New Year and Christmas are approaching soon, so you need to prepare and create a menu in advance. In this article you will learn several recipes for delicious cookies made from different doughs, shapes, decorations and glazes to decorate them.
Recipe contents:

New Year is a favorite holiday for many, and cookies are a favorite food these days. On New Year's Eve, you should definitely bake and paint New Year's magic cookies in the form of snowflakes, stars, Christmas trees and angels. In addition, you can involve your child in this creativity.

Making these handmade cookies is not at all difficult; any dough can be used. The main thing here is to skillfully and beautifully decorate the cookies: apply the 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 remain fresh longer. And preparing such a decoration is very easy, simple and not expensive. The simplest glaze requires only sugar and water. Although there are many decoration recipes.

In order for baked goods to always be spectacular, beautiful and fragrant, you need to follow certain rules for preparing glaze.

• The glaze should not be too thick and not too thin. Its normal consistency is similar to sour cream. Then it will apply well to the cookies, set quickly and will not spread. But if it comes out too liquid, then add a little powdered sugar; if it is too thick, add hot water.
• When preparing glaze, water is often replaced with lemon juice, or a few drops are added for flavor. It will give a great taste and smell. For very sweet baked goods, it is better to use more lemon juice, this will create a contrasting taste.
• The glaze will have a rich taste, soft and dense consistency using whites and yolks. White glaze is used to draw patterns, and yolks give a yellowish tint. To be safe, it is advisable to dry this glaze in the oven. The products are placed in a heated oven to 100°C. This process will not only bake the frosting, but also protect against salmonella, because. it dies at 70°C.
• Food coloring is often added to the glaze. Cookies with them turn out bright, festive and cheerful in appearance. They use store-bought food coloring from a bag, but it is better to add natural coloring products. For example, raspberry jam (red), turmeric and a piece of butter (orange), chopped mint (green). Chocolate or cocoa powder will give the brown color. But for this it is better to use regular chocolate bars rather than porous chocolate.
• Liquid glaze is applied with a brush in several layers. For drawing, use a confectionery syringe or a regular disposable medical one.

• Regular: Mix 200 g of powdered sugar with 4 tbsp. l. hot water and place on low heat. Cook until smooth, 5-7 minutes. Drizzle hot glaze over cookies.
• From egg yolks: Beat 5 yolks with 3-4 tbsp. orange juice until foamy. Gradually add 1.5 tbsp. powdered sugar and stir until smooth. Cover the products with glaze and dry in the oven at 100°C.
• With rum: 1 tbsp. sift the powdered sugar. Add 1 tbsp. water and 3 tbsp. Roma Rub thoroughly and cover the dessert.
• Chocolate: Break 100 g of chocolate, add 3 tbsp. hot water and heat until the chocolate dissolves. Put 1 tbsp. softened butter and 100 g of powdered sugar. Stir and decorate baked goods.

A simple recipe for New Year's cookies means a lot of happiness, good mood, a little magic and belief in miracles. Then everything will work out! An important point in preparing cookies is strict adherence to the recipe. Different doughs require a specific approach. Therefore, you should not change the cooking technology and the amount of ingredients.

When making cookie dough, the butter process is important. If you mix it with sugar by melting it on the stove, the product will be oily. Hard and tough cookies will be obtained from chilled butter. The cookies will be tender if you defrost the butter 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 remove the dough from the refrigerator, knead it a little with your hands and then start rolling it out.

Making homemade cookies with your own hands is very simple. By involving all family members in the cooking process, you can arrange a small, exciting holiday.

• Calorie content per 100 g - 368 kcal.
• 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. Beat butter with sugar. Add egg, vanilla extract and flour. Knead the dough.
2. Roll out the dough to 1 cm thick and, using cutters, cut out the cookies. Carefully place them 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 on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then leave on a wire rack until completely cooled.
5. For the glaze, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
6. Add some of the powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth. Add the remaining powder and mix. Add coloring and stir.
7. Decorate the finished baked goods with glaze and serve immediately for tea.

