My favorite pastime on the eve of the New Year is numerous chores at home and in the kitchen. You can make your own New Year's cookies. The prepared cookies can be hung on a holiday tree as a decoration, placed in piles, tied with a silk ribbon and given to loved ones. This is not just food, it is an eternal symbol of the New Year! The most beautiful and expensive cookies bought in a store cannot compare in taste and aroma with homemade ones, which are prepared with love.

A New Year's cookie recipe does not have to be complicated and can consist of ingredients that are on hand. Below are interesting and at the same time simple recipes.

Cookies “Shimmering Christmas Trees”

A simple baking recipe that requires the following ingredients:

• 220 gr. Sahara;
• 220 gr. butter;
• 600 gr. flour;
• 2 pinches of table salt;
• 2 eggs
• a few drops of vanilla essence.

Preparation:

1. Beat softened butter and mix with sugar.
2. Add vanilla essence and egg.
3. Sift the flour with salt and add to the dough.
4. Stir the dough until soft, wrap in cling film and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. Roll out the chilled dough into a layer no more than 3-5 mm thick and cut out the Christmas trees. If you want to decorate a Christmas tree with cookies, make small holes in it.
6. Place the cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
7. Decorate the finished and cooled cookies with multi-colored icing and sugar confectionery balls. Thread ribbons through the holes.

Beautiful and delicious cookies for the New Year are ready!

New Year Fortune Cookies

What would a New Year be without cherished wishes and pleasant wishes! You can't do without a recipe for crispy and sweet fortune cookies. So, the recipe for New Year's fortune cookies is simple and interesting.

Required ingredients:

• paper strips with printed predictions;
• 4 squirrels;
• 1 cup flour;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 6 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 2 bags of vanillin per 10 g;
• ½ tsp. salt;
• ½ tsp. starch;
• 8 tbsp. l. water.

Ingredients:

• 200 gr. butter;
• 500 gr. flour;
• 200 gr. powdered sugar;
• 2 eggs;

Spices:

• 4 teaspoons of ginger;
• 1 teaspoon of cloves;
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon;
• 1 teaspoon cardamom;
• 1 teaspoon allspice;
• 2 teaspoon cocoa;
• 2 tbsp. spoon of honey;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Mix cardamom, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, allspice and baking soda in a separate bowl. All spices must be ground.
2. Add a pinch of salt and stir again.
3. Sift flour and cocoa, add spices, mix. Cocoa gives the cookies a dark color. If you want your baked goods to be light, do not add cocoa.
4. Grind the powdered sugar and butter with a mixer, add honey and egg, beat with a mixer. Warm up the thick honey a little.
5. Add spices to the resulting mass and mix with a mixer or your hands.
6. You will have a soft and slightly sticky dough. Wrap it in cling film and leave it in the refrigerator for an hour.
7. Roll out a layer of 1-2 mm thick on parchment and cut out the figures using cutters. When placing cookies on a baking sheet, maintain a slight distance to prevent them from sticking together during baking.
8. Bake cookies at 180 degrees for 5-6 minutes.

Do you remember how we decorated the New Year’s tree as children, how solemnly our parents took out a box of New Year’s toys, with what trepidation and freezing of our hearts we, fearing to drop and break it, unwrapped the fragile glass balls and figurines neatly wrapped in paper? What happened on our Christmas trees - sparkling toys, multi-colored garlands, and candies in gold wrappers...

Today, it is extremely difficult to surprise our children with New Year's toys, given the current abundance, but it is still possible. For example, take and bake wonderful New Year's cookies. It can be a wonderful gift, a delicious treat, or a decoration for the holiday table and New Year tree. After all, there is probably no greater pleasure than decorating a Christmas tree with homemade cookies. And although the range of cookies on sale is large and varied, no factory baked goods can stand up to the originality and taste of homemade cookies, prepared and decorated with your own hands. And what an aroma hovers in the air, mixing with the smell of green pine needles, and creates an atmosphere of comfort, warmth, magic and celebration in the house!

