Delicious baked goods for the New Year: original and quick recipes. New Year's cookies

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:

Remove the zest from the orange. Squeeze the juice out of the fruit.
Grind sugar with vanilla.
Beat eggs into sugar.
Add juice and zest. Stir.
Add flour.
Gently knead the dough. Roll it out.
Cut out Christmas trees from thin dough using special culinary molds.
Prepare a baking sheet: grease it with oil or cover it with special paper.
Place the cookies at a distance from each other (at least 5 centimeters).
Bake for up to 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Dip each cookie into the prepared glaze.
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:

Cream the butter in a bowl.
Add powdered sugar and beat again.
Beat the egg into the glass. Separate the yolk from the white.
Add the yolk to the rest of the ingredients. Whisk.
Divide the dough into three parts. Add green dye to one part, pink to another, yellow to the third.
Divide the flour into 3 parts. Add to each portion of dough.
Knead into tight balls. Wrap them in cling film and place them in the refrigerator for an hour.
Divide three balls into small parts. Roll each into a sausage.
Twist two sausages and bend at the end. Do the same with the remaining dough.
Place the canes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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

Heat honey in a water bath. Use the ingredient in an amount of 3 tsp.
Beat butter and sugar. Initially, beat the butter separately without adding other ingredients.
Add sugar. Continue whisking.
Mix dry ingredients (baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, flour).
Beat 1 egg into the butter and sugar. Add salt and honey there.
Beat with a mixer at medium speed.
Add dry ingredients. Whisk again.
Knead the dough with your hands until smooth.
Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
Divide the dough into thin layers.
Roll it out carefully with a rolling pin.
Using special cutters, cut out various shapes from it.
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:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Peel the ginger and grate it.
Grind the cloves in a mortar.
Mix flour with baking powder and spices.
Beat butter and egg. Add egg and flour with spices to them.
Gently knead the dough. Roll out the resulting mass. Sprinkle the table with flour first to prevent the dough from sticking.
Cut out any shapes from it. To do this, use molds.
Grease a baking tray with oil. Sprinkle some flour on it.
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:

Turn the powdered sugar and butter into a thick, fluffy mass. Add flour and beat.
Heat the honey in a water bath if it is frozen. Add it to the dough.
Pour milk (2 tbsp) into the dough. Mix everything again until smooth.
Knead the dough, first sprinkling the table with flour. If the mass sticks to your hands, they need to be greased with butter.
Divide the dough in half and wrap one half in cling film.
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.
Also wrap the second part of the workpiece with cling film.
Place the preparations in the refrigerator for an hour.
Roll out the dough, first sprinkling the surface with flour.
Cut out numbers from it using special cutters.
Do the same with the second part of the test.
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

Mix sour cream and butter.
Add water and place on low heat.
Bring ingredients until smooth. It is important that the mass does not boil.
Sift the flour. Add an egg to the dough.
Add all remaining ingredients to the sour cream mixture. Knead the dough.
Wrap it up and put it in a warm place. If it has risen by 2 times, then you can continue preparing the cookies.
Line a baking tray with baking paper.
Place small balls of dough on it.
Using scissors, make ears for each ball.
Eyes can be easily made with a toothpick.
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:

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.
Place the ingredients on the fire.
Soy sauce, oil and spices should also be added there.
Do not remove the dessert from the heat until the ingredients turn into a homogeneous mass.
When the mixture has cooled slightly, add baking soda. If the mixture starts to foam, it's okay. That's how it should be.
Transfer the dough to a bowl and add flour. You should get a dense elastic mass.
Wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
Take out the dough and roll it out.
Using special cutters, cut out various shapes. It is allowed to use both different forms and one.
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:

Beat the whites into a stiff foam.
Sift the powdered sugar.
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!

