In the New Year and Christmas period, I want to please myself and my loved ones with dishes that will correspond to the festive mood. But not every day there is an opportunity to make cupcakes and pies. Therefore, often the choice of housewives stops at a delicious and homemade Christmas cookie. A wide variety of pastries allows you to choose a dessert for every taste. Also, experimenting with cookies, you can try to bake not only something familiar. For example, you can use the recipes below and prepare Christmas desserts according to recipes for cuisines from other countries of the world.
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients:
- Flour - four glasses.
- Soda - a teaspoon
- Margarine - 200 grams.
- Cinnamon is a teaspoon.
- Sugar - one glass.
- Nutmeg - a teaspoon.
- Egg yolks are two.
- Baking powder - a teaspoon.
- Liquid honey - one glass.
- Salt is a teaspoon.
- Ground cloves - two teaspoons.
- Ginger - two teaspoons.
Glaze:
- Powdered sugar - two glasses.
- Milk - four tablespoons.
Decoration:
Cooking Cookies
For cooking, we chose this recipe for Christmas cookies and now, following the recipe, we will prepare a treat for the holiday. All products in the refrigerator must be removed from it in advance and put in a warm room. When the margarine becomes soft, put it in a bowl, add sugar and beat in a blender for five minutes. Then pour honey and chicken yolks into the bowl, and beat again.
Sift flour and baking powder into deep dishes. Add all spices, soda and salt to this. Transfer the contents of the bowl to a bowl with flour and knead the dough well until a firm consistency. Wrap the prepared dough for Christmas cookies with foil for food and place in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.
During this time, prepare the baking sheets. They do not need to be greased with oil, but only put parchment for baking on the bottom. You also need to turn on the oven, it must be heated to a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees. After the dough has rested and cooled in the refrigerator, we get it. We roll it with a rolling pin into a layer, the thickness of which should not exceed half a centimeter.
Next, with the help of Christmas cookie cutters, we cut out various figures from the dough and lay them on baking sheets. Be sure to observe a distance of three to four centimeters between the figures. Place baking sheets with figures in the oven. We bake delicious Christmas cookies from ten to twelve minutes to a dense state. Remove the finished cookies from the oven, place on a flat clean surface and allow it to cool completely. Now we need to cook the icing. Why pour powdered sugar into a bowl and pour warm boiled milk. Stir and beat with a blender.
If desired, the glaze can be divided into several parts and add food colors of different colors to each. Only after the cookies have completely cooled down can icing be applied to it. Leave the pastries for a little while, so that the icing hardens. You can decorate Christmas cookies with icing melted in a water bath with dark chocolate. After the chocolate has hardened, the cookies can be transferred to a container and covered with a lid. Delicious Christmas cookies with icing for the holiday ready.
Ginger cookie
Required Products:
- Premium flour, wheat - 260 grams.
- Ground ginger - two tablespoons.
- Powdered sugar - one hundred grams.
- Eggs are two.
- Butter - 200 grams.
- Baking powder - half a teaspoon.
Decoration:
- Egg white - two pieces.
- Lemon juice - ten drops.
- Powdered sugar - forty grams.
Step by step recipe
We will cook using a recipe for Christmas ginger cookies. We take a flat and wide dish and put pieces of oil in it. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and, carefully kneading hands, collect it in the center of the dish. Then pour the sifted flour around a hill of mashed butter. Beat eggs with a whisk and pour over butter, and pour baking powder and ground ginger evenly over the flour. Of all the ingredients on the dish, roll a tight ball of dough. We made dough for ginger christmas cookies. Now you need to pack it in a food bag and refrigerate for half an hour.
Then we take out the dough and roll it. Using a special mold, cut out ginger Christmas cookies from the dough. Next, lay the baking paper on a dry baking sheet and lay on it, at a short distance from each other, the figures of ginger cookies. We put the baking sheet in the oven for about ten to twelve minutes. The temperature in the oven should be one hundred and eighty degrees.
