You must have seen more than once in the pastry shops or at someone at the Christmas tree beautiful, painted gingerbread cookies with gorgeous images. Many will think: “I will never succeed in making such a New Year’s cookie with icing,” but our recipes with photos will prove that nothing is impossible in cooking.

First, we need to bake the most Christmas and fragrant spicy gingerbread cookies with cinnamon and prepare a sweet coating, and only then master the painting techniques.

In order to turn even the simplest shortbread round cookies into a refined, beautiful and tasty treat, you need to decorate it with icing.

Such pastries have already become traditional not only as a festive dessert, but also as a decoration, and as an original gift that can easily be made at home.

Ginger christmas cookie

Ingredients

•   - 180 g + -
•   - ½ pack + -
•   - 1 PC. + -
•   - 100 g + -
• Baking powder - 1 tsp + -
•   - 3 tsp + -
•   - 2 tsp + -
• Cinnamon powder  - 2 tsp + -
• Sweet Vanilla - 1 sachet + -

1. Mild warm soft butter with sugar with a spatula or beat with a mixer.
2. We mix the egg and honey into the composition.
3. In a separate bowl we combine the flour with spices, vanilla and baking powder. Sift everything, put it into the oil mixture and knead a soft, elastic shortcrust pastry.
4. We remove the test kolob in the package in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
5. After a third of an hour, on a table dusted with flour, we roll out the dough into a layer 7-8 mm thick and cut out the shapes of the figures.
6. Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes at 200 ° C.

After we have baked a whole basket of Christmas themed cookies, we can proceed to decorate them. But what glaze to choose for decorating holiday baking? We settled on three of the most suitable and easy-to-use cookies for decorating glazed recipes for every taste: creamy vanilla, chocolate and protein.

Vanilla milk glaze to decorate Christmas cookies

This glaze is suitable for basic coating of cookies, as well as for painting. It has a pleasant creamy vanilla aroma that only decorates the taste of baking.

Ingredients

• Icing sugar - 250 g;
• Milk - 11 ml;
• Butter - 4-5 g;
• Salt - 2 g;
• Vanilla Sugar - 1 sachet.

How to make icing for cookies at home

1. In the microwave, melt the butter mixed with milk for 20 seconds.
2. Pour a pinch of salt, vanilla sugar and powder sifted through a fine sieve into a very hot mixture.
3. With a spatula, knead the icing until smooth and smooth, after which you can start decorating cookies.

Chocolate icing for cookies in milk

This type of glaze is best used for the base coat of confectionery. Or in combination with bright glazes of different colors to create a contrasting pattern. The main advantage of such a glaze is its rich chocolate flavor.

Ingredients

• Sifted powdered sugar - 250 g;
• Milk - 60 ml;
• Dark chocolate - 120 g;
• Butter - 1 tbsp;
• Vanillin - 2 g.

How to make icing for cookies

1. Pour butter and chocolate with milk and melt everything in a water bath, stirring.
2. When the mass becomes homogeneous, remove the bowl from the bath and pour sifted icing sugar and vanilla into it. Now you need to beat everything at a low speed mixer to a smooth consistency.

Protein glaze for Christmas cookies and gingerbread cookies

“Royal Iceing” or royal icing, that's what this version of the traditional English decorative coating for confectionery is called. It can be considered classic, because in most cases it is icing that is used to paint cookies and gingerbread cookies for the New Year.

The recipe for this glaze is not only the simplest, but also very fast, it takes only 5 minutes to cook.

Ingredients

• Egg white - 90 g;
• Powdered sugar without starch - 0.5 kg;
• Lemon Juice - ¼ tsp

• To prepare a good icing, you need to take the finest grinding powder and without any impurities. Shop powder usually also contains starch. Before use, even the highest quality powder needs to be sieved to prevent sugar particles from falling into the icing.
• Pour the proteins into a deep bulk container, fill in the sifted powder and pour in the lemon juice.

ATTENTION! If you plan to use dyes to color the icing, then you should not add lemon juice, as it “eats” the color.

• Now all the ingredients need to be mixed well until a thick snow-white mass is obtained. However, it is impossible to whip the icing, it is better to grind the powder with protein with your own hands using a spatula. But you can still use the mixer, only if the corollas work at the lowest possible speed.
• The consistency of an ideal aising is a floating peak, very dense and beautiful white.

For basic casting, use a slightly thinner glaze. To do this, combine a small amount of aising in a separate bowl with a small amount of water (1-2 tsp) and mix thoroughly.

The ideal consistency of the base glaze resembles liquid sour cream. Having tinted it in the desired color, we type the icing into a pastry bag and proceed to the design of the cookies.

Making cookies is carried out in several stages. Some painting techniques require complete drying of the base coating of glaze, while other drawings, on the contrary, are created by wet. But the base fill is the same for all cases.

