Interesting sweets for the New Year. Desserts, New Year

Many people consider baking aerobatics, which is only possible experienced cooks. This is wrong. Anyone can bake. If he wants! ;)

"What do you! Something will definitely burn or crumble!” Indeed, it is shameful to show guests a burnt cupcake or pie with the filling running away. But don't panic! To surprise your loved ones with sweets for the New Year, you don’t have to be a hereditary pastry chef.

All you need is:

Simple recipes. Without multi-pass combinations, water baths, caramelization and other scary words.
Convenient kitchen utensils. The more assistants you have, the less hassle and the more enjoyable the process.
Positive attitude. You can't make a sweet pie with bitter thoughts in your head. If you have decided to bake rather than buy, then approach the process creatively. Turn on some nice music, call a friend for help, or better yet, bake with your children - it’s fun and sincere.

We have taken upon ourselves the first two points - read on and take action! But component number 3 depends only on you.

Curd cupcakes with chocolate

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Dessert in the form of portioned cupcakes is an excellent solution for new year party. To save space on the holiday table, they can be placed on a special separate table along with drinks and fruits. Guests will come up and, as at a buffet, take treats.

You will need:

250 g flour;
200 g cottage cheese;
100 g sugar;
100 g sour cream;
100 g butter;
2 eggs;
1 orange;
milk chocolate bar;
a packet of baking powder;
vanillin to taste;
muffin tin;
reliable whisk.

The cottage cheese must be ground until smooth. To do this, you will need something that is comfortable, light and does not slip out of your hands. Ideally with a handle made of soft-touch plastic.

Add softened cottage cheese butter and sour cream, whisk again. Then, without ceasing to stir, add eggs, sugar and vanillin to the mixture. Peel the orange, grate its zest on a fine grater and add to the dough. Mix thoroughly again.

In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Then pour them into the batter and mix with a whisk. Cupcake dough does not need to be kneaded for a long time. Even if there are small lumps, it’s not scary.

It is best to use a silicone mold for baking cupcakes. It is much easier to remove products from it. There will be no incident when the top comes out and the bottom of the cupcake falls off, sticking to the bottom.

Divide the dough into the cells of the mold. Fill each cup about two-thirds full; the cupcakes will rise as they bake. If you fill the form to the brim, they will run away. Place a slice of your favorite chocolate into each cell, lightly pressing it into the dough.

Preheat the oven to 190°C and bake the cupcakes for 15–20 minutes.

Sponge cake

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Cake is the king of the family New Year's feast. If you've never baked a cake before, try starting with a sponge version. In this case, you will not need to bake a lot of cakes. One biscuit, cut in half, is enough.

You will need:

160 g flour;
60 g powdered sugar;
6 eggs;
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
a packet of baking powder;
cherry liqueur;
detachable round shape;
separator of yolk from white.

The most troublesome thing about this recipe is separating egg yolks from proteins. Breaking an egg and carefully pouring in the white, trying not to let the yolk slip out, takes a long and nervous time. It’s easier to break the eggs into a bowl and transfer the yolks to another bowl using a special one.

To bake sponge cakes, it is best to use a Lekue springform pan. This will allow you to remove the cake unharmed and easily transfer it to a serving tray. Don't be afraid that the dough will leak. This is out of the question.

Pour the dough into the mold and place in the oven preheated to 180°C for 30 minutes. You can check the readiness of the biscuit by making a small puncture with a toothpick. If it remains dry and clean, the cake is ready. When it has cooled a little, cut it long and soak each half with cherry liqueur.

Ginger cookie

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What could be better than, after playing enough in the snow, to come home, brew aromatic tea and drink it with spicy cookies? Maybe just eat it gingerbread before bed with cocoa or hot chocolate.

Gingerbread cookies can be baked on New Year's Eve. There's a lot to enjoy throughout the holidays. It will not dry out or spoil.

You will need:

350 g wheat flour;
150 g butter;
150 g powdered sugar;
2 eggs;
2 tablespoons honey;
2 teaspoons ground ginger;
2 teaspoons cinnamon;
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar;
a packet of baking powder;
cookie cutter;
good rolling pin.

