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 to chew delicious and fragrant gingerbread under the twinkling lights of garlands, which 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 also need to add 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. New Year's gingerbread cookies are baked 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 to them powdered sugar. 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 is perhaps the most beautiful pastry for the New Year. They look great both on the Christmas tree in the form of decorations, and as New Year's gifts friends.
Baking on a New Year's theme: cookies "Stars"
Cookies in the form of stars and stars 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 chopped butter, which must be chopped 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 coldness 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 and families. New Year's table. 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.;
- wheat flour of the highest grade - 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.
After taking out the dough from their cold, leave it to warm 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.
Such honey gingerbreads are baked for 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. Add candied fruits, orange juice and zest there.
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, the housewives start baking for the New Year's table 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.
We prepare 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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I bring to your attention, beautiful and tasty children's christmas cookies in the form of deer. It is made from shortcrust pastry and garnished with chocolate and sweets. The kids will love being involved in the cooking process.
New Year's cookies Reindeer recipe
- butter - 90 g,
- powdered sugar - 100 g,
- wheat flour - 175 g,
- chicken egg - 1 pc.,
- vanillin - a pinch,
- salt - a pinch
- milk chocolate - 50 g,
- red sweets - by the number of cookies.
Pour flour into a deep bowl, beat in an egg, add icing sugar, butter, chopped with a knife, vanillin and salt. If you do not have powdered sugar, but only sugar, then you can make powder using a coffee grinder or blender. I advise you to add powder, not sugar, as it will dissolve faster in the dough.
Now we start kneading the dough with our hands. First you need to grind the butter with flour and already, then knead everything. It can also be done with a mixer, dough attachment, which is much faster and easier.
Then shortbread dough for cookies, wrap in cling film and send for half an hour in the refrigerator.
After the time has elapsed, we roll out the sand base in a thin layer and squeeze out the circles with the help of a glass. In order for the glass not to stick to the dough, you need to lightly sprinkle it with flour.
From this amount of products, about 20 such circles are obtained. Transfer them to a baking sheet parchment paper.
We heat the oven to 180 degrees. When it heats up, put a baking sheet with blanks in it. It takes about 10 minutes to bake Christmas cookies. The cookies will look slightly golden. When they are ready, take them out of the oven and let them cool.
Melt the chocolate in a water bath and place in a pastry bag with a small hole. We roughly look at where the nose of the deer should be and put a point of chocolate there, and glue a red candy on top of it.
Well, the final touch, these are cute little horns. We also draw them with chocolate.
Reindeer cookies are ready.
Bon appetit!
For the photo recipe for New Year's cookies, we thank Tatyana Suprunenko.
No New Year is complete without a Christmas tree. Now they are everywhere, and, moreover, these Christmas trees are not necessarily made of needles, balloons, paper, fabric, medical gloves, etc., i.e. any material for which you have enough imagination. Our today's Christmas tree will be edible, we will bake New Year's cookies!
Molds for New Year's baking can be in the form of stars, Christmas trees, cones, mushrooms, crescents, snowflakes, deer ....
If there are no special shapes, then simply draw a template on thick paper and cut out the dough on it.
We also suggest you make a beautiful voluminous Christmas tree from sugar shortbread or ginger-honey dough. To prepare it, you need to cut out circles of different diameters, and then collect and decorate with protein glaze or boiled condensed milk.
Another option is a beautiful bell, which is also assembled from circles and strung on a beautiful ribbon. Such a sweet decoration can already be hung on a real spruce beauty!
step by step photo recipe
Choose any test option and start cooking!
Ingredients:
Sand dough recipe:
- Butter or margarine ( good quality) - 150 grams,
- Chicken eggs - 2 pieces,
- Sugar - 200 grams (+ 2 tablespoons for sprinkling dough),
- Wheat flour (high grade) - 4 cups,
- Vanilla sugar - 2 teaspoons,
- Baking powder - 1.5 teaspoons.
