Pour sugar into a saucepan with thick walls and add honey. We put the container on the fire and start heating. Continue heating until sugar is completely dissolved. But we don't let it boil.
To make the sugar dissolve faster, you can grind it first.
After dissolving the sugar, add the mixture of spices and all the butter to the saucepan. We continue to stir the contents.
We add soda. Carefully! The mass after adding soda sharply increases in volume and changes color.
At this stage, immediately turn off the burner under the pan. Once again, mix everything with a wooden spatula.
Set aside the mixture - it should cool to 36 - 28 degrees. If you try the mixture with your finger, it should not burn.
Now you can add the egg and egg yolks. We mix two types of flour together with cocoa. Little by little, we begin to add the dry mixture to the liquid. We look at the consistency of the dough and adjust the volume of flour in the process of kneading.
You need to knead the dough well so that it becomes plastic and does not stick to your hands. But at the same time, the dough should not become very steep.
We wrap the dough in a film and send it for proofing in the cold for two hours. You can leave the dough in the cold for a longer period. Therefore, it is convenient to prepare the dough in the evening and leave to ripen all night.
Having taken out the dough of their coldness, we leave it to warm up for a couple of hours at room temperature. This test volume is divided into four parts. We roll each part into a layer, the thickness of which will be 5 mm.
It is better to roll out the dough immediately on paper, so that later it does not transfer and deform. Cut out the figures. We remove the excess dough from the paper.
If you plan to use these gingerbread cookies as Christmas decorations, immediately make holes in them for ribbons.
Bake such honey gingerbread about 8 minutes in the oven at 180 or 200 degrees. In order not to get croutons or crispy cookies, do not overdo the gingerbread cookies in the oven.
If the gingerbread cookies are slightly deformed during baking, you can put a flat weight on them. But not immediately, but after 4-5 minutes after you take it out of the oven.
Now prepare the icing by whipping the protein with powdered sugar. Add sweetness little by little to the protein foam. Lemon juice will serve as a fixative, which is added at the very end of whipping.
Use the resulting glaze as a base for contouring and painting. To prepare the filling, part of the glaze is diluted with water so that the density is like that of condensed milk.
But what to draw and how to decorate gingerbread, decide for yourself. But do not forget to involve children in this exciting process. And let their painted gingerbread be not quite a work of art, but such pastries for the New Year are made by hand, so it will definitely be the most delicious and beautiful.
Traditional New Year's baking: curd adit
Usually adits are baked long before the holiday. This dried fruit cake needs to ripen.
And the longer it lies, the tastier and more aromatic it becomes. Such pastries are prepared for the New Year or Christmas table and are considered traditional in many countries.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- raisins - 200 gr.;
- dark rum - 100 ml;
- flour - 500 gr.;
- brown sugar - 150 gr.;
- baking powder - 7 gr. (1 sachet);
- vanilla essence - 4 drops;
- almond essence - 4 drops;
- a pinch of salt;
- a pinch of ground cloves;
- a pinch of cardamom;
- a pinch of ginger;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- a pinch of cinnamon;
- zest from 1 orange;
- juice of 1 orange;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- creamy margarine - 200 gr.;
- cottage cheese, grated into a paste - 250 gr.;
- dried almonds - 200 gr.;
- candied fruits - 200 gr.;
- dried cherries - 100 gr.
To decorate the top:
- butter - 100 gr.;
- powdered sugar - 100 gr.
In the evening, pour raisins and cherries with rum. Let it swell all night.
Beat chicken eggs with sugar and add melted margarine, all spices, vanillin, salt and curd paste to the mixture.
Separately, mix flour with baking powder and ground almonds. Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid mass and knead until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Pour raisins and cherries into the dough - you do not need to drain the cognac, it will also go into the dough. We add candied fruits there, Orange juice and zest.
We knead the dough and roll it into a layer measuring 30 by 30 cm. Fold one side to the center. Fold the opposite side twice to make a roll. This roll is transferred to the paper, which is covered with a baking sheet.