Background cookie fill

• Create a border with a dense aising of the desired color with a nozzle 1 or 0.
• We fix the icing in the corner of the surface of the cookies and form a strip already in the air, which must be laid along the baking contour. The border serves as a barrier to fill so that the background glaze does not spread.
• Leave the circuit to dry for 10 minutes.

Idea! If you are afraid that you will not be able to draw the border evenly, you can use the food marker and draw a contour with it, on which glaze will already be applied.

• Then we take liquid filling glaze of the necessary shade and fill the surface of the product within the laid border. Pouring can be done with an ordinary confectionery bag without a nozzle, cutting off the edges. You need to move upward from the corner in horizontal lines so that the glaze lies evenly.

It is not worth saving glaze, because if you lay a small layer, when it dries, it will sag and the cookies will shine through.

• If you notice bubbles when pouring, then they just need to be pierced with a needle or an awl. If the drawing is of strict form, then its corners can also be modified and aligned with an awl.
• Now you need to leave the cookies for 12 hours, so that the icing is well dried.

After the base fill has dried, you can start painting cookies. This option is very simple and anyone can handle it.

• We put a stencil on the base icing and apply a layer of dense ice of a shade contrasting with the background on top of it.

• With a spatula, remove excess glaze and carefully remove the stencil.
• After that, with the help of a pastry bag and nozzle No. 1, we apply a decorative pattern around the base fill using the “point with traction” method.

Option 2: painting with a pastry bag

Painting with a pastry bag with a minimal nozzle or pastry piston requires skill. However, with this method, you can decorate your liver with any designs, whether it be improvisation or a pre-arranged sketch.

Option 3: Liquid Glaze Painting with Marble Effect

This is a variant of beautiful painting for beginners. Everyone can cope with this technique of decorating cookies, the main thing is to have an idea of \u200b\u200bthe final drawing in order to know how to apply glaze and in what forms. Consider the scheme of such a painting on the example of mittens cookies:

• After the basic red fill, we proceed to painting immediately, while the pouring glaze has not yet dried.

• We fill in the bag with white glaze and apply horizontal stripes at an equal distance from each other with a nozzle 0 or 1 on a wet filling background.

• Then, using a needle, an awl or a toothpick, vertically draw down lines to create the effect of marble and a flowing line.
• And then we draw a line with a toothpick in free places. Thus we get a knitting pattern.

Option 4: painting with a brush on a dry layer of glaze

Brush painting is suitable for creating drawings on dried base glaze. A rather popular area of \u200b\u200bsuch painting is gzhel. However, not everyone can do such a beautiful and even jewelry drawing.

To draw, you need to take a wide brush.

In the palette we combine, but do not mix, two colors of food coloring: blue and white, creating a gradient between them. A brush should be dipped in one blue paint, the other in white. Then proceed to the drawing.

The double-stroke technique uses a mixture of transverse brushing with linear brush strokes to produce wide gradient and narrow contrast strokes. Also, such a painting uses a thin brush to apply small details and highlight the contours of the picture.

At the end, a decorative icing frame is applied along the fill border.

Christmas cookies with icing can be a real work of art, to which you will also be able to attach a hand. If complex techniques cannot be mastered so soon, then even beginners will be able to create beautiful pastries with a stencil and a method of painting with liquid glaze.

Conventional cookies are different from baking, which you want to admire, with a decorative design that consists of glossy glaze and painting on it. There is a whole industry of coloring confectionery masterpieces: products are masterfully painted and sold expensively. You can make a bright cookie cover at home.

How to decorate cookies

To surprise relatives and guests, create a festive mood, try yourself in a new creative role, try baking and decorating cookies. A large piece of shortcrust pastry having at least one flat and relatively even side will be ideal for artistic painting. Coat the top surface of cookies or gingerbread with white, colored, chocolate icing, creating a delightful glossy layer, beautiful both by itself and as a background for the picture.

Glaze at home

Mom can do real miracles. For cute kids and sweet-tooths, cute and cheerful Christmas cookies for the holiday will be a great surprise. For Halloween, scary motives are suitable, and the icing is black, chocolate. On Valentine's Day, a romantic dinner will be decorated with bright cookies or gingerbread cookies in the shape of hearts. Learning to cook icing at home is not at all difficult, for this you need simple products, a little food coloring, a burning desire and a holiday mood.

Gingerbread cookie

Products that give joy and fun are simple: flour, butter, honey, sugar, ginger, cinnamon, and other spices. To make gingerbread cookies with icing, knead and roll out the dough, cut out funny figures using molds. One of the recipes for making glaze will help to make the cookie author's, unique. Paint them together with children, use snow-white egg glaze. Add vibrant food coloring to the mix to make the figures come to life. From a bar of chocolate, you can weld a glossy coating from milky white to dark brown, almost black.

Christmas gingerbread cookies

Coloring Christmas gingerbread cookies has become a good tradition for many families. An evening spent with loved ones will be remembered for a long time. Fill it with creativity, fun, sweets, do not forget the camera to save emotions, mood and result, which is eaten very quickly. Christmas cookies with icing, gingerbread cookies, muffins are painted with egg mixture, and covered with sugar. Heat treatment of already completed products is possible. It not only speeds up the drying process, but also eliminates the risk of infection with intestinal infections when using raw eggs.