To make festive New Year's cookies, all kinds of molds are used in the form of Christmas trees, stars, men, houses, cones, snowflakes, animals, etc. Such molds can be easily found in retail sales. If you want to do something unusual, but you don’t have the necessary mold at hand, in this case you can cut out a template from cardboard, and use it to cut out whatever you want from the dough. Ready-made New Year's cookies are decorated with sugar or chocolate glaze, confectionery powder, beads and even ready-made sugar figures - there is plenty of all this in our supermarkets.

Of course, you know how to prepare white glaze, but just in case it would be a good idea to recall the recipe: combine 200 g of powdered sugar with the juice of one lemon and the white of a raw egg. Beat the mixture with a mixer until the volume increases 2-3 times. If you decide to decorate the cookies with colorful icing, stock up on the necessary food coloring or use natural ones: replace the lemon juice with various vegetable juices to obtain the desired color. So, by adding beet juice to the glaze, you can get shades from soft pink to lilac. Carrot juice will give an orange color, sage infusion - yellow, spinach or broccoli juice - green, red cabbage juice - blue or blue. To obtain a brown glaze, add 1-2 tbsp. cocoa, and the red tint will come from fresh strawberry juice. Before applying the glaze to the cookies, lightly moisten the surface with water, and after applying the next layer of colored coating, place the baking sheet with the cookies in a hot oven for a few minutes so that the glaze dries faster.

Don't forget to make holes in the cookies so that this yummy treat can be hung on the Christmas tree. To do this, take the thinnest medical syringe and carefully cut off the part to which the needle is attached. Lift the plunger and cut holes into the raw cookies, then simply squeeze the dough out of the syringe and use it to roll out the next batch of cookies.
Choose any of the New Year's cookie recipes we offer, stock up on beautiful baking tins, and then it all depends on your mood and your imagination. And be sure to invite the kids - they love to do magic with their mother in the kitchen!

Christmas cookies “Shimmering Christmas trees”

Ingredients:
300 g flour,
1 egg,
110 g butter,
110 g sugar,
a few drops of vanilla essence,
a pinch of salt.

Preparation:
Beat the butter in a bowl until soft, add sugar and beat. Gradually add egg and vanilla. Sift the flour and salt, then add to the dough and mix until you get a soft dough. Wrap it in film and leave to cool for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floured table into a layer 3-5 mm thick, cut out the Christmas trees, make holes, place on a greased baking sheet, place in an oven preheated to 190°C and bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool, decorate with white icing, balloons and thread a ribbon through the hole.

Ginger Christmas cookies “Jolly Snowmen”

Ingredients:
450-500 g flour,
3 eggs,
150 g sugar,
200 g butter,
2 tsp baking powder,
2 tsp vanilla sugar,
1 tsp ground ginger.

Preparation:
Thoroughly mix the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar, add ground ginger and eggs, mix again and add flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and roll it out into a thin layer (3-4 mm). Use a cookie cutter to cut out snowmen from the dough. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and, placing cookies on it, place in an oven preheated to 180°C. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Cover the finished cookies with glaze and let it harden. Make the snowmen's eyes out of beads, and draw a mouth with melted chocolate.

New Year's cookies "Crystal Dreams"

Ingredients:
For the test:
300 g wheat flour,
200 g rye flour,
2 eggs,
200 g butter,
250 g sugar,
1 tsp baking powder,
½ tsp. ground dry ginger,
1 tsp cinnamon,
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg,
¼ tsp. ground cloves,
¼ tsp. ground cardamom,
¼ tsp. ground coriander.
For the glaze:
200 g powdered sugar,
50 ml orange juice.
For decoration:
50 g dark chocolate,
2 tbsp. sugar snowflakes (decorative sprinkles),
1 tsp sugar beads.

