Little children look forward to the New Year holiday with special impatience. For them, this is a time of magic, days shrouded in a fabulous atmosphere and faith in miracles ... But even in this case, the baby should not be deprived of the usual diet. How to combine all this?

Healthy dishes for children for the New Year

On the New Year's table for children, vegetables must be present, served both fresh and boiled. But complex salads from them for children under three years old can not be made. It is better to just finely chop or, conversely, grate vegetables on a coarse grater and arrange in the form of a forest clearing. Older kids can be offered light vegetable salads, like vinaigrette, seasoned with sour cream or vegetable oil. It is also better to cut fruits into pieces and lay out a festive composition from them.

On the children's table for the new year, low-fat hard cheeses are allowed, which can be part of sandwiches or canapes, as well as stand separately on the table, in the form of thinly sliced ​​​​slices.

For hot, baked or boiled meat, sliced ​​\u200b\u200bdirectly in the baby’s plate, is perfect. Very healthy dishes are baked chicken or steamed fish. Even the usual cutlets will do: in this case, you need to decorate such a dish with imagination, for example, make them in the form of small cones and “hang” them on a spruce branch laid out on a plate.

You can diversify the children's New Year's table with sandwiches with the muzzles of animals laid out from the products or with New Year's patterns drawn with a syringe.

Desserts for children for the New Year

Of course, not a single children's New Year's table can do without a festive dessert! It can be:

• various fruits served separately or as a salad dressed with yogurt;
• cottage cheese desserts (if time and imagination allow, you can decorate the New Year's dessert table for a child with snowmen or Snow Maidens made from cottage cheese);
• home-made light biscuit-marshmallow cakes, home-made cookies in the form of Christmas trees, deer, which will once again remind the child of the fabulousness of the New Year period.

New Year's drinks for children

Children's New Year's table must include a sufficient number of different drinks. Celebration of the New Year, even at home, involves active games and dances, which is why the little fidgets become heated, and they will certainly need to quench their thirst from time to time.

For little ones up to two years old, it is best to use compotes and fruit drinks from dried fruits, weak black tea or children's herbal tea.

Older children can also be offered freshly squeezed fruit or vegetable juice diluted with water. But just remember that they can not be abused, otherwise the baby may have problems with the gastrointestinal tract. And, of course, sweet carbonated drinks should not be on the child's New Year's table.

How to serve a children's New Year's table?

When planning a children's New Year's menu, try to focus on the originality of the design of the festive food. A very small child is unlikely to appreciate your culinary delights. And the table, albeit with simple dishes, but decorated in the style of a favorite fairy tale, will appeal to him.

The easiest way to give your table a festive mood is to serve it according to the winter theme.

For example, children's drink glasses can be covered with "frost". To do this, pour granulated sugar into a saucer and lower the wet glass into it with the edges down. And if you add a drink with a bright straw or decoration in the form of an umbrella or a snowman, then there will be no end to the delight!

Also, the children's New Year's table can be decorated with colorful napkins, figures of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, cheerful symbols of the coming year.

Expert opinion

Evgeny Timakov, pediatrician, head physician of the Timomed Medical Center

Children of primary preschool age can be divided into two main groups: from 0 to 2 years and from 2 to 4 years. For both groups, both individual and general rules for compiling menus apply.

For example, on the New Year's table of all kids, fruits, vegetables and herbs should be present. But children under three years old should not be offered tangerines and kiwi, which often provoke allergies. Also, be careful to include berries in the children's New Year's menu.

For children under three years old, it is better to replace ready-made cakes and pastries with special children's cookies, muesli or yogurt.

A child under four years old should not be fed ready-made dishes from the culinary departments at all. He should be given food prepared at home. You will delight your baby with fresh and healthy dishes, as you will be sure that they do not contain harmful fats, dyes and preservatives.

Spices (black pepper, bay leaf) can be added to children's dishes, starting from the age of two.

Olivier salad recipe for kids

• Throw out the mayonnaise. An excellent alternative would be a sauce of sour cream and olive oil.
• Green peas are also not needed: babies usually swallow it whole, and then it is not digested.
• Don't use any sausage! The correct replacement is chicken breast.
• Pickled cucumber is not the best treat for a small child. But cleaned fresh will be in place.
• The salad, which smells delicious and crunches cheerfully, will appeal to all household members!

Future adults love to imitate their parents, and this is an important quality for development, but it is a pity that parents do not imitate their heirs much - in the ability to genuinely enjoy the holidays. Let's correct the annoying mistake and start enjoying life even at the stage of culinary preparation, for which we will decorate the children's New Year's table generously, beautifully and creatively! You are waiting for the triumph of spectacular ideas, fabulous motifs of the glorious days of the calendar, delicious food combinations and ample opportunities for kids to imitate their parents.