We start kneading the dough with dry ingredients. Place flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, vanilla sugar, ginger and cinnamon into a deep bowl. Mix everything well. Stir butter into dry mixture. To make it pliable, remove it from the refrigerator in advance and let it sit for half an hour at room temperature.

Break the eggs into a separate bowl, separating the whites from the yolk. For now, you only need the yolks, but you shouldn’t pour out the whites. Lightly beat the yolks with a fork and add them to the bowl with the dry mixture and butter. Send two tablespoons of honey there, preferably liquid.

After this, knead the dough with your hands until smooth. Place it in the refrigerator for an hour. After 60 minutes, remove and roll out the dough into a layer no more than a centimeter thick. The task is not easy. Requires a lot of physical strength - you may have to involve a man in the process. An original one will help lure him into the kitchen.

You need to cut out cookies from an even layer of dough. You can use any molds, but it’s better if they match the New Year’s theme. For example, this one makes square cookies from Santa’s team with a star in the center.

Form in the form of a reindeer from Santa's sleigh

This spatula is convenient for spreading the cream.

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So, the desserts are ready. All that remains is to present them beautifully festive table. There are several secrets here.

Don't put sugary treats on the table at the beginning of the evening. Adults are unlikely to want them, and they will only kill the appetite of children. In addition, if the room is hot, the cream and icing may melt and the treats will lose their festive appearance. It's best to keep them in the refrigerator until it's their turn.

The cake is served on. It’s effective if it’s transparent: all the attention will be on the decor and your efforts.

Round cake pan

In this case, the treat should be cut in advance. This is not a wedding, which means there is no point in having a cake cutting ceremony at the table. It’s more convenient if the guest can immediately come up and take the piece they like.

Muffins, cupcakes and any other cupcakes with cream on top are framed in paper “cups” and served on a special multi-level “shelf”.

Eat muffins and cupcakes as shown in the picture below. This way you and your guests will not get dirty with cream.

Learning to eat cupcakes correctly

Cookies should be poured into a basket lined with paper napkins.

Don't forget about setting the table where the sweets will be placed. Decorate it: put candles in, make a Christmas tree composition, put a couple of Christmas tree decorations. Prepare the dishes: saucers, teaspoons, dessert knives. Think about the drinks that will accompany the sweets.Enjoyme.ru. By promotional code lifehackerNY You'll get 10% discount for the entire range (cannot be combined with current store offers). We hope this little bonus will help put you in a festive mood! ;)

Sweet New Year!

When thinking through the holiday menu, you shouldn’t forget about sweets.

Of course, delicious chicken with a crispy golden crust, amazing salads and original snacks are the main dishes on the New Year's table, but carefully selected desserts for New Year 2017 will bring significant variety and once again prove that the mistress of the house is a jack of all trades!

Pay attention to the selection that will allow you to cook delicious desserts. All of them claim to be the best sweet dishes for the New Year and can become a decoration for your holiday.

Festive cupcake

Any sweet tooth is ready to give their soul for such a delicious and tender cupcake, which is very easy to prepare.

Required ingredients:

950 grams flour
5 grams baking powder
30 grams ground cardamom
150 grams each walnuts, raisins, candied orange peels
2 grams vanillin
200 grams of chocolate glaze
15 grams ground cinnamon
5 grams ground ginger
700 grams of sugar
100 grams chocolate (melted)
900 grams of milk
150 grams of vegetable oil
2 chicken eggs

Cooking process:

Step 1. Mix all ingredients together.

Step 2. Lastly, add raisins, walnuts and candied orange peel.

Step 3. Take a rectangular cake pan, grease it with butter and sprinkle with flour or breadcrumbs.

Step 4. Place the dough in a mold and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

Step 5. Baking time is 40 minutes.

Step 6. Finally, coat the surface of the cake with chocolate glaze.

Chocolate mousse

Dishes made with chocolate are not only pleasing to the eye, but also incredibly tasty. In addition, chocolate affects our mood: it helps get rid of sadness and puts us in a positive mood. And just such a spiritual fuse is needed in New Year's Eve, so chocolate mousse will be appreciated by many of the guests.

Required ingredients:

450 grams dark chocolate
5 items chicken eggs
200 grams butter
60 grams of powdered sugar
50 grams of walnuts

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, you need to peel and chop the walnuts.