New Year's ginger cookies in the shape of fairy-tale characters will add a festive mood and perfectly decorate the New Year's table. And to apply creative painting, involve the children and create 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.
• Room temperature butter - 100 g
• Sugar - 100 g

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Mix baking soda and flour in one container.
2. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add egg and honey. Mix thoroughly and place the mixture in 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. Place them on a greased baking sheet and place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. When the cookies turn brown, they are ready. The baked goods will be soft at first, but will then cool and become crispy.

I bring to your attention beautiful and delicious children's New Year's cookies in the shape of deer. It is made from shortcrust pastry and decorated with chocolate and candies. Children will really enjoy participating in the cooking process.

Recipe for New Year's cookies Reindeer

• 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 candies - according to the number of cookies.

Pour flour into a deep bowl, beat in an egg, add powdered sugar, chopped butter, vanillin and salt. If you don’t have powdered sugar, but only sugar, you can make powder using a coffee grinder or blender. I advise you to add powder rather than sugar, as it will dissolve in the dough faster.

Now we begin to knead the dough with our hands. First you need to grind the butter with flour and then knead everything. You can also do this with a mixer or dough attachment, which is much faster and easier.

Then wrap the shortbread cookie dough in cling film and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.

After time, roll out the sand base into a thin layer and use a glass to squeeze out circles. To prevent the glass from sticking to the dough, you need to lightly sprinkle it with flour.

From this amount of products you get about 20 such circles. Transfer them to a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Heat the oven to 180 degrees. When it warms up, place the baking sheet with the preparations in it. Bake New Year's cookies for about 10 minutes. The cookies will look slightly golden. When they are ready, remove from the oven and let cool.

The chocolate needs to be melted in a water bath and placed in a pastry bag with a small hole. We roughly look at where the deer’s nose should be and put a dot of chocolate there, and glue a red candy on top of it.

Well, the final touch is these cute little horns. We also draw them with chocolate.

Deer cookies are ready.

Bon appetit!

We thank Tatyana Suprunenko for the photo of the New Year's cookie recipe.

Not a single New Year is complete without a Christmas tree. Now they are everywhere, and, moreover, these Christmas trees are not necessarily made of pine needles, the materials at hand can be balloons, paper, fabric, medical gloves, etc., i.e. any material that you have enough imagination for. Our Christmas tree today will be edible, we will bake New Year's cookies!

Molds for New Year's baking can be in the form of stars, fir trees, cones, mushrooms, crescents, snowflakes, deer...

If there are no special forms, then simply draw a template on thick paper and cut out the dough according to it.
We also suggest you make a beautiful three-dimensional Christmas tree from shortbread sugar or ginger-honey dough. To prepare it, you need to cut out circles of different diameters, and then assemble 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 dough option and start cooking!

Shortcrust pastry recipe:

• Butter or margarine (good quality) – 150 grams,
• Chicken eggs - 2 pieces,
• Granulated sugar – 200 grams (+ 2 tablespoons for sprinkling the dough),
• Wheat flour (premium 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,
• Granulated sugar – 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 sugar glaze:

• Pasteurized milk – 2 tbsp. spoons,
• Powdered sugar – 150 grams,
• Sugar syrup – 1 tbsp. spoon.

In the step-by-step photo recipe, shortbread dough is kneaded and prepared.

We need softened butter or margarine. If you forgot to take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance, then chop it into cubes and literally put it in the microwave for a few seconds. You should not completely melt it, 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 removed from the refrigerator in advance. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.

Sift wheat flour (3 cups) into a separate bowl. Add baking powder and vanilla sugar. Stir. Add the dry mixture to the liquid base and begin kneading the dough. We have the fourth glass of flour as a spare, because... Everyone's flour is different, so some may not need it. If necessary, add more flour to the dough until it 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 the rolling pin, pressing the sugar crystals into the dough.
Now let's go look for round cookie cutters. We will need shapes of different diameters so that the tree looks like a real one, i.e. began with a large plate and ended with a cookie of a smaller diameter. Approximately 8 - 10 forms will be required. With the help of which you cut out circles from the dough.