When thinking about a children's holiday, immediately direct your imagination towards the buffet table. We have already written about children's birthdays more than once, and the convenience of a buffet service - with a lot of recipes and photos! leaves no room for doubt. Children will love the buffet for the new year!

For those who want to learn interesting thematic ideas for the festive table, we suggest reading them in the following articles.

New Year's snack buffet: what can you make a Christmas tree from

You can’t do without Christmas trees on the New Year’s table, so even at the stage of snacks you can build a lot of elegant options. Here are just a few photos that make it easy to understand the principle of growing festive beauties - from a variety of products.

There are cheese and sausage cuts, and slices of cucumbers, and cucumber skin plates, and grapes, and, of course, citrus fruits, so beloved by the Monkey-2016.

New Year's "recipes" of Christmas trees for children

A snowman and Christmas balls look interesting, which can be made from several snack masses. You will find three recipes for them in the story about New Year's snacks.

On the basis of inexpensive, but tasty New Year's salads, which we talked about in the article of the same name, you can make cones.

It can be several large cones that will have to be divided with a spoon, or many portions - on a plate for each child.

You can bribe the hearts of parents who care about the diet of their children by choosing a highly valuable product for a traditional recipe. For example, quail eggs are for stuffed eggs.

We need

• Quail eggs, hard boiled - 10 pcs.;
• Soft cheese (creamy or cottage cheese) - 2-3 tbsp. (can be replaced with cottage cheese mass with herbs
  or melted cheese)
• Salted salmon - 50 g;
• Dill - 3-4 sprigs;
• Pepper - 1 pinch.

How to cook

1. Cut the boiled eggs crosswise and take out the yolks.
2. Salted salmon cut into small cubes
3. Chop the dill very finely.
4. We combine the yolks, cheese, salmon and dill and mix thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass.
5. We stuff the halves of the eggs with this mass, covering the top with the second empty half.
6. We dress each stuffed egg on a skewer or toothpick.

Serving - on lettuce leaves or surrounded by cheese and sausage slices.

"Egg" children's New Year's table (photo)

When preparing the menu for the New Year's holiday, you don't want to go beyond the already inflated budget. On the other hand, you really want to please your guests with something original!

We invite you to consider the ideas of hot with apples, bananas and frozen cherries, because these are the most affordable fruits on the winter shelves.

And in general, it makes sense to look through the options for hot dishes for a children's birthday, because December 31 is also a birthday for the new 2016 year.

And if you decide not to limit the New Year's menu to snacks and sweets, then look for hot recipes on our website - on the request "children's birthday".

For dessert, gingerbread cookies are especially good - as a variant of a portioned New Year's dish, which is convenient to eat with your hands, including with free buffet serving. And again it is worth focusing on the form.

A few photos of traditional options.

Children's "photo-recipes" of gingerbread for the New Year

How to work with glaze is the topic of a separate detailed conversation. And today we will describe for you a delicious dough recipe and a simple way for a charming decor for children - WITHOUT GLAZE.

New Year's gingerbread cookies "Bear wants to be friends!"

We need

• Flour - 250 g;
• Butter (already softened) - 70 g;
• Sugar - 80 g;
• Egg - 1 pc.;
• Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l.;
• Ginger (dried, powdered) - 1 tsp;
• Fresh ginger, grated - 1 tsp;
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• Cloves (ground) - ½ tsp;
• Soda - ½ tsp;
• Almonds (whole nuts) - according to the number of cookies.

How to make Christmas cookies

1. Cut the butter into cubes, combine with sugar and egg and beat in a blender until smooth.
2. Add flour, spices, soda, grated fresh ginger, cocoa powder to the mass. We twist again in a blender. We form a test lump, wrap it in a film and send it to the refrigerator - for 30-40 minutes.
3. Divide the dough in half. We take one part to work, and we can return the second to the refrigerator.
4. We roll out the dough between two layers of baking paper: put a lump on the paper, press it lightly, on top of the second piece of paper - and slowly work with a rolling pin. Our goal is an even test pancake up to 7 mm thick.
5. Using a teddy bear cutter, cut out cookies. With any colored pencil (or confectionery stick) we outline the eyes, mouth, ears and nails on the legs. We put a nut in the middle of each cookie and wrap the upper paws that hold the nut.

Cook's Advice
You can cut out cookies with other cutters. The main thing is that it should be an animated character with distinct hands.

