Want to surprise your guests with a delicious and original dessert for the New Year of the Dragon 2024 - we will tell you what cakes should be prepared for the New Year's table, and also offer a variety of New Year's recipes with photos and step-by-step instructions.
Christmas log
There are traditional New Year's cakes that will not lose their relevance in 2024. Cake "Christmas log" is just that! This is a really tasty and relatively simple recipe that deserves to take pride of place in the home assembly of holiday desserts.
For biscuit:
- eggs - 5 pcs;
- sugar - 150 gr.;
- flour - 120 gr.;
- cocoa;
- baking powder;
- vanillin.
For cream:
- boiled condensed milk - 1 can;
- butter - 200 gr.;
- cocoa - 1 tablespoon;
Additional:
- powdered sugar;
- bananas - 2 pcs;
- sugar syrup.
Step-by-step recipe
Important! To bake a thin biscuit, you will need a classic rectangular baking sheet.
Cooking a biscuit:
- Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa and sift.
- Beat the eggs with sugar until fluffy.
- Add dry ingredients to beaten eggs.
- Put the dough on a baking sheet covered with oiled paper.
- Bake 15 min. at 180℃.
- Remove the hot biscuit from the mold, cover with a clean kitchen towel and roll up.
- Let the dough cool so completely that it forms the texture of wood.
Preparing the cream will be as simple as possible - you need to beat the boiled condensed milk with butter until the mass looks lush.
Next comes cake decoration.
- Put the untwisted biscuit roll on the table, freeing from towels and paper.
- Saturate the dough with sugar syrup.
- Spread generously with cream.
- Put a peeled banana on the edge.
- Roll the dough tightly into a roll and wrap with clingfilm.
- Let the cake soak.
You can prepare a "log" for serving shortly before the holiday. For decoration, cocoa is added to the remaining cream, which will give the mass a darker shade and a richer chocolate flavor. A log is formed from the roll, as in the photo above, and the cake is covered with a finishing layer of chocolate cream. It is very easy to give festive pastries a characteristic look by running a fork over the surface of the “log”. It remains only to sprinkle the sweet dessert with cocoa powder or powdered sugar.
Snow cranberry
If you are looking for a delicious dessert for the New Year 2024, we offer you to prepare the Snow Cranberry cake, in which a soft biscuit is combined with a delicate cream and complemented by a truly winter flavor of cranberries and oranges.
For butter biscuit:
- flour - 620g;
- baking powder - 4.5 tsp;
- milk - 0.5 l;
- butter - 450 g;
- eggs - 8 pcs;
- s alt - 1.5 tsp;
- sugar - 440 + 90 g.
For cream and impregnation:
- orange fresh - 200-300 ml;
- orange peel;
- cranberries - 600 g;
- eggs - 8 pcs;
- butter - 240 g;
- flour - 2 tsp;
- starch - 2 tsp;
- sugar - 700g
For decoration:
- orange peel;
- cranberry;
- cream cheese - 0.5 kg;
- orange liqueur - 1 tablespoon;
- powdered sugar - 50 g.
Step-by-step recipe
Important! To bake a biscuit, you will need a form of 20-22 cm with sides of at least 5 cm. The recipe is designed for baking 3 biscuit cakes.
Cooking a biscuit:
- Preheat oven to 190℃.
- Sift flour with s alt and baking powder (preferably twice).
- Separate the egg whites and yolks.
- Beat the butter with a mixer.
- Continuing to beat slowly, add the yolks, and then in parts the previously sifted flour mixture and milk.
- Beat the whites with sugar and add to the dough.
- Prepare the mold (line with paper or oil + flour), spread the dough.
- Bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes
Preparing the cream for re-greasing:
- Pour orange juice over cranberries and boil until the berries burst.
- Grate the mass with a blender and rub through a sieve.
- Pour about 100 ml of the resulting mass into a separate bowl to soak the cake later.
- Add beaten eggs with sugar, flour and starch to the remaining mass.
- Simmer until thick.
- Add butter.
- Pour the cream into a container, cover with foil and leave to cool.
Preparing cream for decoration:
- Mix cream cheese, orange juice, zest, liver and powdered sugar.
- Beat with a mixer until fluffy.
Now it's time to collect and decorate the cake. To do this, trim the cakes, soak them with impregnation, smear with cream. Cover the outside with cheese cream, forming a beautiful layer. Let the cake cool in the refrigerator. Garnish as you wish before serving (fresh cranberries are a must).
Scarlet velvet
If you are looking for an unusual cake for the New Year 2024, we suggest serving an original cake on the festive table, which not only looks very bright in the photo, but also impresses with a delicate taste with a bright chocolate aftertaste.
For cakes:
- for intense coloring of the cakes, a special food coloring is needed (preferably red);
- eggs - 3 pcs;
- flour - 360 g;
- kefir (fat content 3.2%) - 260 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- powdered sugar - 270 g;
- cocoa - 1 tablespoon;
- baking powder;
- vanillin;
- s alt.
