Often cooked for holidays such as New Year, Christmas or Easter. But, despite this, it can become a frequent guest at your desk. After all, a holiday can be arranged on any day, and to please the family with something beautiful and unusual. The main time and desire! :)

Sugar Cookie and Glaze Ingredients

Sugar Cookies:

3 cups (390 grams) wheat flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon of soda

1 cup (227 grams) room temperature butter

1 cup (200 grams) sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract (liquid vanilla)

Glaze:

2 large (60 grams) egg whites

2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice

3 cups (330 grams) icing sugar

Cooking Sugar Cookies and Glazes

Sugar Cookies:

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt and soda.

Beat butter with sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Continuing to beat, add eggs and vanilla. Beat until all the ingredients are mixed well.

In the resulting mass, add a mixture of flour and knead a smooth elastic dough.

Divide the dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for about one hour so that it rolls well enough and takes the desired shape.

Preheat the oven to (180 degrees C) and place a baking sheet covered with parchment paper in the center of the oven.

Remove one half of the chilled dough from the refrigerator and, on a slightly floured surface, roll the dough to a thickness of approximately 1 cm. Make sure that the dough does not stick to the table by slightly turning it.

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Using a lightly floured cookie mold, cut cookies of the desired shape from the dough, and then gently move the cookies onto the baking sheet.

There are many forms of such cookies. Personally, we made a family of deer, Christmas trees, circles, a horse, a bear, stars, bells, squares.

Place the raw cookie pan in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes to cool the dough. This is to ensure that cookies do not lose their shape during baking.

Cookies must be baked for 8-10 minutes (depending on size) or until the edges just begin to turn brown.

Then remove the cookies from the oven and let it cool.

It turns out about 36 cookies per serving. We got so much with 2 servings of the test.

Egg white icing:

Beat egg whites with lemon juice with a mixer. Then add sugar and beat at low speed until smooth. Add more sugar or water to the desired consistency. Add food coloring if necessary. Glaze should be used immediately or stored in an airtight container, as it quickly hardens upon contact with air.

After the cookies cool down, proceed to glaze dyeing.. There are many options too. Here's what we got:

Cookies can be frozen with icing, if necessary. Make sure that the glaze is completely dry before storage or packaging (this may take several hours or overnight).

Store cookies between layers of parchment or wax paper.

After the glaze dried, we packed it in transparent bags, tied it with ribbons and attached small postcards with the signature of authorship. It turned out a box of wonderful sugar cookies with icing for a gift to relatives and friends.

Gingerbread cookie came to us from across the ocean. It is there that it is customary to bake special cookies or gingerbread cookies in the form of different figures. Ginger in such pastries is an essential ingredient. It is also interesting that such gingerbread can be served not only for tea, but also to decorate New Year trees with it. Make a puncture at the top, put on a beautiful ribbon and hang it on the Christmas tree. Children will be delighted)))

Gingerbread cookie dough for gingerbread cookies - a classic recipe

The dough holds its shape. There will be no cracks on the baking surface, which is the most important thing.

Ingredients:

• granulated sugar - 500 grams;
• hot water - 200 ml;
• butter - 200 grams;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• salt - 1 tsp without a hill;
• grated ginger - 1 tsp;
• cinnamon - 2 tsp without a hill;
• nutmeg, allspice, cardamom - on the tip of a teaspoon;
• egg;
• flour - 850 grams;
• honey - 1 tbsp

Cooking:

1. Put granulated sugar in a stewpan with a thick bottom and turn on the heat. Wait until the lower layer begins to melt and melt the sugar further, stirring it constantly with a spatula. Once the caramel has a beautiful amber color, remove the pan from the heat.
2. Pour boiling water into it with constant stirring. You will get a dark syrup with a uniform consistency. Put butter in it. Previously, it should warm to room temperature.
3. Return the stewpan to the stove and turn on the heat - let the oil melt completely. Then put salt and your favorite spices. Of course, you can do without them, but then the cookies will no longer be so fragrant. Stir the mixture. At the same step, put honey.

Do not forget that honey is a strong allergen. This must be taken into account.

1. After adding soda, the mixture will begin to foam. This is normal. Cool it to room temperature and beat the egg.
2. Start adding pre-sifted flour in parts. First, knead the dough directly in the saucepan, and when it becomes dense enough - on the table. It should be soft and slightly sticky. Wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator overnight.

By the way! It can be stored in the freezer for 3 months and used if you want sweet pastries.