1. We heat the oven to 180 * C. Lay baking paper on a baking sheet. And lay out our figures.
2. Bake cookies for 10 minutes. If the dough is thicker than 7 mm, an additional 4-5 minutes will be required.
3. While baking the first batch, repeat all the steps to create cookies from the second half of the dough.

Of course, when preparing a children's New Year's table, one cannot do without a wide variety of sweets and pastries. Interesting ideas for recipes - without wasting time and effort! - have long been described on our website, where we invite you to look.

Pay special attention to no-bake cheesecakes, which are easy to prepare even for a novice housewife. Among the proposed options are convenient recipes - with ingredients that are easily available in winter.

For these easy cakes, we have in store an equally simple but spectacular decor - in a red and white New Year's style.

Approaching the end of the article, let's not pass by the apogee of adult attributes in the new year's menu. This is a necessary drink not only for the upcoming 2016, but for all the past and future. Yes, you guessed it right, we mean CHAMPAGNE!

In order to fully please the children, we will serve a refreshing children's drink in bottles of champagne or wine. Or we will buy apple juice with gas, which is called “Children's Champagne”, and, armed with simple techniques, we decorate bottles especially for children.

Such a drinking accompaniment is perfect for a sweet table, because, you see, tea is served to children at home - on ordinary days. And the New Year's menu is a place for surprise and delight!

New Year's bottle decor options

Method number 1

Santa Claus is easy to make, for which you will need red, white, gold and black fabric, some cardboard, cotton wool, ribbons and buttons.

Fleece, felt, thick chintz will help you out. But even if these materials are not available, you can create a decoration from glossy colored paper, it is only important to glue it well (a thick layer of PVA or Moment glue).

Method number 2

With acrylic paints, a piece of sponge, brushes, and minimal art skills, you can make other great Christmas drink bottle recipes for your kid's table.

Leaving your home after the New Year's celebration, each of the young guests can take with them a sweet memory of a fun holiday and a delicious, originally laid table.

Option number 1

If you're a good baker and enjoy baking, this might be the easiest gingerbread icing recipe ever. It is important that the gingerbread have a ribbon by which it can be hung from the Christmas tree.

And do not forget to make a bright label where the wish for the child is written - always with his name (!)

Option number 2

Take a closer look at the candy Christmas trees - based on the bottle. Please note that you can always choose a bottle smaller than champagne. At your service kefir, from juice or milk. The main thing is that they are made of glass.

For a smaller bottle and candy, you can choose a smaller one. However, the well-known craft will not lose its relevance, because it is beautiful, stable and curious for children in the very process of obtaining sweets - they need to be cut off or cut off.

Option number 3

For older children who are already beginning to be interested in all sorts of tests and horoscopes, you can beat the meeting of the new 2016 year - as the time under the Monkey symbol. And then the best decor for the bottle will be round sweets in gold foil. What beauty can be built - can be clearly seen in the photo.

Such a pineapple does not have to be decorated with expensive sweets. There is another budget recipe: take any round sweets and wrap them in gold foil. Pineapple leaves - double-sided green paper:

Option number 4

The abundance of interesting New Year's dishes and entertainment for children is very elegantly emphasized by handing out candy wreaths at parting. They can be the same for everyone, but they are executed not in a circle, but in the form of a heart.

The universal symbol of love emphasizes the friendliness of your home and the desire of the child to make friends with all the guests.

The recipe for making wreaths is as easy as shelling pears! Just one photo immediately makes the manufacturing process clear:

You will need cardboard, candy, scotch tape (or strong thread) and a ribbon - for a loop on which you can hang the wreath. Note! It is easy to involve your child in this craft - starting from 4 years old. Let the kid know that friendship is a troublesome business that requires work and dedication. And only in this way a person has the right to count on the reciprocity and reliability of friends.

Always remember that the children's New Year's table, as well as a holiday for children in general, is primarily a creative approach and an optimistic vision of the world. All its joys, beauty and crazyness open up for you the forgotten scope for expressing affection, friendship, love, faith in your own strength and in everything good!

New Year is a holiday loved by both adults and children. And, of course, if you are celebrating with the whole family with small children, then the question arises of what to cook for New Year's dinner so that the kids can eat it. We present you some ideas for a children's New Year's table.

The main rule when preparing a New Year's table for young children is, of course, to use only natural and fresh ingredients and products. The recipes you choose should not include hot spices and sauces, and should not be too spicy. In addition, fatty and heavy dishes, smoked meats and other foods that would be difficult for the child's body to digest should not be present on the children's holiday table. For children's menus, try to choose recipes that are easy to chew and don't need to be cut. If there are fish dishes on the menu, be sure to remove everything, even the smallest and softest bones. As drinks, it is better to prepare fruit drinks, sweet compote or jelly. Leave packaged juices, soda, as well as chips, crackers and other junk food for adults, or better not buy at all.