Cover a baking sheet with paper and carefully transfer the cut-out pieces onto it. Place the baking sheet with cookies in the oven, bake at 180 degrees until the cookies begin to brown.

Meanwhile, prepare the icing to decorate and seal the cookies. To do this, mix powdered sugar and milk in a small container and mix thoroughly until smooth. The mixture should end up being slightly fluid.

In order to prepare sugar syrup, you need to take equal parts granulated sugar and water. Boil it over low heat for 5 - 7 minutes. Then add the hot syrup to the icing sugar and mix again.

Remove the finished cookies from the baking sheet and cool slightly to room temperature.

Now transfer the icing sugar into a pastry syringe or bag, using the thinnest nozzle. Decorate New Year's cookies to your liking, as your imagination tells you. You can decorate each circle with a wavy line along the entire edge. Leave the glaze to harden.

Before you start assembling 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 structure together. Assemble the pieces, starting with the largest product, i.e. We assemble the tree like a pyramid.

How to make gingerbread dough with honey

Place honey, sugar and spices (cinnamon, ginger) in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add baking soda after removing from heat. Add a piece of butter there. Immediately lightly beat the raw egg in a bowl with a fork, add to the honey mixture and stir quickly. Add flour and knead the dough.

Dust the dough with flour and cool slightly. Then roll out into a layer and cut into shapes. Bake in the oven or slow cooker until done.

Happy New Year!

In life, much more depends on us than we think, and if today, tired after a long day of work, everyday worries and everyday life, it seems to you that the New Year is a cheerful and joyful holiday in itself, it will be organized and take place on its own, think about something else . There are problems every day. Difficulties are an everyday reality. Difficulties are what make us get up and move forward. And the New Year is so rare!.. And it’s worth trying a little to make it magical and special this time - despite fatigue, limited budget, lack of inspiration and other significant and not so significant reasons.

Try to find time and make New Year's cookies. Just put everything aside, go to the kitchen and start creating right now! The magic of this simple process is so strong that you will certainly feel the New Year starting to knock on your door!

5 reasons to make New Year's cookies:

1. Gift

Beautifully made and equally beautifully packaged homemade cookies make the perfect Christmas tree gift. Choose the idea that is most interesting to you, make original boxes with your own hands, add small cards with warm words - such an edible surprise will be remembered for a long time!

2. Enjoy the process

Creating, creating extraordinary beauty with your own hands is so cool! Just imagine - you are kneading the dough by hand, the kitchen smells of cinnamon and tangerines, and you turned on some kind of Christmas movie, kind and naive, and together with your child you conjure snowflakes, and then laughingly decorate them with multi-colored glaze and come up with funny wishes for everyone to whom you plan to give New Year's cookies... Isn't this happiness?

3. Delicious

It's no secret that homemade cookies are such a huge and wonderful layer of childhood that cannot be tasteless by definition! Now imagine that you create this miracle yourself - with those components that you like the most... with those additives that correspond to your personal idea of ​​​​ideal baked goods.... Can't you already feel what amazing cookies are waiting for you?

4. Holiday atmosphere

Well, maybe you personally don’t need Christmas trees-Santa Clauses-snow-gifts to understand that the calendar says December 31st, but for children the concept of a holiday is made up of precisely these details - the smell of tangerines scattered throughout the house confetti, cookies in the form of snowflakes and cakes with snowmen.

5. Everyone can do it - but am I the red-haired/armless/disorganized one (underline as appropriate)?

Making New Year's cookies is not always inspiration and impulse. Sometimes it’s worth making an effort on yourself, forcing yourself to strain a little, so that you end up with a basket of beautiful homemade baked goods, a good mood and the confidence that you can do anything in the world!

Clock Cookies

Tick-tock, tick-tock... The clock hands methodically bid farewell to the old year, hastening the minutes in anticipation of the holiday. The dial winks, smiles and seems to promise: just be patient a little, the New Year is about to come!