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How to make shortbread cookies “Yolochki”:

Mix flour, salt and baking powder in a small bowl.
Using a mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese (sour cream), egg yolk and vanilla sugar (vanilla essence) into a fluffy mass. Gradually add the flour mixture and beat on low speed until a smooth shortbread dough is obtained.
Add green dye to the shortbread dough. If you want to get cookies of different colors, then divide the entire dough into parts and add your own dye to each part.
Fill a pastry syringe with shortbread dough and place the cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper or a silicone mat. Sprinkle the cookies with colored sugar and confectionery sprinkles. If you do not have a pastry syringe, then roll out the dough, pre-chilled in the refrigerator (1-2 hours), on a floured surface into a layer 3 mm thick. Using pastry cutters or a knife, cut out Christmas tree shapes.
Bake “Christmas Tree” cookies in an oven preheated to 180°C for 12-15 minutes.
Refrigerate cookies until crisp before serving. Bon appetit!

Advice. You can replace the white frosting with melted white chocolate. And melted milk and dark chocolate can replace brown and black icing.

These sugar-coated New Year's cookies are a variation of the famous Thimble cookie. Snowmen can be made in two types - with a body or only in the form of a snowman's head.

Ingredients for shortcrust pastry:

115 g softened butter, 260 g flour, 50 g regular and 50 g brown sugar (or 100 g regular sugar), 1 egg, 1 tbsp. l. milk, 1 packet of vanilla sugar (or 1 tsp vanilla essence), 1 tsp. baking powder, 0.5 tsp. salt.

Ingredients for icing sugar:

160 g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. milk, 0.5 tsp. vanilla or almond essence (optional), black and orange gel food coloring for decoration.

How to make shortbread cookies “Snowmen”:

Beat the butter with a mixer for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder and salt. Beat until fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla sugar (vanilla essence). Gradually add flour and mix all ingredients until smooth.
Roll the dough into balls about 2cm in diameter. Place the dough balls on a greased or lined baking tray. For snowmen with a body, place 2 balls next to each other. For snowman heads, place 1 ball at a distance of 2 cm from each other. Use your thumb or a round spoon to make an indentation in the center of each ball.
Bake cookies in an oven preheated to 190°C for 7-10 minutes until golden brown. Place the cookies on a wire rack and let them cool.

Make the sugar icing: Grind the sifted powdered sugar with milk to the consistency of thick sour cream. Beat until the mixture becomes white and smooth. If necessary, add vanilla or almond essence to the frosting. Leave the bulk of the prepared sugar icing white. Divide a small portion into two portions. Add 1-2 drops of black food coloring to one portion and orange to the other.

Fill each cavity of the shortbread with white sugar icing and leave to dry for a few hours.
Use colored icing for decoration. Using a piping bag fitted with the smallest tip, use black icing to create buttons, eyes and a mouth for each snowman. Use orange icing to make a carrot nose. Instead of orange frosting for the snowman's nose, you can use candied fruits or mini candies in orange or red. Such a nose must be placed on not completely dry white sugar icing so that it sets.
The icing on the “Snowmen” shortbread cookies should dry completely within a few hours (can be left overnight). Now the cookies are ready! Bon appetit!

Advice. Homemade Christmas cookies can be a great gift. Take a beautiful box or jar, line it with wax paper and place cookies in the container. Decorate the box or jar with a bow or wrap it in holiday packaging. A delicious handmade gift is ready!

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

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.

The smell of pine and tangerines, falling flakes of snow outside the window, Christmas movies, warmth in the house and aromatic magical hot tea - what could be more beautiful to celebrate the New Year 2017? During this cold season, you want to warm yourself up inside: spend time with family and friends over a cup of hot drink.

The following selection of cookie recipes will not leave any housewife indifferent: the ease of preparation combined with amazing results will instill in you the habit of baking delicacies all year round. So, what to serve for a cookie tea party for the New Year 2017?

Chocolate gingerbread

Ingredients	Quantity
Dark chocolate bar -	approximately 80 g
Butter -	30 g
Chicken eggs -	2 pcs.
Wheat flour -	100 g
Cocoa powder (choose real) -	1 tbsp. spoon
Granulated sugar -	50 g
Vanilla sugar -	1 teaspoon
Baking powder -	½ teaspoon
Salt -	a small pinch
Powdered sugar -	for sprinkling
Cooking time: 60 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 290 Kcal

Sweets help you mentally prepare for winter and deal with depression. Chocolate occupies a special place among them. No wonder they say: it is simply impossible to count the admirers of this product.

