New Year sweets. Cooking ourselves

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

Gingerbread Cookie

Glazed with stars, cheerful little men, horses and deer are already one kind of cheer up and make you mentally reproduce all the famous Christmas tunes. By the way, in many countries these New Year sweets are not only served for tea, but also used as Christmas decorations. First we prepare the dough:

• Take 100 grams of butter, add to it three tablespoons of honey and mix well with a mixer.
• In the whipped mass, put one tablespoon of ground ginger and cocoa, as well as half a spoonful of cloves and mix again.
• Add 150 grams of flour and one egg. Finished dough roll, use molds to cut out the funny figures and send the future cookies to the oven. In the meantime, it is preparing, 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.
• Whip all the ingredients.
• Put the icing in the pastry bag and decorate the New Year sweets the way you want.

Viennese waffles

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

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

Mix the milk and the egg, sift the flour and mix all the foods together. In the silicone form for wafers, pour the resulting dough and send your New Year sweets to the oven. This dish can be served with a scoop of ice cream, sweet syrup or whipped cream.

Caramel Staff of Santa

New Year's gifts, sweets and souvenirs before the holiday can be bought in every supermarket. But we suggest you do Christmas preparation yourself, because it is thanks to pleasant efforts that we can plunge into an atmosphere of joy and fun. To make this delicious treat, read the instructions carefully:

• Pour 300 grams of sugar into a metal container and pour 100 ml of clean water.
• Put the dishes on the fire and begin to stir its contents. Once the sweet mass begins to boil, remove the dirty foam that will float upward.
• Add two tablespoons of lemon juice and cook the caramel until it turns yellow.
• Pour the sugar mass onto the silicone mat and begin to form a soft lump from it. Do it first with a rug, and then with your hands. Do not forget to wear gloves, otherwise you risk getting a burn.
• Take the caramel in your hands and start stretching it. When it turns white, and you hear the characteristic clicks, proceed to the formation of the cane.
• Cut off a small piece of sweet mass, roll two sticks from it on the board with hands, twist them together and bend one end.

Chocolate biscuits on the Christmas tree

New Year's sweets for children will be doubly tastier if the kids find them in the January morning hanging next to garlands and balls. Prepare the dough:
100 grams of honey, 60 grams of butter and 50 grams of vanilla sugar put in a saucepan and put on a plate.

• Sift 250 grams of rye flour and add a teaspoon of baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger and two tablespoons of cocoa.
• Cool the honey mixture into a flour, put two eggs and mix.
• Ready dough should lie under a towel or food film.
• Roll out a layer 5 mm thick and use the molds to cut out the funny figures of Christmas trees, bells or little people. Send the cookies to the oven, and prepare yourself the drawing glaze. Her recipe you can read above.

Continue to make New Year's sweets with your own hands: get the figures from the oven, make holes in them and decorate to your liking. When the icing hardens, take a gold ribbon and hang it with her treat to the Christmas tree.

Honey dough

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

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

Gingerbread house

Time to prepare this dish you will take a lot, but you can stretch the pleasure for a few wonderful days. Roll out the honey dough on the parchment and use the template to cut out the details for the house. Baked cakes should be dried for at least a few hours, and preferably one or two days. When the time comes to decorate the house, call the children and create with them. Fix the details with glaze or caramel, set on a stand, place next to the figures of ginger males and fir-trees.

New Year's sweets are loved by children and adults, which means that winter vacations are a great time for culinary experiments.