On the eve of the winter holidays, the theme of the New Year’s table is very relevant, which dishes will be more popular, which dishes are worth cooking and what to please lovers of snacks and sweet dishes.
How to make Christmas cookies
And if everything is clear with traditional hot dishes, salads, fish and meat dishes, then the question remains how to surprise the kids and how to diversify the festive table. It’s about baking, but not about traditional pies with mushrooms, meat or fish, but about Christmas cookies, which are also the perfect snack (salty and cheese cookies). And decoration (in the form of Christmas toys) and a sweet dish with which it is so pleasant to drink tea with cold winter evening in the company of loved ones and friends.
Biscuits snack (for beer and wine)
“Cheese sticks”. What is needed for this:
1 st. flour
100 gr. Margarine
100 gr. Cheese
1 st. l. Cognac
2 egg yolks
salt and sugar to taste
Preparation: grind flour with margarine and yolks, add cheese, sugar, salt, cognac and knead the dough, put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
How to make Christmas cookies
Then roll out the dough and cut sticks out of it, put on a baking sheet and bake until light yellow.
Sweet cookies
“Christmas fun”. What is needed for this:
1 st. flour
150 gr. drain. butter or margarine
floor. st. Sahara
salt to taste
2 yolks.
For decoration:
icing sugar (1 tbsp. powdered sugar, 4 tbsp. spoons of water, food coloring).
Preparation: knead the dough from flour, sugar, butter and yolks and put in a cold place for an hour. Then roll out and cut out of it New Year’s figures (Christmas trees, stars, symbols of the coming year) and bake in the oven until golden crust. Cool the finished cookies and decorate with sugar icing to taste (use green food coloring for the Christmas tree, yellow for the stars), sprinkle with colorful candies.
“Tubes with a secret”. Would need:
2 st. flour
2 yolks
200 gr. drain. Oils
floor. st. Sahara
salt
1 hour. L. Cognac
cinnamon and vanilla to taste
Filling: grind nuts (hazelnuts, cashews, walnuts) and mix with orange jam and powdered sugar. Sprinkling: powdered sugar.
How to make Christmas cookies
Preparation: mix all the ingredients for the dough and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll out the dough and cut triangles out of it, put the filling on each triangle on the wider side and roll it into a tube. Place in oven and bake until golden. Sprinkle finished cookies with powdered sugar.
How to make Christmas cookies
The aroma of home cookies is another reason to gather with the whole family and listen to grandmother’s fairy tales with a quiet winter evening.