Recipes

Variants of making the glaze mass for decorating baking can conditionally be divided into three groups: sugar, sugar-egg and chocolate. A beautiful glossy surface is guaranteed by a recipe for glaze from eggs and powdered sugar, whipped into a stable foam. To change the color, food coloring is added to it. Sugar glaze is used for lean or vegan confectionery. Chocolate lovers will love the recipe for cocoa glaze and melted tiles. This coating serves as a wonderful backdrop for sugar icing - a mixture to create volumetric patterns.

Sugar

• Cooking time: 15-20 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: 15-20 pcs.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Glazed cookies, especially those made at home, are always popular. Who does not know - will not believe how simple the technology of its manufacture. Classic icing for cookies is made from icing sugar, which is diluted to a pasty state with milk or cream. The oil included in the mixture makes the coating softer, more elastic, but does not interfere with drying.

Ingredients:

• powdered sugar - 1 cup;
• milk - 1 tbsp. l .;
• butter - 2 tsp;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• salt is a pinch.

Cooking method:

1. Melt a piece of butter in a saucepan over low heat, add milk, salt.
2. Pour in a little sugar powder, rub with a liquid to a paste-like state. Add vanillin to the finished mixture.
3. Adjust the consistency of the mass: add the powder to make it thicker, milk - to destroy.
4. Before you decorate the figures with icing, cool them.

Color

• Servings Per Container: 15-20 Cookies.
• Calorie content: 292 kcal per (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Gingerbread houses, gingerbread men, sand figures can be "revived" by painting bright shades. Colored icing for cookies, made at home, will go to the baking and solidify no worse than professional. Coloring will be given to it with food colors, natural or artificial. If you prefer natural food - use the juice of vegetables (carrots, beets, spinach). You can season the glaze with cherry, blueberry or orange juice. In bright colors, safe food colors from reliable manufacturers will help you to color cookies.

Ingredients:

• powdered sugar - 1 cup;
• milk - 2 tsp;
• syrup - 2 tsp;
• almond extract 1/4 tsp;
• food colors.

Cooking method

1. Pour milk into the powder, stir. Add syrup and almond flavor, whisk until the mass becomes homogeneous, glossy.
2. Put the mixture in containers, add different colors to each dye.
3. Paint products with a brush or dip them in the finished glaze. The cookie needs to be dried well.

White

• Cooking time: 20 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: About 50 Cookies.
• Calorie content: 278 kcal in (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Incredibly tasty is the white frosting with lemon juice. It complements sweet pastries with pleasant acidity. Such a mass fits well on the surface of the cookie, solidifies solidly, forms an excellent background for further decoration with drawings. If desired, it can also be tinted, but the snow-white shade of the decorative mass is good in itself. To create the mood for the New Year, decorating cookies with icing and lemon juice is perfect.

Ingredients:

• icing sugar - 3 glasses;
• butter - 100 g;
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

1. Before making the icing on the cookies, melt the butter, add the lemon juice squeezed immediately before it.
2. Add powdered sugar and beat the mixture with a mixer until splendid, uniform and shiny. Get the right consistency by adding a little juice or powder.
3. To apply the glaze you will need a brush.

Chocolate

• Cooking time: 20 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: About 30-40 cookies.
• Calorie content: 290 kcal in (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Sweet tooth and chocolate lovers will love the glazed pastries, coated with a mass of cocoa. If you follow the recipe step by step, the chocolate icing will turn out to be dense, even, shiny. On it you can draw white or color patterns, decorate with coconut crumbs, bright powder, slices of marmalade. Chocolate glaze hardens quickly, you just have to cool the cookie.

Ingredients:

• icing sugar - 2 glasses;
• milk - 4 tbsp. l .;
• cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l .;
• butter - 1 tbsp. l .;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife.

Cooking method:

1. Mix softened butter with cocoa and powdered sugar, add vanillin. Rub the mixture with a spoon.
2. Further, milk is gradually poured into the mass, the mixture is whipped.
3. Decorate curly baking with a brush. Place glazed figures in the freezer for quick solidification.

Protein

• Cooking time: 20 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: About 30 Cookies.
• Calorie content: 281 kcal in (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Gorgeous protein glaze proudly bears the name "Royal". Such a mass can be colorful if you add a little carrot, cherry, beetroot juice to it. However, it is dazzling white, like fresh snow - a wonderful shade for drawing winter plots. It is applied using a package with a cut corner (make a hole very small). The cream is squeezed out of it with a thin strip. Circle the figure, fill the middle with the mixture, filling in the gaps with a stick like a toothpick.

Ingredients:

• egg white - 1 pc.;
• icing sugar - 1.5 cups;
• citric acid - 0.5 g.