Step 2. Break the dark chocolate into small squares and place in a double boiler to melt. You should add a little butter to the chocolate. You shouldn’t try to melt all the chocolate overnight; it’s better to do it in two batches and in small portions. Don't forget to stir the mixture all the time to avoid burning. Heat the chocolate bars over low heat until completely dissolved.

Step 3. Separate the whites from the yolks, beat the whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.

Step 4. As soon as all the chocolate has melted, add powdered sugar and stir the mixture until smooth.

Step 5. It is necessary to pour all the chocolate into a clean bowl and add half the whites, mix and add the rest of the whites.

Step 6. The resulting mousse should be poured into bowls and then placed in the refrigerator for three hours. Before serving, you can sprinkle the mousse with grated chocolate.

Cake pigeon's milk"

We offer one that will undoubtedly appeal to all housewives. This cake will decorate your holiday table. It is extremely tasty and nutritious, so feel free to take note of the recipe.

Required ingredients:

80 grams butter
50 ml condensed milk
1 chicken egg
80 ml drinking water
10 grams of gelatin
50 grams dark chocolate
sugar to taste

Cooking process:

Step 1. Butter and condensed milk must be mixed at room temperature.

Step 2. Pour in gelatin warm water and let it sit for a while to swell. Do not forget to stir the gelatin periodically so that it does not form lumps.

Step 3. Separate the yolk from the white, because it is not useful in this recipe.

Step 4. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until fluffy peaks form, then beat the condensed milk and butter until smooth.

Step 5. After you beat the protein, you need to add it to a bowl with butter and condensed milk, mix everything and begin to gradually introduce gelatin. The mixture should be beaten gently until you achieve a homogeneous state.

Step 6. Line the baking dish cling film so that it is convenient to remove the cake from it.

Step 7 Melt the required amount of chocolate and butter in a water bath, mix well. Now you should grease the top of your dessert with this chocolate mass and put it in the refrigerator until it hardens completely.

Chocolate bananas

The original presentation of bananas will not leave indifferent any guest present at your holiday.

Required ingredients:

1 ripe banana
50 grams of chocolate
multi-colored confectionery sprinkles
coconut flakes
peanut

Cooking process:

Step 1. First you need to make the glaze. Take a chocolate bar and break it into small pieces. Place them in a water bath, stirring constantly until completely dissolved. Try not to let the chocolate burn, otherwise it will be bitter.

Step 2. Peel the banana and cut it in half. Insert skewers or toothpicks into each half.

Step 3. Dip bananas in chocolate glaze, sprinkle with confetti and nuts. After this, you should put the dessert in the refrigerator for half an hour. The dish is ready!

Orange and carrot cheesecake

An interesting combination of carrots and orange makes this New Year's dessert the highlight of the holiday table. By following all the cooking techniques, you will ensure that your guests will beg you for the recipe for this masterpiece.

Required ingredients:

500 grams of cream cheese
460 grams of sugar
7 chicken eggs
130 grams of sour cream 20% fat
225 grams carrots
225 grams flour
225 ml vegetable oil without sugar
125 grams each walnut, raisins and candied orange peels
7 grams ground cinnamon
7 grams of soda
a pinch of salt

You will also need orange, lemon or tangerine confiture and a layer of white mastic.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Grate the carrots using a grater, which is used to prepare Korean carrots. Add to carrots vegetable oil and 330 grams of sugar. Beat everything with a mixer until carrot juice. Add 4 more eggs, a pinch of soda and mix again until smooth.

Step 2. Raisins should be washed under running water, pour warm and leave for 30 minutes. After the specified time has elapsed, drain the water and blot the raisins with a paper towel.

Step 3. Now take candied fruits, raisins and nuts and cut them into equal small pieces. Add them to the carrot mixture and mix well.

Step 4. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Add the mixture to the bowl with the carrot mousse. After this, you need to mix the two parts until a homogeneous consistency.

Step 5. The resulting dough should be poured into a springform pan and baked in an oven preheated to 170 degrees. Pre-line the pan with baking paper. The dough stays in the oven for 30 minutes. You can check readiness with a long skewer. As soon as you see that the cake is baked, you need to remove it from the oven and cool completely. Then cut the cake into 2 pieces, 2 cm each.