As for snacks, cooked according to special "children's" recipes, they will look perfect on the children's table. Older children will be delighted with or cheese balls. Well, if you really want to have chips on the table, then try to cook them yourself according to one of the dozens of recipes that can be found on our website.

Let's move on to the main dishes. As a hot dish, you can cook delicious and tender meatballs, which are loved by children around the world. They can be eaten by even the smallest children as they are soft and difficult to choke on, so you can safely put them on the children's table. You can cook according to a special recipe, but in fact, any one that does not include hot spices and seasonings will do. Alternatively, you can make cutlets, for example, from chicken or beef, but make them slightly smaller than the standard portion so that the children can definitely finish them.

What can be served as a side dish? The most ordinary puree comes to mind first. Yes, perhaps such a side dish does not look too festive, but it is easy to cook and, most importantly, it will definitely not harm the children's body. Also, let's not forget that almost all children love french fries, and they will be delighted to see them on the children's table. However, in order for the french fries to turn out to be useful, it must not be deep-fried or fried in a large amount of vegetable oil, but baked in the oven, for example, according to. Or opt for buckwheat porridge, because one of the important rules for a children's table is to use products familiar to kids. You don’t have to cook gourmet dishes according to unusual recipes to impress the kids: children are unlikely to appreciate it, but they can easily start acting up. Therefore, do not overdo it with originality!

We can't do without desserts! Older children can be offered. Do not forget about pastries: pies with apples or cherries can also be offered to children for tea. But for younger children it is better to prepare a separate dessert. For example, fruit mousse can be served at the children's table. Homemade, this dessert will turn out not only healthy, but also very tasty, and it will be easy for small children to chew it. Another good dessert is with jam. Well, for very young children, you can always prepare fruit puree or cottage cheese yogurt, so as not to worry about whether the child will like it or not.

Thus, when compiling a children's menu for the New Year's table, follow several rules. Use fresh and healthy foods that are familiar to children and that they definitely will not refuse. Don't try to impress the kids with your culinary skills using unusual ingredients, sauces and seasonings, but to show your imagination, it's better to come up with an original serving for classic dishes. Upcoming holidays!

• December 12, 2018, 11:20

The approach of this magical holiday with a bunch of gifts, delicious treats and limitless eating of sweets is most awaited by the kids.

And that is why it is imperative for children to organize a New Year's sweet table, which should be as natural, tasty and original as possible in the design of dishes and in serving. Well, we’ll talk about how to please and surprise our beloved sweet tooth in this article, as well as give simple recipes for desserts for the New Year.

New Year's table for children should create an atmosphere of a winter holiday. And creatively decorated dishes will help us emphasize the Christmas theme. Santas, snowmen, snowballs and Christmas trees, deer and Christmas gingerbread will be a real pleasure for the younger generation, and adults will also like such sweet table decorations.

New Year's sweet dishes for children do not have to be exclusively dessert. Holiday cookbooks include various interesting recipes for traditional Christmas treats. And one of them is the Yolochka fruit salad.

Ingredients

• Red apples - 2 pcs.;
• Pears "Conference" - 3 pcs.;
• Canned peach - 4 pcs.;
• A mixture of nuts - 0.2 kg;
• Sweet tangerine - 4 pcs.;
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 20 ml;
• Kiwi - 4 fruits;
• Fruit yogurt - 025 l;
• Canned cherries - 6-8 pcs.

How to make New Year's fruit salad

1. Peel apples, pears, kiwi and tangerines. After that, we cut the apples and pears in half, remove the seed core from them and cut the pulp into small cubes.
2. Divide the tangerines into slices and add to the salad. If the slices are too large, then you can cut them into 2-3 parts.
3. Grind the peaches into strips, and chop the nuts into large crumbs and mix everything with the rest of the ingredients in a common bowl.
4. Dress the salad with lemon juice and fruit yogurt. If sweetness is not enough, then you can add a little powdered sugar.
5. We put the finished salad on a dish in the shape of a Christmas tree.
6. Kiwi cut lengthwise in half, and then cut into thin semi-circles. We cover the salad with kiwi slices so that our “herringbone” is green. And in the role of New Year's balls, we “hang” cherries on the Christmas tree.

In this case, Christmas tree decoration can be neglected and resorted to serving treats in original and very fragrant orange cups decorated with carnation inflorescences.