First, we arrange a water bath for the chopped chocolate and butter. Bring the chocolate-cream mixture until smooth. In a separate container, using a hand mixer, beat the eggs and both types of sugar until white.

After the chocolate-butter mixture has cooled, carefully stir in the mixture of eggs and sugar.

In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour that has previously passed the sieve test, cocoa and baking powder. Now feel free to add the liquid part of the dough to it. Using a spoon or spatula, stir the dough into a smooth, thick texture.

At the end of cooking the “semi-finished baked goods”, cover the dough with cling film and put it in a cold place for a couple of hours. Only after the mass has hardened should you begin to form cookies.

Let's use a teaspoon: the dough that fits in it will be the required amount for the ball cookie. The approximate diameter of the figure should be about 3 cm.

Before you start baking, roll the balls in powdered sugar. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.

Line a baking tray with baking paper and arrange the balls, keeping a distance of 2-5 centimeters from each other. Let the gingerbread bake for no more than 10 minutes.

Note: avoid over-baking! The moist interior of the biscuit, covered with a delicate truffle-inspired crust, is the perfect description of the dish.

Tribute to tradition: gingerbread cookies

Gingerbread is a traditional delicacy in Europe. It is customary to treat Santa Claus, who comes on Christmas night, with a glass of warm milk. Nevertheless, ordinary people do not miss the opportunity to enjoy aromatic pastries. To bake “ginger cookies”, stock up on:

Wheat flour - 350 g;
Soda (ordinary baking soda) - 1 teaspoon;
Ground ginger - 2 teaspoons;
Ground fragrant cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
Butter (not spread) - 125 g;
Brown granulated sugar - 175 g;
Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
Invert syrup or liquid honey - 4 tbsp. spoons.

First, sift the flour into which we mix the dry ingredients of the recipe: soda, ginger shavings, ground cinnamon.

Pour it into a deep bowl or food processor container, add chopped butter, knead thoroughly with your hands or by force of a machine. When the mixture resembles bread crumbs, add sugar.

Beat the syrup with the egg and add it to the cream-flour mixture and beat (this will take a lot of time manually, so try to find at least a powerful hand mixer).

Form the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling film, and place it in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line the baking sheets with parchment paper. From the dough rolled out to half a centimeter thickness, cut out cookies of the desired shape. The surface layer of the semi-finished treat should be sprinkled with flour.

Within the next 15 minutes, the sweetness will attract everyone to the kitchen. Covered with a golden brown crust, the baked cookies can be decorated with icing.

Shortbread New Year's cookies

If you want to prepare for the New Year 2017 the most simple delicacy that does not let you down with its gastronomic qualities, then use the standard shortbread recipe.

It includes products:

Wheat flour - 200-220 g;
Butter (fatty) oil - 150 g;
Sugar - 150 g;
Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
Salt - a little bit.

The first step is to render the fat. While the product melts and cools, you should prepare the egg-sugar mixture: simply grind the eggs with the sweetener until you obtain a white mass.

In the next step, pour the cooled melted butter into the whipped mixture (the temperature can be warm, but not hot, to avoid curdling of the egg white). Mix thoroughly until smooth.

Pour the mixture of the remaining dry ingredients - flour, baking powder and salt - into the resulting batter. To begin with, knead the dough using a spoon, and when it acquires a firmer structure, use hands greased with vegetable oil.

Shortbread dough is similar to noodle dough, however, if you overdo it with flour, the finished dough will not have a rich taste, and its characteristic friability will disappear. Don't forget to cool the mixture in the refrigerator.

Sprinkle the surface of your work surface with flour and roll it out flat. Its thickness should not exceed half a centimeter. Place delicacies of any shape and size on oiled tracing paper lined on a baking sheet. When the tray is full, place it in the oven, preheated to 195-200 degrees. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes.

Note: if you are afraid that the taste of the original shortbread cookies will seem simple to you, dilute the dough with fillings in the form of cinnamon, nuts, candied fruits and other additives.