Step 6. Take the cream cheese and mix it with the rest of the sugar. You need to stir slowly, gradually adding sugar, 3 eggs and, at the very end, sour cream.

Step 7 The first cake layer should be placed on the bottom of the mold, followed by a creamy layer. Having done all this, send it to the oven, preheated to a temperature of 140 degrees. Baking time 45 minutes.

Step 8 Remove the cheesecake from the oven and let it cool completely. After this, put the dessert in the refrigerator for about 8 hours.

Step 9 The remaining cake layer should be greased with confiture and placed on the cooled cheesecake. Take a piece of mastic and cover the cake with it. The dish is ready to serve!

Salad “Fruit cocktail”

This salad will appeal not only to guests, but even to the ruler of 2017 himself - the Fire Rooster. It is bright, fragrant and very healthy. An amazing combination of fruits that should definitely be included in the New Year's feast.

Required ingredients:

4 oranges
400 grams of prunes
4 tangerines
100 grams of walnuts
200 grams dark raisins
40 grams of powdered sugar
4 apples
2 lemons
20 grams vanilla sugar
40 ml dry white wine
400 ml sugar
200 ml heavy cream

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the apples, cut into strips and sprinkle lemon juice so that they don't turn black.

Step 2. Also peel and divide citrus fruits into slices. The orange peel should be cut into thin strips, and the segments should be cut into small cubes.

Step 3. Dried fruits need to be washed, placed in a pan and filled with water. Place the pan on the stove and bring to a boil. Drain the water and let the prunes and raisins cool.

Step 4. Place dried fruits on paper towels and dry, and then cut them into strips. Grind the nuts in a mortar.

Step 5. Mix cream, wine and vanilla sugar and place on low heat and simmer for 3-5 minutes.

Step 6. Remove the dishes from the stove, cool slightly and add sour cream. Stir slowly.

Step 7 Place all the fruits in a bowl (you can do this in layers), pour the sauce over them and sprinkle chopped orange zest on top.

Note that in this fruit salad you can combine any fruits, nuts and berries that you prefer to eat.

Chocolate pancake cake

Each of us loves pancakes. And the original presentation of this dish can even claim to be the best New Year's dessert.

Required ingredients:

50 ml cream 35% fat
100-150 grams of sugar
half teaspoon vanilla extract
chocolate chips for decoration

Chocolate pancakes:

¾ cup flour
120 grams of chocolate
120 grams butter
310 ml milk
3 chicken eggs
2 tablespoons sugar
half a tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 tsp salt

Cooking process:

Step 1. The butter must be cut into small pieces and placed in a small saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons of water and place over low heat until it boils.

Step 3. Mix flour, salt and sugar in a separate bowl.

Step 4. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla extract.

Step 5. Combine the dry ingredients in the same bowl with the liquid ingredients, stirring gently with a whisk. To all this you need to add cold chocolate mass and achieve a homogeneous consistency.

Step 6. Take cling film or a lid, cover the bowl and place the contents in the refrigerator for 2-8 hours.

Step 7 Place the frying pan on the fire, heat it well and grease it with vegetable oil. When pouring the dough into the frying pan, try to get thin pancakes with a diameter of no more than 20 cm. You should have approximately 15 pancakes, which should be cooled for 2 hours.

Step 8 Whip the cream until soft peaks form, add vanilla extract and sugar, then begin beating again until thick, dense peaks form.

Step 9 Place pancakes on a plate and brush each one with cream. Assemble the entire cake and decorate them with chocolate chips.

Step 10 Refrigerate the cake for at least 4 hours.

Champagne jelly

Champagne on the table is a traditional New Year's drink. We are all used to seeing it in greenish bottles. But imagine the surprise of your guests when you serve them champagne jelly...

Required ingredients:

1 bottle of champagne (white or rose)
750 ml water
20 grams of gelatin
20 grams of mint
zest from two lemons
280 grams of sugar
fruits, apples, walnuts - to taste

Cooking process:

Step 1. Gelatin must be soaked in warm water and let it brew.

Step 2. Fill a saucepan with water and place a few sprigs of mint, sugar and lemon zest in it. Bring the solution to a boil and keep on fire for 2-3 minutes. After this, let the syrup brew. Filter it using a sieve.

