Ingredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 240 g flour;
- 40 g cocoa;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 2 tablespoons of milk.
For glaze:
- 90 g butter;
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- confectionery topping - optional.
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla with a mixer. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda and salt and beat until smooth. Pour in the milk and mix well again.
Roll out the dough and cut out circles or figures of the desired shape. Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 13 minutes.
While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting. To do this, put the butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the butter is melted. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar and mix thoroughly.
Drizzle the cookies with chocolate icing and garnish with sprinkles if desired. This must be done immediately, because the icing quickly hardens. If the glaze has thickened, simply heat it over the fire for 15-20 seconds, stirring constantly.
thecreativebite.com Ingredients
- 180 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- 140 ml sour cream.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Put flour, baking powder, soda, salt, nutmeg and sour cream and knead the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight or at least a couple of hours.
Roll out the dough and cut out shapes. Put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should brown slightly. Let it cool before applying frosting. You will find three glaze recipes at the end of the article.
homecookingmemories.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 60 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 teaspoon mint extract - optional
- 1 egg;
- 300 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon red food coloring
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar, powdered sugar, vanillin, mint extract and egg in a mixer. If you can't find mint extract, replace it with a pinch of cinnamon. The cookies will have a different, but no less pleasant winter taste and aroma. Then add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
Divide the dough into two equal parts. Add food coloring to one of them to make a bright red dough. Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Then pinch off some of the dough from both pieces. Using your hands, roll them into thin sausages about 12 cm long. Roll them into a pigtail and form a “candy cane”. Do the same for the rest of the test.
Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. Finished cookies can be decorated with powdered sugar.
spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 130 g of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon baking powder;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon + more for garnish
- 360 g flour;
- ½ cup chopped walnuts + more for garnish
- ½ cup white chocolate chips + more for garnish
- 1 large apple;
- ¼ cup caramel sauce.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, soda and cinnamon. Stir until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough.
Add chopped nuts and chocolate chips to the dough. You can make it yourself: just finely chop the white chocolate. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut it into small cubes. Add the apple to the batter and stir.
Shape the dough into small balls and place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Slightly flatten the balls with your hand, make a small indentation in the middle of each and fill it with caramel. Sprinkle with nuts, chocolate chips and cinnamon. Flatten the cookies with a spatula to make them flat.
Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 minutes until the cookies are browned. Cool it completely before serving. By the way, the next day these cookies will be even tastier than immediately after cooking.
5. Cookies "Snowballs"
Gts/Shutterstock Ingredients
- 220 g butter;
- 5 tablespoons of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 240 g flour;
- 240 g chopped walnuts;
- 200 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until creamy. Then add vanilla and salt. Gradually add flour, constantly beating the dough. Add nuts and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough in two, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 45 minutes.
With your hands, form small balls with a diameter of about 2.5 cm from the chilled dough. Place them on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 12-14 minutes, until the cookies begin to brown. Don't bake too long or the balls will break apart.
Roll the still warm cookies in powdered sugar. Let it cool and roll in the powder again.
bettycrocker.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 300 g flour;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 250 g sugar;
- 120 g butter;
- 100 g ricotta;
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
For glaze:
- 280 g of powdered sugar;
- 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice.
Cooking
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the sugar, softened butter, ricotta and lemon zest with a mixer. Continuing to beat, add the eggs one at a time. Add flour mixture and vanilla and mix until smooth. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Shape the cooled dough into balls about 2.5 cm in diameter. Place the balls on parchment-lined baking sheets, slightly flattening them at the bottom. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 9-11 minutes until lightly browned.
While the cookies are cooling, mix in the icing sugar and lemon juice. If the frosting is too thick, add a little more lemon juice. Drizzle ½ teaspoon of frosting over each cookie. If desired, you can decorate cookies with confectionery sprinkles.
dinneratthezoo.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 30 large marshmallows (can be replaced with soft marshmallows);
- 1 ½ teaspoons green food coloring
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 350 g corn flakes;
- a little vegetable oil;
- red dragees - for decoration.
