Delicious soft cookies for the new year. New Year's cookies recipes with photos

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 are 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!

I bring to your attention, beautiful and tasty children's New Year's 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 wrap the shortcrust pastry for cookies 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 with 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. a spoon.

Cooking process:

V step by step photo recipe is kneaded and shortbread dough is 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.

In a separate bowl, sift wheat flour (3 cups). 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 Honey Gingerbread Dough

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. Whisk lightly with a fork in a bowl. a raw egg, 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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Making delicious cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to recipes with photos is as easy as shelling pears!

On the eve of the New Year, it's time to think about what you will treat the guests who have come to the light. An obligatory component of the festive table is sweets. For example, you can make themed New Year's cookies. Subsequently, it is served on the table, used as Christmas decorations or decor elements for photo shoots.

Of course, many stores sell ready-made cookies, but we suggest baking them yourself. How to cook fragrant cookies for the New Year with your own hands?

The New Year's name of the cookie is justified, because it has the shape of a spruce.

Ingredients:

• citrus - 1 pc.;
• butter - 150 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• vanillin;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• baking powder - 2 tsp;
• flour - 500 g.

Note. Butter can be substituted for margarine if desired. Of the citrus fruits for cookies, an orange is best.

Cooking:

1. Remove the zest from the orange. Squeeze out the juice from the fruit.
2. Rub sugar with vanilla.
3. Whisk the eggs into the sugar.
4. Add juice and zest. Stir.
5. Pour in the flour.
6. Knead the dough carefully. Roll it out.
7. cut out thin dough Christmas trees using special culinary forms.
8. Prepare a baking sheet: grease it with oil or cover it with special paper.
9. Place the cookies at a distance from each other (at least 5 centimeters).
10. Bake for up to 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
11. Dip each cookie into the prepared frosting.
12. Let the dessert dry before serving.

Ready cookies can be used to decorate spruce. To do this, it is necessary to make a small hole in each product in advance, where a thread or ribbon will subsequently be inserted. To make a hole in the New Year's cookies, use a wooden stick.

How to cook New Year's cane cookies?

Cookies in the form of canes look original on the New Year's table. Such sweets are especially common in American Christmas comedies. In Russia, so far, canes are not so wildly popular. Time to fix it!

Cooking such cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with a photo is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.

Ingredients:

• flour - 160 g;
• dyes;
• butter - 110 g;
• yolk;
• salt;
• powdered sugar - 50 g.

Cooking:

1. Whip the butter in a bowl.
2. Add powdered sugar and beat again.
3. Crack an egg into a glass. Separate the yolk from the protein.
4. Add the yolk to the rest of the ingredients. Whisk.
5. Divide the dough into three parts. Add green dye to one part, pink to the other, and yellow to the third.
6. Divide the flour into 3 parts. Add to each part of the test.
7. Knead into tight balls. Wrap them in cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
8. Divide three balls into small parts. Roll each into a sausage.
9. Twist two sausages and bend at the end. Do the same with the remaining test.
10. Place the canes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
11. Bake for 10-15 minutes at medium temperature.

When baking New Year's cookies, pay attention to the light part of the canes. It shouldn't burn. Control the baking temperature yourself.

Optionally, you can use any other colors in the decoration. Gel dyes are best suited for the test.

Delicate gingerbread cookies

A particularly popular type of cookie, which housewives prepare with their own hands for the New Year, has been ginger for several years now (see photo above).

There are many recipes on how to bake this delicious beauty! Someone prefers round and dense cookies. Others prefer thin and crispy ones.

By the way, these cookies can also be hung on the Christmas tree as edible toys. Before baking, it is enough to make a small hole in each cookie so that it is convenient to hook it on a spruce branch.

Ingredients:

• brown sugar - 110 g;
• flour - 200 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• egg;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• cinnamon;
• ginger.

Cooking:

Gingerbread cookies - cut out the shape

1. Heat honey in a water bath. Use the ingredient in an amount of 3 tsp.
2. Beat butter and sugar. Whisk the butter separately first without adding other ingredients.
3. Add sugar. Keep whisking.
4. Mix dry ingredients (baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, flour).
5. Whisk 1 egg into the butter and sugar. Add salt and honey to it.
6. Beat with a mixer at medium speed.
7. Add dry ingredients. Whisk again.
8. Knead the dough with your hands until smooth.
9. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
10. Divide the dough into thin layers.
11. Gently roll it out with a rolling pin.
12. Using special molds, cut out various shapes from it.
13. Bake at medium temperature for 15-20 minutes.

Decorate with icing if desired. It is not necessary to cook it yourself, use ready-made products.

If there are children at home, invite them to decorate beautiful fragrant cookies for the New Year, prepared according to our recipe. They will definitely enjoy this pastime.

Recipe for gingerbread cookies from Yulia Vysotskaya

We offer you to get acquainted with the recipe for making gingerbread cookies for the New Year (see photo) from the culinary specialist Yulia Vysotskaya. What the master prepares is very easy to bake with your own hands. The ingredients used are well known to all housewives.

