We are preparing gifts for the New Year. Edible gifts for the new year. Set “We are a team”
Tea and goodies for my beloved husbandWhat could be better than snuggling up to your loved one and, wrapped in a blanket, drinking spicy honey aromatic tea? To while away winter evenings That's right, give your husband Ceylon and citrus zest. You can brew it in a thermos and take it with you to work. A hot drink will warm you up, and ginger and lemon will protect your loved one from colds. This gift can be supplemented with “” for real men.
2. Bank recognition
Sweet declaration of love to wife “I love you” are the main words in a woman’s life. Say them to your wives more often! And sometimes even words are not needed for recognition. The juicy ones will say everything for you. You will not only sweeten the life of your loved one, but also make it even more beautiful. After all, the product contains agar-agar, which has a beneficial effect on the condition of hair and nails. And as an additional surprise, hang a candy with “ ” on the tree.
3. Lollipop set
lollipop mold If your wife is a good housewife and loves to surprise her household and guests with goodies, then give her some preparations for making lollipops. Just like in childhood! Remember? Making cockerels can be a fun activity to do together: Dad makes the syrup, Mom greases the mold, and the kids insert the chopsticks. And then you can give branded family lollipops to your friends for the New Year.
4. Game for lovers
Game for lovers If you are not married yet, put something bright and mischievous under the tree for your other half. For example, . There will be something to do on New Year's Eve if you are celebrating the holiday together. By moving around the playing field and completing tasks on the cards, you can demonstrate how much you love each other. And the goodies included in the set will make the game not only exciting, but also sweet as a kiss.
5. A real letter from the real Santa Claus
New Year's message from the main wizard of the holiday Writing letters to Santa Claus is a wonderful New Year's tradition. It instills in children a sense of responsibility (“Did I behave well this year?”) and develops creativity(You must include a drawing in the envelope). But imagine how much delight a child will have if he receives a response to his message! The real thing with a stamp and stamp from Veliky Ustyug on a colorful form - from the real Santa Claus, because only a wizard could find out the baby’s name! ;)
6. New Year's candies
New Year's candy During New Year's holidays we often go to visit. And in almost every home we are greeted by children; you won’t come empty-handed. The solution to the problem is to buy bright New Year's candies, for example, or, and give them to the children of friends, colleagues, or just neighborhood kids. On the Tasty Help website large selection: different tastes, shapes and colors.
7. Children's board game "Marmeville"
Board game for children from 3 to 9 years old Children love games, especially if they are tasty. "" is a fairy-tale country where candy monsters live. They are terrible inventors, they love to jump and have fun. As your children go on adventures with candy monsters, they will develop their numeracy, speech, fine motor skills and imagination. The game also helps you make friends and teaches you how to share sweets.
8. Sweet gift set
Sweet gift for a child What's New Year without a sweet gift? Standard candy sets will be given to children in kindergarten or school, but you will show originality. The composition includes various chewing pills, marmalade and peanuts. Each type is in separate packaging. If the baby is sad, we take pills “for good mood" If a child has to perform at a matinee, vitamins “for success” will be used. And if the children don’t listen, we open the jar “for patience” and eat the gummies ourselves. :)
9. Delicious gifts for mom and dad
Goodies for mom and dad Parents are the most precious thing in life. You need to take care of them throughout the year. And on the eve of the holiday, give them a jar of “tasty help.” - with fruit soufflé sprinkled with sugar, and - with cola-flavored chewing candies. On the cans are written tender words that you may have never spoken out loud: “Mom, only you are always waiting for my call,” “If they ask me whose dad is the best in the world, I will answer - mine!”
10. Sweet Christmas tree decorations
Original jewelry on the Christmas tree Decorating a Christmas tree with the whole family is a wonderful New Year's tradition. Christmas toys usually collected over years and passed down from generation to generation. But you can add variety to the usual decoration of the green beauty. Unusual decorations will help with this. Various goodies are “hidden” in transparent voluminous Christmas trees: and .
11. Set “This is our home”
Cookies for family tea parties 19. “Anti-crisis suitcase” for the boss
Crisis recovery kit Have you ever heard from your boss’s office: “Am I printing money?” or “I'm tired of this crisis!”? Surely yes. Give your manager a comic gift that includes a “money printing machine” with instructions, sweet motivators, a “lucky” ruble, “Anti-Crisis” caramel and cookies for office coffee breaks. You’ll laugh heartily and, who knows, you’ll suddenly receive a bonus or promotion. ;)
20. Set “We are a team”
Cookies for colleagues New Year is a favorite childhood holiday. And a gorgeous Christmas tree with huge glass balls, shimmering garland and dazzlingly shiny tinsel has nothing to do with it. During our happy, carefree childhood, we were absolutely delighted with New Year's gifts. Just remember these huge rustling bags of candies or sometimes melted chocolate Santa Clauses, wrapped in colorful foil, and from year to year we certainly received shaped cookies in a paper wrapper as gifts. What a joy it was to open such a gift, inhale the mixture of sugary smells and begin to sort through all sorts of goodies, put aside tasteless caramels, choose large candies with a mysterious filling and, while looking at all this happiness, thoughtfully chew marmalade.
We have all grown up a long time ago, but we still continue to love sweets. New Year is traditionally considered a family holiday, and even if you celebrate it not with your family, then certainly with loved ones whom you want to surprise and please. And we are used to surprising and delighting with the help of gifts. A gift made by your own hands will be very original and simply incredibly pleasant. Of course, it may be some kind of cute souvenir that will be sighed over and sent to gather dust on the shelf, but we suggest giving a tasty gift that can really impress and be remembered. However, before you give a delicious gift, you need to take care of its design. So, let's start compiling and decorating original gifts.
A homemade gift sounds great, but all these are not just words, so arm yourself with sweet dough, a rolling pin and other culinary tools. Cookies are invariably present in all gifts. But which one? The kind that you can buy by going to the first grocery store you come across. This option is absolutely not suitable for us. So we buy shortbread dough, or, if we know how, then we make it ourselves, add raisins, nuts or cinnamon if desired, take out the molds and cut out beautiful cookies.
While the cookies are browning in the oven, prepare the icing from powdered sugar and simple syrup; if you want the cookies to be colorful, add a little food coloring to the icing. Make a bag out of baking paper, and while the glaze is still hot, pour it into this bag, cut off a corner to make a hole no larger than 1-2 mm and draw snowflakes on the cookies or paint them with any winter patterns to your taste. Once the cookies have cooled, wrap them in clear wrapping paper and tie with brightly colored lace or ribbon.
Surely among your family and friends there will be many lovers of cakes and marzipan. To make the cakes, you will need tartlets, which you can buy in grocery supermarkets, as well as marzipan, which you can also buy or try to make yourself.
Place your favorite cream in the tartlet - protein cream, boiled condensed milk, whipped cream or butter. Using cookie cutters or a stencil made from cardboard or paper, cut out marzipan stars, snowflakes or any other shapes and cover the tartlet with them. You will get an original delicious cake. From the leftover marzipan you can make a symbol of the New Year - a hare - and decorate a cake with it or give it to someone as a separate gift.
A gift made from handmade sweets will look very solemn. It’s easy to make such sweets, from 150 grams of dried apples, 150 grams of walnuts, 2 tbsp. spoons of honey, juice of half a lemon, pine nuts, cinnamon and dark chocolate powder or chocolate powder.
Chop the dried apples and walnuts, mix them, add lemon juice, honey and cinnamon and mix well. Roll the resulting mass into balls, not forgetting to put several grains of pine nuts in them. Roll each ball in dark chocolate powder or chocolate powder. You will get very tasty and healthy candies. Now it is important to pack them correctly. Pick up a small box of light brown or beige color, cut out a square from baking paper equal to the length of the side of the box multiplied by 2.5. Place the paper in the box, place the candies on it, cover with the paper and close the box with a lid. Tie the gift with a wide, deep chocolate-colored ribbon.
If the main thing in a gift is brightness and fun, then the next idea is for you. More and more often, so-called marshmallow sticks and small multi-colored marshmallows are being sold in grocery stores, especially in children's departments. You can use the emerging innovations as New Year's gifts.
