Christmas tree made of cookies with sugar icing. Cookies "Santa Claus"

Everyone's favorite New Year's holiday is a cheerful, solemn one. Therefore, it is advisable to decorate the dishes for the festive table in an appropriate way, giving them a beautiful, unusual shape. For example, shortbread chocolate cookies can be baked in the shape of a Christmas tree, a symbol of winter and New Year holidays.
We will make Christmas trees from cookies from home chocolate chip cookies. "Christmas Tree in the Snow" sugar icing easy to bake and make with our step by step photos.
Moreover, such Christmas trees can not only give an elegant look New Year's table, but also use them in the form of delicious, beautiful presents. Especially if you wrap each Christmas tree with beautiful gift paper.
Can be used for cookies ready molds different size in the form of stars or flowers, or you can cut out templates from thick cardboard.
From the indicated amount of ingredients, you will get about 5 medium Christmas trees (the amount depends on the size of the baking dishes used).

Taste Info Christmas recipes / Cookies

Ingredients

• Dough:
• Flour - 2.5 -3 tbsp.;
• Butter - 200 g;
• Sugar - 150 g;
• Eggs - 1 pc.;
• Cocoa - 3 tablespoons;
• Baking powder - 1 tsp;
• Vanillin - a pinch.
• Fondant:
• Powdered sugar - 100 g;
• Lemon juice - 3 tbsp.

How to make a cookie Christmas tree

Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft. Such a product is much easier to grind with granulated sugar and vanilla.


Then add cocoa powder. The amount indicated in the recipe is enough to give the cookies a rich chocolate flavor.


It is better to sift the flour beforehand to saturate it with oxygen, fluff it up a little. Then mix the flour with the baking powder and add the ingredients to the dough bowl. Mix the mass well. The dough should be dense, crumbly.


Now add the egg and knead the plastic dough.

On a floured surface, roll out shortbread dough thin layer. Please note that when baking, the products will rise by half. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters.
The blanks should be of different sizes, the bottom of the Christmas tree is about 8-10 cm, reduce each next layer by a centimeter and a half. The top can be cut in the form of an asterisk. Together with the top we have 6 levels of the Christmas tree.


Arrange the products on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes (until cooked).


While the details of future Christmas trees are baking, prepare a fudge snowball. The recipe is simple: pour powdered sugar into a container, then add a little (by a tablespoon) lemon juice until the mass becomes such a consistency that you can easily cover the cookies with it.


Now let's start assembling Christmas trees from cookies. Take the largest cookie, cover it with fondant. Then lay smaller cookies on top, also brush with icing sugar and stack until you get a Christmas tree. Liquid fondant hardens quite quickly and firmly holds the elements of the Christmas tree together.


Chocolate cookies "Christmas tree in the snow" is ready!

New Year is a magical joyful time not only for children, but also for adults. To create a festive atmosphere, spend time with family and children, and at the same time develop their imagination and creativity, making a Christmas tree from gingerbread will help.

• First, prepare the dough. You can find his recipe here.
• Now you need thick paper to create a stencil. If you have a Christmas tree baking dish, then simply circle it on paper. If not, then draw yourself.
• Creating a template:

Draw a long vertical line down the center of the tree. At a distance of 1 cm on each side, draw another parallel line. You will need three of these stencils. Now make a template as shown in the picture. After cutting, you can try to collect, and, if necessary, correct the pattern.

• Roll out the dough with a width of 5-6 mm, using the stencils prepared earlier, bring and cut out the details of the future Christmas tree from the dough.
• Bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Once the cookies are firm enough, take them out and let them cool down.
• Fasten the parts together. You can decorate such a Christmas tree with icing, or confectionery powders.

But sweet tree can be made in another way. Please your children and present them with a Christmas tree made of sweets. For the base, take any suitable bottle. Use tape to secure the candy in a circle, layer by layer. Such a New Year's tree is made very quickly and simply, and the pleasure that children will receive from it will be great.

Here are some more ideas for creating a sweet Christmas tree:

• As a New Year's breakfast, give your loved ones pancakes. Perform them in different sizes, so that, putting them on top of each other, they form a pyramid. Decorate the top with a candy star.

• If there are not very many candies to create a Christmas tree, alternate layers. Candies, tinsel, sweets.

And again Christmas trees)

Sorry, friends, but here's another portion of Christmas trees) This time in 2 variations from one dough - openwork and more traditional but no less bright! + I decided to make cookies from the rest of the dough - the idea is not new, but why should the dough disappear) )) Lots of photos, little text):

For 2 Christmas trees and a dozen cookies:

3 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
70 g cl oil
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp topped with gingerbread spices (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom, allspice)
1/4 cup water (or slightly less)
+
icing for decoration
dragee

Sift flour with baking powder. Place butter, water, honey, vanilla and sugar in a saucepan. Stirring, warm the mass until the sugar dissolves. Let stand to cool down a bit. Add eggs, mix and add flour. Knead with a spoon and then with your hands. Keep in mind that the dough will thicken as it cools, so don't be tempted to add extra flour.
Wrap the dough in cling film and let it cool down.
Then we work according to the old scheme - roll out, cut out, put on a baking sheet and bake at 180C for 6-8 minutes - until light golden.