Cooking method:

1. Protein needs to be taken from a large egg. Stir it with a mixer until foam appears. Add citric acid to the protein (just a little, no more than 1/2 gram).
2. Powdered sugar is poured into the mixture in parts. It is necessary to mix egg white with it and beat the mass until a stable, non-falling foam.
3. Apply with a syringe or pastry bag.
4. The finished treat can be dried in the oven at a temperature of 100 degrees.

Quick drying

• Cooking time: 30-40 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: approximately 15-20 cookies.
• Calorie content: 288 kcal in (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

Bright white quick-drying glaze is boiled in a water bath. Instead of powder, it uses granulated sugar, which, when heated, is heated in protein. To decorate, you need to take cookies that have already cooled down. The mixture is easily applied to baking, dries quickly, and holds well. Ready cookies and gingerbread cookies can be transported without special packaging - you will bring them safe and sound.

Ingredients:

• egg white - 1 pc.;
• sugar - 1 cup.

Cooking method:

1. Mix protein with granulated sugar, beat it, warming in a water bath for about five minutes.
2. Remove the mixture from the heat and beat as much. The homogeneity of the mass will be a sign of readiness.

No eggs

• Cooking time: 20-30 minutes (excluding drying time).
• Servings Per Container: About 20-25 Cookies.
• Calorie content: 341 kcal per (100 g).
• Purpose: decor, baking design.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: simple.

This section will describe an original recipe in which egg-free glaze has a caramel flavor. Unusual color and taste gives it brown sugar and boiled condensed milk. The coating solidifies well, it is convenient to draw voluminous pictures on it. If you want to decorate your cookies unusual - this recipe will suit you better than others. After processing, cookies can be dried in the oven - the gloss will not suffer.

Ingredients:

• brown sugar - 1/2 cup;
• powdered sugar - 1 cup;
• boiled condensed milk - 2 tbsp. l .;
• milk - 4 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

1. It is necessary to pour milk, condensed milk into a saucepan, pour sugar. By heating and stirring the mass, achieve uniformity. The mixture should boil.
2. Add half the icing sugar, whisk with a mixer.
3. Cool to room temperature, pour out the rest of the powder, beat until a glossy glaze is obtained. Use a brush to cover the baking.

Video

Christmas cookies with icing raise a festive mood and bring joy, especially to children. Cookies can be beautifully prepared and presented as a gift to friends and relatives. On the New Year's table with - it will be a great addition to the dessert.

Today you will learn simple recipes for its preparation. The original design of the figures will pleasantly surprise you. An overview of all the moments of the baking process with the help of photos and videos will help you make the best choice.

In the coming New Year is the year of the Yellow Dog by the sign of the Zodiac, so cookies in the shape of a dog must be present on the table.

  Glazed Gingerbread Cookies - Step-by-Step Recipe

Bake cookies, put them in a beautiful box and present as intended.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 270 g
• Sugar - 100 g
• Butter 100 g
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Vanilla Sugar - 1 sachet
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
• Ground ginger - 2 teaspoons
• Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
• Cardamom - 1/2 tsp
• Nutmeg - 1/2 tsp
• Cocoa - powder - 1.5 tbsp. spoons

1. Add a bag of vanilla sugar or vanillin to sugar.
2. In a glass with flour, add 1 tsp. baking powder.
3. In a separate cup, we begin to combine all the dry ingredients: flour, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cocoa powder. All mix well.

4. In another bowl, mix the butter and sugar. Beat at low speed until smooth.

5. Add the egg and beat in a homogeneous mass again.

6. It turns out here is such an oil mixture, as in the photo.

7. The oil mixture is added to the flour with spices.

8. First, knead with a spoon in a container, and then put it on the table and knead with hands.

9. Close the finished dough with a homogeneous structure with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

10. Then divide the dough into two parts. We leave one part in the refrigerator (so as not to melt and will also bake New Year's cookies), and the second part we roll out between sheets of parchment paper.

11. Carefully roll out a 5 mm thick layer.

12. We take the forms for cutting and put it on top of the rolled layer, press with the palm of the hand - the figure is ready.

13. Remove the excess dough with your fingers to the side.

14. We put together with paper on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes at 180 degrees C.

15. To prepare the glaze we take the ingredients, as in the photo.

16. The protein of one egg is poured into a clean bowl and beat in a light foam.

17. Then gradually add the powdered sugar to the whipped protein and stir. Add lemon juice and stir again. The consistency should be smooth, uniform and stretch, as in the photo.

18. We begin to decorate (paint) our cookies according to personal imagination.

19. We put New Year's cookies in a vase and decorate the holiday table. Or we put it in a box and give.

  Decoration (painting) of ginger cookies - review with photo

Look at examples of decorating or painting gingerbread cookies and do the same.

1. Snowflake and heart shaped cookies.

2. Baking list: snowflake, snowman, deer.

3. Decorating the surface of the cookie

4. Snowmen are decorated with carrots and a scarf.

5. There are times when the New Year's Eve coincides with an anniversary or a significant event for people, so decorating the baking surface with bouquets of flowers is a cool option.