While baking ginger Christmas cookies, we will prepare the icing for decoration. In a small bowl, combine the proteins, powder, lemon juice and beat with a blender. Transfer the resulting glaze into a special cream bag with a nozzle. Put the baked cookies on a cutting board and wait until they cool. And then decorate the figures of ginger Christmas cookies with icing. Delicious and festive refreshment is ready.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The list of ingredients:
- Flour - 400 grams.
- Oil - 180 grams.
- Dark chocolate - 200 grams.
- Eggs - six pieces.
- Cocoa - fifty grams.
- Baking powder - two teaspoons.
- Milk chocolate - 200 grams.
- Dough powder - 260 grams.
- Powder for sprinkling - one glass.
- Salt - two pinches.
Cooking process
If you do not know how to make Christmas cookies, and you really want to please your loved ones, we suggest using a proven and reliable recipe. All products, regardless of where they were located - on the balcony, in the refrigerator or in the basement - must be placed in a warm room a few hours before cooking.
To begin with, the tiles of black and milk chocolate need to be broken into pieces and put in an iron bowl. Add the diced butter to the chocolate. Place the bowl on a smaller pan half full of water and put on fire. Pieces of chocolate and butter should melt completely in a water bath.
This will take some time, but for now you need to pour powdered sugar into the blender bowl, add the eggs and beat the blender to a thick foam. When the creamy chocolate mixture cools down, you need to lay out the beaten eggs with the powder and mix. Sift flour into another larger bowl, and pour cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Mix the dry ingredients together.
Next, to prepare Christmas chocolate cookies, you need to put the creamy chocolate mixture in a bowl with flour and mix well with a mixer. Ready soft dough needs to be cooled in the refrigerator for two hours. Remove the rest of the dough from the refrigerator. Cover a baking sheet, not oiled, with parchment and do not forget to turn on the oven.
Now we have to form cookies from the dough. In our recipe for Christmas cookies, it is round in shape. We take a teaspoon, draw a little dough into it and hands form a ball the size of which does not exceed a walnut. Pour powdered sugar into a small bowl and roll each ball formed from dough very carefully from all sides. Then we spread our chocolate balls on a baking sheet, leaving a small distance between them.
When the baking sheet is filled with Christmas chocolate cookies, put it in the oven. We bake our cookies at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees from ten to twenty minutes. The main thing is not to over-bake the pastries in the oven, otherwise instead of tender cookies inside covered with crisp, you will get hard brown crackers. After cooking, it is advisable to fold the cookies for storage in the dishes and close tightly with a lid. So it will remain soft for a long time, and you can prepare these beautiful products for the holiday in advance.
Simple Christmas Cookies
This recipe for a simple Christmas cookie has a minimal amount of ingredients, but it is prepared very quickly.
Grocery list:
- Flour - 500 grams.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Butter - 350 grams.
- Egg yolks are two.
- Salt is a third of a teaspoon.
Cooking
In a deep bowl, place soft butter, sugar, chicken yolks and salt. Grind thoroughly, and then, gradually adding the sifted flour, knead the elastic dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for thirty minutes. While the dough is cooling, turn on the oven, prepare the baking sheets, pour a little flour on the table.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it on the table into an even layer with a thickness of no more than five millimeters. After that, with the help of special molds, cut out figures of Christmas trees and snowflakes from the dough and transfer them to a baking sheet with baking paper. Fill the baking sheets with a simple Christmas cookie, put them in the oven. Fifteen minutes later, you can get the baking sheets out of the oven heated to one hundred and eighty degrees and let them cool. Although preparing such cookies is much simpler and faster, in taste it is no worse than prepared according to other recipes.
Christmas Holiday Cinnamon Cookies
Essential Ingredients:
- Premium flour - 400 grams.
- Ground Kriza - a dessert spoon.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Eggs are two.
- Oil is a pack.
- Honey - four tablespoons.
- Soda is a teaspoon.
Glaze:
- Powder - one and a half glasses.
- Vanilla sugar - a bag.
- Butter - a teaspoon.
- Milk - two dessert spoons.
- Salt is a pinch.
Recipe
All ingredients must first be kept warm for a couple of hours. Then you can start cooking by placing already softened butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with a mixer. Then we add chicken eggs, liquid honey and beat with a mixer again. Pour the remaining dry ingredients to the whipped mass and knead the dough for Christmas cookies with cinnamon.