Cookies in the shape of a clock, which will ring midnight in a minute, are not only delicious, but also very symbolic. Be sure to cook! The proposed recipe is proven to be excellent: the cookies are rich in taste, bright chocolate, and elegant.

Dough ingredients

200 g softened butter
30 g sour cream
200 g powdered sugar
2 yolks
60 g cocoa powder
350 g flour
1/3 tsp. salt

Ingredients for glaze

20 g protein;
100 g powdered sugar.

If you really, really don’t have time to play with homemade cookies, but really want to cook something special for the New Year, buy any round cookies with a smooth surface at the bakery, fill them with chocolate glaze at home, and then draw the clock hands and dial yourself using icing .

Preparation

1. Place softened butter, sour cream and yolks in a bowl, add powdered sugar and salt, turn on the mixer and mix the mixture until smooth and a slight increase in volume. There is no need to whisk diligently - it's more about mixing.

1. Add cocoa, mix. You don’t have to do it carefully - just so that most of the cocoa is combined with most of the butter, albeit with lumps and unmixed places.

1. Sift the flour and add it to the dough in small portions. You shouldn’t lay out the entire volume at once - it’s likely that you will need a little less than indicated in the recipe (this depends on many factors - for example, the fat content and moisture content of sour cream and butter). As a result, you need to get soft but not sticky dough with a glossy shine. We collect it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.

1. Roll out chilled dough into a layer about 2-3 mm thick, trying to do it as evenly as possible - how you cope with the task now will determine how neat and beautiful your “watch” will be in the end. And yes, it’s best to roll it out right away on a sheet of baking paper or silicone mat– the dough is quite delicate, and when transferring the dough from the table to a baking sheet, you risk deforming its perfectly smooth beauty.

1. Let's bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for up to 10 minutes, carefully remove the cookies from the baking sheet and transfer to a board or wire rack to cool.

1. When all the chocolate pieces have reached room temperature, you can start decorating. Prepare the icing: lightly beat the egg white with a fork (not into foam, but rather just into foam - so that the mass simply loses its viscosity), mix with gradually added powdered sugar. If you first beat the egg white into a stable foam, the glaze will turn out thick and not pourable, you will not be able to draw anything with it, so be careful and do not try to improve what is good.

1. Transfer the icing into a pastry bag with the smallest tip (“one”, or better yet, “zero”) and draw clock faces on cookies– arrows, numbers, decor. If you don’t have special attachments, you can roll cornets from baking paper.

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Cookies "Santa Claus's Staff"

In recent years, Santa Claus's staff has significantly changed its appearance - if during our childhood it was straight, massive and crystal-white, now it has become hook-shaped and bright. Cookies of this shape will be a cute decoration for the New Year's table.

Ingredients for red dough

100 g butter
60 g sugar
1 yolk
1/3 tsp. salt
3-4 drops red food coloring

Ingredients for white dough

170 g flour
100 g butter
60 g sugar
1 yolk
1/3 tsp. salt

We mix two types of dough - beat the butter with sugar and yolk until the grains are completely dissolved, add salt and flour. Add coloring to the red dough before adding flour. If you wish, you can prepare a double portion of the dough at once, which you then divide in half, mix the dye into one of them - it will be difficult to knead the finished dough so that the dye is evenly distributed throughout the entire mass, but it is possible. Choose the option that is more convenient for you.

Carefully roll out long, thin “sausages” from both types of dough - it’s more convenient to do this on a lightly floured surface. Then we brush off the excess flour with a brush and weave both “ropes” together, trying to ensure that the weaving step is the same. Using a knife or dough scraper, divide the woven ropes into equal parts approximately 7 cm long, form a staff from each piece, place it on a baking sheet and bake until done for about 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

Advice: If you are fundamentally against the use of food coloring in cooking, make the staves in a white and brown color scheme, replacing the dye in the red dough with cocoa. This, of course, is not a classic, but it is also quite festive and recognizable.