1. Cut a small piece of dough and roll it into a sufficiently thin layer. It’s convenient to use a teflon rug, only the surface will be perfectly smooth. Now, with the help of molds, cut out cookies.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Bake cookies directly on the Teflon rug for about 6 to 7 minutes. You do not need longer, otherwise dry the cookies. If the baking is a little warped, then put on it a wooden cutting board. The situation will be corrected!

Gingerbread cookies hold their shape very well, and inside they are soft and porous. Now it remains only to decorate your creations. Glaze recipe you will find a little lower.

A simple gingerbread cookie recipe

  If there is no time to prepare a classic dough, then you can use the recipe easier.

You will need:

• flour - 2 glasses;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams;
• egg;
• butter - 150 grams;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• cinnamon powder - 1 tsp;
• grated ginger - 1 tsp;
• egg white - 1 piece;
• powdered sugar;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp;
• food colorings.

Cooking:

1. Butter should be warmed to room temperature. It should become soft. In principle, you can use the microwave. Just keep an eye on him.
2. Mix the butter with sugar and egg. Then put soda, ginger and cinnamon in the mixture. You can put a little honey. Mix the components so that no lumps remain.
3. Add flour and knead the dough. Wrap it in film and send it to the refrigerator for an hour.
4. When time runs out, roll it into a layer with a thickness of about 4 - 5 mm. Using cookie cutters, cut out different cookies. It all depends on your imagination.
5. Cover the baking sheet with parchments and lay out the figures. They must be baked at a temperature of 190 ° C for 5 minutes.

Please note that during baking cookies will increase slightly in size, so leave small distances between them.

Readiness is determined by appearance: the dough is browned and turned brownish. Everything, it's time to get it.

Now prepare the icing

1. Mix egg white with powdered sugar and lemon juice. If you want to get different colors, then use food colors.
2. Beat the mixture with a mixer until thick foam. It should not spread.

Put the finished icing on the surface of the cookie and let it harden.

Gingerbread without honey

Gingerbread cookies prepared according to this recipe turn out crispy and very light.

You will need:

• flour - 300 grams;
• egg;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• butter - 200 grams;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams;
• vanilla.

Cooking:

1. Soften the butter and put in it granulated sugar, ginger. Beat the mixture with a mixer.
2. Put the egg in the mass.
3. Separately, sift the flour and pour the baking powder, cinnamon into it. Add it to the oil in small portions, stirring the mass after each serving of flour.
4. You will get soft dough. It must be put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
5. Roll out the dough layer 4-6 mm thick. Cut different shapes. Bake them at 180 ° C for 6 minutes. The oven must be preheated in advance!

After the cookies have cooled, decorate them with white or colored glaze.

Cinnamon Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread cookies with cinnamon - a very tasty and mouth-watering treat. Pastries prepared according to this recipe turn out to be of attractive coffee color and at the same time have an original aroma. And of course, incredibly delicious.

Secret additive in the form of kefir will make the dough crumbly and airy. Cookies can be decorated not only with icing, but also with crushed nuts, melted chocolate and candied fruit.

You will need:

• butter - a pack;
• kefir - a glass;
• flour - 4 glasses;
• salt - ½ tsp;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• ginger shavings - 2 tsp;
• cinnamon - 2 tbsp;
• granulated sugar - half a glass.

Cooking:

1. Heat oil to make it soft. Put soda in it, salt and pour 3 cups flour. Shuffle all components to make crumbs.
2. Pour kefir into it, report the remaining flour and all the ginger. Knead elastic dough.
3. Roll it into a layer, 5 mm thick. Lubricate its surface with butter. Then sprinkle with cinnamon and granulated sugar.
4. Wrap the dough in a tight roll and cut into pieces, 1 cm thick.
5. Bake cookies in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for about 20 - 25 minutes - until you get a beautiful coffee color.

Let it cool and glaze.

Fresh Ginger Cookies

This gingerbread cookie turns out to be delicate in taste with a good crumbly structure.

It is important to grate the root. In order not to get fibers, you need to rub it against the direction of growth. Then in the end you get aromatic gruel, which is convenient to add to the dough.

You will need:

• egg;
• butter - ½ pack;
• granulated sugar - 3 tbsp;
• baking powder for dough - 1.5 tsp;
• honey - 2 tsp;
• ginger - 1 tbsp;
• nutmeg - ½ tsp;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• orange peel;
• flour - a glass.

Cooking:

1. Put cooked ginger on foil and dry in the oven for 10 minutes. Let it cool and grind in a mortar or coffee grinder with a spoon of granulated sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stir the resulting mixture with honey.
2. Put in it soft butter, the rest of granulated sugar, egg and baking powder. Grate the mass well.
3. Pouring flour in small portions, knead soft dough. Wrap it in plastic and put in the freezer for 20 minutes.
4. Roll the cooled dough into a thin layer, cut out different figures using molds. Bake them in an oven preheated to 235 ° C for 17 minutes.