Recipe for Honey Ginger Gingerbread Dough:
- Flour - 280 g,
- Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons,
- Sugar sand - 2 tbsp. l.,
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.,
- Butter 60-70 g,
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Dry ground ginger - 2 tsp,
- Cinnamon powder - 2 tsp
To prepare the icing sugar:
- Pasteurized milk - 2 tbsp. spoons,
- Powdered sugar - 150 grams,
- Sugar syrup - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Cooking process:
In a step-by-step photo recipe, shortbread dough is kneaded and prepared.
We need softened butter or margarine. If you forgot to take the butter out of the fridge in advance, then chop it into a cube and put it in the microwave for just a few seconds. It should not be completely melted, let it be soft, but not liquid.
Add granulated sugar to softened butter (margarine) and mix everything. Beat in the eggs, which also need to be taken out of the refrigerator in advance. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
Sift into a separate bowl wheat flour(3 glasses). Add baking powder and vanilla sugar. Stir. Add the dry mixture to the liquid base and start kneading the dough. We have a fourth glass of flour in reserve, because. flour is different for everyone, so someone may not need it. Add more flour as needed until the dough stops sticking to your hands.
Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough into a thin layer, no more than 0.7 cm thick. Sprinkle the dough layer with granulated sugar (2 tablespoons). Then lightly roll the dough again with a rolling pin, pushing the sugar crystals into the dough. Now let's go look for round shapes for cutting cookies. We will need forms of different diameters so that the Christmas tree looks like a real one, i.e. started with a large plate and ended with a cookie of a smaller diameter. Approximately 8 - 10 forms are required. With the help of which cut out circles from the dough.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and carefully place the cut pieces on it. Place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake at 180 degrees until the cookies begin to brown.
In the meantime, prepare the frosting to decorate and glue the cookies. To do this, mix powdered sugar with milk in a small container and mix thoroughly until smooth. The mass in the end should turn out to be slightly fluid.
In order to prepare sugar syrup, you need to take granulated sugar and water in equal parts. Boil it over low heat for 5-7 minutes. And then add hot syrup to icing sugar and mix again.
Remove the finished cookies from the baking sheet and cool slightly to room temperature.
Now transfer the icing sugar to a pastry syringe or bag, use the thinnest nozzle. Decorate Christmas cookies to your liking, as your fantasy tells you. You can decorate each circle with a wavy line around the edge. Leave the frosting to dry.
Before you start collecting our New Year's beauty, apply a little sugar icing to the center of each cookie, it will help hold all the details of the design together. Assemble the blanks, starting with the largest item, i.e. assemble the tree like a pyramid.
Width="400" height="427"> How to make gingerbread ginger dough with honey
Place honey, sugar and spices (cinnamon, ginger) in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add soda, removing from the stove. Send a piece of butter there. Immediately lightly beat a raw egg in a bowl with a fork, send to the honey mixture and mix quickly. Sprinkle flour - knead the dough.
Dust the dough with flour and cool slightly. Then roll into a layer and cut into shapes. Bake until cooked in the oven or slow cooker.
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On the eve of the holiday, to create New Year's cookies with your own hands, you need to enlist patience, imagination and a desire to present your household with all sorts of curly masterpieces home baking. The variety of shapes and fillings of cookies will also please the hostess of the New Year's table - the Yellow Pig, for whom any undertakings and efforts will serve as a sign of respect and reverence.
In order for the cookies to turn out delicious, and the holiday dessert to be remembered for a long time, it is necessary not only to blindly follow the recipe, but to follow certain rules for baking with the accuracy and accuracy inherent in a real culinary specialist.
For this you need:
- adhere to prescription instructions;
- to equip the so-called "working" place;
- use only fresh and high-quality products in the baking process;
- follow the proportions of certain ingredients given in the recipes;
- do not neglect the rules for baking dough products and their storage.
Important! Baking holiday cookies always involves the creation of unusual forms of sweets and a variety of all kinds of decorations.
How to choose and prepare the main ingredients?
The main criterion for selecting ingredients for future baking is their quality and freshness. Rancidity of products can adversely affect the taste and appearance of a New Year's baked product.
