Christmas cookies

New Year is a good occasion for cooking your favorite delicious dishes, and baking in this case is one of the most important components of the holiday. Especially popular is the New Year cookie, which can serve not only as a decoration of the table, but also as a Christmas tree.

It should be noted that in each state they cook in their own way. For example, in Sweden on the table must be present so-called ritual cookies, in Germany - nut. In this article, we'll look at how cookies are baked for Christmas holidays.

1. Nut biscuits

Ingredients: fifty grams of hazelnuts, one hundred and seventy grams of sugar, one hundred and seventy grams of butter, two hundred and eighty grams of flour, one pinch of salt, one egg, sixty grams of chocolate. Filling: two hundred grams of black chocolate, forty grams of sugar, one hundred grams of fatty cream.

Nuts are cleaned and finely chopped. Oil is ground with salt and sugar. Add the egg and whisk with a mixer, then add flour, nuts and chocolate and knead the dough (it should be smooth). He is put in a cold place for four hours, previously wrapped in a food film.

After a lapse of time, the dough is rolled into a layer and the New Year's biscuit cut out with a shape, which is baked at high temperature for about eight minutes, and then it is chilled.

Meanwhile, they begin to fill. To do this, sugar is melted in a bowl, cream is added and quickly stirred until the sugar completely dissolves. Only then add the chocolate, remove from the plate and stir until it dissolves. The resulting cream is cooled for four hours, after which it glues together two cookies.

2. Christmas cookies

Ingredients: three eggs, two hundred grams of margarine, five hundred grams of flour, two spoons of baking powder, one pinch of salt, one hundred and fifty grams of sugar, one orange peel, two spoons of ginger, one spoon of cinnamon, two spoons of cloves, food colorings and powdered sugar if desired.

Eggs are beaten, add margarine, orange peel and mix. Flour, baking powder and salt are mixed, add ginger, cinnamon, cloves and other ingredients and knead the dough, which is then rolled out and cut out from it using molds, New Year's biscuits. He is laid on a baking tray and baked in the oven for twenty-five minutes.

In the meantime, you can cook glaze. So, powdered sugar (one hundred grams) stir with water (two spoons), add food colorings and mix.

Using a brush, glaze is applied to the pastry and left for a while to dry.

3. Cookies chocolate

Ingredients: three hundred and seventy grams of flour, two tablespoons of cocoa, two hundred grams of butter, one yolk, one spoon of cinnamon and cardamom, one hundred grams of sugar powder and sugar, two tablespoons of lemon juice.

Mix flour and cocoa, add butter, yolk, sugar, cardamom and cinnamon, mix the smooth dough, then roll it into a bowl, put it in a bag and put it in a cold place for one hour. After this, it is rolled into a layer and cut out by forms a cookie, which is baked for ten minutes in the oven.

In the meantime, lemon juice and sugar powder are mixed and the resulting mass is adorned with a pastry using a pastry syringe.

Thus, when there is a question about what to cook from cookies For Christmas holidays, you just need to use the recipes that are described above.