6. Look at the beautiful surface painting with your own hands.

7. On the snowman we form a hat, a carrot nose, pink cheeks and a scarf.

8. We paint the berry and forest deer.

9. We draw a muzzle of a dog - the heroine of the New Year.

Successful baking and beautiful painting, you will succeed.

  Christmas cookies "Melted Snowman" - a recipe for delicious cookies

You will need:

• 1 orange
• 150 g butter
• 150 g sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 500 g flour

Cooking

1. Remove the zest from the orange and squeeze the juice.
2. Grind the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar. Beat eggs and mix. Add the zest and orange juice, mix well again. Pour baking powder and flour, knead the dough.
3. Roll out the dough into a layer 2 - 3 mm thick. Using a cookie cutter or glass, cut out the round shapes of the future cookie.
4. Grease a baking sheet with oil or line with baking paper. Lay out cookies. Bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees C for 10 - 15 minutes.
5. The cookie is ready and move on.

Cookie decoration

1. For decoration you will need: an egg - 2 pcs, icing sugar - 300 g, marshmallows, food colors of different colors.
2. We prepare protein glaze: beat egg whites and powder.
3. Grease each cookie with icing.
4. Put 1 pc on top. marshmallows sticking it to the icing.
5. Dyes in tubes draw “eyes”, “noses”, “mouths” and scarves to melted snowmen.

Christmas cookies are ready!

  Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies - A Simple Recipe

Foods in 6 servings:

• 2 cups oatmeal
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup peeled nuts
• 100 g butter
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder, a pinch of salt

Cooking recipe

1. Rub oil at room temperature with sugar.
2. Beat the egg with salt and mix with butter.
3. Combine the baking powder with flour and sift.
4. Chop the nuts.
5. Then, add oatmeal, chopped nuts and cranberries to the oily mass. Mix with flour.
6. Spread the dough with a tablespoon on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, leaving a distance between the cookies of 5 cm.
7. Bake in a preheated to 180 degrees C oven for 15 minutes.

Take as a tip: Next time, instead of cranberries, add 50 g of dark chocolate, broken into pieces, and spices (1/2 tsp. Vanilla sugar or 1/2 tsp. Ground cinnamon) to this delicious cookie, 1 / 2 tsp grated zest of orange or lemon.

  The recipe for delicious cookies "Bunnies"

Products for 20 pieces - for dough:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 180 g margarine
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• Stuffing - 1 can of boiled condensed milk

Glaze Products:

• 1 protein
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• food paints

Cooking Recipe - Christmas Cookies

1. Whisk the margarine with sugar, add the egg, beat a little more. Pour flour and baking powder, knead soft dough. Put the dough for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
2. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut out 40 identical bunnies and bake them.
3. Fold the bunnies in pairs, layering with condensed milk.
4. For the glaze, mix the squirrels with a fork, gradually pouring the powder until you get a thick mass, slowly draining from the fork. Add lemon juice. Divide into several parts, mix paint in each and paint cookies.

With your own hands at home, you can fantasize and cut out various shapes of figures.

  Christmas cookies. Glaze painting of the surface of cookies - video

I hope that you, dear readers, liked the recipes for beautiful pastries on the festive table that I proposed.

Christmas cookies with glaze will perfectly fit into the festive atmosphere. It can be prepared to please children or present as a gift to friends and relatives. Unusual design and delicate taste will make this dessert a signature dish.

Choose a dough for New Year's cookies with icing

For cookies with icing for the New Year and Christmas, a different dough is used: with or without yeast, with butter, honey, sour cream or mayonnaise. Themed design will help to decorate the festive table. Children will be delighted with such an idea. Puff yeast dough is often used to make cookies for the New Year. It can be given any shape. One drawback of cookies from this test is its high calorie content. To prepare it, you need yeast, eggs, flour, milk, margarine or butter, salt, vanillin. The sand dough is kneaded on the basis of butter or margarine, you can add sour cream or mayonnaise. You will also need flour, salt and sugar. Such a dough can be stored in the refrigerator, if it turned out too much. The classic option is eggs, flour, margarine, sugar.

For the preparation of New Year's cookies, a wide variety of products are used, even beer, which can become a substitute for yeast. Thanks to him, the pastries are tender and tasty. The dough is especially loved by children. Thanks to the presence of cottage cheese, such cookies turn out to be not only tasty, but also useful. In addition to cottage cheese, eggs, flour, butter, sugar are usually added to it. As for the custard dough, it can also be used. But there will be slight difficulties in the design, since such baking often turns out shapeless and with an uneven surface. But nothing is impossible.

Cookies Frosting Recipe

White glaze is often made for New Year's cookies, because it is associated with snow, which is important for the winter holiday.

Classic

1. Type of dish - pastries.
2. The weight of the dish is 300 g.
3. The country of the dish is Persia.
4. Servings Per Container - 5.
5. Calorie content (100 g) -
6. Time for preparing -

Glaze Ingredients:

• icing sugar - 200 g;
• lemon - 1 pc.;
• chicken egg protein - 1 pc.