Cooking
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely dissolved. If you are using marshmallows, cut them into small pieces and pour a little water into the pan.
Remove saucepan from heat, add food coloring, vanilla, and corn flakes. Mix everything thoroughly. Put a tablespoon of this mixture on parchment, greased with vegetable oil. While the mixture has not cooled down, use your hands to form New Year's wreaths from it and decorate the dragee. Leave cookies to cool on parchment at room temperature.
And this video clearly shows the process of making these "wreaths":
bhg.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 270 g flour;
- 1 tablespoon cocoa;
- 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
For filling:
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 30 g butter;
- 2 teaspoons of ground coffee;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- some milk.
Cooking
Make the dough first. Mix butter, sugar, baking powder and salt with a mixer. Add the egg and vanillin and achieve a homogeneous consistency. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. Divide the dough into two parts, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
On a floured surface, roll out the dough into thin sheets. Cut out figures from the dough, put them on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 8-10 minutes.
Mix ingredients for filling, adding milk as needed. You should have a thick cream. Spread a teaspoon of coffee filling on one cookie and cover with a second one. Combine cocoa and icing sugar and sprinkle over sandwiches.
9. Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese
JFunk/Shutterstock Ingredients
- 200 g of sugar;
- 240 g butter;
- 80 g cream cheese;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 egg;
- 270 g flour.
Cooking
Mix sugar, softened butter, cream cheese, salt, vanilla and egg yolk until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight.
Turn the chilled dough out onto a floured board and roll into a thin sheet. Do not roll too thin, otherwise the cookies will turn out hard. If there is too much dough, just put the excess in the refrigerator until the next time.
Cut out shapes from the dough and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 7-10 minutes until lightly browned. Let the cookies cool before decorating.
cookingclassy.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 100 g of honey;
- 1 large egg;
- 2 tablespoons of water;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon;
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add honey, egg and water and stir. In another bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients and gradually add them to the dough, stirring constantly. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer on a floured surface. Cut out figures of men from the dough and put them on baking sheets greased with vegetable oil or covered with parchment. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are golden brown.
Now that you've baked delicious fragrant cookies, it's time to make them a real decoration of the holiday table. Thanks to a variety of molds, delicious glaze, food coloring and a culinary syringe, you can create real works of art. Here are some ideas for inspiration:
1. Classic glaze
thekitchn.com Ingredients
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 4 tablespoons of milk;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until smooth. The icing should not spread, but at the same time, you should be comfortable decorating the cookies.
If the frosting is too thick, add a little more milk. Keep in mind that it will increase in volume even more. Then, if desired, you can add food coloring.
This glaze dries for several hours. But if you want to decorate cookies with some kind of confectionery topping, then it is better to do this immediately after applying the icing. So the jewelry will grab better.
There are many original designs for New Year's cookies:
2. Protein glaze
kingarthurflour.com Ingredients
- 2 egg whites;
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- 330 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Whisk the egg whites and lemon juice with a mixer. Add the sifted icing sugar and beat until smooth. If the frosting is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar, and if it's too thick, add a little water.
Here are some ideas on how to decorate cookies with egg white frosting:
3. Butter glaze
taste.com.au Ingredients
- 75 g melted butter;
- 500 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 5 tablespoons of milk.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until creamy. If the frosting is too runny, add some milk.
See how easy it is to decorate cookies with buttercream icing:
You can decorate a Christmas tree with such beautiful cookies. To do this, you need to make holes in the cookies before baking, and then insert thin ribbons there. And it can also be an unusual gift.
Step 1: for the dough, make a creamy-sugar mass.
We take 100 grams of butter. It is important that the ingredient should be cold. We divide it into two parts - 50 grams each. Grind one part in a deep bowl with sugar using a mixer. It's okay if there is no electrical appliance at hand. You can do this process with a hand whisk or even a fork. It just takes more time. After - the second part of the butter is turned into a creamy liquid using a microwave oven. You can also melt the butter on a small fire on a gas or electric stove. In the first case, we place our oil in a special temperature-resistant bowl, preferably with a lid or cover with a simple flat plate. We warm it up in the microwave for several minutes, from time to time checking how our ingredient is doing there. You don't need to overheat the oil. In the second case, we take a small saucepan and, constantly stirring with a spoon, melt the butter. In any case, our solid milk mixture will turn into a liquid mass, and this is what we need. So, add it to the creamy-sugar mixture and mix everything well again.Step 2: Add the necessary ingredients to the mass.
