Christmas sweets. We cook ourselves

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

How to create a New Year's mood for yourself if the Christmas tree, tangerines and champagne are a little tired and no longer cause delight? We invite you to bake New Year's sweets, the preparation of which will entertain you and make you cheer up. In addition, if you master the basics of European Christmas cuisine, you can make your friends original gifts for the holiday. New Year's sweets from Finland, Germany and England are so loved by the Russians that without them it is already difficult to imagine the most important holiday of our country.

Gingerbread

Stars decorated with icing, funny little men, horses and deer just by their appearance cheer up and make you mentally reproduce all the famous Christmas melodies. By the way, in many countries these New Year's sweets are not only served with tea, but are also used as Christmas tree decorations. First, prepare the dough:

• Take 100 grams of butter, add three tablespoons of honey to it and mix well withmixer.
• In the whipped mass, put one tablespoon each of ground ginger and cocoa, as well as half a spoonful of cloves and mix everything again.
• Add 150 grams of flour and one egg. Roll out the finished dough, cut out funny figures from it with the help of molds and send the future cookies to the oven. While it's cooking, prepare the glaze. Sift through a sieve 100 grams of dry semi-finished product, add the protein of one egg and a little lemon juice.
• Whisk all the ingredients.
• Put the icing in a piping bag and decorate your Christmas sweets however you like.

Viennese waffles

This is a wonderful dish you can make during the holidays for breakfast for the whole family. We are sure that your efforts will not go unnoticed and will help you start a new day with a festive mood. We will make New Year's sweets with our own hands from:

• One glass of milk.
• Two spoons of runny honey.
• One egg.
• A glass of sifted flour.
• Two tablespoons of butter.
• One teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
• Also add s alt and baking powder.

Mix the milk and egg, sift the flour and mix all the ingredients together. Pour the resulting dough into a silicone waffle mold and send your New Year's sweets to the oven. This dish can be served with a scoop of ice cream, sweet syrup or whipped cream.

CaramelSanta's staff

Christmas gifts, sweets and souvenirs before the holiday can be bought in every supermarket. But we suggest that you do the Christmas preparations on your own, because it is thanks to pleasant chores that we can plunge into an atmosphere of joy and fun. To make this delicious treat, please read the instructions carefully:

• Pour 300 grams of sugar into a metal bowl and pour 100 ml of clean water.
• Put the dish on the fire and start stirring its contents. As soon as the sweet mass begins to boil, remove the dirty foam that will float to the top.
• Add two tablespoons of lemon juice and boil the future caramel until it turns yellow.
• Pour the sugar mass onto the silicone mat and start forming a soft lump out of it. You need to do this first with a rug, and then with your hands. Be sure to wear gloves or you risk getting burned.
• Take the caramel in your hands and start stretching it. When it turns white and you hear characteristic clicks, proceed to the formation of the cane.
• Cut off a small piece from the sweet mass, roll two sticks out of it on the board with your hands, twist them together and bend one end.

Chocolate Christmas tree cookies

Christmas sweets for children will be doubly delicious if the kids find them hanging next to garlands and balls on a January morning. Prepare the dough:100 grams of honey, 60 grams of butter and 50 grams of vanilla sugarput in a saucepan and put on the stove.

• Sift 250 grams of rye flour and add a teaspoon of baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger and two tablespoons of cocoa to it.
• Pour the cooled honey mixture into the flour, put two eggs and mix.
• The finished dough should lie under a towel or cling film.
• Roll out a layer 5 mm thick and cut out funny figurines of Christmas trees, bells or little men with the help of molds. Send the cookies to the oven, and do the preparation of the drawing glaze yourself. You can read her recipe above.

We continue to make New Year's sweets with our own hands: take the figurines out of the oven, make holes in them and decorate to your liking. When the icing is set, take a gold ribbon and use it to hang a treat on the Christmas tree.

Honey dough

• 400 grams of honey.
• Three eggs.
• 150 grams of butter.
• 400 grams of sugar.
• Spice mix for mulled wine, soda, s alt.
• Spoon of cocoa.
• 1 kg of flour (you can mix wheat and rye).

Ignite the sugar in a dry frying pan, and then pour a glass of hot water into it. Cool the mixture after a few minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients, knead the dough, divide it into pieces and leave it in the refrigerator for a day.

Gingerbread house

It will take you a lot of time to prepare this dish, but you can stretch the pleasure for several wonderful days. Roll out the honey dough on parchment and use the template to cut out the details for the house. Baked cakes should be dried for at least several hours, and preferably one or two days. When it's time to decorate the house, call the children and create with them. Fasten the details with icing or caramel, place on a stand, place figures of gingerbread men and Christmas trees nearby.

Christmas sweets are loved by children and adults, which means that the winter holidays are a great time for culinary experiments.