We glue the details with icing, we also glue dragees on it. Christmas tree can be sprinkled powdered sugar for beauty, but you can not sprinkle)))

Festive and not difficult - with the exception of an openwork Christmas tree - and then there is only a tedious process that requires accuracy, but in general, if such a lazy person like me did it, then you are even more so!

PS: it’s easier to cut the openwork details directly onto parchment - on it and transfer it to a baking sheet. It is better to remove cookies from the baking sheet while still warm, as they are more fragile and hard when cooled. The walls of my thin Christmas tree broke three times - I had to cut out new parts. So be careful!

Have a good mood and bon appetit!!!

send to your holiday FM -
and for cookies

New Year's cookies "Herringbone" will decorate any festive table and can be a great edible gift for the New Year. It’s even a pity to eat an elegant cookie tree: it’s so elegant, with a star on top. Nevertheless, the delicacy turns out to be tasty and very fragrant, and no one can resist a crispy dessert with sugar icing. Assembling the tree is simple: with the help of edible icing glue, a pyramid is built from individual cookies. But baking these cookies even and making the icing itself is a more difficult task, so I offer a detailed step-by-step analysis of the actions.
The smells of cinnamon, ginger, citrus - this is what is primarily associated with New Year's baking. The site already has classic recipe Christmas gingerbread, this dough can also be used to make a Christmas tree. But for a change, I want to offer another option - chocolate dough. It turns out darker thanks to cocoa, and orange peel gives a strong and slightly tart flavor. Cinnamon also remains the main ingredient that gives the liver a spicy note. Designs from cookies and gingerbread - this is a scope for creativity. It is not necessary to be limited to only one Christmas tree, you can build a cute Gingerbread house. When working with fragile cookies, you should be careful, and the icing recipe requires a little skill training. But with this master class, you will definitely succeed, since the recipe takes into account all possible difficulties.

Ingredients:

for cookies:

• 250 g flour premium;
• 100 g butter;
• 80 g of sugar;
• 1 egg;
• 3 tbsp cocoa;
• 1 tbsp cinnamon;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• a pinch of salt;
• zest of 1 orange.

for glaze:

• 4 quail eggs;
• 150 g of powdered sugar;
• 1/4 tsp citric acid;
• some boiled water.

Do-it-yourself Christmas tree cookie recipe

1. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl: flour, cinnamon, cocoa, salt, soda. Salt is not always added to sweet pastries, however, a pinch of this product will only improve the dough. Salt is a natural flavor enhancer, so the proportion of cocoa in the dough will be more noticeable.

2. Mix well into a uniform brown powder.

3. In another bowl, combine soft butter, sugar and egg. How softer oil, the easier it will turn into a cream, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. To melt the butter faster, you can grind it.

4. Beat the mass into a cream with a mixer at medium speed.

5. Grate a well-washed orange. We take only the upper (orange) part of the zest, as the white fibers will give bitterness. Mix cream with orange.

6. We combine the contents of two bowls.

7. Knead the dough with a spoon until smooth, until it stops sticking. From the photo in the recipe, you can see that you should get a dark brown mass.

8. Roll the dough into a ball with your hands.

9. Slightly flatten the ball so that it freezes faster. We wrap in cling film to protect and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes - 1 hour. The frozen dough is more convenient to roll out and cut out (no flour is required for dusting, which will clog the dough). warm dough stretches, sticks and deforms. And also, if the mass lies down for a while, then the gluten will disperse, and the baking will be more airy.

10. To create sweet Christmas tree with your own hands you will need such a stencil in the form of a five-pointed star.

11. Draw stencils on paper. I have 16 pieces of different sizes. I suggest: it is convenient to connect the lines of the drawing at the intended points. You can draw immediately from the computer screen by attaching a sheet, each time slightly reducing the star. So the Christmas tree will evenly decrease towards the top.

12. We take out the cooled dough and divide it into 2 equal parts.

13. We put one part in the refrigerator for a while, and roll out the second on parchment paper. Cold dough rolls out hard, but comes out smoother, which means the cookies will turn out smoother.

14. We apply the stencils to the dough and cut it out with a knife. Try to save space, but don't stack the stars on top of each other as they will expand a little while baking. The remaining pieces of dough can be re-rolled into a ball and used again.

15. We transfer the stars to a baking sheet along with parchment. If you start to separate them, then you can damage the shape, and we need an even Christmas tree.