The adit will be baked for about an hour in the oven. Adjust the temperature for baking 180 degrees. Check the readiness of the Christmas cake with a toothpick.
When the adit is baked, soak the top with butter and sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Of course, you can immediately taste such a wonderful New Year's cupcake. But it is better to leave it to mature.
To do this, the adit is wrapped in several layers of cooking paper, and then also in a film. Usually the cake ripens up to three weeks. Therefore, for baking New Year's table hostesses start already in early December.
Fragrant pastries for the New Year's table: New Year's cupcakes
Sweet fragrant muffins with the smell of tangerine and cinnamon are real New Year's pastries.
The recipe is surprisingly simple, and the result is unsurpassed.
Try to bake "New Year's" cupcakes and they will definitely become regular guests on your holiday table.
We will need:
- kefir - 200 ml;
- carrot-tangerine juice - 50 ml
- sugar - 100 gr.;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml.;
- flour - 250 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- salt;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
The dough for these cupcakes is surprisingly easy to make. First, mix kefir with sugar, salt, egg and vegetable oil.
Separately, mix the flour with baking powder, after which the mixture must be sifted.
Do not skip the sifting step, this will make the dough more airy, and the cupcakes themselves will be tender and full of holes.
Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid.
Cooking homemade juice from tangerines and carrots. To do this, we clean the citrus and divide it into slices, cut the peeled carrot into a cube. We put everything in a juicer and make juice with pulp.
We do not throw away the tangerine skins, but grind them to make a fine zest.
Pour the juice into the dough itself and mix. You get a nice orange color.
Now spread the zest and again carefully knead the dough.
We lay out the finished dough in molds, without filling them to the top. It will be enough to fill 2/3 of the forms.
It would be ideal if the forms are New Year's. A great opportunity to replenish your kitchen collection of baking dishes.
In the oven, our cupcakes will spend no more than 15 minutes, set the temperature to 180 degrees.
Take the cupcakes out of the molds when they are slightly cool. Now you can start decorating baking.
You can make cream hats in the form of green Christmas trees.
If you don't want to mess with such fancy decorations, dust the cupcakes with powdered sugar. Only not pure, but mixed with cinnamon.
Try! This is an insanely delicious, simple and incredibly fragrant pastry.
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New Year's baking: video cookie recipe Cones
The smell of pine needles and tangerines, falling snow flakes outside the window, Christmas movies, warmth in the house and fragrant magical hot tea - what could be more beautiful for celebrating the New Year 2017? In this cold season, you want to warm up inside: spend time with family and friends over a cup of hot drink.
The following selection of cookie recipes will not leave indifferent any housewife: ease of preparation, combined with an amazing result, will instill in you the habit of baking goodies all year round. So, what to serve for a cookie tea party for the New Year 2017?
| Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Dark chocolate bar - | about 80 g |
| Butter - | 30 g |
| Chicken eggs - | 2 pcs. |
| Wheat flour - | 100 g |
| Cocoa powder (choose real) - | 1 st. a spoon |
| Sugar-sand - | 50 g |
| Vanilla sugar - | 1 teaspoon |
| Baking powder - | ½ teaspoon |
| Salt - | small pinch |
| powdered sugar - | for sprinkling |
| Cooking time: 60 minutes | Calories per 100 grams: 290 kcal |
Sweets help mentally prepare for the winter and deal with depression. Chocolate occupies a special place among them. No wonder they say: it is simply impossible to count the admirers of this product.
To begin with, we arrange for chopped chocolate and butter water bath. We bring the chocolate-cream mixture to it until smooth. In a separate bowl, using a hand mixer, beat the eggs and both types of sugar until white.
After the chocolate-butter mass has cooled, gently stir in the mixture of eggs and sugar.
In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients: pre-tested flour, cocoa and baking powder. Now feel free to add the liquid part of the dough to it. Using a spoon or spatula, bring the dough to a homogeneous thick structure.