In a deep container, add salt, baking powder and an egg to our kneaded mass. Again, mix everything with the help of improvised inventory. After - add flour. Attention: flour must be sifted. Therefore, we take a sieve and sift the main component of our cookies. Only then will our pastries turn out tender and crispy. Step 3: knead the dough
We have collected all the ingredients for the dough in one container. It remains the penultimate step - to make the dough. To do this, using a tablespoon, knead the dough in the same container. After - we spread the test mass on a cutting board or, if inconvenient, just on the kitchen table, sprinkle it with a little flour first. We begin to knead the dough, giving it a shape. And so that the dough does not stick to your hands, we process them with sunflower oil. Then you will not only make the process of making cookies easier for yourself, but also nourish your skin with useful substances and vitamins. Immediately after kneading, let the dough brew for 30-40 minutes. Step 4: We form cookies.
On the kitchen table, roll out the dough with a rolling pin. The thickness should be about 4-5 millimeters. We take special molds. Here it is up to you. You can make cookies, starting with animal molds, and ending with Christmas trees or various New Year's heroes of children's fairy tales. The main thing is that before cutting the dough, the molds must be dipped in flour. Then they won't stick to the test. If there were no special molds at hand, then we just take an ordinary glass of any diameter and make round cookies. Step 5: Bake cookies in the oven.
We cover the baking sheet with baking paper. With the remaining piece of butter, grease the parchment well. We lay out our New Year's cookies and lightly pierce with a fork. Thanks to this, our pastries will not swell during cooking. We put the baking sheet in the oven and at a temperature of 250 ° C we wait 7 minutes. Exactly after this time we take out cookies. Baking is ready. Do not worry, during this period the dough will have time to cook, since the temperature in the oven is quite high, and the cookies themselves are quite thin. Step 6: prepare the frosting.
Of course, the cookies turned out very tasty. But it is better to wait until the icing is ready. Then and only then will it be impossible to tear yourself away from your baking. So, take a deep bowl and a glass. Separate the protein from the yolk, respectively, in this dish. We add powdered sugar to a deep bowl with protein and, using a hand whisk or mixer, begin to beat our ingredients. The resulting mixture is divided into two parts. To the first - add cocoa and again begin to stir until a homogeneous mass is formed. Glaze is ready! Step 7: Serve.
We got a dark and light glaze. Now the cooking process is coming to its triumphant end. We take a special confectionery brush and begin to “paint” the surface of the cookies, first with light, and then with dark icing. If you didn’t have professional culinary equipment at hand, it’s okay! You can take an ordinary teaspoon and just pour over the cookies. And at the end we sprinkle our New Year's pastries with culinary sprinkles. Bon appetit! - - You can add spices to New Year's shortbread cookies at will and mood. For example: vanilla or cinnamon. Add whatever you want, even nut crumbs.
- - When preparing the dough for shortbread cookies, do not spare butter. It is this ingredient that will help your baking to be truly sandy: crumbly and melting in your mouth.
- - Instead of topping for Easter cakes, you can use nuts or small raisins. Cookies will turn out to be more satisfying, but also high-calorie, however, too.
- - It is not necessary to use egg white and cocoa for glaze. You can melt milk or dark chocolate using a microwave oven or in a water bath. And decorate New Year's shortbread cookies with chocolate icing using a teaspoon.
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The New Year mood is already hovering everywhere, and so you want to bring a piece of the holiday to your home.
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Step 1: Cooking cookies.
Here is an easy shortbread cookie recipe that works great.