For cream:
- cream - 300 ml;
- cream thickener;
- curd cheese - 800 gr.;
- powdered sugar - 200 g;
- vanillin.
Step-by-step recipe
Important! The oil must be taken out of the refrigerator 40 minutes before you start preparing the birthday cake. Cream for the cream, on the contrary, keep it in the refrigerator until the last moment.
Cooking cakes:
- Prepare the dry mix with flour, cocoa, baking powder, vanilla and s alt.
- Softened plum. combine butter with powdered sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
- Slowly add eggs to the mixture.
- Combine kefir and gel dye and mix until a homogeneous mass of saturated red color is formed.
- Add the dry mixture and kefir with dye to the beaten eggs, pouring in and pouring in the ingredients in small portions ( alternating them) until a uniformly colored dough is formed.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes. in an oven heated to 180 ℃.
Preparing cream:
- Beat the cold cream with a mixer (you need to start at the minimum speed, gradually increasing it).
- Continuing to beat, add powdered sugar, vanilla and thickener.
- Combine cold cream cheese and whipped cream, mixing with a spatula until smooth.
The final design is the standard smearing of the cakes with curd cream, which, if perfectly smoothed, will look like a dense mastic on the surface. If you want to get the most spectacular option, then the idea of \u200b\u200bsprinkling the cake with chopped dried shortcake scraps will do. The main thing is not to overdry them, otherwise the shade of the dough will turn from scarlet closer to brown.
Dragonheart
In 2024, we celebrate the year of the Green Dragon, and every housewife will try to decorate the table somehow thematically, taking into account the theme of the holiday. Dragon Heart is a good idea for those who like bright, unusual pastries. Try it and your kids will order it again and again.
For the cake:
- eggs - 3 pcs;
- sugar - 120 g;
- flour - 280 g;
- starch - 20 g;
- vegetable oil - 120 ml;
- spinach - 250 g;
- vanillin.
For cream and impregnation:
- cream - 0.5 l;
- curd cheese - 200 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- water - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- vanillin;
- red berries (for decoration).
Step-by-step recipe
Important! To prepare a homemade heart-shaped cake, it is best to use a mold of the appropriate design, but you can cook it in a round one, then giving the cake the desired shape with a knife.
Cooking cakes:
- Washed and dried spinach grind with butter until a homogeneous gruel is obtained.
- Beat eggs with sugar until foamy.
- Add spinach, flour, starch and baking powder to the mixture.
- Bake the cake in the oven for 45-50 minutes
- Cool the biscuit.
Preparing cream:
- Whipping cream.
- Add powdered sugar in small batches while continuing to beat.
- Whipping, add curd cheese to the mass.
To form a cake, divide the cake into two parts. Soak the bottom one with sugar syrup (hot water + lemon juice + sugar), and tear the top one into small pieces, getting a bright green crumb.
Put a thick layer of curd cream on the bottom cake, and spread biscuit crumbs on top of the cream. Any red berries look very impressive on the bright green surface of the cake.
Citrus fantasy
New Year's jelly cakes can be distinguished into a special category, as in the photo, because such a treat for 2024 can be made with your own hands as quickly and simply as possible.
Important! You can use a ready-made biscuit cake, as well as your favorite jelly in a semi-finished powder format, but no one forbids making homemade biscuit and your own jelly.
Since more complex options were described above, this time we will choose the easiest way - preparing a New Year's masterpiece from ready-made ingredients, which means we need:
- biscuit cake - 1 piece;
- cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- cream - 0.5 l;
- sugar - 100 g;
- gelatin - 15 g
- jelly (standard package per 400ml serving);
- vanillin;
- fruits (oranges, tangerines, bananas, pineapples, kiwi, apples, grapes, etc.).
Step-by-step recipe
- Saturate the biscuit with fruit juice.
- Whipped cream, combine with sugar, vanilla and cottage cheese, continuing to beat until a gentle homogeneous mass.
- Set the ring from the collapsible form around the base cake.
- Spread the curd cream in a thick layer (you can make a slope, so the design of the cake will be even more interesting).
- Decompose fruits to create your own unique design.
- Dilute the jelly with an additional 15 g of gelatin for a stronger setting.
- Pour the chilled jelly very carefully into the mold.
- Let the gelatin harden.
Important! Before removing the form, it is recommended to slightly heat the edges with a hairdryer.
Before serving, you can lightly trim the edge with coconut, as in the photo.
Dragon
Since 2024 will be the year of the Dragon, you can use this original New Year's cake design idea:
Design ideas for Christmas desserts
You can also get original ideas for decorating sweet treats for the New Year's table from this video:
We hope you liked the ideas of delicious New Year's cakes and implement them for the upcoming holiday of 2024.