At the end of cooking the “semi-finished product”, we tighten the dough with cling film and send it to a cold place for a couple of hours. Only after the mass has solidified, you should begin to form cookies.
Let's use a teaspoon: the dough that fits in it will be the necessary amount for a cookie-ball. The approximate diameter of the figure should be about 3 cm.
Before you start directly baking, roll the balls in powdered sugar. We heat the oven to 170 degrees.
We line a baking sheet with baking paper and lay out the balls, keeping a distance of 2-5 centimeters from each other. We send the gingerbread cookies to bake for no more than 10 minutes.
Note: Avoid overcooking! The moist inner structure of the biscuit, covered with a delicate truffle-like crust, is the perfect description of the dish.
Tribute to tradition: gingerbread cookies
Gingerbread - traditional delicacy countries of Europe. They, in combination with a glass of warm milk, are usually treated to Santa Claus, who comes on Christmas night. Nevertheless, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy fragrant pastries and ordinary people. For baking "ginger cookies" stock up:
- Wheat flour - 350 g;
- Soda (ordinary food) - 1 teaspoon;
- Ground ginger - 2 teaspoons;
- Ground fragrant cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
- Butter (not spread) - 125 g;
- Brown sugar-sand - 175 g;
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- Invert syrup or liquid honey - 4 tbsp. spoons.
First, sift the flour into which we mix the dry ingredients of the recipe: soda, ginger chips, ground cinnamon.
Pour it into a deep bowl or container food processor, add the chopped butter, knead thoroughly with your hands or the power of the machine. When the mass resembles bread crumbs, add sugar.
Beat the syrup with the egg and send it to the creamy flour mixture and beat (this will take a lot of time in manual mode, so try to find at least a powerful hand mixer).
We form a ball from the dough and wrap it with cling film, send it to the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line the baking sheets with parchment paper. From the dough rolled out to a half-centimeter thickness, cut out cookies of the desired shape. The surface layer of the semi-finished product must be sprinkled with flour.
Within the next 15 minutes, the sweetness will attract everyone to the kitchen. Covered with a golden brown crust, baked cookies can be decorated with icing.
Shortbread Christmas cookies
If you want to cook for the New Year 2017 the most simple, but not failing with its gastronomic qualities delicacy, then use standard recipe shortbread biscuits.
It includes products:
- Wheat flour - 200-220 g;
- Butter (fatty) butter - 150 g;
- Sugar - 150 g;
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- Salt - a little.
The first step is to melt the fat. While the product is melting and cooling, you should prepare the egg-sugar mixture: just rub the eggs with the sweetener until a white mass is obtained.
In the next step, pour the cooled melted butter into the whipped mass (the temperature can be warm, but not hot, to avoid curdling the egg white). Mix thoroughly until smooth.
In received batter Stir in the remaining dry ingredients - flour, baking powder and salt. To begin with, knead the dough using a spoon, and when it acquires a firmer structure - with greased vegetable oil hands.
Shortbread dough is similar to noodle dough, however, if you overdo it with flour, the finished dough will not have a rich taste, and its characteristic friability will disappear. Do not forget to cool the mass in the refrigerator.
Sprinkle the surface of the desktop with flour, on which roll out with a layer. Its thickness should not exceed half a centimeter. Spread a treat of any shape and size on a greased tracing paper lined with a baking sheet. When the tray is full, send it to the oven, heated to 195-200 degrees. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes.
Note: if you are afraid that the taste of the original shortbread cookies will seem simple to you, dilute the dough with fillers in the form of cinnamon, nuts, candied fruits and other additives.
Sour cream and honey cookies for the New Year 2017
A delicious recipe for New Year's cookies will require the presence of products that are not in every refrigerator. Nevertheless, the effort and finances spent are worth it: tender, crumbly, truly festive, it will compete with high-calorie cakes. Use:
- Wheat flour - 600 g;
- Fatty sour cream - 350 g;
- Butter (not spread) - 100 g;
- Thick honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Sugar sand - 150 g.