In the vastness of our culinary portal lies a great variety of recipes and ideas for serving the New Year's table, where you can also find interesting options for fruit salads and bouquets for children for every taste.

Banana snowballs for the New Year's menu

Even children can cook this winter dessert with their own hands, so you can involve little helpers in the work.

1. Corn flakes (250 g) are not crushed into powder, but not very large either.
2. Bananas (2 pcs.) Peel and knead with a fork, then mix with corn crumbs.
3. Rinse 150 g of raisins, pour over with boiling water, and then add to the banana mass.
4. From the resulting composition we form balls and roll them in coconut flakes. All balls will require no more than 100 g of chips.

Who doesn't love the most delicate Raffaello sweets? But you can make this delicious dessert at home from the simplest products in a matter of minutes.

• Beat 350 g of condensed milk with a mixer with 50 g of butter and 200 g of coconut flakes until smooth.
• We close the resulting mass tightly and put it in the refrigerator for several hours, and preferably at night.
• 50 g of almonds are laid out on a baking sheet and dried in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 200 ° C, stirring occasionally for even roasting. Then leave the nuts to cool.
• Separate small pieces from the frozen coconut cream. Cover each almond with a creamy mass, form an even ball and roll it in coconut flakes. For all sweets, about 80 g of coconut crumbs will be required.

We wrap the finished sweets with a film and keep in the cold for another 1 hour.

On our site you can also find many options for making delicious apple pies, desserts with cottage cheese and fruits, as well as the simplest cake recipes:

Christmas ice cream truffles

This Soviet classic dessert of ice cream and infant formula remains relevant to this day.

Ingredients

• Ice cream ice cream - 500 g;
• Milk mixture "Baby" - 0.4 kg;
• Cocoa powder - 100 g;
• Powdered sugar - 50 g;

How to make a Christmas dessert for kids

1. Mix cocoa powder with powdered sugar.
2. Knead the ice cream with a fork, add the milk mixture and mix everything very quickly so that the ice cream does not melt.
3. From the resulting composition we form balls of the same size. You need to twist the sweets very quickly so that the ice cream does not start to melt and spread.
4. Roll the prepared balls in cocoa and lay them out on a board or flat dish so that they do not touch each other.
5. When all the sweets are made and laid out on a dish, wrap them hermetically with a vacuum film and send them to the freezer until serving.

Ice cream and cocktails from this cold dessert are one of the most favorite treats for children. So why not make homemade ice cream for our children, especially since on our website you can find step-by-step recipes for any kind of this treat in a wide range:

Children's dessert with strawberries "Herringbone"

You can replenish the sweet New Year's table for children with an original cupcake decorated with Christmas tree cream.

Ingredients

• Extra flour - 3 tbsp.;
• Sugar (fine) - 0.45 kg;
• Cocoa powder - 6 tablespoons;
• Extra salt - 1 tsp;
• Baking soda - 2 tsp;
• Table vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
• Vanilla sugar -10 g;
• Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons;
• Warm water - 0.5 l;
• Butter - 0.2 kg;
• Condensed milk - 200 g;
• Food coloring "emerald";
• Fresh strawberries - 10-15 pcs.

How to cook a cupcake "Herringbone"

1. To prepare the dough, first of all, prepare a dry mixture. To do this, mix flour, granulated sugar, vanilla, soda, salt and cocoa in a bowl, and then sift the resulting mixture twice.
2. Pour a couple of tablespoons of vinegar into the dry composition, mix everything with a wooden spatula, and then add vegetable oil and mix again.
3. Next, add water to the dough and knead everything until a homogeneous consistency.
4. We fill half or 2/3 of the cupcake molds with the dough and send the dessert to bake in the oven for half an hour at 190 ° C.
5. While the cupcakes are baking, we will make the cream. Beat the butter with condensed milk and food coloring until a thick saturated green mass, transfer to a pastry syringe or bag, and then put the cream in the refrigerator for an hour.
6. After 60 minutes, the finished cupcakes have already cooled down, and the cream has taken on the necessary texture. Squeeze a small cream ball into the middle of each cupcake and glue strawberries on it, on top of which, through the “small star” nozzle, squeeze out a dotted Christmas pattern from the bottom up, completely covering the berry with a cream layer.

You can decorate cupcake Christmas trees with chocolate dragee or regular confectionery sprinkles.

Also, according to this recipe, you can cook the dessert "Santa's Hat". To do this, the cream does not need to be tinted, but leave it white. Squeeze a circle of cream onto the cupcake, place strawberries on top of it and decorate it on top with a cream ball.