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 cups;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• sugar - a glass;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• butter - 100 g;
• cloves - 6 pcs.;
• egg;
• ginger root - 2 pcs.

Cooking:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
2. Peel the ginger and grate.
3. Grind the cloves in a mortar.
4. Mix flour with baking powder and spices.
5. Whisk butter and egg. Add egg and flour with spices to them.
6. Knead the dough carefully. Roll out the resulting mass. Sprinkle the table with flour first to prevent the dough from sticking.
7. Cut out any shapes from it. To do this, use the forms.
8. Grease a baking sheet with oil. Sprinkle some flour on it.
9. Lay out the cookies. Bake no more than 25 minutes.

Remember to keep an eye on the pastry so it doesn't burn. After the cookies have cooled, they can be painted with icing. Chocolate can be used as an alternative. Such cookies can be presented as edible.

How to make cookies in the form of numbers?

Number cookies 2018

On the New Year's table it will be interesting to look at cookies made in the form of numbers. From the delicacy, you can add the number 2018. Naturally, it is necessary to bake not only these numbers, but also others. Ready cookies are served on the table or decorated with spruce.

Ingredients:

• butter - 125 g;
• cocoa - 1 tbsp. l.;
• powdered sugar - 125 g;
• milk - 3 tbsp. l.;
• flour - 225 g;
• honey - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Turn the powdered sugar and butter into a voluminous fluffy mass. Add flour and beat.
2. Heat the honey in a water bath if it is frozen. Add it to the dough.
3. Pour milk into the dough (2 tablespoons). Mix everything again until smooth.
4. Knead the dough, after sprinkling the table with flour. If the mass sticks to the hands, they must be greased with butter.
5. Divide the dough in half and wrap one half in cling film.
6. Knead the second half again and add cocoa powder, as well as milk (1 tbsp. L.). If everything is done correctly, the dough will acquire a uniform structure.
7. Also wrap the second part of the workpiece with cling film.
8. Put the blanks in the refrigerator for an hour.
9. Roll out the dough, after sprinkling the surface with flour.
10. Cut out numbers from it using special molds.
11. Do the same with the second part of the test.
12. Bake dessert at medium temperature for up to 20 minutes. The finished cookies should be golden brown.

It remains to paint the numbers with icing or chocolate. Add the number 2018 from the cookies.

Such pastries can serve as a decoration for the New Year's table 2018!

Bunny Cookies

Cookies bunnies

Unusual, and most importantly very tasty, are cookies in the form of hares, baked with your own hands. On New Year's Eve, they should definitely be prepared for the festive table.

Ingredients:

• flour - 3 cups;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• dry yeast - 1 sachet;
• salt - tsp;
• egg;
• sour cream - 1 cup;
• water - ¼ cup;
• butter - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

Cut out the shape

1. Mix sour cream and butter.
2. Add water and put on a slow fire.
3. Blend ingredients until smooth. It is important that the mass does not boil.
4. Sift the flour. Add an egg to the dough.
5. Add all remaining ingredients to the sour cream mixture. Knead the dough.
6. Wrap it up and put it in a warm place. If it has risen by 2 times, then you can continue to cook cookies.
7. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
8. Put small balls of dough on it.
9. Using scissors, make ears for each ball.
10. Eyes are easy to make with a toothpick.
11. Bake hares at 190 degrees for 15 minutes.

Ready-made hares do not need to be decorated with something. They will look very good on the New Year's table.

The secret to making Swedish New Year's cookies

Why not treat your loved ones on holiday with an interesting Swedish dessert. The cookies turn out incredibly fragrant and tender. The perfect dessert to start the morning of January 1 with a mug of cocoa and something sweet.

Ingredients:

• flour - 200 g;
• soda - 2/3 tsp;
• brown sugar - 60 g;
• cloves - ½ tsp;
• soy sauce- 3/2 tbsp. l.;
• ginger - ½ tsp;
• honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon - ½ tsp;
• water - 2 tbsp. l.;
• butter - 60 g.

Cooking:

1. Mix honey, water and sugar and transfer to a saucepan. If the honey has frozen, there is no need to first melt it in a water bath.
2. Put the ingredients on fire.
3. Soy sauce, oil and spices should also be added there.
4. Do not remove the dessert blank from the heat until the ingredients have turned into a homogeneous mass.
5. When the mixture cools down a bit, add baking soda. If the mass starts to foam, it's okay. That's the way it should be.
6. Transfer the dough to a bowl and add flour. You should get a dense elastic mass.
7. Wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
8. Take out the dough and roll it out.
9. Using special molds, cut out various figures. It is allowed to use both different forms, and one.
10. Bake cookies for 5-10 minutes at 180 degrees.

To paint it or not, remains the choice of the hostess. Usually dessert is eaten as it turned out during baking.

How to make icing sugar for cookies?