The principle of making cookies from sour cream and honey mixture for the New Year 2017 is extremely simple. Dissolve the honey and sugar parts of the ingredients in melted butter over low heat.
From the rolled out dough 0.5 cm thick, cut out cookies of the desired shape. Cover the tray with baking paper and place the formed treat on it, be sure to indent between each treat.
Temperature oven should be about 180 degrees, and the total baking time should be from 8 to 15 minutes.
New Year's cookies with spicy flavor
Unusual taste with spicy notes, creating the perfect New Year's bouquet of flavors, will complement the warm winter conversations over tea drinking in the circle of good old friends or surrounded by work partners. To cook spicy pastries you will need:
- Brown granulated sugar - 170-180 g;
- Butter (fatty) butter - 100 g;
- 10% cream - 100 ml;
- Wheat flour - 400 g;
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- Cocoa powder (only natural) - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Baking powder - 2 teaspoons;
Various spicy ingredients are responsible for the gastronomic features of the delicacy. The ideal set will be a bouquet of ground cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Dark chocolate is responsible for the bitter sweetness.
The sequence for preparing spicy New Year's cookies is as follows:
- Mix flour and baking powder, sift;
- Cut the butter, add it to the flour;
- In the same container we send sugar, eggs and honey;
- We add spices. Approximate Amount: ½ or ¼ teaspoon each;
- Knead a homogeneous dough;
- We wrap the kneaded dough in cling film and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour;
- Powder the table for rolling out the dough with flour;
- Roll out an even layer of dough. Standard thickness - 5 millimeters;
- We form cookies using improvised or special tools;
- We line the parchment on a baking sheet and sprinkle the latter with water;
- We send semi-finished cookies to an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for 5-8 minutes.
Note: Avoid browning spicy treats. Overdried cookies bring little pleasure.
To decorate cookies by creating a water bath, melt the chocolate; Heat up the cream and stir in the cocoa powder until it thickens. Brush cookies with thick buttercream and warm chocolate.
Festive cookies "Run, run, Rudolf!"
The deer is an integral part of the festive New Year extravaganza. He sends a magical sleigh with Santa Claus and gifts to the homes of obedient children.
Rudolphic cookies are aimed at the latter: funny and playful appearance will not leave indifferent any small food gourmet.
To prepare deer cookies, stock up:
- Wheat flour - 300 g;
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- Sugar - 100 g;
- Creamy (fatty) butter - 125 g;
- Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Soda - 1 teaspoon;
- Orange peel (fresh or dried) and cinnamon;
- Little pretzels, chocolate drops and M&M's or Skittles.
In the oil and honey melted over a quiet fire, send the grated orange peel from one fruit (orange layer, turned into shavings with a grater), cinnamon. We add soda and expect a spectacular chemical reaction: a foamy mass. If this does not happen, throw into the oil-honey mass citric acid on the tip of a knife.
In a separate bowl, mix flour with egg, sweetener and butter-honey mixture. Knead a homogeneous dough and send it to rest. After 30 minutes at a temperature of 18-25 degrees, roll out a layer of dough and cut out the desired molds. Bake in the oven on a baking sheet lined with parchment at 180 degrees for about 8 minutes.
At the end of baking, create horns from pretzels divided in half, eyes from multi-colored emendams sweets, and eyes from chocolate drop- spouts.
Note: feel free to connect the kids to the cooking process. Creating a herd of "rudolphs" is a creative and interesting activity.
Small results
Be sure to gather the whole family: sharing cookies prepared by the whole family at tea is even dearer to the heart and tastier to the stomach!
Use special molds to create unusual cookies: stars, Christmas trees, little men and much more.
Show your imagination in decorating cookies: prepare icing, sprinkle with confectionery powder, special edible silver balls.