Step 3. Remove the remaining water from the already swollen gelatin and pour in the prepared syrup.

Step 4. The mass must be mixed thoroughly until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Pour in the champagne and stir again.

Step 5. Pour the jelly into molds, add nuts or any fruit you like.

Step 6. Place the dessert in the refrigerator until thickened. When serving, the jelly can be garnished with mint leaves. Bon appetit!

Soon New Year and in general, you’ve already thought of everything, all that’s left is sweets, which New Year’s desserts to choose? After all, there will be children! Aren’t adults, on such a magical night, children? And if so, then everyone is waiting for something sweet and surprising.

Of course, you can buy a lot of dessert delights in modern stores, but not all of them can boast of special originality. And although, indeed, preparing desserts yourself is a responsible and troublesome task, the sparkle of joyful eyes and general delight from the treat completely compensate for your difficult efforts, and most importantly, the love that you put into your homemade dessert treats.

Cooking something sweet for the New Year's table is actually not that difficult. You can revive all your grandmother’s pastry recipes and your own tried-and-tested ones. Give them stylistic features of the New Year theme, bring them into some kind of genre system - and the holiday is a 100% success!

What do you need to prepare New Year's desserts?

Firstly, to prepare New Year's desserts you will need food coloring - it is simply impossible to do without them when decorating New Year's desserts. If you have a prejudice against food dyes that can be purchased at the grocery store, use a set of natural: natural juices: beetroot, raspberry juice - scarlet, carrot and orange - orange, spinach juice - green, and so on. Although it is difficult to completely eliminate food dyes, for example, blue color.

In search of form - the New Year's theme itself suggests its forms. They can be found in cookie stars, in triangular cake layers, from large to minimal, which just need to be laid out in a herringbone pattern; in creating designer confectionery sweets in the form of snowmen or Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. There is no doubt that you yourself will be surprised by the creative uplifts and inspiration that will visit you in this important and interesting matter.

How to decorate New Year's dessert? There are many options here. All kinds of Easter powders in the form of shiny silver or gold balls, non-melting powdered sugar in the form of snow-white balls will be used; drawing all kinds of colors with icing and melted chocolate, white and black. Interesting options for decorating from edible applique: ruby stars from marmalade; candied fruits; dried tangerine slices with zest; multi-colored coconut flakes and the like.

Without pretending to cover such activities comprehensively, we present several culinary solutions that may seem interesting or will suggest your own original ideas creating homemade New Year's desserts of fabulous beauty to the delight of the whole family.

1. New Year’s cake “Christmas log” according to the original recipe

The “Christmas Log” cake fits perfectly into the New Year’s theme and its appearance will remind you of a hot fire in a clearing from the fairy tale “12 Months”, and preparing this festive dessert is simple, quick and fully guaranteed that everyone will enjoy it with a bang!

Ingredients for the dough:

chicken egg - 3 pieces;
butter - 50 grams;
granulated sugar - 2/3 cup;
wheat flour - about 3 cups;
natural honey - 3 tablespoons;
baking soda, slaked with natural lemon juice.

Ingredients for cream:

full-fat sour cream - 700 milliliters;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
chocolate - 50 grams.

Dessert “Christmas log” according to the original New Year's recipe cook like this:

Dissolve the butter and add it to the eggs, honey, sugar, salt and slaked soda. Gradually stir in the sifted flour and knead into an elastic dough.
Ready dough Roll out over the baking sheet to a thickness of 0.5 centimeters and cut into strips 1.0-1.5 centimeters wide. The baking tray is covered with baking paper and all the strips are laid out on it so that they do not stick together.
The strips are baked in an oven preheated to 200 C for 1-12 minutes. You should not avoid baking - it will quickly burn outside the specified time.
While the strips are baking, prepare the cream by whipping sour cream and sugar until fluffy. If you don’t have fatty sour cream on the farm, you can get by with cream with the addition of powder to strengthen the sour cream cream.
The strips are ready, removed from the oven and cooled. Place several of them in parallel onto a sheet of foil, pour the cream over them, place the next ones on top and pour the cream over them, lay them out in the same way, layer by layer with cream. Leave a small amount of it - 2-3 spoons - to improve the shape of the cake after cooling.
At the end of storing the “logs”, pick up the edges of the foil and, giving the strips a rounded shape of an oblong log, place in the refrigerator, preventing the product from freezing, for 7-10 hours.
After the specified time has passed, free the formed “Christmas log” from the foil and transfer it to a serving dish of a suitable shape. Use the remaining cream to “patch up” the unevenness of the “log” and apply longitudinal stripes and “knots” with melted chocolate, imitating the appearance of a natural log.