We will need:
- 200 g flour
- 63 g powdered sugar
- 100 g butter
- 1 small egg
- a pinch of salt
Cooking:
- Mix flour, powdered sugar and salt. Add butter cut into small cubes. Mix the ingredients well - by hand or in a food processor, whichever is more convenient for you.
- Knead the dough until fine crumbs form, then add the egg. Turn on the processor and watch until the dough starts to come together.
- Gather the dough into a ball with your hands and roll out to a thickness of 3 mm.
- You can put an openwork napkin on the dough and roll it on top with a rolling pin - for patterns. Place the dough in the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
- Cut out shapes from the chilled dough and place back in the freezer for 15 minutes. Then bake the cookies in the oven at 180 degrees for about 5-8 minutes.
Step 2: Prepare the frosting.
Now we proceed to the most interesting stage - we prepare the icing to decorate our cookies. Here are 5 simple frosting recipes that are easy to make at home.
classic glaze
We will need:
- 200 g powdered sugar
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 egg white
Cooking:
- Mix all the ingredients and beat the mass with a mixer until the volume increases by 2-3 times.
- Multi-colored glaze options will be obtained if lemon juice is replaced with juices of various vegetables. So, by adding beet juice to its composition, you can get shades from pale pink to lilac (from 1 to 5-6 tsp beet juice). Orange color will give carrot juice, yellow - tincture or decoction of sage, green - spinach or broccoli juice, blue or blue - red cabbage juice. A red tint will give redcurrant or strawberry juice.
caramel icing
We will need:
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp. l. butter
- 3 art. l. milk
- 1 pack of vanillin
Cooking:
- Melt the butter in a saucepan (saucepan), pour milk into it and dissolve brown sugar. Boil one minute.
- Remove the sugar-butter mixture from heat and add half a glass of powdered sugar. Beat well, cool, add vanilla and remaining powder.
- Beat again until you get the finished glaze.
Professional colored glaze
We will need:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp milk
- 2 tsp sugar syrup
- 0.4 tsp almond extract
- food colorings
Cooking:
- Mix powdered sugar with milk until a soft paste. Then add sugar syrup to it and beat until the icing is shiny and smooth.
- Divide the icing among the cups and add the desired coloring to each cup. The more dye, the richer and brighter the color will turn out.
orange glaze
We will need:
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 3–4 tbsp. l. orange juice
Cooking:
- Pour freshly squeezed juice into a saucepan and gradually add powdered sugar to it, but not vice versa.
- Mix the powder with orange juice, adding it to the desired consistency. The orange icing should be a little runny so it spreads easily over the cake.
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 figured masterpieces of 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 2020?
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 from them the so-called caramel 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;
- corn flakes - 350 grams;
- dragee (red).
Method of preparation: 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 in 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 preparing the holiday cookies, you can start creating decorations for it, the main of which is icing.
classical
Components:
- powdered (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.
The New Year and Christmas are coming soon, so you need to prepare and draw up a menu in advance. In this article, you will learn several recipes for delicious cookies from different doughs, shapes, decorations and glazes to decorate them.
Recipe content:
New Year is a favorite holiday for many, and cookies these days are a favorite food. On New Year's Eve, you should definitely do baking and painting New Year's magic cookies in the form of snowflakes, stars, Christmas trees and angels. In addition, a child can be involved in this creativity.
It is not difficult to prepare such handmade cookies, any dough can be used. The main thing here is to skillfully and beautifully decorate cookies: apply a painting with a smooth, shiny and glossy glaze, which will be a real work of art. Coloring cookies is very interesting and exciting. In addition, glaze is not only elegant and beautiful, but also very useful. Thanks to it, products retain freshness longer. And preparing such a decoration is very easy, simple and not expensive. For the simplest glaze, you only need sugar and water. Although there are many decoration recipes.
In order for baking to be always spectacular, beautiful and fragrant, you need to follow certain rules for preparing glaze.
- The frosting should not be too thick or too runny. Its normal consistency is similar to sour cream. Then it will be well applied to the cookies, quickly grab and will not spread. But if it comes out too liquid, then add a little powdered sugar, too thick - hot water.
