There is always so much cooking for the New Year ! After all, the festive table should be full of numerous dishes, then the coming year will be rich. Having prepared the cake, I want to supplement it with some other pastries. But there is no desire to tinker with cakes, especially when things are already complete. On the other hand, I want the baking to be one hundred percent New Year's - that is, beautifully decorated, festive and themed. For this, molds and other design methods were invented. We will consider them today. And in our article you will find recipes for New Year’s cookies that will be easy to implement, and it won’t take much time.
"Snowmen"
Glass Christmas toys appeared only in the second half of the 19th century. Prior to this, the Christmas tree was decorated with gingerbread, cookies, apples and nuts. Children sought sweets among the branches and feasted on themselves. Mistresses used special cookie cutters for this dessert. Today we will create Christmas decorations in the form of snowmen ourselves. Beat one hundred grams of white and 75 g of brown sugar with 150 g of soft butter. Add the egg and a pinch of salt to the fluffy mass. In a separate bowl, sift two hundred and fifty grams of flour and another 45 g of cocoa powder. Combine both mixtures. Wrap the dough in a film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then roll it into a thick layer (6-8 mm). Using a cup, a glass and a glass, we cut out mugs of different diameters for snowmen. We put them on parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees for about ten minutes. While the mugs are in the oven, prepare the mastic. Melt the white chocolate by adding a little cream of fat to it. We put hot mugs in the shape of a snowman and fill it with mastic. Melt some dark chocolate now. Draw them eyes, mouth, hat, buttons. Instead of a nose, put a piece of orange peel on the mastic. When the snowmen have cooled, we catch them on the Christmas tree.
Almond snowflakes
New Year's cookies recipes often suggest that the products hang on the tree for quite some time. Therefore, almond flour is used for desserts. It is difficult to get one in our conditions. But you can cook it yourself. To do this, you should pour 85 grams of almonds with boiling water, remove the peel, and calcinate the nucleoli in the oven or in a pan. After that, grind them in a coffee grinder. To fatty nuts do not stick together, you need to crush them in small portions, mixing with 80 grams of sugar. We shift the sweet almond flour into a saucepan, add 70 g of soft butter, a pinch of salt, four tablespoons of cream and two - wheat flour. Heat the mixture, stirring. Now is the time to add New Year's spices: cinnamon, ginger, cloves. Baking sheet with baking paper. Spoon lettuce small circles of almond dough away from each other. Bake at 180 degrees until a slight blush appears.
Brownies in the form of various figures
Recipes for New Year's cookies allow you to transform your favorite sweets. A classic brownie combined with white mastic in the shape of stars, snowmen, Christmas trees and other holiday paraphernalia will decorate your dessert table. Melt two chocolate bars (preferably black) with two tablespoons of good butter in a water bath. Beat three eggs with one hundred grams of granulated sugar and half a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Pour chocolate into this magnificent mass, stir. Now add three tablespoons of seeded flour mixed with a pinch of salt and half a spoonful of baking powder for the dough. Mix with a spatula from the bottom up. Using a pastry bag and using Christmas cookie cutters, we will create various figures on parchment. Cook in the oven for about ten minutes at 180 degrees. Cookies on the outside should be crusty and remain slightly moist inside. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar and “dress” in white icing.
Ginger bells
German recipes for New Year's cookies are popular all over the world, because the products prepared according to them are very fragrant and immediately create a festive atmosphere. We’ll prepare the dough the day before. Melt three tablespoons of honey and 125 g of oil, pour a pinch of quicklime soda. Add a teaspoon of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger. Sift 315 g of flour into another container. Combine it with one hundred grams of sugar, an egg and a pinch of salt. Mix the flour and honey mass. Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator overnight. Using a mold or manually, we cut out bells with a handle from a layer four millimeters thick, in which we cut a small hole with a knife. Preheat the oven to one hundred eighty degrees. Bake the bells for about eight minutes until brown. The Germans are preparing such Christmas cookies with icing. For it, you need to beat the protein with one hundred grams of icing sugar until stable shiny peaks. Dilute citric acid in a teaspoon of boiling water (on the tip of a knife). Pour it into the foam. Or you can just drop a little lemon juice into the whipped protein. Decorate the bells with glaze. Let’s dry. We put beautiful ribbons into the hole of the handle and hang it on the Christmas tree.