In addition, these edible decorations can be served not only at the table, but also used as gifts and New Year's surprises.
Therefore, this kind of product should be not only tasty, but also fragrant, thanks to the addition of spices in the form of vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.
And yet, such a dessert can be decorated by sprinkling it with powdered sugar, using icing, using food coloring and original confectionery beads.
How to cook cookies for the New Year 2019?
New Year's cookies - biscuit, shortbread, oatmeal, made from gingerbread dough - will cheer up not only adults, but also children. Especially if the Christmas tree is decorated with this pastry, and you can enjoy dessert right at its foot.
Sand dough ingredients:
- butter (butter) - briquette;
- sugar - a glass;
- vanilla;
- egg;
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- baking powder;
- extra (cooking), soda - half a teaspoon;
- nut (nutmeg);
- sour cream - ¾ cup.
Method of preparation: for sand kneading, combine butter with sugar and beat. Combine the resulting consistency with the egg, vanilla and carefully rub them together. Pour flour and the remaining components in the form of baking powder, soda, extras, nutmeg, sour cream, knead.
Pack the semi-finished product in polyethylene and put it in a cool place for two hours. Cut out figures from the dough and place them on a baking sheet lined with confectionery paper. Bake at 180 for approximately 12 minutes. The recipe involves applying glaze to the browned product.
Components:
- oil;
- granulated sugar - a glass;
- powder - 2 tablespoons;
- vanilla;
- mint extract - to taste;
- egg;
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- baking powder, extra;
- food coloring.
Method of preparation: components for shortcrust pastry in the form of sugar, powder, butter, vanilla, mint concentrate (or cinnamon), beat the eggs with a mixer. Add flour, baking powder, salt; mix among themselves.
Divide the resulting semi-finished product into two equal parts. Stir red food coloring into one of the parts. Wrap the painted part in parchment and put it in a cool place for several hours, do the same with the rest of the muffin.
After you need to pinch off a piece from each part of the dough and make sausages out of them in the form of pigtails. form the so-called candy cane. Bake at 180 degrees for about 12 minutes. Sprinkle the ruddy product with powdered sugar.
Components:
- sand dough;
- walnuts (ground) - 0.5 cups;
- chocolate chips - ½ cup;
- bullseye;
- caramel sauce - 75 milliliters.
Method of preparation: after adding the main ingredients to the shortbread mix, add nuts, chocolate chips, diced apple. Mix the consistency thoroughly.
Place the dough balls on a baking sheet lined with foil. Pour caramel into the recess on each ball, sprinkle with nuts, chocolate chips, cinnamon on top. Using a spatula, flatten the products and put them in the oven for 12 minutes, preheated to 180 degrees.
You can also bake New Year's sweets in advance, especially since the cookies will be even tastier and more aromatic when cooled down.
Components:
- butter (cream origin) - briquette;
- egg white;
- powdered (sugar) - 0.5 cups;
- vanilla - 30 grams;
- flour - a full glass;
- extra (cooking) - to taste.
Method of preparation: beat butter with powder and salt with a whisk. Add protein, vanilla, add flour; Knead the resulting consistency with a mixer. Place the dough into a piping bag fitted with a star tip, then zigzag out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15 minutes. Decorate with powder over the product. Cool and serve.
Components:
- sand dough;
- walnuts (chopped) - a glass;
- powdered sugar - 250 grams.
Important! In the dough, for flavor, you need to add vanillin, and for piquancy - nuts.
Method of preparation: at the end of the kneading process, divide the mixture into two parts. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for an hour. After the chilled semi-finished product is divided into pieces and formed into rounds. Bake for about 15 minutes. Sprinkle the still hot cookies with powder, cool and roll them again in sugar.
Components:
- flour - a glass;
- dark and white sugar - each 50 grams;
- sauce (soy) - a spoon;
- molasses (honey) - 50 milliliters;
- water - a tablespoon;
- butter (butter) - 70 grams;
- spices in the form of cinnamon, grated ginger, cloves - each half a teaspoon;
- soda - on the tip of a knife.