Preparation:
Beat diced softened butter, eggs, sugar and spices with a mixer until smooth. Then add sifted rye and wheat flour with baking powder, knead the dough and divide it into three parts. Wrap each part in cling film and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then take out each part in turn, roll it out between two layers of parchment to a thickness of 5 mm and cut out different figures using cutters. Place the finished figures on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake for 12 minutes at 180°C. Mix powdered sugar with orange juice. Transfer the finished glaze into a tight bag, cut off a corner of it, apply the glaze to the cookies and let it harden and apply a pattern to the glaze with melted chocolate, also placing it in the bag and cutting off the corner. Decorate the cookies with beads. Some of the cookies can be completely covered with chocolate and decorated with sugar snowflakes.

Ingredients:
4 stacks flour,
1 egg,
250 g butter,
1 stack Sahara,
100 ml water,
2 tbsp. honey,
1 tbsp. soda,
1 tbsp. ginger powder,
1 tsp ground cloves,
1 tsp cinnamon,
1 tsp vanillin.
For the glaze:
red and green food colorings,
3 egg whites,
1 tbsp. lemon juice.

Preparation:
Mix flour, soda and spices in one bowl, and in another - melted butter, egg, water, sugar, vanillin. Gradually mix the contents of the first bowl into the contents of the second. Divide the finished dough into 3 parts, roll out into layers 4 cm thick and place in the refrigerator for 3 hours. Then roll out the layers 1 cm thick and cut out the figures. Place the cookies on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour and place in an oven preheated to 200°C for 10 minutes. For the glaze, combine egg whites, powdered sugar, lemon juice, food coloring and stir until smooth. Cover the finished cookies with multi-colored glaze and apply a design to it using a pastry syringe.

Ingredients:
300 g flour,
1 egg,
120 g butter,
4 tbsp. granulated sugar,
4 tbsp. sour cream,
100 g nuts,
1 can of boiled condensed milk.

Preparation:
Grind the egg with sugar, add melted cooled butter, sour cream and flour. Knead the dough, divide into 3 parts and freeze. Having taken out the frozen dough, grate it on a coarse grater and place the crumbs in a thin layer on a baking sheet covered with paper. Bake in several batches for 10-12 minutes at 180°C until golden brown. Mix the baked crumbs with chopped nuts and boiled condensed milk. Form the cones using a glass, periodically moistening it with water so that the mass does not stick. Place the finished cones on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Ingredients:
230 g flour,
1 egg,
150 g butter,
16 chocolate truffles,
6 tbsp. brown sugar,
½ tsp. baking powder,
1 tsp vanillin,
a pinch of salt.

Preparation:
Mix flour and baking powder, add salt. Beat softened butter with 4 tbsp. Sahara. Add the egg, vanilla and beat well again. Gradually adding the dry mixture to this mass, knead the dough. Roll into 16 walnut-sized balls. Pour the remaining sugar into a cup and roll each ball in it. Place the balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at some distance from each other and bake for 10 minutes at 180°C. Place the candy in the freezer for 5 minutes. Remove the finished cookies from the oven and press a piece of candy into the center of each while they are hot. It's okay if the cookies get some small cracks. Let the cookies cool for about 30 minutes and serve with tea.

Ingredients:
350 g flour,
2 eggs,
200 g butter,
100 g sugar,
1 tsp vanilla sugar,
2 tsp baking powder,
jam or thick jam.

Preparation:
Cream the butter with vanilla and simple sugar, add the eggs and mix. Then add flour, baking powder and knead the dough. Roll out the finished dough on a table sprinkled with flour into a layer about 3 mm thick and cut out the cookies. Leave half of the cookies unchanged, and cut out the center of any shape from the second. Place the prepared cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 180°C for 10-15 minutes. When the cookies are ready, let them cool slightly and spread the whole cookies with jam, and top them with the cookies in which you made the holes.

Ingredients:
350-400 g flour,
3 eggs,

150 g sugar,
100 g almonds,
2 tsp baking powder,
2 tsp vanilla sugar;
1 tsp ground ginger;
1 tsp cinnamon.
For the glaze:
500 g powdered sugar,
7-8 tablespoons of any syrup,
food coloring (optional).

