New Year's cookies for the Christmas tree
Description
The baking is simple and quick. We'll be making very beautiful cookies. First, combine honey, sugar, butter, and baking soda in a bowl, and melt over a water bath. Add eggs, mix well, and cool. Then mix in the flour, knead the dough, and roll it out into a sheet. Cut out round cookies, making small and large central holes. Fill the central holes with powdered crushed hard candies and bake the cookies in the oven for 5 minutes. Then remove them, add more candy powder, and return to the oven for another 5 minutes. Let the cookies cool directly on the baking tray. Next, decorate them with icing. These cookies can hang on the Christmas tree for at least a week while preserving their wonderful taste. Enjoy your holidays! Serve cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1
In a bowl, combine honey, sugar, butter, and baking soda, and heat for 5 minutes in a water bath. Stir constantly.
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Step 2
Add the eggs to the warm mixture one at a time. Mix well after each egg. Then remove from heat and let cool.
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Step 3
Take colorful transparent hard candies without filling. Sort them by color and grind into a powder. You can use a coffee grinder, or wrap the candies in a towel and crush them with a hammer.
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Step 4
Combine the cooled egg mixture with the flour and knead the dough. Roll it out into a sheet about 4 mm thick. Cut out circles with a diameter of about 7 cm.
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Step 5
Using a cocktail straw, make small holes. You can later thread a string through these holes to hang the cookies on the Christmas tree. In the center of each cookie, use a knife and a round cutter to make holes.
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Step 6
Place the cookies on a baking sheet, and fill the central holes with a heaping amount of crushed candy powder. Combine colors as you prefer. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 5 minutes.
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Step 7
Then remove, add the remaining powdered sugar, and return to the oven for another 5 minutes. Cool directly on the baking sheet.
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Step 8
Meanwhile, prepare the icing. Beat the egg white, gradually adding powdered sugar. Then add lemon juice.
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Step 9
If you don't have a piping bag on hand, simply place the icing into a plastic bag, cut off a corner, and decorate the cookies with patterns to your liking. You can divide the icing into portions, mix each with different colored food dyes, and decorate with icing in various colors. These cookies will hang beautifully on the Christmas tree for at least a week while retaining their wonderful taste.