2. Original recipe for New Year’s “snowmen” made from white truffles with coconut cream

Of course, it’s easier to use this recipe to prepare very tasty and snowball-like candies in the form of balls, but what a joyful decor for a festively served table will be funny snowmen made from them, using characteristic details turned into New Year's toys, which will appeal to both children and adults.

If building such snowmen will be troublesome for you, then you can make a couple or three of them, and the rest of the truffle balls, which are very tasty and picturesque, if you roll them in coconut shavings, in almond petals or in non-melting sugar powder, place them around on a colorful decorative table. on a napkin or on a plate with a New Year's print.

Ingredients:

premium white chocolate -250 grams;
cream 33% - 50 milliliters;
cognac or liqueur - 1 tablespoon;
coconut flakes, powdered sugar, instant sugar balls, almond flour;
jelly candies, mastic and sugar decorating material - for decoration.

New Year's “snowmen” made from white truffles with coconut cream original recipe prepare like this:

Melt the broken white chocolate in a water bath. Add heated cream, alcohol and stir until smooth with a shiny, smooth surface. Cover the container with the resulting creamy chocolate mass with cling film and place in the refrigerator, do not freeze, for at least 5 hours - preferably overnight.
After the allotted time, dessert spoon take the chocolate paste, quickly roll it into balls so that a little more than a walnut does not melt in your hands and roll in powdered sugar. Balls from which snowmen will definitely be built, one - the top one can be made smaller, and the second - the bottom one - a little larger.
Using wooden toothpicks, collect truffle balls and fold them in the shape of snowmen, and simply connect the balls to them for stability.

You can place this sweet composition on a flat dish covered with paper napkin into blue snowflakes.

3. Homemade New Year’s dessert “Fortune Cookies”

Such an idea cannot be called original, but in each individual case everything happens as if for the first time, with its own invention and zest. For those who don’t know, we remind you: before forming the cookies, funny task notes or numbers are prepared win-win lottery for a concert number, which are printed on a small strip of paper, folded in half and placed in still hot cookies. As an option, give such cookies to each guest as a farewell with a note of wishes. You will come up with the text yourself, taking into account the level of playfulness of the company and some family or professional interests. This game using cookies will revive New Year's celebration, will remain in memory with a sweet smile!

Ingredients:

chicken egg white - 2 pieces;
vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
powdered sugar - 0.5 cups;
starch - 0.5 teaspoon;
premium wheat flour - 0.5 cups;
table salt - 1/3 teaspoon.

Prepare fortune cookies according to a homemade New Year's recipe as follows:

Funny notes with the text you choose should be 1x6 centimeters in size. They must first be printed on a sheet of paper, and then cut into notes of the specified size.
Whisk the chicken whites with powdered sugar, gradually add a mixture of flour, starch and a little salt. Pour in a little water and vegetable oil. Mix everything until completely homogeneous.
By the time the dough is ready, preheat the oven to 180 C, and place the cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, using a spoon, like mini pancakes. Place the baking sheet with cookies in the oven for no more than 10 minutes - a little less is better - they burn quickly.
All further actions are rapid and require caution when working with very hot cookies, which need to be quickly removed, quickly put in the middle, like in a dumpling, a note folded in half, connect the edges of the cookie and place it hot in a narrow glass so that this “dumpling” it froze in this form. Cooled cookies will not be pliable, although they will remain edible. If this happens, they can be placed one on top of the other with a cream coating.

These cookies can be decorated with icing, applied with some kind of design, using creative New Year's powers and the ability to create a fairy tale with your own hands.

4. Homemade recipe for New Year's dessert - French macarons

Recipe for New Year's cakes with unusual name Macarons are not an easy task for those who are taking on it for the first time. For this reason, you shouldn’t start them right before the holiday, but take a trial step so that the almond bases with the “skirt” turn out correctly even. But, if everything goes well, the festive table will be decorated with red cakes with bright green cream and white decoration on top. These cakes have an advantageous property that allows them to be prepared in advance - they store well in tightly closed containers in freezer. Just take it out, let the temperature even out - and these are beautiful New Year's desserts on the table!