Preparation:
Pour boiling water over 2/3 of the total amount of almonds for 10 minutes to make the skins easier to remove. Chop the remaining nuts. Grind the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar, add eggs to this mass and mix. Then add cinnamon, chopped almonds, ground ginger and stir. Add flour and baking powder and knead into a not very stiff dough. Then form the cookies and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press a whole almond into each cookie and bake for 20-25 minutes at 180°C. For the glaze, mix the powdered sugar and syrup and place the mixture over low heat. Cook the glaze, stirring with a spatula, for about 5-7 minutes (until it evenly coats the spatula). Add food coloring to the glaze if desired. Dip the finished cookies into the warm glaze and let it harden.

Ingredients:
150 g flour,
75 g butter,
3 tbsp. l. liquid honey,
1 tsp. ground cinnamon,
¼ tsp. ground ginger.

Preparation:
Sift the flour and spices into a bowl. Add the cut butter and rub it into the flour with your fingers until the mixture resembles crumbs. Then add honey and stir to form a soft dough. Place the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, wrapped in cling film. On a floured table surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-6 mm. Cut out bells from it. Place the finished figures on a greased baking sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 10 minutes until golden brown. Once the cookies have cooled slightly, coat them with colored icing, let it set, and decorate the bells with edible snowflakes and beads.

Ingredients:
500-550 g flour,
2 eggs,
1 orange,
150 g butter or margarine,
150 g sugar;
2 tsp vanilla sugar,
2 tsp baking powder.
For decoration:
bitter chocolate,
silver beads.

Preparation:
Remove the zest from the orange. Then squeeze the juice out of it (you will need it too). Mix butter with sugar and vanilla sugar, add eggs to the resulting mixture and mix. Add lemon zest and juice. Add flour and baking powder and knead the dough. Roll out the finished dough into a layer about 2-3 mm thick and use a template to shape the cookies into a horseshoe. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper (or grease with butter), place cookies on it, place the baking sheet with cookies in an oven preheated to 180°C and bake for 10-15 minutes.

...Isn’t this a real New Year’s miracle, created with your own hands? May your New Year be as bright, joyful, tasty and unforgettable as the magical cookie figurines looking cheerfully from the spruce paws.

Happiness and joy in the New Year 2014!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Many people think about what to put under the Christmas tree for family members and friends long before the winter holiday, because it’s so difficult to please everyone. There is no more valuable surprise for family and friends than one made with your own hands, because we put our soul and love into it, and New Year's cookies as a gift are the best idea.

Almost everyone loves delicious pastries, and with an original and even artistic design, such a dessert will melt the hearts of all recipients and everyone will like it.

And even if for you sweet cooking looks like something incomprehensible, and all these jewelry glaze paintings seem to be on the level of great artists, then this article is for you. Today we will prove that preparing delicious, original and simply gorgeous cookies at home is not difficult! Moreover, these will be the most unusual and beautiful baking options with step-by-step recipes and photos.

As for decoration, it is not only quite accessible to everyone, but also a very entertaining and interesting creative process. Believe me, there is an artist in each of us!

Delicious New Year's whoopie-pie cookies

This American cookie is very similar to the popular traditional French dessert macaroon and even to our Soviet boucher cake.

Anyway, these cookies are very beautiful and have a lot of design options. In addition, it is also incredibly tasty due to the super chocolate sponge cake and incomparable cream cheese cream. Plus, it's quite easy to prepare.

Ingredients

• Butter – 175 g;
• High-grade flour – 240-260 g;
• Fine sugar – 140 g;
• Fresh chicken egg CO – 1 pc.;
• Milk – 125 g;
• Baking soda – 1 tsp;
• Powdered cinnamon – ½ tsp;

• Ground ginger – ½ tsp;
• Cardamom – ½ tsp;
• Ground nutmeg – ½ tsp;
• Tea brewing - ¼ tbsp.;
• Curd cheese – 340 g;
• Natural cream 33% and above – 120 g;
• Powdered sugar – 80 g.