Method of preparation: mix molasses, water, all sugar in a saucepan and heat. After adding soy, butter, spices; melt. Allow the mass to cool, pour in the soda and let the mixture stand. Then pour flour into a container with all the melted ingredients, knead the dough and send it to the cold for an hour.
Roll out the semi-finished product thinly. Cut out future cookies using heart-shaped molds. Put it on a baking sheet and put it in the oven for literally 5 minutes.
Components:
- oil - standard briquette;
- boiled yolks - 6 pieces;
- sour cream - 80 grams;
- sugar ¾ cup;
- baking powder - 15 grams;
- flour - 1.5 cups.
For glaze:
- sugar - a glass;
- milk - 0.5 cups;
- butter - 60 grams;
- cocoa - 60 grams.
Cooking method: grind the yolks with butter, add sugar, sour cream - mix everything. Add flour, knead the dough. Form balls from the dough, spread them on a baking sheet and bake for half an hour. Mix all the ingredients for the glaze, bring the mass to a boil. Coat the product with the resulting glaze, and then sprinkle with coconut flakes and let it harden.
Components:
- milk - 0.5 cups;
- caramel (taffy) - 100 grams;
- almond tincture - a teaspoon;
- vanilla, cinnamon - on the tip of a knife;
- sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- flour - 0.5 cups;
- starch - 30 grams;
- oil - 60 milliliters;
- egg whites - 3 pieces;
- nut (nutmeg).
Method of preparation: all bulk components, except for vanilla, mix together. Grind butter with proteins and drive into the resulting mixture. Add vanilla, tincture and achieve the consistency of the mass, like condensed milk.
Pour a teaspoon of dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and continue to form cookies in this way until you run out of space. Cooking time - 10 minutes. Products are decorated with softened caramel and all kinds of toppings, the middle is decorated with strips cut out of colored paper with wishes.
Components:
- shortcrust pastry with ricotta and lemon peel;
- powdered sugar - a glass;
- lemon juice - 100 milliliters.
Cooking method: make balls from shortcrust pastry, put them on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Pour over the cooled cookies with icing made from lemon juice and powdered sugar, decorate with confectionery sprinkles on top of the pastries.
Components:
- butter - 130 grams;
- marshmallow (soft);
- dye (green);
- vanilla;
- cornflakes- 350 grams;
- dragee (red).
Cooking method: melt the butter in a container, grind with marshmallows, mix with a small amount of water and cook until the components are completely dissolved. Remove the resulting mass from heat, pour in the dye, vanilla, corn flakes, mix.
Using a large spoon, spread the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment and greased with oil. Form New Year's wreaths from the dough mass until it has cooled down and distribute dragees on them.
Components:
- shortcrust pastry with the addition of a spoonful of cocoa;
- powdered (sugar) - 300 grams;
- oil;
- ground coffee - 30 grams;
- vanilla;
- milk.
Cooking method: roll out the dough mass, cut out figures from it, put them on a baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes. Mix together the ingredients for the filling. Make a sandwich from cookies and filling.
Components:
- sand batch;
- cheese (cream) 100 grams.
Method of preparation: mix the shortbread mass with cream cheese, wrap in a film and put it in the refrigerator overnight. After the dough is rolled out, using molds to make figures out of it and put the products in the oven for 10 minutes for baking.
Components:
- sand batch;
- honey - 100 milliliters;
- seasonings in the form of cinnamon, ginger and nuts (nutmeg) - 1.5 teaspoons each.
- egg white;
- sugar - 60 grams;
- lemon juice.
Method of preparation: knead the sand mass with the addition of honey, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg. Knead the dough, and put it in the refrigerator for 7 hours. Roll out, use cookie cutters to cut out cookies, and make a hole in each with a pen. Bake for about 10 minutes.
From protein, sugar and lemon juice to make glaze. Decorate products in the form of bells with glaze and dry. Collect the bells on a special gift ribbon and tie it with a bow.