For little cupcake lovers, we offer the simplest options for preparing this delicacy.

With our recipes and tips, your New Year's sweet table for children will become the most important decoration of the holiday and saturate everything around with an atmosphere of magic.

New Year is a holiday of childhood. In search of ideas on how to celebrate this night, what interesting gifts to give and how to make a menu, we somehow return in our thoughts to those times when we were children, with bated breath we waited for gifts under the Christmas tree, believed in Santa Claus and miracles ...

Let's not forget about it in the hustle and bustle of New Year's Eve. When inviting guests, think about the children - with whom will they celebrate this holiday? Thinking through the scenario of New Year's Eve, do not forget about the kids - what games do you organize for them? When deciding what to cook for the festive table, try for the small participants in the celebration - the New Year's menu for children should be such that they are happy and know for sure: there is a fairy tale!

Holiday ideas for a children's table are as abundant as a child's fantasy. This is just the smallest part of our collection.

Lavash appetizer for the children's New Year's table "Yolochki"

In the center of the children's New Year's table, let there be ... Christmas trees! Many, many Christmas trees - shaggy and prickly, cold and hot, bright and fragrant. No ideas? Start with the simplest: fold pita leaves into triangles, fill them with something tasty and healthy - and voila!, Christmas trees have grown and are asking for your mouth.

Ingredients:

• 5 round sheets of pita bread;
• 150 g cream cheese;
• 10 slices of slightly salted salmon;
• a few leaves of green lettuce;
• bunch of dill.

We cut the sheets of pita bread in half - you will get 10 semicircles.

Lubricate each piece with cream cheese, put a leaf of lettuce and a slice of fish on top. Visually determine the center of the straight line along which the pita bread was divided, and begin to add triangles, the apex of which is this central point. As a rule, 4-5 bends are obtained.

Put the finished triangles on a dish (an oblong plate on which the “forest” grows looks good), put a small layer of cream cheese on top of the pita bread, sprinkle with finely chopped dill-needles.

If desired, "Christmas trees" can be decorated with pomegranate seeds, sweet peas or milk corn.

Christmas tree decoration option: cream cheese + avocado, turned into a paste, and pieces of bright sweet pepper.

Lavash does not have to be bought, it can be made at home - see.

Christmas tree sandwiches for the little ones

Often, children perceive the world through pictures - and the brighter they are, the more fun and meaningful for the child, the better information about the world around them will fit in small blond and dark-haired heads. Are you planning to cook profiteroles with salmon mousse for the New Year's table? Adults will surely appreciate it, but what about kids? I propose to make funny Christmas tree sandwiches for them: the same mousse will be the basis, however, the overall picture will compare favorably with the “adult” version.

Ingredients for 3 sandwiches:

• 6 slices of white bread;
• 1 boiled carrot;
• a piece of bell pepper for decoration;
• 5 st. l. soft cottage cheese or cream cheese;
• 50 g boiled salmon;
• salt to taste;
• small piece of celery stalk

Mash the fish with a fork until smooth, add half the cottage cheese or cheese, salt and stir again.

We cut off the crusts of bread, give each slice the shape of a triangle. Make sure that all cut pieces are the same size.

We spread fish cream on three slices of bread, close with the remaining three.

We cut out decorations from carrots and peppers - Christmas balls, a star, garlands. We “dress up” the Christmas tree, do not forget to install a “trunk” from a piece of celery at the base of the tree.

Christmas tree for garnish - cauliflower and broccoli with bechamel sauce

Traditionally and out of habit, we cook potatoes for a side dish, which no one traditionally eats on New Year's Eve. Let's try to break the rules, shall we? Healthy vegetables wrapped in a delicate milk sauce, laid out in the shape of a shaggy spruce - in my opinion, such a dish will not only decorate the festive table, but also diversify the menu perfectly, creating the necessary balance between heavy appetizers and solid dishes.

Children enthusiastically perceive everything unusual - and even the hated cabbage, which they refuse to eat on ordinary days, will become a holiday for them and a reason for joy if the vegetables are served in an original and non-standard way.

Ingredients:

• 400 g of cauliflower;
• 400 g broccoli;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 1 st. l. flour;
• 1 glass of milk;
• 50 g butter;
• nutmeg, salt to taste;
• cherry tomatoes for serving.

Boil broccoli and cauliflower alternately in salted water. Lubricate the baking dish with a small piece of butter, put the rest of the butter on a well-heated frying pan (the fire is minimal), sprinkle with flour, mix until smooth and pour a little milk, each time stirring the sauce to an even, smooth texture. Add a pinch of nutmeg, add cheese, stir. We turn off the fire.