Ingredients for the dough:

almond flour - 150 grams;
powdered sugar - 150 grams;
granulated sugar - 150 grams;
egg whites - 110 grams;
drinking water - 37 grams;
red food coloring - on the tip of the knife.

Filling ingredients:

pistachio paste - 30 grams;
heavy cream - 70 milliliters;
white chocolate - 150 grams;
balls of non-melting powdered sugar;
Green food coloring - minimal.

By homemade recipe New Year's macarons are prepared like this:

You should start with a creamy ganache filling, the ripening period of which is 12 hours.
Break the chocolate into pieces and place them in the cream, brought to a boil and removed from the heat. Stir the mixture until homogeneous and smooth. After this, add pistachio paste, mix and beat until emulsified.
The resulting ganache (cream paste) will already have a greenish grassy tint, which you could stop with, but if you still want a richer green, add a little green food coloring.
Cover the cup with ganache with cling film until surface contact with it, to avoid the formation of a film, and place in the refrigerator for 8-12 hours without freezing. Before using, beat the ganache with a mixer.
The whites of chicken eggs separated from the yolks for the dough should stand in the refrigerator for at least 1 day, and to be added to the dough, warm to room temperature.
Mix almond flour with powdered sugar and sift.
Add half of the whites - 55 grams - into a bowl with sifted flour and mix with a spoon.
Having dissolved sugar in water, boil the syrup: after boiling, boil it for 5 minutes until it reaches 118 degrees. If you don’t have a special thermometer, check its caramel quality with your fingers: drop a drop on the skin of your finger, press it with a second one and gradually open it - stretches with a long thread - it’s ready; rushing to cook some more; breaks - overcooked.
While the syrup is cooking, beat the remaining whites.
While beating with a mixer, pour hot syrup into the whipped whites in a thin stream, add red coloring and continue beating until the entire mass becomes uniform, smooth and shiny.
Place the red whipped whites in a bowl with the dough and with a plastic spatula, thoroughly knead the dough until the mass is homogeneous, which should become smooth, glossy, but not runny.
Line a macaron tray with baking paper. Place the finished dough into a pastry bag, from which release even portions of the dough onto a sheet of paper covering the baking sheet to form equal circles.
Once all the dough has been used, holding the baking sheet level with both hands, give it a good tap on the counter a few times to release excess air from the dough and even out the circles.
Leave the baking sheet with the preparations to dry for 20-30 minutes at room temperature. After the specified time has passed, place a baking sheet in an oven preheated to 160 C and bake the macaroons for 15-18 minutes.
The finished cookies are easily removed from the paper while hot. Transfer to a dry, flat surface to cool completely.
While the preparations are cooling, beat last time cooled ganache, place it in a pastry bag. Place ganache in even portions onto the cooled macaron circles, then place a circle of cookies on top of it, slightly pressing it on top. Ganache again - and the last layer of cookies. Makes 3 cookies and 2 layers of ganache. Ideal - macarons of the same height.
Pour balls of powdered sugar into a separate plate and roll each macaron sideways on it so that the white balls of powdered sugar stick to the cream.

Place the finished cakes in a suitable closed container and put them in the refrigerator for 1 day, avoid freezing, and half an hour before serving, take them out of it completely formed to your taste. You can decorate French macarons ready-made New Year's decor, in an assortment presented in supermarkets across the country. Well, we got acquainted with wonderful sweet recipes and now new New Year’s desserts will probably appear on our table, and for those for whom this is not enough, try also from Germany, English or bake in colored glaze. The main thing is that there is a festive atmosphere in your home)

What holiday menu would be complete without a sweet table? And especially on New Year's Day? Many families have made it their tradition to prepare New Year's cake, pastries or other New Year's sweets. You might also want to make some sweets for the New Year yourself. We offer you a large list of such products: candies, eclairs, cakes, cookies, cupcakes, profiteroles, muffins, meringues, meringues, brownies and much more. You just have to plan ahead New Year's menu so that the holiday does not take you by surprise, but you can meet it fully armed. Preparing all these sweets is not so difficult, just a little patience, ingredients and your desire. Recipes for sweets for the New Year do not differ significantly from their everyday versions. The only difference is the decoration and presentation. finished products. Sweets for the New Year 2020 should please the patron of this year - the Rat. In addition, preparing dessert products for the New Year differs from simple cooking in that we usually prepare a lot more for the holiday, incl. and other snacks and hot dishes. There is always less time for desserts, and we have less experience in preparing New Year's sweets. After all, New Year comes once a year!