1. First we need to beat soft butter (115 g) with granulated sugar with a mixer for one minute.
2. Then mix in one egg and milk.
3. Next, prepare a dry mixture of flour, spices and soda in a separate bowl, and then sift it directly into the butter-egg mass and mix everything with a mixer until smooth.
4. At the end, pour very hot strong tea leaves into the dough and immediately beat everything again with a mixer.
5. The finished dough is fluid, but thick, like biscuit. We need to transfer it into a pastry bag with a simple nozzle or into a bag with a corner cut off, and then onto a baking sheet lined with parchment we squeeze out flat cakes 1 cm thick at some distance from each other so that they do not stick together during the baking process.
6. At a temperature of 160°, bake cookies for 10 minutes. The baking sheet should only be placed in a preheated oven!
7. Preparing the cream. Whip the cream into a thick, stable mass. In a separate bowl, beat the cheese with powdered sugar and butter, then add the cream and mix everything again.
8. Fill a pastry bag with cream and apply the cream to the entire flat surface of the cookie, and then cover it with a second cookie. So we fill everything with whoopie pie and paint it with icing at our discretion.

It is better to store such cookies in the refrigerator until donation so that the cream sets.

If you want to make a vanilla whoopie pie, then replace the spices with vanilla sugar (2-3 tsp) and hot tea with boiling water. For chocolate whoopie pie, you need to take cocoa instead of spices (3 tsp), and replace tea with hot coffee in the same volume.

Unusual New Year's cookies as a gift

For these cookies, classic crumbly shortbread dough is used, like for kurabiye. These baked goods turn out amazingly delicious. The livers literally melt in your mouth. In addition, they cook quite quickly.

Ingredients

• Extra flour – 290 g;
• Peasant butter – 0.2 kg;
• Egg white – 2 pcs.;
• Powdered sugar – 0.1 kg;
• Vanilla sugar – 1 packet.

How to bake Christmas cookies as a gift

1. Beat the soft butter, powder and vanilla with a mixer to combine the ingredients.
2. Next, add egg whites to the mixture and bring the mixture until smooth.
3. Add the sifted flour into the mixture in portions and knead with a spoon, controlling the density of the dough. The ideal result is a very soft, thick plastic mass that does not stick to your hands.
4. Next, we fill a pastry bag with dough and, through a simple nozzle or a cut corner, squeeze rounds onto a greased baking sheet.
5. In an oven preheated to 200°, bake the cookies for 10 minutes.

Ready-made and cooled livers can be decorated to your liking using our tips:

New Year's cookies "Candy Cane" as a gift

Ingredients

• Dark chocolate – 120 g + -
• — 113 g + -
• - 2 pcs. + -
• — 200 g + -
• — 125 g + -
• — 3 g + -
• Baking soda - 3 g + -
• Cocoa powder - 60 g + -
• Large chocolate chips— 170 g + -
• Red and white candy cane— 1-2 pcs. + -

No artistic skills are required for this recipe, because these cookies look gorgeous and very appetizing in their original form without painting, but decorated with a traditional Christmas candy.

This is true homemade baking, cozy, fun and delicious. We present the recipe with photos step by step.

Combine chocolate (120 g) with butter and melt them in a water bath, then cool the resulting mixture, stirring.

In a dry bowl, mix flour with soda and salt.

Beat 2 eggs into a separate deep bowl, add a glass of sugar and beat everything intensively with a mixer for 3-5 minutes. Then add vanilla and pour in the cooled chocolate mixture in a thin stream.

As soon as the mass takes on a uniform color, we begin to pour the flour mixture into the dough in portions, but now we will mix the dough with a spatula. And then add cocoa and mix everything again.

When the dough acquires a uniform texture and color, add large chocolate chips into it and mix again so that the pieces of the bar are evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the dough.

Using a round spoon, place the dough into balls on the parchment at some distance from each other.