Components:
- sand mass with the addition of sour cream (half a glass), lemon juice (from half a fruit) and soda (small spoon);
- dates (peeled) - 0.5 kilograms.
Cooking method: divide the chilled semi-finished product into two equal parts. Roll out each part, put one layer on a baking sheet covered with parchment, spread the filling from dates twisted through a meat grinder on top, cover with a second sheet of dough.
Give the cake a rectangular shape, and make longitudinal and transverse cuts on top. Send the product with the filling to the oven for 20 minutes, and then, along the cuts, disassemble into small cookies.
Components:
- sand batch;
- dragee M&M's - 100 grams.
Method of preparation: add 2/3 of the dragee to the sand mixture, mix, form into balls. Lay out on a baking sheet. Decorate the finished semi-finished product with the rest of the dragee and put it in the oven. Serve with milk or tea.
Components:
- sand dough;
- powder - a glass;
- cocoa - 60 grams;
- dressing.
Method of preparation: cut out New Year's figurines from the sand layer using molds. Bake for 15 minutes, dip in icing or dust with cocoa powder and decorate with sprinkles.
Glaze Recipes
After cooking holiday cookies you can start creating decorations for him, the main of which is glaze.
classical
Components:
- powder (sugar) - a glass;
- milk - 120 milliliters;
- vanilla (lemon juice).
Method of manufacture: mix all the components, and then beat thoroughly with a mixer. The icing should not be liquid, otherwise it can spread and spoil the appearance of the holiday cookies. And if the mass turned out to be too thick, you can fix it with milk.
To obtain color, you can experiment with the addition of carrot, beetroot, currant, strawberry juice, sage broth and others. The icing dries for a long time, so if any other sprinkles are provided to decorate the products, then you need to use it immediately after covering the cookies with icing.
Caramel
Components:
- brown sugar - 0.5 cups;
- powder - 200 grams;
- butter (butter) - 50 grams;
- milk - 100 milliliters;
- vanilla.
Production method: melted butter, mixed with milk and sugar, must be boiled for a minute. Remove the mass from the heat, pour in some of the powder, beat, add vanilla and the remaining sugar.
Components:
- powdered (sugar) - 200 grams;
- milk - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar-based syrup - 2 tablespoons;
- almond extract - ¼ spoon (tea);
- dye.
Production method: add syrup to powdered sugar mixed with milk and beat. Spread the paste in several containers, and add one or another dye to each.
orange
Components:
- powdered sugar - 150 milligrams;
- orange juice - 120 milliliters.
Production method: slowly pour powdered sugar into the juice, constantly stirring the mixture. Decorate the product with a liquidish type of glaze.
Chocolate
Components:
- powdered (sugar) - 400 grams;
- milk - 4 tablespoons;
- cocoa - 60 grams;
- butter (butter) - a spoon;
- vanilla
Production method: all components - butter, powder, cocoa, vanillin - mix with each other, and then beat with milk until smooth.
How to decorate Christmas cookies?
In order for the New Year's product to be not only tasty, but also festive, have an original look and cheer up, it is necessary to decorate it.
There are several secrets for decorating New Year's baking:
- To prevent the icing from spreading, it is necessary to apply the mass to the even bottom of the cookies.
- Using a culinary syringe, draw a contour, the inside of which, after drying, fill with glaze.
- The liquid consistency of the glaze can be changed by adding powdered sugar to it, and the thick one can be diluted with lemon juice or milk.
With decorations, you can improvise, set the desired color, pattern and decor.
DIY gifts "New Year's cookies"
Crafts from gingerbread dough for children 7-10 years old. Master class with step by step photos.
Gnevanova Olga Mikhailovna, social teacher, GAU SO "Center for Social Assistance to Families and Children of the City of Kachkanar", Sverdlovsk Region.Description: this master class is intended for school-age students, caring and loving parents, educators, teachers of additional education.
Purpose: gift, interior decoration.
Target: making a gift for the New Year holidays.
Tasks:
Educational: learn how to make a gift from gingerbread dough.