A beautiful golden color will tell about the readiness of the cookies.

And finally, I suggest you watch a video recipe for making ginger cookies. Enjoy your viewing and to new recipes!

Everyone knows that completeness is a sign of perfection. Sometimes a small stroke made by the hand of a master can change the fate of creation and make it unique. And where is the cooking? It's simple: to give the confectionery an individuality is the cherry on the cake that defines the handwriting and reflects the degree of attitude towards the person to whom it is intended. In other words, only for the most expensive people we will try even in small things, bringing visual pleasure.

The icing for cookies is a moment of creativity, a flight of fantasy. It can turn even the most ordinary product into a real masterpiece. The icing for cookies at home allows you to keep freshness longer than usual, create many decoration options, and come up with interesting taste ranges. Each housewife chooses the icing recipe for cookies, observing addictions, based on situationality, personal qualities, capabilities.

How to make icing on cookies

There are 2 main principles that will come in handy in your work:

1. The glaze for drawing contours should be thick and not spread.
2. The consistency of the glaze to fill the details of the image should be more fluid than the contour. The mass should smoothly smooth itself after application.

So, consider the most popular and successful recipes.

Icing

White icing for cookies (icing), great for painting. It is easy to prepare and quite convenient to use. This recipe is perfect if you want to cook with icing. In addition, it can be easily tinted with dyes.

The color version will delight the kids, diversify the festive table, with its cheerful colors. Dyes can be added both artificial and natural. Build on your own beliefs and preferences.

Ingredients

• Chicken protein - 1 pc.
• Powder - 150-200 grams
• Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
• Food coloring (optional)

Cooking method

1. Separate the protein. Add the sifted icing sugar and lemon juice. Stir so that the mass becomes homogeneous and the powder does not fly apart in different directions when whipping.
2. Beat the icing with a mixer for about 3 minutes. This allows you to get a more snow-white shade.
3. Set aside part for contour drawing.
4. To get the perfect consistency for filling parts, add teaspoon to the rest of the mass of plain water. Stir thoroughly each time and keep an eye on the texture. When the furrows from the spoon, when stirred, begin to smoothly “tighten” to form a smooth glossy surface, the mass is ready for use.
5. Divide the icing into the required number of parts, and color each in its own shade.

It is believed that the ideal glaze for pouring parts spreads, forming a perfectly smooth surface in 8-10 seconds.

If you prefer naturalness, use vegetable juices as dyes. For example, to get shades of red (from light pink to burgundy), add beetroot juice instead of lemon. The color saturation will depend on the amount.

You can achieve an orange tint by adding carrot juice, green - broccoli juice (spinach). A few drops of strawberry juice will color the mass in a pleasant reddish color.

We decorate products with a pastry bag and a special nozzle for thin lines. You can also use disposable pastry bags.

Sugar glaze for cookies

This is a lifesaver for all occasions. By applying gloss to a piece of regular bread, the food turns into an elegant cake. Such icing is suitable for shortbread cookies, and for gingerbread. It is made of only 2 components. But there is one point - it turns out not as snow-white as icing (on squirrels). I use this option for everyday home baking. And for the festive decoration, all such recommend using the previous recipe.

Ingredients

• Powdered sugar - 150 g
• Water - 1 tbsp. (about)

Cooking method

1. In a deep container, connect the two components. Stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
2. It is better to add water gradually, and not the entire norm at once, while controlling the consistency. Perhaps water may need a little more, or vice versa less.

The finished mass must be viscous. Dripping a drop on a flat surface, it should not spread too quickly.

Caramel glaze

This option is more troublesome to prepare, but it has a pleasant caramel flavor. Perfectly complement cookies, and cake, and even cake.

Ingredients

• Brown sugar - 125 gr.
• Powdered Sugar - 250 gr.
• Butter - 60 gr.
• Milk - 40 ml.

Cooking method

For cooking, it is preferable to use dishes with a thick bottom.

1. We put a container with oil on a slow fire.
2. After the butter has melted, add sugar and, stirring, bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
3. We begin to pour in a thin stream of milk, without stopping to interfere.
4. Bring to a boil again and remove from heat.
5. Allow the mass to cool slightly, then add the powdered sugar in portions (in parts).
6. Bringing to uniformity, stirring all the lumps, place a container with mass in an ice bath for cooling. Stir occasionally and watch for consistency. As a result, you will get viscous glaze.