Brownie Cookies: Christmas Trees

Who doesn't love brownies? Everyone loves classic American baking! Bake these chocolate brownie cookies according to the standard recipe, but after you take the fragrant cake out of the oven, cut it into triangles rather than the usual squares. Insert a straw or a long candy into the base of each one, decorate with green icing - Christmas trees are coming to your table!

Ingredients

• 100 g butter
• 1 bar of dark chocolate
• 50 g cocoa
• 40 g flour
• 3 eggs
• 100 g sugar
• 1/3 tsp. coarse sea salt
• approximately 150 g of powdered sugar, green coloring and 2-3 tsp. lemon juice for glaze

Melt the butter in a water bath, add the chocolate broken into pieces, stirring, and keep over hot water until completely smooth.

In a separate bowl, mix cocoa, salt, flour. Pour the dry mixture into the chocolate-butter mixture, stir and add the eggs one at a time, beating until smooth each time.

Pour the resulting dough into a form lined with baking paper (size - approximately 20x20 cm), bake brownies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for no more than 20 minutes - the “correct” cookies should be soft, almost knitted on the inside, but crispy on the outside.

Remove the pan from the oven and after cooling slightly for 3-4 minutes, cut into portion triangles. Then wait until it cools completely and start decorating.

To prepare the glaze, mix powdered sugar, a few drops of food coloring and lemon juice to a consistency that suits you personally - a little thicker (it will be denser) or a little thinner (it will be smoother). Apply glaze to each triangle, and once dry, transfer to a plate.

Advice: If you don’t want to “play” with the glaze, you can melt white chocolate, tint it with spinach juice, put it in a homemade cornet and quickly apply a design on triangular brownies. Alternatively, you can simply whip cream or make Swiss meringue. The above icing recipe is also suitable for decorating these cookies.

Macaroons polvorones

Polvorones is an ordinary guest on the holiday table in Spain: this is our bowl of Olivier, only in a sweet version, it is certainly baked for the New Year, and it is prepared in large quantities so that it is enough for all the long winter holidays, so that it can be distributed with to guests and to be able to treat everyone who looks into the house, from friends to the courier who delivered the parcel. Perhaps this is the most festive, most unusual and fragrant version of New Year's cookies, which are gradually entering our culinary culture from other countries of the world. Polvorones may not become a traditional pastry in your family, but you should try it at least once!

Ingredients

• 110 g flour
• 100 g butter
• 40 g powdered sugar
• 50 g peeled almonds
• 1/3 tsp. salt

Grind the almonds with a blender into fine, fine crumbs, scatter them on a baking sheet and put them in the oven. We set the temperature to 150 degrees and dry the nut mass for about an hour, periodically shaking the baking sheet and thus mixing its contents. The almond crumbs should take on a pleasant creamy hue and give an unreal aroma that floats throughout the house.

Cool thoroughly - at least 3 hours, preferably overnight.

Mix almond crumbs, wheat flour and powdered sugar, add salt. Melt the butter, pour it into the dry mixture and knead until smooth, elastic (the dough will not be smooth due to large almond fractions, but you should strive for this). If the mass does not agree to acquire the desired consistency, add a little more oil or lard (pork fat - by the way, in some recipes polvorones is completely cooked with it). Knead.

Roll out the dough into a layer 8-10 mm thick (these cookies are traditionally thick), cut out the figures with molds, place them on a baking sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 160 degrees for about 25 minutes - classic polvorones should remain pale and light.

There is another traditional way of molding cookies - due to the fact that they are baked in large quantities for the New Year, there is neither time nor desire to play with rolling out and cutting out, so they simply scoop out the dough from a common ball with a tablespoon and simply turn it over onto a baking sheet , helping with your fingers to remove the resulting “hemisphere” onto the sheet.

Advice: Christmas trees, snowmen and other snowflakes are, of course, incredibly festive and New Year's-like, however, you can go with another, less standard and predictable option. Cut the cookies into regular squares, bake, and after cooling, stack them in stacks of 5-6 pieces and tie them beautifully with ribbons - you’ll get cute stylized “boxes” with gifts. A little troublesome, but the sincere joy of your friends is worth it!

But this idea with multi-colored Christmas trees is for those who are ready to devote time to preparing for the New Year. You can assemble the pyramids together with your child - fun is guaranteed!

10 Easy New Year's Cookie Ideas:

1. Store-bought pretzel crackers are almost ready-made Santa Claus reindeer antlers! Prepare cookies according to your favorite recipe, shape them into ovals, place horns (two pretzels) at the top of the “head”, after baking, make eyes and a mouth out of chocolate.

1. Any round cookie is an excellent preparation for snowflakes: prepare the icing according to a proven recipe and draw the desired patterns on top of the baked dough. Don't forget that such snowflakes will look beautiful if the dough and icing are contrasting in color.

1. Don't you think that New Year's confetti and Easter colorful decor for Easter cakes look incredibly similar to each other? Bake cookies, pour melted chocolate and, while it is hot, sprinkle with round multi-colored sugar decorations. Confetti cookies are ready!

1. Mix corn flakes, nuts, candied fruits broken into small pieces in one bowl, add some well-hardening cream (for example, mix melted butter with chewing marshmallows and a drop of green dye), place the resulting mass on a sheet of foil in the form of small Christmas wreaths, decorate with small colored decorations and dried fruits. Once hardened, you will have beautiful Christmas cookies.

1. If you beat a couple of egg whites with powdered sugar properly, and then add a drop of green dye to the bowl, the mixture can be placed on a baking sheet in the form of beautiful small Christmas trees. After baking, you can decorate the meringue as you wish.

1. Of course, cookie cutters make life much easier, however, there are plenty of items that you can cut out yourself using a knife. Make a template for mittens, a New Year's ball for the Christmas tree, Santa Claus's boot, funny bells, a snow-covered house - and create wonderful holiday cookies!

1. Don't forget about the gingerbread men - these cookies can be decorated in the form of a Christmas tree garland: by decorating the Christmas tree with it, you will give your children and guests another reason to believe in miracles!

1. Any cookie will become New Year's if you make it in the classic New Year's colors - white, green and red. Prepare three types of dough, divide each into 5-10 parts, mix the resulting pieces, form one large ball, which you roll into a layer. Using cutters, cut out snowflakes, Christmas trees and other New Year's figures - they will be bright and festive.

1. Great idea - snowman cookies. “Building” snow comrades from round blanks is as easy as shelling pears; even children can handle the job with pleasure.

1. As a gift, you can make New Year's cookies that are placed on a cup. In houses, hearts or snowflakes, make a small rectangular slit about 2 cm long and 3-4 mm wide, bake. Such baked goods can serve as an excellent addition to the main New Year's gift: buy a dozen of the most ordinary white cups and a set of ceramic paints, sign each one, decorate with homemade cookies, pack in transparent film and hide under the Christmas tree.

May your New Year be magical and beautiful, and may you have a lot of energy, time and inspiration to organize all the planned winter, delicious, fragrant miracles!

Today, New Year's cookies are becoming increasingly popular. It can be a wonderful gift, a delicious treat, or a decoration for the holiday table and New Year tree. Now in stores there is a large selection of ready-made New Year's cookies. But there is no greater joy than decorating a Christmas tree with homemade cookies and decorations :)

The video shows how to decorate finished New Year's cookies with icing. Below is a recipe for icing and several recipes for New Year's cookies. But now ready-made glaze is also sold in stores.

Multi-colored cookie icing

Decorate the cookies with protein glaze, which, if desired, can be painted in almost all the colors of the rainbow, including the most unusual ones. We will not resort to any chemical dyes, but will use only natural food products.

How to prepare white glaze: 200 g of powdered sugar should be combined with the juice of one medium-sized lemon and the white of a raw egg. Beat the mixture with a mixer until the volume increases 2-3 times.

Multi-colored glaze options can be obtained if lemon juice is replaced with the juices of various vegetables.
So, by adding beet juice to its composition, you can get shades from soft pink to lilac (from 1 to 5-6 teaspoons of beet juice).
Orange color will come from carrot juice, yellow from sage tincture or decoction, green from spinach or broccoli juice, and blue from red cabbage juice.
To obtain a brown glaze, add 1-2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to its composition. The red tint will come from the juice of fresh red currants or strawberries.

Before applying the glaze to the cookies, lightly moisten the surface with water. After applying another layer of colored coating, place the baking sheet with cookies in a hot oven for a few minutes to allow the glaze to dry faster.

New Year's cookie recipes.

Recipe No. 1.

Ingredients:

egg - 3 pcs.
margarine - 200 g
wheat flour - 500g
sugar - 150g
baking powder - 2 teaspoons
salt - a pinch
orange zest - from 1 orange
ground ginger (optional) - 1-2 teaspoons
cinnamon (optional) - 1 teaspoon
ground cloves (optional) - 1/2 teaspoon
powdered sugar - for glaze (optional)
food coloring - for glaze (optional)

Beat the eggs. Grind margarine with sugar. Add eggs to margarine and mix. Make orange zest and add to the dough. Separately mix flour, salt, baking powder. Add ginger, cloves and cinnamon if desired. The presence of these spices immediately evokes associations with Christmas and New Year, so it is recommended to put ginger, cinnamon and cloves in New Year's cookies - the taste will be special and interesting. Add these ingredients and knead the dough well.
Roll out the dough and cut out cookies using cutters (Christmas trees, bells, stars). Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil or place parchment paper. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and use a wooden stick to make holes (if you plan to hang the cookies on the Christmas tree). Bake cookies in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

Prepare sugar glaze: add water to the powdered sugar (per 100 g of powdered sugar you will need 2-3 tablespoons of water). The drawing mass should be neither liquid nor thick. Transfer the mixture into as many bowls as there are food colorings, add coloring and mix.

Using a brush, apply edible glaze to the cookies; you can dip the cookies into the glaze. You can use a pastry bag or a plastic bag (with holes in it) to decorate Christmas trees with balls, draw eyes, New Year's ornaments, or make smiling stars.

Thread threads or thin ribbons through the holes and hang the cookies on the Christmas tree. Children will especially enjoy participating in the preparation of such New Year's cookies, decorating the Christmas tree with it, and then eating New Year's cookies. We ate some of the cookies even before hanging them on the Christmas tree

Recipe No. 2. New Year's cookies without eggs (with banana).

Ingredients:

banana - 1 pc.
vegetable oil - 150ml
wheat flour - 300g
sugar - 100g
baking powder - 2 teaspoons
salt - a pinch

Make a puree from the banana. Add vegetable oil to the banana and mix. Add sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Knead the dough well and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to cut out Christmas cookies (Christmas trees, snowmen, stars, bells).
Grease a baking sheet with oil or place parchment paper. Place the cookies on a baking sheet, poke holes in the top with a wooden stick and bake in the oven for 15-25 minutes.
New Year's cookies without eggs are also suitable for allergy sufferers; they can be coated with sugar icing. These cookies can be hung on the Christmas tree by threading bright ribbons through the holes. And may the New Year bring you health and happiness!

Recipe No. 3. Cookies with multi-colored icing made from natural ingredients

3 cups flour,
2 eggs,
200 g sugar,
100 g honey,
200 g butter or margarine,
spices to taste - ginger, vanilla or cinnamon.

Beat sugar with eggs into a homogeneous white mass and add honey slightly heated in a water bath. Pre-freeze the butter or margarine in the freezer, and then grate it on a coarse grater and also combine it with the egg-sugar mixture. Then add sifted flour and spices in small portions and knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic. Then it must be wrapped in plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator for a couple of hours - then when cutting it will be plastic.
After the cookies are formed, you will need to put them in the oven, preheated to 180-200 degrees and bake until they turn light brown. Naturally, after this they need to be allowed to cool, and only then painted and decorated.

Recipe No. 4. Sturdy butter cookies.

These cookies are not hard at all, but rather strong - they do not crumble in your hands and hold their shape well when baking. These cookies are ideal for all kinds of decorations, such as Christmas trees.

Ingredients:

1.5 cups flour,
4 eggs,
1/5 tbsp milk,
150g butter,
1 cup of sugar,
vanillin

Grind the eggs with sugar and vanilla. Pour in cold milk, stir well and put on low heat. With constant stirring, cook a mass of thick sour cream. Leave to cool.

Grind flour with butter until small fat crumbs. Pour in the cooled egg mixture and knead into a soft, plastic dough. If the dough is too sticky, add flour. Place in the refrigerator for 15~20 minutes. Roll out the dough into a layer of 1~1.5 cm and cut out shapes with molds.
If the cookies will be used as Christmas tree decorations, then immediately make holes in the figures into which the ribbon will be inserted. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Preheat the oven to t=200°C and bake until browned. Remove the hot cookies from the baking sheet and cool.

Recipe No. 5. Honey cookies "Russy".

The cookies are tasty and crumbly. But a little harsh. Ideal for decorating a Christmas tree (you just need to make a hole for the rope before baking).

Ingredients:

1+1/3 cups flour,
1 raw yolk,
1 tbsp sour cream,
50g butter,
50g honey,
1~3 tbsp sugar,
1/4 teaspoon salt,
1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Grind the butter with sugar, salt and honey until fluffy. Add the yolk and beat. Add sour cream and flour mixed with soda. Quickly knead into a homogeneous dough.
Roll out the dough into a layer 3~5mm thick. Use cookie cutters or a thin-walled glass to cut out cookies.

Place on a baking sheet and bake at t=200~220°C until browned. Cool the finished cookies and decorate with melted chocolate or icing sugar. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet until the chocolate hardens completely.

You can melt the chocolate directly in a parchment bag. Roll up a bag of parchment, put 1~2 pieces of chocolate in it and put it in the oven for 3 minutes, preheated to t=100°C, or for 2 minutes in the microwave at maximum power.

Happy New Year!

To ensure that your New Year's cookies turn out not only tasty, but also atmospheric and create the appropriate mood, it is better to worry about buying special decorations for them in advance. For example, New Year's powder: all sorts of silver beads, miniature snowflakes and so on. This is, of course, optional, but it will look very cute. New Year's themed molds won't be out of place either: Christmas trees, snowflakes, Santa Claus bags.

The five most commonly used ingredients in New Year's cookie recipes are:

The second stage is choosing the appropriate recipe. It is best to choose not by the appearance of the cookies (after all, we can easily change this appearance), but by the composition of the products. For example, do you want it to be cooked with sour cream or kefir, with or without butter, with or without eggs. Opt for a proven recipe with step-by-step photos. It’s even better if you can ask questions and receive prompt answers on occasion.

If this is your first experience with such baking, then it is better to start with simple shortcrust pastry, which is easy to roll out and does not stick to your hands or the table surface. The same New Year's molds in the form of Christmas trees or gifts are just right here. After baking, take the time to decorate the cookies.

How to decorate Christmas cookies

The easiest way is to make “snow”. That is, prepare a fluffy sugar-protein mass that can be used to “draw” on the surface of the cookies. It is enough just to outline its edges with a thin line to make it elegant and beautiful. To do this you will need a cooking bag or syringe.

Five of the fastest cookie recipes for the New Year:

The second option: making colored glaze, which covers the entire surface of the baked goods.

Well, if you did buy some sprinkles, you can use that too.

If you poke holes in the cookies before baking, they can be turned into cute Christmas tree decorations. Kids especially like these, because it’s fun to find such edible toys and eat them with appetite!

Remember that almost any cookie can be adapted for the New Year if you pay attention to decoration.