Cooking process:

1. Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
2. Break the egg, separate the protein.
3. Mix lemon juice, protein and powdered sugar, and then beat with a mixer until the airy white mass. Content should increase 2-3 times.

To make colored glaze, it is worth adding food coloring. You can also change the color using natural products such as beetroot, carrot and other juice. They are recommended to be used instead of lemon.

To make chocolate icing for New Year's cookies, add 1 tablespoon of cocoa to the resulting mass. Another option is to melt a bar of chocolate in a water bath, and then add 250 g of powdered sugar, an incomplete spoon of butter and a glass of milk. Continuously stirring, you need to boil the mass until it thickens. It is necessary to use it immediately, since it quickly hardens.

Honey

You can make a honey coating for cookies.

Ingredients:

• natural honey (not too liquid) - 2 tbsp. l .;
• butter - 50 g;
• powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
• lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l

Cooking process:

1. Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and set it on low heat.
2. Boil until smooth.
3. Cool a little so that the contents become thicker and gain viscosity.

Marmalade

No less popular is marmalade glaze for New Year's cookies. The following ingredients are required:

1. marmalade - 200 g;
2. butter - 50 g;
3. powdered sugar - 4 tbsp. l

Cooking:

1. Marmalade cut into small pieces, place it in a pan.
2. Add the remaining foods and place the pan on the stove.
3. It is enough to cook the mixture for about 10 minutes, not forgetting to gradually stir, so as not to burn.
4. When the mass has cooled slightly, it can be used for its intended purpose.

Creamy

It turns out to be quite a viscous mass, which is especially suitable for creating a picture on cookies.

Ingredients:

• butter - 4 tbsp. l .;
• granulated sugar - 1 cup;
• cream - 150 ml;
• vanillin.

Cooking:

1. Melt the butter over low heat, add sugar and cook until a mass of cream is obtained. As a rule, 5 minutes is enough for this.
2. Remove the container from the heat, add cream and whip everything until lush foam.
3. Put the dishes on the fire again and boil its contents for 5 minutes.
4. Add vanillin, mix and cool slightly, stirring occasionally.

Christmas ginger cookies with icing: recipe

Ingredients

• flour - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 100 g;
• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• ginger (ground) - 1 tsp;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• butter - 100 g;
• nutmeg - 1 pc.;
• cinnamon (ground) - 1 tsp;
• milk - 30 ml;
• frosting as a decoration.

Instruction manual

Glazed gingerbread cookies are a traditional table decoration for the New Year or Christmas. Give it the shape of a Christmas tree or mittens of Santa Claus, decorate with colored glaze - the children will be delighted with such an original idea.

1. Mix slightly melted butter with sugar and beat with a mixer for about 5 minutes.
2. Then add milk and egg yolk to the resulting mass. Mix these ingredients and add flour, soda, ground cinnamon, and ginger.
3. Grate the nutmeg, add to the rest of the ingredients, knead the dough and put in a cold place for 20 minutes.
4. Pick up a form. If you don’t have it ready, cut it out of thick cardboard. Sprinkle flour on the worktable, remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll out a layer with a thickness of approximately 5 mm. Cut Christmas cookies with a ready-made or home-made shape. If you want to hang it on a Christmas tree, you need to provide a hole for the rope. For this purpose, you can use a syringe without a needle, the tip of which the dough is pressed through a certain place.
5. The resulting figures are baked in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes. When the cookies have cooled, decorate it. To do this, you can take an ordinary spoon, evenly rubbing it with a sweet mass on the surface. To draw a pattern on cookies, use a pastry bag.

Shortbread cookies with icing for the New Year

1. Type of dish - pastries.
2. The weight of the dish is 400 g.
3. The country of the dish is Persia.
4. Servings Per Container - 7.
5. Calorie content (100 g) - 480 Kcal.

Ingredients

• butter - 200 g;
• flour - 350 g;
• cinnamon and vanillin - a small pinch;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• egg - 1 pc. (plus one protein);
• granulated sugar - 150 g.

Instruction manual

To prepare shortbread cookies with icing for the New Year is quite simple. It turns out satisfying, and if you use natural products, it’s also useful. Delicious pastries will make the festive tea party magical.

1. Pound the softened butter with granulated sugar.
2. Add the egg and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
3. Add soda, vanillin and cinnamon to the flour, which will provide a pleasant aroma for baking. Shuffle.
4. Knead the dough, which should turn out steep. Therefore, feel free to add flour if necessary.
5. The dough needs to be rolled out with a thickness of 5 mm. Squeeze out different shapes that match the holiday with shapes. Put them on a baking sheet, previously covering it with parchment paper. Although, as practice shows, baking does not bother. Place the pan in the oven and bake at 180 ° C for 20 minutes.
6. When the cookies have cooled, place them at your own discretion.

