The most popular Christmas cookies

Christmas cookies - it's not just a dessert, and a tribute to the classic, which for many years to create a festive atmosphere. Good cookie recipe as much as Christmas movies, so we decided to choose for you the most interesting, as the gingerbread already a little tired of eating.

1. Chocolate cookies

Chocolate cookies - not the classic version, and the recipe for those that like a lot of sweets. It is ideal for the festive atmosphere, and cook it very quickly and easily. Add creativity to decorating and get a real Christmas dessert.

Ingredients:

• 100 g butter,
• 1/4 Art. sugar,
• 1 tbsp. flour,
• 1/4 Art. cocoa powder,
• dark chocolate or milk - to taste.

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Cover the pan (or two baking) with baking paper. Well, beat the butter and sugar with a mixer. Over a bowl sift the flour with the butter and cocoa. Beat the batter until smooth, then gently knead by hand.
• Shape the dough 16 balls the size of a walnut. Put them on a baking sheet with parchment and lightly press down the plug (on the surface of the liver will figure). Bake chocolate chip cookies 20 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• Melt the chocolate and decorate with chocolate chip cookies (wait for the chocolate froze).

2. Cookies with walnuts

Original cookies with a delicate flavor and texture that literally melts in your mouth, is perfect for the holiday table, or just for those who like to eat something sweet before watching Christmas movies. Unusual appearance reminds you of winter, and the smell of almonds and cardamom create a festive mood. Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp. butter,
• 2, 5 cups of powdered sugar,
• 1 5 h. Spoon almond extract,
• 3 3/4 Art. flour,
• 1 h. Spoon of cardamom,
• 1/8 h. Spoons of salt,
• 1 tbsp. walnuts.

Preparation:

• Whisk the butter with 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar until fluffy mass. Add the almond extract. Mix the sifted flour, cardamom and salt. Gradually add the flour into the beaten butter and sugar. Stir in nuts.
• Blind small balls of dough (approximately 70 pieces of about 2, 5 cm). Put them in the pan at a distance of 5 cm apart. Place in a preheated to 175-180 degrees oven and bake for 15-17 minutes.
• Roll cookies in powdered sugar and remaining cool on a wire rack.

3. Biscuit-roasted nuts

Tender shortbread cookies with a thin layer of apricot and nut roasting - it is quite exotic for the New Year holidays flavor, but absolutely unforgettable mood. The best part is that the recipe of this cookie is incredibly simple, and cooking does not take much time.

Ingredients:

• '70 butter,
• 80 ml oil,
• 1 egg
• '60 (for the cake) + 100 g (for roasting) sugar,
• 0, 5 h. Disintegrant spoons,
• 230g. flour,
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons apricot jam,
• 100 g of nuts,
• 1 tbsp. water spoon (for cakes) + 50 ml. (For roasting).

Preparation:

• In the deep piala grind flour, baking powder, sugar and vegetable oil. Add a raw egg and a spoonful of cold water.
• Knead the dough, gather it into a ball.
• Prepare soft roasting. To do this, chop nuts. Melt butter in a skillet, add water and sugar. When the mass starts to boil, add the nut mixture. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
• Put the shortbread dough to form (20h28 cm). Spread over the entire basis of apricot jam.
• Even Put nut filling. Place in a preheated oven (180 degrees). In 30-35 minutes, cut the finished cakes on a small triangular pastry.

4. Coconut biscuits

A little more exotic for your festive evening will add cookies made of coconut flakes, whose delicate and unusual taste of the dessert will give refinement and originality.

Ingredients:

• 125 g butter,
• '60 coconut,
• 90 g candied cherries,
• 150 g of powdered sugar,
• 1 egg,
• 180 g flour,
• 1 h. Spoon of baking powder,
• 9 glazed cherries (quarters).

Preparation:

• Turn on the oven to preheat to 200 degrees. Cover the three large baking parchment.
• , beat butter with powdered sugar on medium-high speed until a lush state.
• Add the egg and beat well.
• Continue beating on low speed, add the flour, coconut and chopped cherries.
• Spoon 36 slides onto prepared pans at 2, 5 cm from each other. In every hill attach one quartered cherry.
• Bake coconut cookies for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown.

5. Cookies "Red velvet"

It is an unusual recipe has already won top on Pintereste because of its unconventional appearance, and of course, taste. Gentle cookies, apparently resembling red velvet fabric - is a great way to impress guests their ingenuity.

Ingredients:

• 2, 5, Art. flour,
• 2 tbsp. sugar,
• 2 hours. Baking powder spoons,
• 1/4 h. Spoons of salt,
• 230 g cream cheese,
• 4 tbsp. tablespoons softened butter,
• 1 egg,
• 1/2 Art. powdered sugar,
• dye.

Preparation:

• In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
• In another bowl, combine the cheese and butter to form a cream. Add the egg and dye.
• Combine the two mixtures. Knead by hand. Cool the dough.
• Form balls and place on baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.