The cooked dough should be kept warm for thirty to forty minutes, and then put in a bag and placed in the refrigerator for one hour. When the dough has cooled, we take it out of the refrigerator. Next, on the table we lay out the parchment for baking, and on top of it we place the dough. The fact is that in this recipe the dough crumbles easily and therefore we will roll it directly on parchment. Having rolled out the layer, four to five centimeters thick, with the help of a mold we cut out cookies in the form of Christmas figures.
We remove the remains of the dough and very carefully shift the parchment with the figures on a baking sheet. We turn on the oven, heat it up to one hundred and eighty degrees and send a baking sheet into it. We bake Christmas cookies with cinnamon for ten to fifteen minutes. Removing the cookies from the oven, you will see that it turned out to be very soft. But don’t worry. As it cools, it hardens slightly on the outside, but inside it remains soft and tender.
Now, to decorate cookies, you need to prepare the icing. To do this, you need to melt the butter, and boil the milk. All ingredients are mixed until the cream is consistent. Place the icing in the cooking envelope with the nozzle and decorate the cooled cookies. When the icing hardens the cookies can be folded into a box or container.
Christmas honey cookies
Product List:
- Premium wheat flour - 400 grams.
- Honey - 60 grams.
- Soy sauce - three tablespoons.
- Brown sugar - 100 grams.
- Clove - a teaspoon.
- Butter - 120 grams.
- Soda is a teaspoon.
- Sugar - one hundred grams.
- Ginger is a teaspoon.
- Water - 60 milliliters.
Cooking process
Have you decided to bake Christmas honey cookies for the holiday? Wonderful. We suggest you use one of the many recipes and find out how to make Christmas cookies so that it turns out delicious and everyone likes it. Take a stewpan, preferably with a thick bottom, and pour water and honey into it. Stir and place on a small fire. Warm up a little and pour granulated sugar and brown sugar. Mix again, and when the sugar has almost melted, put the butter, cloves, ginger and soy sauce in a saucepan.
Melt on fire and leave to cool slightly. Add baking soda. Then transfer the foaming mixture from the stewpan to a bowl. Sift the flour into a bowl and knead the soft dough, which after cooking you need to put in the refrigerator for forty minutes. After that, the dough needs to be rolled out quite thinly - the thickness should be no more than two millimeters.
We take special molds and cut out figures in the New Year theme from the dough. We spread the cut out Christmas honey cookies on a baking sheet and place in the oven. It will be baked at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees for five to seven minutes, no more. Ready hot cookies are recommended to be sprinkled with powdered sugar. A delicious treat for the holiday is ready.
Christmas nut cookies
List of ingredients:
- Flour - one kilogram.
- Pine nuts - 100 grams.
- Sugar - one glass.
- Almonds - 100 grams.
- Oil - 0.5 kilograms.
- Candied fruits - 100 grams.
- Brandy - twelve tablespoons.
- Raisins - 100 grams.
For sprinkling:
- Powdered sugar - one glass.
Cooking Cookies
Pour brandy into the bowl of the blender, spread the butter and pour sugar. Beat well with a mixer. Then, in small parts, pouring the sifted flour into the blender bowl, mix with a mixer at low speed. Pine nuts, boiled with boiling water, raisins, almonds and candied fruits are sent last to the dough for Christmas cookies. Here already knead the dough with your hands.
Leave the dough in a warm room for about twenty minutes. During this time, turn on the oven. At the bottom of baking sheets we cover baking paper. Grind sugar in a coffee grinder to sprinkle our cookies. From the rested almond-nut dough, we roll balls about the size of a walnut and lay them on a baking sheet at a distance of one and a half to two centimeters from each other.
We send baking sheets with balls from the dough into the oven. Christmas nut cookies are baked for thirty-thirty-five minutes at a temperature of one hundred and sixty degrees. We take out the baking sheets with the finished cookies and immediately sprinkle with the prepared powdered sugar. After cooling, transfer the cookies to a suitable container, where they will be stored until the holidays.