Sour cream honey cookies with icing

1. Type of dish - pastries.
2. The weight of the dish is 300 g.
3. The country of the dish is Persia.
4. Servings Per Container - 5.
5. Calorie content (100 g) - 400 Kcal.
6. Cooking time is 30 minutes.

Ingredients

• flour - 220 g;
• sour cream - 1 glass;
• honey - 50 g;
• egg yolk - 1 pc.;
• butter - 50 g;
• salt and soda - ¼ tsp;
• granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l

Step-by-step instruction

Sour cream-honey cookies with glaze turn out to be tasty, but slightly harsh. Such products are perfect as decorations for the Christmas tree, if you previously make holes for the ropes.

1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator first to bring it to room temperature. Rub it with sugar, honey and salt. Add the egg yolk and beat until fluffy.
2. Combine all ingredients with flour and sour cream. Then add soda.
3. Knead the dough until smooth. It should not pester hands and a table. Roll a layer 5 mm thick. Cut the shapes into shapes, lay them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake in the oven at 220 degrees until tender.
4. Cool the cookies and garnish with icing or melted chocolate.

New Year's gift or just cookies - decorations for New Year's cookies

As a decoration for New Year's cookies, you can choose ready-made confectionery: beads and more. If you show imagination, it is easy to make cookies yourself using multi-colored glaze using a pastry syringe. Such products are suitable for a gift or just become an adornment of a New Year's table or Christmas tree. You can give the cookie a shape of balls, a snowman or snowflakes. Or build a Christmas tree.

And you can show imagination and create the most real culinary masterpieces. Do not be afraid to experiment. Children will be delighted with such an idea, especially if they take an active part in the cooking process. May they remember New Year and Christmas as something magical.

A holiday for the whole family, which you always want to make special. Recipes for New Year's cookies is one of the ways to surprise and please your friends and relatives. We present to your attention the methods of making cookies with icing: New Year's ginger, apple-caramel, chocolate cookies of various shapes and many others.

Components

• 200 g of sugar;
• 300 g flour;
• 240 g butter;
• 60 g of powdered sugar;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• one testicle;
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• half a teaspoon of red food coloring;
• 1 teaspoon of mint extract - optional.

Cooking

Beat butter, sugar, icing sugar, vanilla, mint extract and egg with a mixer. If you are unable to find the peppermint extract, replace it with a pinch of cinnamon. Cookies will have a different but no less pleasant winter taste and aroma. Then add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.

Divide the dough into two equal parts. Add food coloring to one of them to make a bright red dough. Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.

Then nip off a little dough from both parts. Use your hands to roll thin sausages about 12 cm long. Roll them up with a pigtail and form a “caramel cane”. Do the same with the rest of the test.

Put cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 8-10 minutes, until it is slightly browned. Ready cookies can be decorated with icing sugar.

  New Year's gingerbread cookie “Gingerbread Men”

What do you need for cooking

• 320 g flour;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 120 g butter;
• 100 g of honey;
• one large egg;
• half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• 2 tablespoons of water;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• half a teaspoon of ground nutmeg;
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
• half a teaspoon of ground cloves.

Cooking

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add honey, egg and water and mix. In another bowl, mix the remaining ingredients and gradually add them to the dough, stirring constantly. Wrap the dough in cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Roll the dough into a thin layer on a floured surface. Cut out figures of men from the dough and put them on baking sheets oiled with vegetable oil or covered with parchment. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 8-10 minutes until browned.

Components

For cookies:

• 240 g butter;
• 240 g of flour;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 40 g of cocoa;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
• half a teaspoon of soda;
• 2 tablespoons of milk.

On the icing:

• 250 g of powdered sugar;
• 90 g butter;
• 2 tablespoons of milk;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
• confectionery sprinkling - optional.

Cooking method

Beat with a mixer the butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt and beat until smooth. Pour in the milk and mix well again.

Roll out the dough and cut out circles or figures of the desired shape. Put cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 13 minutes.

While the finished cookie is cooling, make icing. To do this, put butter, cocoa and milk in a pan and cook over medium heat until the butter melts. Remove from heat, add icing sugar and mix thoroughly.

Pour the cookies with chocolate icing and decorate with confectionery topping if desired. You need to do this right away, because the glaze hardens quickly. If the glaze has thickened, simply heat it over a fire for 15–20 seconds, stirring constantly.

Components

• 320 g flour;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 180 g butter;
• one testicle;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• one teaspoon of baking powder;
• half a teaspoon of soda;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• a quarter teaspoon of ground nutmeg;
• 140 ml of sour cream.

How to cook

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well. Add flour, baking powder, soda, salt, nutmeg and sour cream and knead the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate it overnight or at least for a couple of hours.

Roll out the dough and cut out the figures. Put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-12 minutes. Cookies should lightly brown. Cool it before applying glaze. You will find three glaze recipes at the end of the article.