"Fortune of Fate"
How to make Christmas cookies a part of holiday fun? There is nothing easier. When guests get to the dessert, they are quite ready to perceive all sorts of draws and lotteries. So, on small pieces of paper we write different predictions of fate. More creative and positive! It can be rhymed wishes or just comic horoscopes. Mix half a glass of flour, fifty grams of sugar, a spoonful of starch, mix with a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg. Beat three proteins with 50 ml of vegetable oil. Put in the flour and mix. Add a little vanillin and a spoonful of Amaretto liqueur. By consistency, the resulting dough should resemble condensed milk. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. On the parchment we plant the dough in the form of circles. Products are baked quickly, like waffles. As soon as the edges are browned, you need to get them out, put a piece of paper and wrap it with a roll or envelope. You need to hurry, because if the dough cools down, it will break. Such predictive Christmas cookies can also be dipped in icing or melted caramel.
Fir-tree cookies
Rub a packet of butter at room temperature with half a glass of granulated sugar. Drive one egg. Pour two cups of flour into which we first interfere with the chopped zest of one orange or lemon. Knead the dough. Pour a tablespoon of ice water into it. Mix and put in a film in the refrigerator for half an hour or twenty minutes. During this time, prepare the cream. One hundred grams of butter, whisk and a half jars of condensed milk. Cut out the patterns in the form of Christmas trees. Roll out the dough with a thick layer. Cut out the figures. We bake it. When the Christmas trees have cooled, grease them with cream.
Cookies through a meat grinder
This New Year’s sweet from Lorraine can be prepared from almond flour, coconut flakes or chopped hazelnuts. Beat four eggs with 250 grams of granulated sugar. Mix half a kilogram of regular and 250 g of almond flour. Add the egg foam and mix. Carefully inject 250 grams of butter at room temperature. Pour a packet of baking powder and vanilla sugar. Knead the dough. It will turn out a little sticky, but it should be. After two hours spent in the refrigerator, it will become like plasticine. Skip future cookies through a meat grinder. From flagella we form products the size of a finger. We spread it on cooking paper. Cook in the oven (preheated) at a temperature of 180 degrees nine minutes.
Snowflakes
This Christmas glaze-icing cookie looks very impressive. Beat an egg with one hundred grams of sugar. Continuing to work as a mixer, we introduce a teaspoon of vanillin and baking powder, 50 grams of potato starch, a little lemon juice and two hundred grams of flour. Break a bar of dark chocolate into pieces, add one hundred grams of butter and melt in a microwave or on water. Connect the two masses. Knead the dough and roll it into a layer five millimeters thick. Using molds, cut out the snowflakes. Baking sheet covered with baking paper. Lay out our snowflakes. The oven should be preheated in advance. We bake products at two hundred degrees Celsius for about twelve minutes. Now do the ice. Beat a third of egg white with 90 grams of powdered sugar. Add half a teaspoon of lemon juice. Beat again to a shiny and smooth state. The mass is transferred to a pastry bag or syringe. We draw various patterns with this icing on snowflakes. When the drawing dries, you should complicate the product into an airtight container and leave it overnight in the refrigerator.
Christmas cookies
In the mixer bowl, mix: a pack of butter, one hundred and thirty grams or a little more powdered sugar, an egg, a pinch of salt, vanilla and a pound of flour. Beat the dough nozzles at high speeds. We work about two minutes. Form the dough into a bun and no longer knead. Wrap the ball in film and put in the refrigerator overnight. When baking, the main thing is that the dough does not heat up too much. We take a serving, the rest - in the refrigerator. We roll out part of the dough into a half-centimeter layer. Quickly cut out the figures and lay them on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Bake for ten minutes at 180 degrees. It is also appropriate to decorate these sweet cookies with icing or icing.