Cookies are an obligatory attribute of New Year and Christmas holidays. It is customary to put it on the table, decorate the tree for them, and simply treat the children. Today we will share with you the recipes for New Year cookies.
Orange biscuits for the New Year
Ingredients:
- 500-550 g of flour;
- 1 orange;
- 150 g of butter or margarine;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 2 tsp. vanilla sugar;
- 2 tsp. baking powder (or 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda);
- 2 eggs.
Preparation:
Remove the peel from the orange. To do this, you can use a special knife or a conventional grater. Then squeeze out the orange juice, we will need it, too. The oil must be mixed with sugar and vanilla sugar, add the eggs to the mixture and mix again. Add the zest and juice of the lemon. Pour the flour and baking powder (slaked soda), knead the dough. Rolls out the dough about 2-3 mm thick, and with the help of molds or glass, we make the shape with the liver. We cover the baking tray with baking paper (or grease it with oil), warm the oven to 180 degrees and bake the biscuits for 10-15 minutes.
Ginger New Year's cookies
Ingredients:
- 450-500 g of flour;
- 200 g of butter or margarine;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 2 tsp. vanilla sugar;
- 2 tsp. baking powder;
- 1 tsp ground ginger.
Preparation:
Thoroughly mix the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar. Then add ground ginger and eggs. Mix again and add flour and baking powder. Knead the dough. Roll out the dough with a thin layer (3-4 mm) and give the desired form to the liver. We cover the baking tray with baking paper, or we lubricate with oil. Spread the biscuits on a baking sheet and put in a preheated oven to 180 degrees. Bake for about 10-15 minutes.
Christmas cookies with jam
Ingredients:
- 300-350 g of flour;
- 200 g of butter or margarine;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
- 2 tsp. baking powder (or 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda);
- jam or thick jam.
Preparation:
We rub the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar. We add eggs, mix. Then we pour the flour and baking powder and mix the dough. Roll out the dough about 2-3 mm thick on the table, cut out the cookies with molds. We leave half the cookies unchanged, and from the second we cut out the middle (it can be of arbitrary shape). We spread all the cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, and bake cookies in it for 10-15 minutes.
Then we spread jam on whole cookies, and on top we cover with biscuits in which a hole was made.Almond Cookies
Ingredients:
- 350-400 g of flour;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 150 g of butter or margarine;
- 2 tsp. vanilla sugar;
- 100 g of almonds;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 tsp ground ginger;
- 2 tsp. baking powder (or 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda);
- 1 tsp cinnamon.
Preparation:
The output will be 45-50 cookies, so we take 45-50 nuts of almonds and pour them with boiling water (this is done in order to make the skin easier from the nut). Leave it for 10 minutes. The remaining almonds are crushed. We rub the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar. We add eggs, mix. Add cinnamon, chopped almonds and ground ginger. Stirring. Pour in the flour and baking powder, knead the dough (it does not turn out very steep). Then we form (sculpt) the cookies and lay them on the baking sheet covered with baking paper. In each cookie we press a whole almond. We bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
To make a cookie truly New Year, it can be covered with multi-colored glaze (suitable for the first two recipes)
Glaze for New Year's cookies
Ingredients:
- 500 g of powdered sugar;
- 7-8 tablespoons of any syrup;
- food colorings (optional).
Preparation:
Mix sugar powder with syrup and put the resulting mixture on a weak fire. Cook the glaze, stirring with a spatula for about 5-7 minutes (until the glaze does not evenly coat the scapula). The glaze is ready. If desired, you can add food colors to it.
Dip cookies only in a warm glaze, as it quickly freezes.
As for the New Year's cookie cutlery, they are widely available in retail. If you do not have time to look for molds, but you want to do something unusual, you can make a cardboard from a cardboard, and cut out cookies with a knife.
And in order to make New Year's cookies on the Christmas tree, before baking it is necessary to make a hole in each cookie. And put on the finished biscuit colored rope.