What to cook from

• 360 g flour;
• 240 g butter;
• 130 g of sugar;
• 2 eggs;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• half a teaspoon of baking powder;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon + a little more for decoration;
• half a glass of chopped walnuts + a little more for decoration;
• half a glass of white chocolate chips + a little more for decoration;
• 1 large apple;
• a quarter cup of caramel sauce.

Cooking

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add eggs, vanillin, salt, baking powder, soda and cinnamon. Stir until smooth. Pour in flour gradually, constantly mixing the dough.

Add chopped nuts and chocolate chips to the dough. You can make it yourself: just finely chop the white chocolate. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut it into small cubes. Add the apple to the dough and mix.

Form small balls from the dough and place them on a baking sheet covered with foil. Slightly flatten the balls with your hand, make a small depression in the middle of each and fill it with caramel. Sprinkle with nuts, chocolate chips and cinnamon. Flatten the cookie with a spatula to make it flat.

Place the pan in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 12 minutes until the cookies are browned. Cool it completely before serving. By the way, the next day these cookies will be even tastier than immediately after cooking.

What do you need for cooking

• 240 g of flour;
• 240 g chopped walnuts;
• 220 g butter;
• 5 tablespoons of sugar;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of salt;
• 200 g of powdered sugar.

Cooking method

Beat with a mixer the butter and sugar to a creamy consistency. Then add vanillin and salt. Pour in flour gradually, constantly whipping the dough. Add nuts and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough into two parts, wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 45 minutes.

Using your hands, form small balls with a diameter of about 2.5 cm from the chilled dough. Put them on parchment sheets covered with parchment and bake in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for 12-14 minutes until the cookies begin to brown. Do not bake for too long, otherwise the balls will break.

Roll still warm cookies in icing sugar. Let it cool and roll in powder again.

Components

For cookies:

• 300 g flour;
• 250 g of sugar;
• 120 g butter;
• 100 g of ricotta;
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel;
• 2 eggs;
• a pinch of vanillin.

For glaze:

• 280 g of powdered sugar;
• 3-5 tablespoons of lemon juice.

Cooking method

Combine flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk the sugar, softened butter, ricotta, and lemon zest with a mixer. Without ceasing to beat, add eggs one at a time. Pour the flour mixture and vanilla and mix until smooth. Wrap the dough in cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Make balls with a diameter of about 2.5 cm from the chilled dough. Put the balls on pans covered with parchment, slightly flattening them from the bottom. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 9–11 minutes until they are lightly browned.

While the cookies are cooling, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice. If the glaze is too thick, add a little more lemon juice. Pour ½ teaspoon of icing into each cookie. If desired, you can decorate cookies with pastry topping.

What do you need for cooking

• 350 g of corn flakes;
• 120 g butter;
• 30 large marshmallows (can be replaced with soft marshmallows);
• 1.5 teaspoons of green food coloring
• a pinch of vanillin;
• some vegetable oil;
• red dragees - for decoration.

How to cook

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely dissolved. If you use marshmallows, cut it into small pieces and pour a little water into the pan.

Remove the pan from the heat, add food coloring, vanillin and cornflakes. Mix everything thoroughly. Put a tablespoon of this mixture on parchment greased with vegetable oil. Until the mixture has cooled, use your hands to form New Year's wreaths from it and decorate the dragee. Leave the cookies to cool on parchment at room temperature.

And in this video, the process of preparing these "wreaths" is graphically shown:

Components

For cookies:

• 270 g of flour;
• 240 g butter;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of salt;
• one testicle;
• a pinch of vanillin;
• 1 tablespoon of cocoa;
• 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.

For filling:

• 250 g of powdered sugar;
• 30 g butter;
• 2 teaspoons ground coffee;
• a pinch of vanillin;
• some milk.

How to cook

Make the dough first. Mix the butter, sugar, baking powder and salt with a mixer. Add the egg and vanillin and achieve a uniform consistency. Slowly add flour and knead the dough. Divide the dough into two parts, wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

Roll out the dough into thin layers on a floured surface. Cut the figures from the dough, put them on parchment sheets covered with parchment and bake in the oven, heated to 190 ° C, for 8-10 minutes.

Mix the ingredients for the filling, adding milk as needed. You should get a thick cream. Spread one teaspoon of coffee filling on one cookie and cover with a second. Mix cocoa and icing sugar and sprinkle the resulting sandwiches with this mixture.

Components

• 270 g of flour;
• 240 g butter;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 80 g cream cheese;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• a pinch of vanillin;
• one testicle.

Cooking method

Combine sugar, softened butter, cream cheese, salt, vanillin and egg yolk until smooth. Pour in flour gradually, constantly mixing the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight.

Put the chilled dough on a table sprinkled with flour and roll into a thin layer. Roll out too thinly, otherwise the cookies will turn out to be tough. If the dough is too much, just put the excess in the refrigerator until next time.

Cut the figures from the dough and put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Bake cookies in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 7-10 minutes until it is slightly browned. Cookies should be cooled before decorating.