Developing: Develop aesthetic taste and compositional skills, taste, fine motor skills in the process.
Educational: to raise interest in the joint creative activities of children and adults.
Making Christmas gingerbread or Christmas cookies can become a good Christmas tradition in your family.
Children will take your idea with a bang, with pleasure, show their creative abilities and cut out interesting figures from dough and decorate gingerbread and cookies, and you can keep their first culinary masterpieces as a keepsake. Moreover, if you show a little imagination and cut out figures with cookie cutters: a little man, stars, horseshoes, Christmas trees, a month, a boot and thread bright ribbons into cookies ... op ... and beautiful Christmas decorations ready.
We will prepare wonderful New Year's cookies in the form of beautiful hearts, mittens, gingerbread men.
Gingerbread dough recipe:
200 g sugar
2 eggs
100 g honey
200g margarine
3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
Spices to taste: 1 tsp cinnamon, 0.5 tsp ginger, 0.5 tsp cardomom, 0.5 tsp. nutmeg.
How to make gingerbread cookies
Beat sugar with eggs into a homogeneous mass and add honey slightly warmed up in a water bath. Add softened margarine and combine with scrambled eggs - sugar mass. Lastly, add the sifted flour, as well as spices, and knead the dough until it becomes elastic and smooth. Then we wrap it with cling film or put it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour - then it will be elastic when cutting.
We roll out the dough with a thickness of 5-7 mm and cut out mittens according to stencils, men - with a pastry knife, observing safety rules and under the guidance of an adult. And we squeeze out hearts and stars with molds - the second option for making gingerbread cookies.
We make a hole for each workpiece using any tube.
After we form cookies, put them on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at t 180 -200 * for 10 minutes.
You can use molds to make various animals: a bear, a hedgehog, a fox, an elk, a squirrel, a snail.
We offer the third version of Christmas cookies. We roll out the dough and cut strips 7-8 cm wide with a curly knife. As shown in the photo.
You get equilateral triangles. On one side, cut off the dough and get a Christmas tree.
We also make holes for ribbons.
After the cookies have cooled, we begin to make decorations. We make frosting. There are several ways: one is to buy in a store, this is not a problem now, the second is to do it yourself.
Separate the protein from the yolk, and with the help of a mixer beat until a stable white mass, which has increased in volume by 2-3 times, add 1 dessert spoon of lemon juice. Add powdered sugar gradually. Whipping time 5-7 minutes. For one protein, on average, we use 200 grams of powdered sugar.
We transfer the finished mass into a plastic bag, cut off the very tip and proceed to the most interesting, paint cookies, show imagination and develop creative abilities.
Pour colored sprinkles on the glaze in the form of sticks, peas, stars.
When the icing on the cookies dries, then we thread the braid into the holes, satin ribbons at your discretion.
You can decorate with white and dark chocolate.
Such a dish is pleasant to put on the table, to treat relatives and friends.
Our little animals were outlined with white icing and strings were threaded. You can also play a New Year's fairy tale.
Mom kneaded the dough
She gave me a piece
We made cookies with her,
Who wants what.
Rolled out with a rolling pin
Dough for circles
Cut out with a mold
Stars and flowers.
Baked in the oven
We are our cookies
It turned out delicious
Just a meal!
Remember how we decorated the New Year tree as children, how solemnly our parents took out a box with New Year's toys, with what trepidation and bated breath we, fearing to drop and break, unfolded 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 - there is plenty of all this in our supermarkets.
Of course, you know how to prepare white icing, 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 frosting 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 a few minutes in a hot oven so that the glaze 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 we have proposed, 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 batter and mix until you get a 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, place 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. Cover the finished cookies with icing 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:
red and green food coloring
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. Ready dough divide 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 the glaze, combine egg whites, icing 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 walnut-sized balls. 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 the butter with vanilla and simple sugar, add the eggs and mix. Then add flour, baking powder and knead the dough. Roll out the dough on a floured board to about 3mm thick and cut out the 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 knead not very stiff 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 it 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