Handmade New Year's cookies as a gift are the best sign of attention and the most delicious and pleasant surprise for all those who are dear to you!

two or three glasses of flour,

½ cup sugar

two chicken yolks,

a teaspoon of baking powder,

¼ teaspoon citric acid.

For painting cookies:

• sand powder,
• egg white,
• lemon juice,
• food coloring - for glaze,
• White chocolate,
• edible silver balls or other decorative decorations and figurines.

Cooking cookies

1. First let's make the dough.

Mix flour, baking powder and citric acid thoroughly. Pour everything onto a large board or into a container in a heap. Make a depression in the middle and put the yolks there, and then small pieces oils .

Now knead the mixture thoroughly with your hands until smooth. You should have a stiff dough.

Place the dough in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. And then roll it out to a thickness of about 1 cm.

2. Using molds, make dough figures. It can be anything: stars, Christmas trees, houses, men, snowflakes etc. If there are no special molds, you can make cookies using cups, glasses of different diameters, or cut out various shapes with a knife.

3. Grease a baking sheet with unscented sunflower oil and place the figures.

4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the sweets for 15 minutes.

5. When the cookies are cooked and cooled, it's time to decorate them with patterns. I admit, this is my favorite activity!

What your figures will be like depends only on you! There are many options for decorating cookies

How to decorate New Year's cookies?

1. Melt white chocolate in a water bath, stirring it constantly with a spoon. Using a pastry syringe or bag, decorate the cookies to your taste.

2. You can use glaze (icing) to decorate cookies. And although Making glaze is very easy, with its help you can create real masterpieces!

Beat the white of one raw egg with a teaspoon of lemon juice and 2 cups of powdered sugar. Add powder little by little so that the glaze reaches the desired consistency - it is not too thick, but it does not flow. If desired, add food coloring.

Take a piping bag (or a regular one) and fill it with frosting.

Using light pressure on the bag, trace the outline of the cookie. If you are using a regular bag, cut a tiny hole in the corner before pressing. Wait until the glaze is completely dry.

Now fill all the cookies with icing. To do this, add a few drops of milk or lemon juice to the glaze so that it becomes a little thinner, but does not absorb into the cookies. Fill all the cookies with icing.

If you want to draw another pattern on the cookie, wait until the previous layer of icing has dried.

If your cookies will be decorated with colored sprinkles or edible decorative balls, there is no need to wait for the glaze to dry completely.

By decorating New Year's cookies, you will not only make wonderful delicacies, but also have fun.

This unusual cookies will be an exquisite addition to the holiday table and a wonderful a gift for the New Year!

Making delicious cookies for the New Year with your own hands using 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 guests who 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 tree decorations or decorative elements for photo shoots.

Of course, many stores sell ready-made cookies, but we suggest baking them yourself. How to make 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 tree.

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 replaced with margarine if desired. Orange is the best citrus fruit for cookies.

Preparation:

1. Remove the zest from the orange. Squeeze the juice out of the fruit.
2. Grind sugar with vanilla.
3. Beat eggs into sugar.
4. Add juice and zest. Stir.
5. Add flour.
6. Gently knead the dough. Roll it out.
7. Cut out Christmas trees from thin dough using special culinary molds.
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 glaze.
12. Allow the dessert to dry before serving.

Ready-made cookies can be used to decorate a Christmas tree. To do this, you need to make a small hole in each product in advance, into which a thread or ribbon will subsequently be inserted. Use a wooden stick to make a hole in the New Year's cookies.

How to make New Year's cane cookies?

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

Making similar cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with photos is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Cream the butter in a bowl.
2. Add powdered sugar and beat again.
3. Beat the egg into the glass. Separate the yolk from the white.
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 another, yellow to the third.
6. Divide the flour into 3 parts. Add to each portion of dough.
7. Knead into tight balls. Wrap them in cling film and place them in the refrigerator 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 dough.
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.

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

Delicate ginger cookies

Ginger cookies have been a particularly popular type of cookies that housewives prepare with their own hands for the New Year for several years now (see photo above).