Spend more time on the original appearance your products, it is the beauty and festiveness of sweets that creates the atmosphere of New Year's miracle and magic. In addition, an excellent New Year's cake or other dessert product will demonstrate to guests the culinary skills of the hostess, her hospitality and the warmth of your home.

Our tips will help you prepare New Year's sweets correctly and serve them beautifully and festively:

Any baked goods using New Year's figures, chocolate products, or icing can turn a simple product into a culinary masterpiece;

There is no need to overuse fatty decorations on cakes and pastries; the New Year's table is replete with hearty foods without them;

Practice making decorations on sweets in advance. Housewives will have enough other worries on New Year's Day;

Do not overdo it with the design of the cake when decorating it; after all, the cake must be stable;

You shouldn’t copy a cake from a photograph down to the smallest detail, usually the most beautiful options are obtained independently and unexpectedly, in the process of New Year's inspiration;

Unsuccessful attempts at decorating a cake can be easily corrected by re-applying the decoration, adding new molding elements, etc.;

When decorating sweets, use the favorite delicacies of the 2020 patron of the rat;

If you do not provide for such decoration, you can make the product itself from cereals or purely nuts;

Try to think through the design of the cake in advance and make a list of the products needed to make it;

All products for New Year's sweets must be fresh; try to use as many natural ingredients as possible: fruits, berries, nuts.

Many people consider baking to be a high-flying activity that only experienced chefs can do. This is wrong. Anyone can bake. If he wants! ;)

All you need is:

Simple recipes. Without multi-pass combinations, water baths, caramelization and other scary words.
Convenient kitchen utensils. The more assistants you have, the less hassle and the more enjoyable the process.
Positive attitude. You can't make a sweet pie with bitter thoughts in your head. If you have decided to bake rather than buy, then approach the process creatively. Turn on some nice music, call a friend for help, or better yet, bake with your children - it’s fun and sincere.

We have taken upon ourselves the first two points - read on and take action! But component number 3 depends only on you.

Curd cupcakes with chocolate

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Dessert in the form of portioned cupcakes is an excellent solution for a New Year's party. To save space on the holiday table, they can be placed on a special separate table along with drinks and fruits. Guests will come up and, as at a buffet, take treats.

You will need:

250 g flour;
200 g cottage cheese;
100 g sugar;
100 g sour cream;
100 g butter;
2 eggs;
1 orange;
milk chocolate bar;
a packet of baking powder;
vanillin to taste;
muffin tin;
reliable whisk.

The cottage cheese must be ground until smooth. To do this, you will need something that is comfortable, light and does not slip out of your hands. Ideally with a handle made of soft-touch plastic.

Add softened butter and sour cream to the cottage cheese, whisk again. Then, without ceasing to stir, add eggs, sugar and vanillin to the mixture. Peel the orange, grate its zest on a fine grater and add to the dough. Mix thoroughly again.

Preheat the oven to 190°C and bake the cupcakes for 15–20 minutes.

Sponge cake

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You will need:

160 g flour;
60 g powdered sugar;
6 eggs;
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
a packet of baking powder;
cherry liqueur;
detachable round shape;
separator of yolk from white.

The most troublesome part of this recipe is separating the egg yolks from the whites. Breaking an egg and carefully pouring in the white, trying not to let the yolk slip out, takes a long and nervous time. It’s easier to break the eggs into a bowl and transfer the yolks to another bowl using a special one.

Ginger cookie

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What could be better than, after playing enough in the snow, to come home, brew aromatic tea and drink it with spicy cookies? Perhaps just eat gingerbread before bed with cocoa or hot chocolate.

Gingerbread cookies can be baked on New Year's Eve. There's a lot to enjoy throughout the holidays. It will not dry out or spoil.

You will need: