Christmas Cookie Recipes - Santa Face Cookies

Santa Face Cookies:

• 1 cup butter.

• 1/2 cup sugar.

• 1/2 cup brown sugar.

• 2 tablespoons milk.

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

• 2 1/2 cups flour plus additional for rolling.

• Royal Packaged Icing Mix.

• Red food coloring.

• Pastel candy dots. 

Instructions :
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Put the butter in a bowl and cream until nice and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the milk and vanilla . Add flour and mix well. The suspension is cooled for 1 to 2 hours or until it is easy to handle.Working with 1/ 3 of the dough at a time and refrigerate until ready to serve.On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Take a cookie cutter in the shape of Santa Claus and dip in flour, then cut Santa faces. Place cookies on ungreased oven.Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely.Prepare the royal icing according to package directions. Ice network medium and leave the other half of the original color. The use of an ice bag or a plastic bag with a hole cut in the same hole, took a red Santa hat on each cookie. Followed with white frosting for Santa's beard, eyes and hat with pompom.Place a candy decoration in the center of each white eye. Allow the icing to harden before serving.Makes 18 to 24 cookies .

Christmas Snowmen Cookie: 

These dolls are easy to make and they make nice decorations centerpiece.

• 1 (16 oz.) package Nutter Butter Cookies.

• 1 1/4 pounds white candy coating, melted.

• Miniature chocolate chips.

• M&M miniature baking bits.

• Pretzel sticks, halved.

• Orange and red decorating gel or frosting. 

Instructions: 
Using tongs, dip in candy coating , shaking off excess. Place cookie on waxed paper.

To decorate : Place two chocolate chips on one end of cookies for eyes. Place baking bits via buttons. For arms, dip ends of two pretzel stick halves into coating; hold of each side.Let stand until hardened. Pipe the nose and scarf with gel or frosting.Makes 32 cookies.

Christmas Peppermint Twist Kiss Cookies :

The peppermint twist is not just a song, but a holiday cookie delicioius is colorful and festive.

• 1/2 cup butter, softened.

• 1/3 cup sugar.

• 1 egg yolk.

• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract.

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.

• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour.

• 1/4 teaspoon salt.

• 4 to 8 drops red food coloring.

• 36 chocolate kisses. 

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar. Add the egg yolk, peppermint extract and vanilla extract and mix well.In another bowl, combine flour and salt, gradually add to creamed mixture.Divide the dough into two sections. Colors red section. Divide dough into four sections. You should have two red sections and two fixed sections. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.Form each section into a log 9 inches. Place a plain log next to a red diary . Slowly turn smooth and red papers together and create a newspaper swirled. Repeat with the other two newspapers.Cut each log into nine slices, roll each portion into a ball. Place each 1 inch apart on ungreased oven. Flatten slightly with a glass. 

Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Press a piece of chocolate candy kiss in center of each cookie , while the cookies are still warm.
Makes 36 cookies.

Traditional Spanish Christmas Recipes

Bream ( Dorado ):

     However, is quite expensive (especially at Christmas). Grilled and served on a bed of potatoes into thin slices and onion rings fish , garnished with parsley , garlic and saffron. Served with a sauce made of a mixture of sherry and pepper. In the Basque Country, a few cloves of garlic, minced and fried in oil, are also added.Serves 4.

• One dorado, about 1.5 kg (3 lb. 5 oz).

• 500 g (18 oz) potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced.

• 200 g (7 oz) onion, sliced into thin rings.

• Juice of two lemons.

• Rind of two lemons.

• 150 ml (10 tbsp) extra-virgin olive oil.

• 1/2 tsp coarse salt.

• 3 cloves of garlic.

• 4 strands of saffron.

• A large bunch of parsley.

• 2 tbsp sherry vinegar.

• 2 red chili peppers, julienned.

Preheat oven to 180 ° C (350 ° F). After the cleaning of fish, water lemon juice, inside and outside.In a mortar, grind together the salt, the garlic cloves, saffron and parsley.Add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and 3 tablespoons of water soup. Mix well and set aside.Lightly oil the baking dish in which the fish is cooked and served. Arrange the potato slices and onion rings at the bottom and pour the mortar on top.Cover tightly and simmer for about 20 minutes.Place the gold on top of the potatoes, sprinkle with 2 or 3 tablespoons . oil and bake at 200 ° C (400 ° F) for 15 to 20 minutes. Sometimes all it takes .Whisk the sherry vinegar with a few grinds of pepper and a few tablespoons of the cooking fish.Remove from oven and garnish with a sprig or parsley.Drizzle with the vinegar mixture and a fine julienne of lemon and red pepper skin.Serve hot .

Cabbage With Wine : Traditional Catalan Christmas Plate:

• Red cabbage, 1 kg (2.2 lb).

• 250 ml (1/2 pt) young Ribera del Duero red wine.

• 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil.

• 75 g (3 oz) raisins.

• 75 g (3 oz) pinenuts.

• Salt and pepper.

Soak the raisins in red wine.Cut the cabbage into thin strips and wash.Heat oil in a deep skillet or Dutch oven and sauté the pine nuts for a few seconds.Add red cabbage and sauté for 30 seconds.Pour the red wine cabbage and raisins.Season with salt and pepper.Cover the Dutch oven tightly and simmer for 1 hour.

Enjoy

Christmas Recipes For Kids

      

     It's almost that time of year again, where the pine trees in the living Lord , the smell of hot chocolate fills the air, and winter for some ( and not others). Yes, it's almost Christmas time again and child nutrition has never been more important than at any other time.
     Sometimes we as parents will just let our hair and play. Doing so will also allow our kids we love, but not much. We should always be in control of their foods, holiday season or not. However, we have the pleasure of us. It is, after all, Christmas.
     So in the spirit of the holidays, let me describe you to those favorite recipes for your childrens for this holidays :
Reindeer Cupcakes:
Ingredients: 
1 chocolate cake mix box (yes people, the simplest recipes are the ingredients of concrete).
1 can of chocolate frosting (or you can do as we do for the average melting cup butter and stir in two-thirds Hershey cup cocoa.
Alternately add one-third cup of milk and 3 cups of powdered sugar and add vanilla extract 1 teaspoon), broken pretzel pieces (of reindeer antlers), M & Ms or something (for eyes and nose reindeer).
Procedure: Prepare cake mix according to package directions, put them in the muffin before baking. Cool and frost with chocolate frosting . Stick pretzel timber on top of the "heads" and add eyes and nose.
baked Omelette
Ingredients: half a loaf of white bread ( cut into cubes ), 1 pound and a half of grated cheddar cheese, 7-8 eggs (depending on size of eggs), 2 cups milk, 1 cup diced cooked ham pinch of salt to taste (although I usually add a pinch of pepper and a touch of hot sauce), a quarter cup of chopped green onions.
Procedure: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 9x13 inch. Place half the bread cubes in the bottom of the tray to the first layer. Sprinkle with half the ham and half the cheese and repeat this step. In a bowl, beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper (and / or hot sauce ) and green onions. Pour into mold. Get a baking sheet with a rim and pour water over it before placing the pan on top of the sheet. Bake for about 60 minutes or until eggs are set. Serve hot.

Christmas Recipes For Kids

  

     If you have children, you know what they like to do things, and if the results are sweet and then double or more if they can cause problems in the process. While the kids are out of the winter holidays this year, why not make some sweets to enjoy when family is around. I present 3 Quick and Easy recipes for Christmas gifts messy !
1. Coconut balls.
You will need:
- 180g of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 250g of desiccated coconut.
- Butter.
     Beat eggs and sugar and then add the desiccated coconut. Grease a baking sheet with butter, then make the coconut mixture into small balls - you should be able to do about 14. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 160°C, then cool before devouring them like a little monster.
2. Oatmeal and Apple Balls.
You will need:
- 3 apples
- 1.7 oz of brown sugar
- 1 grated lemon
- 5 oz of flour
- 2 tbsp of cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 9 oz of oatmeal flakes
     Not as sweet, but still delicious and fun to make. Start cooking the potatoes in a pot with water, then let it cool. While baking, combine brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon and eggs. Once the apples have cooled mashed treat. Mix and balls! Fry in the oven until it is done with care to avoid burns or exaggerate them.
3. Solid Pumpkin Candy
For this one you're going to need:
- 2 lbs of pumpkin.
- 1 cup of orange juice.
- 1 tbsp of grated orange rind.
- 4 tbsp of brown sugar.
- 1 tbsp of Agar.
- 2 tbsp of honey.
     Start by peeling and cutting the squash into small pieces. Cook in a pan with the orange juice, orange zest and sugar to a simmer. Remove the pumpkin and process.    Dissolve the agar in cold water and cook for ten minutes in the orange juice to a simmer again. Add honey, and pumpkin is transformed. Pour into a loaf pan, then refrigerate. You must set the cold, and can be cut into small pieces!    There you go, three delicious and easy treats to make with your kids during winter break-sure they eat the results too!

Enjoy Cooking With Your Kids This Holidays

 

      Christmas is a time for families and how they will be able to get the whole family is involved in baking Christmas cookies, kids love helping in the kitchen at Christmas time. If it's just for family or if you want to cook for guests or a party. Baking your own cookies for great fun for kids, guests or as an addition to any Christmas table plate.

     It's a rare kid who doesn't at some point toddle into the kitchen and start dragging pots and pans out of cabinets. While these are generally used more for percussion practice than out of any interest in cooking, kids not much beyond toddler age can start learning the basics of cooking. Easy cookie recipes, salads, sandwiches and easy casserole recipes can be starting points for early culinary explorations.

    The best way to get children started in the kitchen is to help them do something they like to eat. What kid does not like cookies? Once they have learned that they can be an integral part of the production of their favorite treats, chances are you will struggle to get out of the kitchen.

     One of the first things every child learns to do is to decorate the cookies. You do not have to wait for the holidays ! On a rainy day, mix up a batch of sugar cookies and get out of your shopping basket cookie cutters. For small hands, and no plastic knives are semi silicone edges- which are in sharp metal blades . Let the kids choose the shapes, and help them cut out and place them on the baking sheet. 

    If you have a window in the door of your oven, keep children at a safe distance from the hot surface and turn the oven light . Let children see mass drops browned, delicious cookie goodness. Out of reach, of course, keep taking hot pans from the oven, but be sure to follow all safety rules, as will watch. Instead of her usual cloth actually use an oven mitt or hot to make cookie sheets from the oven pad.

     Then it's time to decorate! Depending on the level of sophistication of their children, they can give her or supervise. Anyway, you have a good time, make some good memories and maybe find these easy cookie recipes get a future leader began his path.

Cookies with kids is fun and it's fast and easy. So here is a recipe that is cooked you can do with your kids and keep them out of trouble for a short period.

Fun colorful Christmas cookies where you can let your kids do the work of an inch.

Thumbprint Cookies:ingredients: 

1 cup butter, softened.

3/4 cup granulated sugar.

2 teaspoons vanilla essence.

1 teaspoon almond extract.

2 1/2 cups flour (more if dough seems too thin).

finely chopped walnuts, almonds, you can substitute other nuts or oatmeal jam. 

To make:

Beat the butter with an electric whisk at medium speed until smooth and creamy. Add the sugar, vanilla flavoring, almond extract, and flour blending well. Chill the resulting dough for 2 1/2 hours. Remove from the refrigerator and roll the dough into small balls, then roll in the chopped nuts; place on lightly greased cookie sheets.

Make an indention in the center of each cookie and fill with jam (substitute for a cherry as an alternative). Bake at 300°F for about 25 to 35 minutes, or until firm and lightly browned on the bottom. 

The recipe makes about 6 dozen cookies.

     If you can not complete the cookies in one sitting, you can always put the rest in a cookie jar. Remember that always taste better when they are fresh, because they tend to have different taste after a few days.Carefully remove the cookies from the baking sheet, if you are struggling to eliminate witnesses, be useful to have at hand a Spatul.

Have a Nice Day, And Merry Christmas Everyone, Everywhere

Spanish Christmas Recipes

   

     Usually served as a dessert in Castille all year. At Christmas, however, served as a first course for Christmas dinner with saffron. This spice has found ideal growing conditions in Spain, especially in the English Channel, where every autumn crocus flowers are collected in a traditional process and made ​​entirely by hand, the scars are roasted to produce the best saffron in the world known as the name of Calidad Mancha.

1.25 litres (2 1/4pt) milk.

75 g (3 oz) sugar.

150 g (6 oz) powdered almonds or almond paste.

2 tbsp fine fresh bread crumbs.

2 cloves of garlic.

Coarse salt.

A few threads of saffron.

A few sprigs of parsley.

White peppercorns.

200 ml (7 floz) olive oil.

Garnish

12 small, very thin slices of bread, fried in olive oil.

50 g (2 oz) toasted chopped almonds.

Bring the milk to a boil.