- When preparing the glaze, often water is replaced with lemon juice, or a few drops of it are added for flavor. It will give a great taste and smell. For very sweet baked goods, lemon juice is better to use more, this will create a contrasting taste.
- A rich taste, a soft and dense texture, the glaze will turn out on proteins and yolks. The white icing is used to draw patterns, while the yolks give a yellowish tint. For safety, it is advisable to dry such a glaze in the oven. Products are placed in a heated oven up to 100°C. This process will not only bake the glaze, but also protect against salmonella, because. it dies at 70°C.
- Food coloring is often added to the glaze. Cookies with them are bright, festive and cheerful in appearance. Store-bought food coloring is used, but it is better to add natural coloring products. For example, raspberry jam (red color), turmeric and a piece of butter (orange color), crushed mint (green color). Brown color will give chocolate or cocoa powder. But for this it is better to use not porous chocolate, but ordinary slab chocolate.
- Liquid glaze is applied with a brush in several layers. For drawing, a confectionery syringe or a regular disposable medical syringe is used.
- Plain: Mix 200 g of powdered sugar with 4 tbsp. l. hot water and put on a small fire. Cook for 5-7 minutes until smooth. Drizzle hot glaze over cookies.
- From egg yolks: Whisk 5 yolks with 3-4 tbsp. orange juice until firm foam. Gradually enter 1.5 tbsp. powdered sugar and stir until smooth. Cover the products with glaze, dry in the oven at t 100 ° C.
- With rum: 1 st. sift powdered sugar. Add 1 tbsp. water and 3 tbsp. Roma. Thoroughly rub and cover the dessert.
- Chocolate: Break 100 g of chocolate, add 3 tbsp. hot water and heat until chocolate melts. Put 1 tbsp. softened butter and 100 g of powdered sugar. Stir and decorate pastries.
A simple recipe for New Year's cookies is a lot of happiness, good mood, a little magic and faith in miracles. Then everything will work out! An important point in the preparation of cookies is strict adherence to the recipe. Different dough requires a specific approach. Therefore, do not change the technology of preparation and the number of ingredients.
In the preparation of cookie dough, the process of working with butter is important. If it is mixed with sugar by melting on the stove, the product will be oily. Hard and tough cookies will come from chilled butter. Delicate cookies will be if the butter is thawed in advance. To speed up this process, the butter can be cut into small slices.
It is advisable to knead the dough away from the stove. Often the dough should be pre-chilled in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. To prevent the dough from heating up, divide it into parts - while you work with one of them. When you take the dough out of the refrigerator, knead it a little with your hands, and then start rolling it out.
Making homemade cookies with your own hands is very easy to prepare. By connecting all family members to the cooking process, you can arrange a small exciting holiday.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 368 kcal.
- The number of servings - 10 pcs.
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Softened butter - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g for dough, 110 g for glaze
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - 275 g
- Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
- Protein - 1 pc. in glaze
- Food coloring
Step by step preparation:
- Whisk butter with sugar. Add egg, vanilla extract and flour. Knead the dough.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm and, using cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Place them carefully on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool the products for 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then keep on a wire rack until completely cooled.
- For the frosting, beat the egg white until stiff peaks form.
- Add some of the powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth. Pour in the remaining powder and mix. Add dye and stir.
- Decorate the finished pastries with icing and serve immediately for tea drinking.
New Year's gingerbread cookies in the form of fairy-tale characters will give a festive mood and perfectly decorate the New Year's table. And for applying creative painting, attract children and arrange real mysterious magic.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Soda - 1.5 tsp
- Ground ginger - 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Liquid honey - 3 tsp
- Oil at room temperature - 100 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- In one bowl, mix baking soda and flour.
- In another bowl, rub butter with sugar. Add egg and honey. Mix thoroughly and put the mass into a bowl with flour.
- Knead the dough until it turns brown. The dough should stop sticking to your hands.
- Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of 7 mm and quickly cut out the figures.
- Put them on a greased baking sheet and put them in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. When the cookies turn brown, they are ready. The bread will be soft at first, but then it will cool and become crispy.
