Cooking homemade cookies with the whole family is not just a process of preparing a delicious treat. This is an opportunity to spend time together, chat, and create something with your own hands.

We present to your attention a selection of cookie recipes for the New Year.

Ginger cookie

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Ingredients:
Wheat flour – 200 g
Butter – 100 g
Sugar – 100 g
Chicken eggs – 1 pc.
Honey – 3 tsp.
Baking soda – 0.5 tsp.
Ginger powder – 2 tsp.
Cloves – 0.5 tsp.
Ground cinnamon – 1 tsp.

Mix flour with ginger, cinnamon, cloves and soda. Then sift through a sieve. Beat butter at room temperature with sugar, add egg, honey to the mixture and beat again until fluffy.

Next, add flour in portions and using a mixer, mix it well into the butter. Wrap the resulting dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 1-1,5 hours.

Roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to squeeze out cookie shapes. Bake cookies at 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes.

Sugar “Cane Cookies”

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Ingredients:
Wheat flour – 2.5 cups
Salt – 1 tsp.
Butter – 220 g
Chicken egg – 1 pc.
Powdered sugar – 1 cup
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp.
Almond extract – 1 tsp. (can be replaced with orange zest)
Sugar - a pinch
Food coloring – ½ tsp.

Mix flour and salt and set aside. Beat butter and powdered sugar slowly with a mixer until smooth. Then increase the speed to high and beat the mixture for about 1 minute until light and fluffy.

Add the egg, almond extract (or orange zest), and vanilla extract and beat on medium speed until it has the consistency of curdled milk. Then add flour to the resulting mixture until the dough thickens. Divide the dough in half.

Add food coloring to half of the dough and mix thoroughly. You can use different colors. Wrap each piece in cling film and leave in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

To form a candy cane cookie, pinch a small amount of dough from both sides. Using your hands, roll it into thin sausages about 12 cm long. Roll the sausages into a pigtail and form cookies. Repeat this with the rest of the dough.

Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180°C for 8-10 minutes until they are golden brown. The finished cookies can be decorated with powdered sugar.

Cookies “New Year's wreaths”

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Ingredients:
Butter – 120 g
Marshmallows or soft marshmallows – 30 large pieces.
Green food coloring – 1 ½ tsp.
Vanillin - on the tip of a knife
Corn flakes –350 g
Vegetable oil to grease the parchment
Red dragees - for decoration

Melt butter in a saucepan, add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. If you are using marshmallows, cut them into small pieces and add a little water to the pan.

Remove the pan from the heat, add food coloring, vanilla and corn flakes. Mix thoroughly.

Place a tablespoon of the mixture onto parchment greased with vegetable oil. While the mixture has not cooled, we form New Year's wreaths from it with our hands and decorate the dragees.

Leave the cookies to cool on the parchment at room temperature.

Sugar cookies

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Ingredients:
Butter – 180 g
Sugar – 200 g
Egg – 1 pc.
Vanillin - on the tip of a knife
Flour – 320 g
Baking powder – 1 tsp.
Soda – ½ tsp.
Salt – ½ tsp.
Ground nutmeg – ¼ tsp.
Sour cream – 140 ml

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla, mix. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and sour cream and knead the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight or for at least 2 hours.

Roll out the dough into a layer and cut out shapes using molds. Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 10-12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool before adding glaze.

Cookies “Snowballs”

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Ingredients
Butter – 220 g
Sugar – 5 tbsp.
Vanillin - on the tip of a knife
Salt – ¼ tsp.
Flour – 240 g
Walnuts (chopped) – 240 g
Powdered sugar –200 g

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until creamy. Add vanillin and salt. Continuously stirring the dough, add flour in small portions. Then add nuts and mix thoroughly. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave in the refrigerator for 45 minutes.

Form small balls from the chilled dough and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 12–14 minutes, until the cookies begin to brown. Don't bake for too long or the balls will break.

Roll the still warm cookies with powdered sugar. After cooling, repeat the procedure.

Also, the publication: Delicious Christmas trees: simple quick recipes can be a source of inspiration for Turkmenportal readers.

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