In a mortar, combine the salt, saffron, pepper , garlic and parsley.
Mix the almonds, sugar and mortar mixture into the boiling milk powder.
Reduce heat and simmer gently for 8-10 minutes. Serve garnished with slices of fried bread and chopped toasted almonds.
Dessert
Touron Cream
(ice cream made ​​with two nougats ) with chocolate sauce.
Turron is a nougat of Arabic origin made ​​with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would not be Christmas in Spain. There are countless variations - chocolate, coconut, praline, etc. - but the oldest and most authentic recipes are mild ones ( Jijona ) nougat , ground -based or hard almonds ( Alicante) nougat, made of whole almonds, or have held an ice cream, chocolate sauce accompanied . The sauce is made with butter but not olive oil, as was done when the cocoa was brought to Spain from America. 

150 g (6 oz sugar).

4 tbsp water.

6 egg yolks.

150 g (6 oz) soft Jijona nougat.

2 tbsp Malaga wine.

200 ml (7 floz) liquid crème fraîche.

3 egg whites.

75 g (3 oz) hard Alicante nougat.

Sauce

200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

1/2 tbsp water

Roughly break up the Alicante nougat.

Butter a 500 ml (1 pt) soufflé dish.
Place a paper collar around the edge of soufflé dish, leaving additional 5 cm ( 2 " ) above the edge. Freeze.
Prepare a thin syrup with water and sugar.
Beat the egg yolks and hot syrup in a blender.
Breaking nougat Jijona in two tablespoons of wine. Whip the cream . Beat the egg whites.
Gently fold together in the same order, all mixtures .
Sprinkle with some of the breath mold nougat Alicante .
Pour the cream prepared.
Leave in the freezer for several hours or overnight for best results.
After removing the mixture from the freezer, remove the paper, sprinkle with remaining Alicante nougat and serve with hot chocolate sauce.
To make the hot chocolate sauce.
Place chocolate and water in a bowl or double boiler and melt over a pan of boiling water.
Gradually stir in the oil, whisking constantly.
Enjoy ! Bon appetit ;)

Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts

     Christmas is almost upon us and everyone is still in the festive mood, could not be happier for most of us now. Additional days we spent time with family , friends and the closest to us.
    Many families have favorite recipes for family holidays that bring fond memories of a loved one. Very often, many family recipes can be connected to the generations gone. Loving family carry on the traditions of the family recipe that started years ago by the recipes that have been passed from generation to generation.
     Some recipes are just supposed holiday table, while many are prepared and given as Christmas gifts to friends and family. There are special family recipes and always prepared for certain periods, such as Christmas breakfast or dinner.so Family Christmas can begin to describe our recette for today.

Christmas recipe serves 8Calories per serving : 685Preparation time : 30 minutes + coolingCooking time : 50 minutesSuitable for freezing

Ingredients Christmas recipe :
*white flour, plain 175 g (6 oz).
*butter, 225 g (8oz).

*caster sugar, 124 g (4 oz).

*orange, grated rind and juice from 1.

*egg yolk, 1.

*prunes, no-soak pitted 225 g (8 oz).

*eating apple, 1.

*calvados, 60 ml (4 tbsp).

*almonds, ground 25 g (8 oz).

*eggs, beaten 2.

*almonds, slivered or flaked 25 g (1 oz).

*apricot jam, 125 g (4 oz).

*Greek yogurt or fresh cream 

Instructions Christmas recipe :
- Food Processing orange zest, sugar(25 g, 1 oz) diced cold butter(125 g, 4 oz). Continue until the breadcrumbs and then pour into a bowl.
- Mix egg yolk and water mixtures (30 ml, 2 c) of the mixture of step 1 to form a ball. Cover and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
- Pour the grated apple and chopped prunes Calvados. Mix the remaining sugar, beaten eggs, ground almonds, butter (melted) remaining.
- Line a 9-inch pan ( 1.25 cm deep with a volume basis ) with a thin laminated dough. Bake until set.
- Take almond mixture from step 3 and add the plums and apples. Sprinkle with almonds and bake for 30 minutes at 5 ° ( 375 centgrade 190 degrees F) or until golden brown. Cool for about 20 minutes.
- Sift a mixture of melted jam and orange juice (15 ml, 1 tablespoon ) and brush on top of the cake in the oven. Serve hot or cold with sour cream or Greek yogurt.