Buy some marshmallow sticks and some colored marshmallows. Cut the sticks into pieces 3-4 cm long. Make several bags from bright wrapping paper, decorate them with bright ribbons, braid and beads. Fill the bags with marshmallows and present your gift. The phrase “bag of candy” has long become a stable one, and such a visual representation simply cannot go unnoticed.
Continuing the theme of bright sweets, it’s worth mentioning marmalade. Marmalade is perhaps the most colorful and varied sweet product. A marmalade gift depends entirely on your imagination and the recipient’s sense of humor.
On store shelves you will find the most ordinary shaped marmalade in sugar, gummy bears, cars, all kinds of marmalade rings, citrus slices and berries. Take everything that your keen eye falls on. Also, to form a gift you will need completely transparent jars. Just pour the marmalade you like into the jar and close it tightly. The gift can be decorated with a ribbon tied around the lid, or a label made of paper and attached to the jar, on which you can write a few kind words.
Let's move from sweet gifts to tasty and healthy gifts. For example, to nuts. Before giving such a gift, you need to find out if the person to whom this gift is intended has allergies. If not, then we begin to create a present. Include shelled walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews and any other nuts in the nut bag. You can diversify and decorate this mixture with dried anise and a few cinnamon sticks.
For those with a sweet tooth, you can cook nuts in sugar; for this you will need 2 tbsp. butter, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2 tbsp. water, 1/4 tsp. ground cumin, 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. salt. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, then remove them, melt the butter in the frying pan and add all the specified spices, cook the mixture for about 1 minute, then add the nuts, mix with the glaze and wait until the glaze turns golden. This nut mix looks great in leather or fabric bags, the main thing is that everything should be completely natural.
Perhaps the most useful and most sweet gift- This is natural honey. But getting it in winter is not so easy. The fact is that natural honey, if it has not been heated and diluted with sugar syrup, at this time is already hopelessly candied, and you will have to bend more than one spoon trying to pick out a tasty gift for a close relative.
However, you can buy honey in a beautiful jar or try heating your own a little in a water bath. Just as in the case of marmalade, you will need a beautiful transparent jar, as well as natural decorations in the form of anise and cinnamon sticks. Place the honey in a jar, stick a couple of cinnamon sticks into it, and put anise on top. The result will be an original, tasty, fragrant and very useful gift, which will come in handy during such a cold season.
If only everything were so simple with delicious gifts! But there will definitely be someone for whom sweets are not allowed, or someone who is on a diet and is not going to stop it at any cost. But you can also please such people with goodies. A wide variety of fruits are useful for this - oranges, tangerines, apples, pomelo, grapefruits, pears and in general anything your heart desires. But the presented package of apples does not look much like a gift, so even here you will have to make an effort to decorate it. It's best if you can find a small basket and decorate it with a wide ribbon. You will also have to tie each fruit with ribbons, and decorate the citrus fruits with clove seeds. So fragrant, tasty and useful gift Even the most picky people will be delighted.
Over the many years we spent with our family and friends, we were given a lot of things, and every year we restlessly continue to look for new ideas and invent something like that, while delicious gifts remain recognized classics. But even the classics allow you to look for new tastes, shapes and methods of decoration, while remaining a universal gift that absolutely everyone likes. Experiment, get new ideas, and let your gift become the most unusual and memorable!
When it comes to edible gifts for the New Year, the imagination is tired, but helpfully draws a standard set: a bottle of “Soviet” something code-named “champagne”, a box chocolates, which you don’t even want to look at during the winter holidays, a can of instant drink called coffee, or a bag of a mixture of flavored herbs called tea.
Alas and ah, the picture emerges sadly - few people can afford to gift all their loved ones with elite Veuve Clicquot and add to it a 5-7 kilogram bucket of black caviar. However, fully aware that the bulk of the population of our country are not relatives of Rockefeller, we choose the path of least resistance - and go to the store for the notorious “Soviet” champagne, along the way grabbing an assortment of three nondescript chocolates in a huge box . That's the whole gift for the New Year - a holiday amazing in its magic.
Please, no need for faceless surprises about anything. Let's approach the choice of a gift with all our hearts, let's share smiles and bring joy to each other!
Just don't forget to pack it nicely!
Edible gifts are good and wonderful, amazing and wonderful, but only if they answer one important requirement: They must be made by hand. There are many options that can be prepared by you personally at home, packaged in a beautiful New Year's box and hidden under the Christmas tree of friends and colleagues, relatives and acquaintances. Shall we look into it in detail?
Cookies as a gift
The simplest and, perhaps, least burdensome way to give a person a piece of your soul on New Year’s Eve. Every housewife probably has her own proven recipe. homemade cookies- this is what you should take out from the far shelf on which the cookbook of recipes is stored, shake off the dust and then move on in any of two ways: either select suitable molds (Santa Claus, Christmas tree, snowflake, gingerbread man) and bake themed New Year's cookies, which After cooling, cover with multi-colored glaze, or cut out the most common and affordable ones geometric shapes(circles - using glass cup) and pack them so that everyone around them gasps.Homemade Cookie Recipe
Just in case, here is a recipe for shortbread cookies, proven over the years and by generations of sweet tooths, which has never disappointed anyone.
Ingredients:
2 chicken eggs;
200 g butter;
300 g flour;
1 glass of sugar;
1/3 tsp. salt;
1/3 tsp. soda
How to cook:
Beat soft butter at room temperature with sugar into a fluffy cream. Add eggs one at a time, stir until smooth. Add salt and soda. If desired, you can add vanillin, cinnamon, zest or other spices and spices to your taste.
Add flour in small portions and knead until smooth each time. The dough should be soft, but not at all sticky to your hands or the walls of the bowl. food processor. You may need a little less or a little more flour - the amount depends greatly on the quality of the butter, the size of the eggs, and the type of flour.
Roll out the finished dough on a floured surface into a thin layer (thickness - 3-4 mm). Using a cookie cutter, cut out suitable shapes and carefully place them on a baking sheet (no need to grease them with anything). We collect the dough scraps again into a ball and roll them out, cutting out the figures.
Bake cookies at 180 degrees for about 12 minutes. The finished cookies should be golden creamy and not dry.
Bon appetit and beautiful gift wrappings for you!
Homemade sweets as a gift
The next level's challenge is to make homemade candy. Truffle recipes should immediately be hidden away - such candies require storage in the refrigerator, and we need an option that will quietly lie under the Christmas tree for a week before New Year's Eve. Dried fruits in chocolate are very convenient for such purposes - you can make an assortment (prunes, dried apricots, raisins, dried cherries, candied oranges) and pack it all in transparent jars decorated in the style of New Year and Christmas. A special chic is to make dried fruits in different types chocolate (black, white, milk).Roasting at home
The recipe is remarkable because it is suitable for those observing fasting. Before the New Year, in anticipation of Christmas, many Orthodox Christians refuse animal products - and you cannot give them cookies with butter or candies with milk caramel inside. But home-made grilled meats are fine! The main thing is not to forget about creative packaging.
Ingredients:
1 cup shelled walnuts;
75 g sugar;
1 tsp. lemon juice;
1 tbsp. l. cold water;
2 bars of dark chocolate without adding butter or milk.
How to cook:
Grind the nuts into small pieces - not into crumbs, but into pieces.
Cook the syrup - mix sugar and water and cook over low heat until slightly thickened. Add lemon juice. Stir and add nuts. Mix again.
Using a wet spoon (we periodically dip it in cold water), scoop up a certain amount of nut mass and place it on a sheet of parchment paper or a silicone mat.
After the nut filling has cooled (about half an hour in the refrigerator), melt the chocolate, dip pieces of the caramelized nut mixture into it, and place them again on a silicone mat. After cooling, the candies can be packaged to form edible gifts for the New Year.
Dry mix for gingerbread or cookies as a gift
In recent years, so-called gift “dry mixes” for making cookies, brownies or gingerbread have become increasingly popular. The point is that the necessary ingredients for preparing, say, the world famous blondies cookies are placed in a beautiful jar in attractive layers. The jar is beautifully decorated in New Year's style and is always accompanied by an instruction label - with a clear description of the process of preparing the cookies. As a rule, you need to mix the prepared dry mass with liquid and eggs and bake in the oven. The gift is wonderful - edible, practical, beautiful and very original. It will not only give you some delicious moments, but will also allow you to spend time with your children and loved ones, creating in the kitchen together.
How to make dry oatmeal cookie mix in a jar
Oatmeal cookies are a priori loved by everyone - this is a step into childhood that no one will refuse! Give your family and friends the opportunity to travel to carefree times, and they will remember your surprise for a long time!
Ingredients:
200 g oatmeal instant cooking;
150 g nuts;
200 g of seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame or a mixture of them);
200 g of raisins, dried apricots, prunes, dried cherries (or a mixture of dried fruits);
150 g sugar;
4 tbsp. l. flour;
1/2 tsp. salt;
vanillin or vanilla sugar.
How to cook:
Take a beautiful transparent jar, pour a layer of oatmeal into it, then carefully lay out a layer of dried fruits. Add flour mixed with salt and vanilla. Spread a layer of nuts. Then - sugar. Seeds. We alternate layers, making sure that they lie evenly in the jar. In addition, it is worth observing the principle of contrast - you should not put the flour immediately after the sugar, and the sugar should not be placed immediately after the cereal.
Fill the entire jar. If there is room at the end, add another layer of dried fruit.
Cover with a beautiful lid and be sure to make a label on which We write the instructions: “Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Pour the contents of the jar into a bowl, add 2 eggs, mix, pour in 150 g vegetable oil. The dough should be thick, but not dense, but rather liquid. If you don't think it's moist enough, add a little oil.
Place the finished dough on a sheet of parchment paper, using a spoon to drop out small pieces, leaving enough space between them - during baking, the cookies will increase the occupied area.
Bake oatmeal cookies at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. Happy New Year!"
Santa Claus as a gift
Among all great ideas Among edible gifts for the New Year, cookies, gingerbread cookies or buns in the shape of Santa Claus are especially popular. You need to tinker a little with cookies and gingerbreads, because the bulk of the decor is done with icing, which will require some experience and skill to work with. The situation is much simpler with yeast dough - it perfectly “holds” volume, allowing you to create interesting and beautiful figures.From a small piece of dough, make a long oval piece - the base. Fold the top third down - imitation of a hat (it would be nice to be equipped with a pompom). Run a strip of dough along the bottom edge of the “cap” - the “edge” of the headdress.
Roll out another piece of dough into a semicircle, cut along the rounded side into stripes - a beard. Apply it to the lower part of your face. Make a mustache from several strips. The nose is a round blank. The eyes are a pair of highlights. After proofing, brush the bun with a lightly beaten egg and bake until done. Let edible Santa Claus come to visit all your friends and acquaintances!
Edible Christmas tree as a gift for the New Year
As an edible gift, you can prepare another symbol of the New Year - a shaggy Christmas tree. Unlike Santa Claus, it is much easier to make using shortbread or gingerbread dough.
The first option is affordable and as simple as possible: cut out the necessary figures using spruce-shaped molds, bake them, decorate them with glaze or mastic if desired, package them and give them as a gift.
The second option requires more effort and time, however, and it turns out more effective. To implement it, you need to take care in advance of 5-6 molds with the same outlines, but different sizes. It’s convenient if you have a set with stars or flowers on hand. If such luxury is not available in your household, take the required number of glasses and shot glasses with necks of different diameters. No glasses? Then arm yourself with parchment paper, a pencil, a compass and scissors and make the necessary templates with your own hands.
After you roll out the dough, you need to cut out the figures and bake them until ready. After cooling, use glaze or any suitable cream to connect the star-flowers into a pyramid - no doubt, anyone who believes in the New Year will recognize a festive tree in the resulting tower!
And don’t forget about the packaging, this is the detail that turns an ordinary gift into an absolutely stunning surprise.
Snowman as a gift
It would be a crime not to play up the theme of children’s favorites – funny snowmen – in edible gifts for the New Year. Get creative with cookies - you can not only paint them with multi-colored glaze, but also decorate them with a piece of mashmallow, chewy marshmallow, “floating” in a puddle of white ganache - a melting snow woman looks fun and original.
In addition to cookies, you can give cupcakes (the field for creativity is huge, the possibilities are unlimited), homemade sweets, gingerbread cookies and cupcakes.
By the way, if you need to wish Happy New Year large number children, but at the same time fit into a very limited budget, buy a package of kebab sticks, put three pieces of white mashmallow on each, insert straws - hands, depict eyes and a smile with chocolate icing - excellent, original, completely unusual gift ready!
Strawberry snowmen with cream
Gingerbread house as a gift
Well, the pinnacle of culinary excellence, which you can pack in rustling paper and present to your loved ones on New Year’s Eve, is a real gingerbread house. To say that everything is easy and simple, the main thing is to try a little, in this case, of course, is ridiculous: preparing a gingerbread castle will require a considerable amount of time and effort, and its assembly and decoration without some practice in working with icing will simply turn into torture, unless backed up by great patience and perseverance. However, everything is in your hands - don’t just look at huge houses, start with huts and tiny booths, and then, when your hand feels confident, move on to building Christmas villages.
May the New Year 2015 become for you the most wonderful and magical holiday that has ever happened in the history of your family, may it bring strong simple happiness, moments of uncomplicated joy and the ability to appreciate everything that you have!
Honey with dried fruits and nuts
We've probably tried everything. Insanely delicious and easy to make.
You can take walnuts, almonds, cashews, white and black raisins, dried apricots, prunes. The number and composition of ingredients is limited only by imagination and wallet. The indicated composition is available in every supermarket. The main component is honey.
Cut large nuts into 2-3 parts (it will just be more convenient to eat), wash and dry the dried fruits.
You can mix nuts and dried fruits, put them in a jar and pour honey.
You can lay out layers: nuts, honey, dried fruits, honey and so on.
You can pour it into a regular jar, or you can collect beautiful ones in advance.
Cookie mix in a jar
You can give cookies, or you can give the composition for making them. Maybe it will be not only cookies, but a pie or cupcake.
I used the cookies for this recipe
Placed in layers in a jar
Oatmeal
Sugar (you can use brown sugar, it will look nicer in a jar)
Walnuts - 50 g (you can replace or add raisins, dried fruits, dried berries).
The jar comes with instructions, for example the following for the indicated recipe:
Empty the entire contents of the jar into a large bowl.
Add 80 grams of butter and 1 egg.
Stir and knead into a stiff dough.
Roll the dough into a “sausage” and cut it crosswise into slices 0.5 - 1 cm thick.
Place the cookies on baking paper and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
Bonus: “Happy Jam” from “Chocolate” magazine
Everyone knows that bananas and chocolate lift your spirits. And bananas with chocolate can put even Princess Nesmeyana to shame. Give your friends a jar of banana jam and a quantity for the New Year happy people, will finally break all statistical records.
Happy Jam Ingredients:
ten minutes
one phone
six bananas
one pear
one orange
quarter of a lemon
half a kilo of sugar
five grams of gelatin
ten more minutes
white chocolate bar
So, let's take the first ten minutes and get started!
In a wide saucepan or frying pan with a thick bottom, cut bananas into thin slices. Grate the peeled pear on a coarse grater, and the orange zest on a fine grater. Squeeze the juice from a quarter of a lemon and a whole orange. We fill everything with sugar and take the phone.
Why do we need a phone? Well, of course! Under no circumstances should you miss the unique chance to call everyone and everyone and casually, in a conversation, in the voice of Matroskin the cat, mention: “And I’m making jam here, yes.” Image is everything to us. Moreover, you won’t need the jam for the next two hours. After two hours we return to the jam.
Time it! We will need exactly ten more minutes: pour five grams of gelatin with two tablespoons of cold water and set aside. Over high heat, stirring constantly, bring the jam to a boil. Reduce the heat slightly and cook for another three minutes. Turn off the stove and add the chocolate broken into small cubes to the jam. Mix thoroughly. At the same time, put the swollen gelatin on the fire and heat it up. There is no need to bring it just to a boil. Pour the gelatin into the jam and stir thoroughly again.
Voila! "Happy Jam" is ready. A crowd of people gathered in the kitchen and, chanting, demanded that the sample be taken. Let them be patient - cooled jam is three thousand times tastier.
Homework:
1. Make a list of people to whom you will give gifts.
2. Choose from them those to whom you want to give “delicious” gifts
3. Decide on the list and quantity of ingredients needed, gift wrapping.
4. Determine the day when you will buy everything you need.
5. Write a report on the completed task in the comments to this post.
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