In the center of the form lay out the broccoli, giving the inflorescences the shape of a Christmas tree. Let's not forget the stem. The remaining space is filled with cauliflower. Pour the sauce over the vegetables and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. Garnish with cherry tomatoes when serving.

Snacks with fruit on skewers

I have a suggestion - let's decorate the Christmas tree! Well, that's just not necessary to chuckle maliciously, listen to the end.

In flower shops, you can buy an inexpensive cone-shaped foam base. If there is no time to look for something ready, roll up a sheet of drawing paper with a cone, cut off the excess along the base, blow mounting foam inward. After drying, again remove the unnecessary - and you will get the same wonderful base that you can decorate! Cover it with a clean sheet of green paper (a good substitute is foil: simple and elegant) and get creative.

Stringing pieces of fruit, cubes of delicious cheeses, shrimp and olives, grapes and ham on skewers, insert the skewers with a sharp end into the prepared cone base, forming “Christmas tree needles”. This table decoration will attract a lot of admiring glances, no doubt!

One side of the “Christmas tree” can be made for children (pieces of banana and apples, tangerine and mango slices, cheese like “Russian” and cubes of homemade boiled pork), decorate the second for adults (dor blue and brie, smoked ham and thin slices of salami, pickled olives and stuffed chili peppers).

This Christmas tree is made of fruits, but any products can be “needles”.

Cake "Pilennitsa" - a classic of the children's New Year's table

A holiday without a cake is not a holiday at all, and don't argue! Even if you are indifferent to sweets, do not forget that children are still waiting for dessert, so I recommend paying special attention to this moment. Fashionable "Sacher" and replicated "Esterhazy" let them stand on the sidelines, today is the time for delicious homemade pastries according to grandmother's recipes.

In our family, for the New Year, they traditionally bake the Woodpile cake - crispy "firewood" with sour cherries, carefully covered with sweet sour cream "snow". And tell me that your children will not appreciate the fairy tale about how forest animals prepare firewood for Santa Claus, knowing that before the New Year he has a lot of things to do, that he is busy selecting gifts for each kid, that after the chimes beat off his 12 times on the night of December 31st to January 1st, the old wizard comes to his house, where no one has flooded the stove ... and there is nothing to flood it with. Forest animals are sympathetic people: they worry about grandpa, that's why they collect firewood for him! Maybe you will try the cake for now, and in the morning while walking, you will also think of someone else? And not necessarily about Santa Claus - birds, for example, also need attention!

Dough Ingredients:
250 g butter;
200 g sour cream;
3.5 cups flour;
1/3 tsp salt;
1/3 tsp soda.

Filling Ingredients:
1000 g cherries, canned in their own juice (can be replaced with frozen berries).

Cream Ingredients:
700 ml of fat sour cream;
2 cups powdered sugar.

From these components, knead a soft, non-sticky dough. We divide it into 15 parts, roll each ball into a long rectangular strip about 5 cm wide. Lay cherries in a row along the length of the entire strip, roll it into a tube and pinch the edges. Thus, we form all 15 "logs".

We bake the tubes at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 25 minutes. After cooling, remove from the pan.

Beat sour cream with powdered sugar and proceed to assemble the cake.

We put 5 “logs” on a dish of a sufficiently large size. Pour a little cream, place 4 “logs” on top. Cream, then 3 tubes, cream, 2 tubes, cream, last tube. Fill the cake with the remaining cream and leave to soak. In the process of impregnation, we select sour cream with a spoon from the bottom and periodically pour the cake on top.

Before serving, "Polennitsa" can be sprinkled with grated chocolate if desired.

Cupcakes "Christmas Trees" - cream needles

Well, based on the principle that there is never a lot of sweets on the children's holiday table (and not only on the children's table), I propose to quickly bungle cupcakes - funny cupcakes with a huge hat of cream. Checked more than once: the kids sweep away such pastries in an instant, so don't hesitate and be sure to bake!

Under each cupcake, you can put a piece of paper with a number that will determine the number of the fanta, according to the results of the tea party, the children will be happy to do the tasks that you have prepared for them in advance: number one is to go to the neighbors for snowdrops for soup (and do not forget to congratulate them on the upcoming holiday!), number two - call the godmother and ask if she forgot to turn off the gas under the saucepan with milk, number three - depict a cuttlefish with facial expressions and gestures, postures and movement, and so on.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs;
• 100 g of chocolate;
• 70 g butter;
• 1/2 tsp salt;
• 1/2 tsp soda;
• 1/2 tsp baking powder;
• 150 g flour;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 200 ml of milk.