16. Place the cookies in a heated oven and bake at 180 degrees for about 7-8 minutes. Readiness is determined by the smell, the cookies will become dry in appearance and brighten a little. You can pierce it with a toothpick, it should remain dry.

17. From the rest of the dough, you can make another small Christmas tree or several cookies in the form of snowflakes and other New Year's paraphernalia.

18. All the stars and snowflakes are baked. We leave the chocolate Christmas cookies to cool and move on to the icing.

Preparation of snow-white icing for decorating New Year's cookies.

1. More detailed recipe icing see . We combine powdered sugar with citric acid. We take premium powder, it is advisable to sift it through a sieve to remove lumps. Lemon acid needed to get snow-white glaze, do not ignore this ingredient. Citric acid will remove excess sweetness and give a slight sourness.

2. Pour the protein into the powder quail eggs.

3. Beat the icing first with a spoon, then with a whisk at slow speeds for about 2-3 minutes. We bring to desired consistency(icing should be thick, homogeneous) at high speed. The total amount of whipping should not exceed 5-7 minutes.

4. The cream is almost ready. Add a little water (no more than three drops at a time), knead and test: draw a line with a spoon and note the time, if after 15 seconds the line is pulled together, then the icing is ready. If it gets too thick, then add a couple more drops of water. If the line converges too quickly, you can thicken the icing with powdered sugar. Better yet, divide the thick mass into two parts and dilute alternately. If one half turns out to be liquid, then add the original thick icing to it and mix thoroughly.

5. We take a small bag with a zipper and scissors. Since icing hardens quickly, we will need airtight containers.

6. Fill the bag with icing and immediately close it so that the icing does not harden. We cut off one edge of the bag with scissors, just a little so that you can control the portion of the glaze.

7. We take the largest star and grease it with icing in the center. Be careful when cooling soft cookies become crispy and brittle.

8. We attach a second star from above so that its rays fall between the rays of the lower cookie.

9. Apply icing glue again.

10. Thus, we fold the Christmas tree cookies from the largest to the smallest star.

11. Pour some more glaze and put the last star vertically.

12. Christmas tree cookies New Year done, it remains to sprinkle with powdered sugar to create the illusion of snow. Drizzle the edges of the stars with the remaining frosting. The icing will harden after a few hours. The Christmas tree already looks quite impressive, but if you sprinkle the structure on top with powdered sugar through a sieve, it will be even more beautiful.

Recipe New Year's cookies has come to an end, and the holiday is just beginning. Let the cookie tree become his worthy decoration. Bon appetit!

Step by step recipe with photo and video

In order to pleasantly surprise, deliciously feed guests or your household, it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel or spend significant amounts, you can just show a little imagination, and everything will work out. I offer a simple recipe for cookies with great result. The cookies are soft, fluffy and melt in your mouth. By fastening the cookies together with protein icing, thus forming a Christmas tree, and then decorating it, you will get tasty treat which will not leave anyone indifferent.

Prepare necessary ingredients for the cookie tree.

In a deep bowl put the soft butter, add sugar and beat with a mixer at medium speed for 2-3 minutes.

Then add sour cream and egg, beat again with a mixer.

Soda extinguish with vinegar and add to the dough.

Mix with a mixer or spatula and add half a portion of the sifted flour.

Thoroughly knead the flour into the dough. The mass should become homogeneous and tender, there should be no lumps.

Pour the second portion of flour and knead again.

You should get a dense dough that does not stick to your hands or to the work surface.

Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough into a thin layer, not thicker than 1 cm.

Make cookie blanks by cutting. These should be cuttings of the same shape with different diameters. Or you can prepare cardboard templates.

Put the blanks in a baking dish lined with parchment.

Bake cookies in the oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.

Cool the finished cookies completely.

Prepare products for the preparation of protein glaze.

Pour the protein into a deep dry and clean container. It must be very carefully separated from the yolk. Beat the protein at low speeds of the mixer until persistent peaks, it should completely turn into a lush foam.

Whisking constantly, add the sifted icing sugar.

Continue beating for another 3-4 minutes. The icing should be smooth, without lumps. It will be thick enough. She can easily draw the outlines of cookies. To do this, put the glaze in pastry bag with a zero nozzle and apply the corresponding pattern.

To create a Christmas tree, you need to start working with the largest cookie: apply openwork pattern along the edge, then to fasten the next layer, apply a little icing in the center and lay out cookies of a slightly smaller diameter. And so continue to the very top. When all layers are in place, apply small “streaks” with protein glaze, creating “snow avalanches”.

Then decorate the Christmas trees with candy sprinkles.

You can decorate the festive table with edible Christmas trees from cookies. By the time it's time for dessert, the icing will dry completely.

Bon appetit. Cook with love.