Sour cream and honey cookies for New Year 2017

A delicious recipe for New Year's cookies will require the availability of products that are not in every refrigerator. Nevertheless, the effort and money spent are worth it: tender, crumbly, truly festive, it will be a worthy competitor to high-calorie cakes. Use:

Wheat flour - 600 g;
Fat sour cream - 350 g;
Butter (not spread) - 100 g;
Thick honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
Granulated sugar - 150 g.

The principle of making cookies from a sour cream and honey mixture for the New Year 2017 is extremely simple. Dissolve the honey and sugar portions of the ingredients in melted butter over low heat.

From the rolled out dough 0.5 cm thick, cut out the cookies of the desired shape. Line a tray with baking paper and place the formed treat on it, making sure to leave space between each treat.

The oven temperature should be about 180 degrees, and the total baking time should be from 8 to 15 minutes.

New Year's cookies with spicy flavor

An unusual taste with spicy notes that create the perfect New Year's bouquet of aromas will complement warm winter conversations while drinking tea with good old friends or surrounded by work partners. To prepare spicy pastries you will need:

Brown granulated sugar - 170-180 g;
Butter (fatty) oil - 100 g;
10% cream - 100 ml;
Wheat flour - 400 g;
Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
Cocoa powder (natural only) - 3 tbsp. spoons;
Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
Baking powder - 2 teaspoons;

Various spicy ingredients are responsible for the gastronomic features of the delicacy. The ideal set will be a bouquet of ground clove seeds, cardamom fruits, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Dark chocolate is responsible for the bitter sweetness.

The sequence for preparing spicy New Year's cookies is as follows:

Mix flour and baking powder, sift;
Cut the butter and add it to the flour;
Place sugar, eggs and honey into the same container;
Add spices. Approximate amount: ½ or ¼ teaspoon each;
Knead a homogeneous dough;
Wrap the kneaded dough in cling film and place it in the refrigerator for half an hour;
Dust the table for rolling out the dough with flour;
Roll out a uniform layer of dough. Standard thickness is 5 millimeters;
We form cookies using improvised or special means;
Line a baking sheet with parchment and sprinkle the latter with water;
Place the semi-finished cookies in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for 5-8 minutes.

Note: avoid browning the spicy delicacy. Over-dried cookies bring little pleasure.

To decorate the cookies, melt the chocolate by creating a water bath; heat the cream and add cocoa to it and bring it to a thickened state. Frost the cookies with thick butter fudge and warm chocolate.

Holiday cookies “Run, Run, Rudolph!”

Deer is an integral part of the New Year's festive extravaganza. He sends a magical sleigh with Santa Claus and gifts to the homes of obedient children.

Rudolph cookies are aimed at the latter: their funny and playful appearance will not leave any little food gourmet indifferent.

To prepare reindeer cookies, stock up on:

Wheat flour - 300 g;
Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
Sugar - 100 g;
Butter (fat) - 125 g;
Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
Soda - 1 teaspoon;
Orange zest (fresh or dried) and cinnamon;
Small pretzels, chocolate chips and M&M's or Skittles.

Add grated orange zest from one fruit (the orange layer turned into shavings using a grater) and cinnamon to melted butter and honey over low heat. Add soda and expect a spectacular chemical reaction: a foamy mass. If this does not happen, add citric acid at the tip of a knife into the oil-honey mass.

In a separate container, mix flour with egg, sweetener and butter-honey mixture. Knead the dough into a homogeneous dough and rest. After 30 minutes at 18-25 degrees, roll out the dough and cut out the desired shapes. Bake in the oven on a baking sheet lined with parchment at 180 degrees for about 8 minutes.

At the end of baking, create horns from pretzels divided in half, eyes from multi-colored Emma's candies, and noses from chocolate drops.

Note: feel free to involve your kids in the cooking process. Creating a herd of “rudolfs” is a creative and interesting activity.

Small summary

Be sure to gather the whole family: sharing cookies made by the whole family over tea is even dearer to the heart and tastier to the stomach!

Use special molds to create unusual cookies: stars, Christmas trees, people and much more.

Use your imagination when decorating cookies: prepare icing, sprinkle with confectionery powder, and special edible silver balls.