Chocolate icing for cookies

Chocolate is truly the king of the dessert world. will not leave indifferent any sweet tooth.

Ingredients

• Milk - 250 ml
• Cocoa - 3 tbsp. l
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Dark Chocolate - 140 grams

Cooking method

1. Pour cocoa into slightly warmed milk, stirring constantly, warm the contents.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces, and pour into a hot mass.
3. Stir until a homogeneous paste. After that, remove from heat and add oil.
4. Let the fondant cool down a bit, decorate the pastries.

Imagine, experiment, find your own unique style. Bring your children, relatives, friends to this wonderful work. It is not in vain that they say "man is not alive by bread alone." The aesthetic side is no less important than the gastronomic one. Feel this balance and share with others.

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 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

What could be tastier than shortbread cookies? Only homemade shortbread cookies! Today we will talk about a variety of recipes for this delicious pastry, as well as ways to prepare the icing and cover it with finished products.

Cooking Shortbread Cookies - A Basic Recipe

This recipe can be safely called basic. By adding various ingredients, a completely different taste can be achieved. Cooking such cookies is very easy, just purchase the right products. So, take the following ingredients:

• Butter - 200 grams;
• Sugar - 1 cup;
• Flour - about a glass (how much dough will take);
• Vanilla sugar - a teaspoon.

Cooking method:

1. Butter must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. Moreover, it is better not to save on this product - replacing it with margarine or spread will negatively affect the taste of cookies. Softened butter mix with sugar, add flour.
2. Knead the dough until an elastic "bun" is obtained.
3. Now, on a floured surface, we roll it out and cut out the cookies of the desired shape. For example, circles. If desired, sprinkle each cookie with sugar or cinnamon and place in a preheated oven (temperature 200 degrees).   Cookies are baked quite quickly - after 15 minutes they are ready. Make sure that the products do not burn, if necessary, just turn down the heat.

Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate cookies are made based on the above recipe. Add 2 tablespoons of cocoa to the dough, then bake cookies.

Both regular and chocolate cookies can be made with filling. For example, jam, jam or melted chocolate. To do this, grease one cookie with the filling, put another on top. We are waiting for complete solidification and serve sweets to the table.

Shortbread Cooking Video

Cooking icing for shortbread cookies

Even the simplest cookies can look festive and original. To do this, just cook the icing. We will talk about several recipes for glaze, as well as about New Year's decoration of ready-made pastries. If you have children, the preparation of such a dessert can be made a real New Year's tradition.

For the first and simplest version of glaze we take such products:

• Powdered sugar - about 200 grams;
• Water - approximately 40-60 milliliters;
• Lemon juice - a teaspoon.

Pour part of the water and lemon juice into the powder. Intensively beat the mixture with a whisk, and then add the rest of the water. Finished glaze should become glossy. Using dyes, it can be painted in any color.

Another glaze recipe is based on butter. We take such components:

• Butter - a glass;
• Sugar - 4 cups;
• 4 tablespoons of fat cream;
• A couple drops of vanilla extract.

The main task is to beat the butter with sugar well. To do this, use a combine or mixer. As soon as the mass becomes dense and airy, add cream, vanilla extract to it and whisk for a couple more minutes.

Decoration for christmas cookies

As everyone’s favorite New Year holiday is approaching, we suggest you try decorating cookies with thematic painting.

1. Cut out cookies in the shape of a boot. We apply red glaze to the entire surface, then with the help of white we paint the cookies with any pattern.
   

   You can add a few bright colors, but white painting looks best.

2. We cover the cookies in the form of a Christmas tree with green fondant icing. Then with the help of several multi-colored varieties of glaze we apply small drops (balls), and then we draw garlands.
3. Cut the dough in the form of mittens and bake cookies. Now you can give free rein to imagination - use any colors of the main coating and ornament, you can glue small dragees with glaze as an ornament.
4. If you sculpt well, make sweets in the form of a symbol of the coming year - a dog.
5. From three circles of different diameters we build a snowman. We bake it. Then we cover it with white glaze and draw with the help of other colors eyes, nose and scarf. For these purposes, you can use gel culinary pencils, which are inscribed on cakes and cupcakes.
6. And the easiest option is to make a round baking, and then paint each cookie in the form of a decoration ball. You can glue the culinary sprinkles of various shapes - a very interesting product will be obtained.

Painting cookies is very good with the kids. They will certainly enjoy the result. In addition, such fantasy products can be hung on a Christmas tree. And of course, self-made sweets are much more useful than purchased ones, which are simply stuffed with additives and preservatives.