Having figured out how to cook cookies with your own hands (see photo) for the New Year, we offer you to find out the recipe for making sugar icing for it.

Ingredients:

• squirrels - 3 pcs.;
• powdered sugar - 700 g.

Cooking:

1. Whisk the egg whites into stiff foam.
2. Sift the powdered sugar.
3. Add it to the proteins in parts, not forgetting to beat with a mixer. You should get a dense white mass.

The cookies decorated with chocolate look beautiful. In order to decorate such a decor, you do not need to specially prepare some special cream. It is enough to melt the chocolate, gently cover the cookies with it and wait until they dry.

If the finished cookies for the New Year, made with your own hands according to recipes with a photo, were intended as a gift, take care of a beautiful design. In the New Year 2018, everyone will be pleased to receive such a delicacy!

New Year is a favorite and long-awaited holiday for many people. festive table It is customary to cook various dishes, including pastries. Children especially love it, but adults, having become a little children this evening, will not refuse this treat. Cookies can be a good holiday baking option; for the New Year, they are baked in many countries. With the advent of the sale of the necessary components for traditional New Year's cookies, such a dessert has become quite popular, and with us, baking for the New Year has become more affordable, many people are fond of it.

How is Christmas cookies different from others? The secret is simple: the main difference lies in the shape of the products; chefs try to make New Year's cookies with holiday symbols in mind. New Year's baking often also has a spicy taste and unusual aroma, which is achieved due to the smells of cloves, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric and other aromatic spices. It is with spices that New Year's cookies outperform their simpler counterparts.

New Year's cookies are prepared easily and quickly, and you can find any use for them on a holiday, except for treats.

You can decorate a Christmas tree with your own hands made New Year's cookies, you can give them as a gift to a loved one, beautifully putting them in the same home-made box. At the same time, it is desirable to beautifully paint cookies for the New Year with icing, chocolate, and various confectionery additives. This will give a festive New Year's cookies. The recipe will tell you the order of your actions in their manufacture, but it is also desirable to see how experienced chefs make Christmas cookies. A recipe with a photo is just for this. New Year's pastries in 2019 should be very beautiful, the recipe with the photo must be chosen carefully, taking into account the appropriate symbolism. New Year's cookies are suitable, the recipe with a photo for this holiday should please the Pig, the patron saint of 2019. Bright colors and fragrant "fiery" seasonings should be added to the basic recipe for New Year's cookies.

But first, study the experience of the masters, they know exactly how to make New Year's cookies. Recipes with photos posted on our website will help you with this.

Your guests, especially children, should certainly like your pastries for the New Year 2019. Recipes with photos on our website, which is why we recommend to study.

You can safely add vanillin, cinnamon, nut crumbs and other fragrant and beautiful ingredients to any basic version of the dough;

The dough should be put in the refrigerator for 2 hours, it will become more suitable for rolling. It is necessary to achieve a sheet thickness of about 1 centimeter;

Prepare in advance different molds in the form of festive figures: stars, snowmen, snowflakes, Christmas trees, cones, little animals, etc .;

In the absence of molds, you can make a stencil from cardboard and cut out cookies on it, but this is a more difficult way;

You can also make cookies using inverted cups, glasses of different diameters, you can cut out figures with a sharp and thin knife;

Prepared products should be laid out on a parchment-lined baking sheet at some distance from each other, cookies may increase in size. The oven should be heated to 180 degrees, and put a baking sheet in it for 10-12 minutes;

Any cookie recipe for the New Year requires its bright decoration. Melt white chocolate in a water bath, and use a pastry syringe or a homemade bag to color the cookies as you wish;

For this, you can also use the glaze, which is prepared as follows: beat the white of one egg with one teaspoon of lemon juice and two cups of powdered sugar. Powder needs to be added little by little, until the glaze acquires the desired consistency, not too thick, but not completely liquid; Food coloring is added as desired;

If you intend to paint a more complex pattern on your product, wait until the previous layer of glaze dries;

If colored sprinkles, edible decorative balls are used for decoration, then, on the contrary, it is not necessary to wait for the glaze to dry;

It is better to store such cookies in tightly closed cardboard or metal boxes so that they do not harden quickly.

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 a few recipes delicious cookies from different test, 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 strongly sweet pastries It is better to use more lemon juice, 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. Miscellaneous 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:

1. Whisk butter with sugar. Add egg, vanilla extract and flour. Knead the dough.
2. 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.
3. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.
4. Cool the products for 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then keep on a wire rack until completely cooled.
5. For the frosting, beat the egg white until stiff peaks form.
6. Add some of the powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth. Pour in the remaining powder and mix. Add dye and stir.
7. 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

Step by step preparation:

1. In one bowl, mix baking soda and flour.
2. In another bowl, rub butter with sugar. Add egg and honey. Mix thoroughly and put the mass into a bowl with flour.
3. Knead the dough until it turns brown. The dough should stop sticking to your hands.
4. Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. Roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of 7 mm and quickly cut out the figures.
6. 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.