Cream Ingredients:

• 150 g of white chocolate;
• 200 g butter;
• 200 g of powdered sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. spinach juice.

For decoration:

• strawberries by the number of cupcakes;
• small sugar figures of different colors (it is convenient to use those offered in Easter sets).

Separate the yolks from the whites.
Sift together flour, salt, soda, baking powder.
Beat the softened butter with sugar, add the yolks. Slowly pour in the melted chocolate while continuing to beat.

Add half of the flour mixture and stir. Pour in half the milk, stir. The remaining flour - stir. The remaining milk - stir until smooth.

Whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form, gently fold them into the batter with a wooden or silicone spatula.
With a spoon, spread the dough into molds, fill them to 2/3 of the height. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 25 minutes.

After complete cooling, we start growing Christmas trees.
Beat softened butter with powdered sugar and spinach juice until fluffy. Add melted chocolate, continuing to beat until smooth.

Glue a strawberry in the center of each cupcake (dropping a small amount of cream). We transfer the remaining cream into a confectionery envelope and, using a suitable nozzle, decorate the cupcakes with “needles”, starting from the base of the strawberry “Christmas tree” and moving upwards in a spiral. Decorate with sugar stars-hearts-snowflakes. Let's not forget the fans!

Porridge with reindeer sausages

Breakfast on January 1, I propose to declare a holiday. For us, adults, a bowl of yesterday's Olivier and a couple of dried caviar sandwiches seem like a worthy option after New Year's Eve, but for some reason, children are pleased with completely different things. For example, sausages - due to inaccessibility (I don’t buy!) My child seriously considers them holiday food! I suggest pampering a person - a couple of times a year is possible.

Ingredients:

• 1 sausage;
• 1/3 cup rice;
• 1 cherry tomato;
• 1 st. l. butter;
• 2 peas or corn kernels;
• salt to taste.

In a sufficient amount of salted water, boil the rice, drain the water and rinse the cereal with boiling water (we do not cook porridge, but just rice for a side dish, so you can resort to this method).

We clean the sausage, cut it in half. On both sides (rounded), we make longitudinal cuts about half the depth of the sausage (more precisely, half the sausage). Lightly fry in butter - the cut "horns" under the influence of temperature will disperse to the sides, acquiring the desired shape.

Put the rice in a deep bowl. We insert sausages on one side of the plate, slightly drowning them in cereals - we get deer horns. In the middle we put a cherry tomato (nose), with peas we denote the eyes.

An excellent holiday breakfast is ready - it remains to tell how long the deer ran to your child, jumped over the bumps, fought the winter winds, carrying another tiny gift from Santa Claus through the snowdrifts. Well, and, of course, hand over a box with a puzzle or a set of colored pencils.

Sugar Cookies "Deer Horns"

For me, January 1 has always been an unloved day: adults slept, they were not allowed to walk around the snow-covered city alone, I watched beautiful snowflakes only through the window, and all day I had to gnaw sweets from gift sets and lazily look for cartoons on TV. Remembering very well my first days of the new year, I suggest organizing a different scenario for your children: getting up together, a delicious breakfast, gatherings in the kitchen and playing with dough.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups flour;
• 150 g butter;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 egg;
• 1/3 tsp salt;
• 1/3 tsp soda.

For decoration:

• 30 ml cream with a fat content of 33%;
• 50 g of chocolate;
• multi-colored round M&M's dragees.

We grind butter at room temperature with sugar, salt and soda, add an egg and, adding flour, knead a soft, elastic dough that does not stick to hands.

We roll out the dough into a layer 3-4 mm thick, cut out cookies with a sufficiently large glass or a round mold. We shift the rounds on a baking sheet (you do not need to grease anything), bake the cookies for about 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Decorate cooled cookies. We melt the chocolate and cream, pour the ganache into a ready-made or home-made cornet (or an ordinary medical syringe - if you get used to it, you can work with it). In the upper part of the “head” of the deer, draw small deer horns with chocolate mass. Glue a nose (colored round candy) on a drop of chocolate in the middle. We denote the eyes (ganache). We let it dry - and we start the competition: whose deer will quickly jump to the mouth and disappear into its depths!

And more photo ideas for the children's New Year's table, collected all over the Internet. Marshmallow hares, strawberry Santa Clauses, green fruit trees on skewers, graffiti on jam (or tomato), baked deer potatoes, pizza tree ...

Set the New Year's children's table fabulously! Children's fantasy and happiness to you in the New Year!