This soft crumbly delicacy with bright Christmas trees will delight children. Adults will surely like it too. New Year's cookies are not only beautiful, but also delicious. Its preparation is a real creative process, so other family members can be involved in it. The joint creation of delicacies will create a magical mood and a festive atmosphere.
The recipe is very simple: even a novice housewife can make this New Year's treat.
Ingredients
- Flour - 415 g;
- Baking powder - 10 g;
- Sugar - 210 g;
- Butter - 220
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Vanilla - a pinch;
- Green food coloring, colored sugar powder.
Preparation
Beat melted butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed, you should get a nice fluffy mass.
Add egg, vanilla, flour, baking powder, knead the dough.
Divide it into three equal parts.
Add green food coloring to one third.
Roll out the green dough. Take a herringbone cookie cutter and cut out the shapes. Put the resulting Christmas trees together.
Form the uncolored dough into thin sausages. Cover the “core” of the Christmas trees with them, roll in a multi-colored powder. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours. Cut the chilled dough into slices.
Now you can move on to baking. Spread the cookies on a baking sheet and put them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 15 minutes, it is very important to ensure that the cookies are not overbaked.
You can show your imagination and make any middle points in the New Year's theme (stars, snowmen, houses). Lovers of natural dyes can tint the middle of the cocoa, and decorate the finished cookies with glaze.
New Year's cookies, similar to a magical holiday amulet, can become not only a table decoration, but also a delicious present. It remains only to put it in a beautiful box!