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

By the way, such 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 can be conveniently hooked onto a fir branch.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

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. Initially, beat the butter separately without adding other ingredients.
3. Add sugar. Continue whisking.
4. Mix dry ingredients (baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, flour).
5. Beat 1 egg into the butter and sugar. Add salt and honey there.
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 put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
10. Divide the dough into thin layers.
11. Roll it out carefully with a rolling pin.
12. Using special cutters, cut out various shapes from it.
13. Bake at medium temperature for 15-20 minutes.

If desired, decorate the gingerbread cookies with icing. It is not necessary to prepare 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 ginger cookies from Yulia Vysotskaya

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Peel the ginger and grate it.
3. Grind the cloves in a mortar.
4. Mix flour with baking powder and spices.
5. Beat butter and egg. Add egg and flour with spices to them.
6. Gently knead the dough. 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 molds.
8. Grease a baking tray with oil. Sprinkle some flour on it.
9. Arrange the cookies. Bake for no more than 25 minutes.

Remember to be careful not to burn the baked goods. After the cookies have cooled, you can decorate them with icing. As an alternative, chocolate can be used. These cookies can be given as edible cookies.

How to make cookies in the form of numbers?

Cookies in the form of the number 2018

Cookies made in the shape of numbers will look interesting on the New Year's table. You can add up the number 2018 from the delicacy. Naturally, you need to bake not only these numbers, but also others. The finished cookies are served on the table or decorated with them on a Christmas tree.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Turn the powdered sugar and butter into a thick, 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 (2 tbsp) into the dough. Mix everything again until smooth.
4. Knead the dough, first sprinkling the table with flour. If the mass sticks to your hands, they need to 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.). If everything is done correctly, the dough will acquire a homogeneous structure.
7. Also wrap the second part of the workpiece with cling film.
8. Place the preparations in the refrigerator for an hour.
9. Roll out the dough, first sprinkling the surface with flour.
10. Cut out numbers from it using special cutters.
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.

All that remains is to paint the numbers with icing or chocolate. Use cookies to make the number 2018.

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

Bunny cookies

Bunnies cookies

Cookies in the shape of hares, baked with your own hands, are unusual, and most importantly very tasty. For the New Year, 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.

Preparation:

Cutting out the shape

1. Mix sour cream and butter.
2. Add water and place on low heat.
3. Bring 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 preparing the cookies.
7. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
8. Place small balls of dough on it.
9. Using scissors, make ears for each ball.
10. Eyes can be easily made with a toothpick.
11. Bake the hares at 190 degrees for 15 minutes.

There is no need to decorate the finished bunnies with anything. They will look very good on the New Year's table anyway.

The secret to making Swedish New Year's cookies

Why not pamper your family with an interesting Swedish dessert on this holiday. The cookies turn out incredibly fragrant and tender. The perfect dessert to start your morning on January 1st 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.

Preparation:

1. Mix honey, water and sugar and place in a saucepan. If the honey has frozen, there is no need to melt it in a water bath first.
2. Place the ingredients on the fire.
3. Soy sauce, oil and spices should also be added there.
4. Do not remove the dessert from the heat until the ingredients turn into a homogeneous mass.
5. When the mixture has cooled slightly, add baking soda. If the mixture starts to foam, it's okay. That's how 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 cutters, cut out various shapes. It is allowed to use both different forms and one.
10. Bake cookies for up to 5-10 minutes at 180 degrees.

Whether to paint it or not is up to the housewife to choose. Usually dessert is eaten as it turned out when baked.

How to make sugar icing for cookies?

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

Ingredients:

• proteins – 3 pcs.;
• powdered sugar – 700 g.

Preparation:

1. Beat the whites into a stiff foam.
2. Sift the powdered sugar.
3. Add it to the whites in parts, remembering to beat with a mixer. You should get a dense white mass.

Cookies decorated with chocolate look beautiful. In order to create such a decor, you do not need to specially prepare any special cream. Just melt the chocolate, carefully cover the cookies with it and wait until they dry.

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