How to make cookie frosting for New Years? Cooking features, TOP-5 of the best and most varied recipes.
The cookie frosting is a bright detail that can easily turn the most mundane shortbread or gingerbread cookies into an original holiday recipe for the New Year. The glaze opens up a large field for experimentation: white, chocolate, colored - you can cook one, or several, turning the serving of cookies into a multi-colored attraction that especially children will like. Glaze recipes are simple and unpretentious, and therefore will be within the power of every housewife. And even in a limited time, try to find it and make the icing yourself from natural ingredients - it's much better than buying ready-made cookies with icing, which, for sure, will not be the most pleasant components.
Features of cooking New Year's cookies with icing
To please your loved ones for a holiday, it is not necessary to look for a ready-made recipe for cookies with icing, you can prepare your favorite cookies separately and cover them with any of the types of icing presented below. All recipes are very simple and require a minimum amount of ingredients.
The traditional white frosting is powdered sugar whipped with lemon juice and egg white. It can turn out to be watery, but after application and placement in the refrigerator, it sets and hardens.
The strict snow-white classic glaze easily turns into a fun colored one if you add one or another ingredient during whipping - for example, beetroot or spinach juice.
Chocolate frosting is prepared in different ways, but the easiest way is to add cocoa powder to the traditional "white" recipe, you get a quick chocolate frosting without milk, but if you want a rich, bright taste, it is better to use a more complex recipe with milk or cream.
How to make icing for New Year's cookies: TOP-5 recipes
There are a great many glaze recipes, but all of them can be divided into two groups: cold cooking - in this case, the ingredients are simply whipped or ground together, and hot - heat treatment is assumed here. It is noteworthy that raw egg white is often used to prepare the "cold" glaze, and if you want to use one of these recipes, you need to approach the choice of eggs with special care. And if you have to delight small children with cookies with icing, then it is better to choose exclusively “hot” recipes.
Chocolate icing for cookies
There are quite a few recipes for chocolate icing on milk. We have chosen the one that allows you to quickly and easily get a glaze with a rich taste and bright aroma.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 350 kcal.
- Servings - 10-15 (depending on cookie size)
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Milk - 4 tablespoons
- Butter or cocoa butter - 50 g
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
- Powdered sugar - 4 tablespoons
Step-by-step preparation of chocolate icing for cookies
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter - preferably in a water bath, otherwise over very low heat.
- Pour in milk, stir.
- Add the icing sugar gradually and stirring vigorously.
- Simmer until the mass is smooth.
- Add cocoa powder, add evenly into the mass, be careful not to allow lumps to form.
- Warm up for a couple more minutes.
- Cool the thick chocolate icing slightly and you can coat the cookies.
It is worth noting that the easiest way to make the glaze is already from ready-made chocolate: you can simply buy a bar with a good composition, melt it in a water bath, add a little milk and / or butter if desired, and simmer for a few minutes. The advantages of this cooking method are not only speed, but also the fact that in this case we work with tempered chocolate, the icing from it will lie better and will not melt, even if it is at room temperature for a long time. Self-made glaze can "flow".
White Chocolate Cookie Frosting
You can make not only the classic chocolate icing - rich brown, but also white if you buy a white chocolate bar. But just worry about finding a chocolate with a really good composition without any synthetic additives. The recipe for this white frosting is very simple.
Ingredients
- Tiled white chocolate - 200 g
- Powdered sugar - 180 g
- Fat cream, not less than 30% - 2 tbsp.
Step-by-step preparation of the white chocolate cookie icing
- Break the tiles into pieces and place in a small saucepan or bowl.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath or very low heat.
- Add all the icing sugar and half the cream and cook until the mixture begins to thicken.
- Pour in the other half of the cream, remove from heat and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
- Use the glaze to coat immediately, without waiting for it to cool.
If you want to quickly and easily make cookies with homemade icing that will appeal to both adults and children, buy ready-made black and white chocolate and use the recipes listed. Moms and dads will appreciate the “noble” dark icing with a bitter taste, while kids will love the uniquely sweet white cookies.
Colored glaze for cookies with natural juices
If colored glaze is “on the agenda”, then you, first of all, need to decide what to take for coloring. It is best, of course, to use juices from fruits, berries and vegetables, but you can buy ordinary food colors as well. Glaze on dyes will be brighter, but on juices it will be healthier, so we bring to your attention a recipe for sugar colored glaze with natural juices.
Ingredients
- Powdered sugar - 200 g
- Any bright natural juice - 3 tbsp.
- Lemon juice - 1/2 tablespoon
Step-by-step preparation of colored icing for cookies with natural juices
- Sift the icing sugar twice through a sieve.
- Pour juice into the powder.
- Pour the mixture into a glittering frosting.
To create different colors, you will need spinach for green, carrots for orange, beets or cherries for pink, red cabbage for blue. You get a yellow color if you take sage broth instead of juice.
Sugar caramel icing for cookies
This icing is made not only from powder, but also from brown sugar and comes out with a pleasant caramel flavor.
Ingredients
- Brown sugar - 1/2 tbsp
- Powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Butter - 2 tablespoons
- Milk - 3 tablespoons
- Vanillin - 1 pack
Step by step preparation of sugar caramel icing for cookies
- Put butter in a small saucepan or bowl - place in a water bath or a small fire on the stove.
- When the butter is dissolved, pour in the milk, add brown sugar, simmer, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.
- Remove from heat / water bath, add half of powder, beat well and refrigerate.
- Add the other half of the powder and vanilla, beat again.
Various spices can be added to the icing, for example, cinnamon, this is especially important and allows you to achieve a harmonious taste if such a glaze is applied to gingerbread cookies, the recipe for which involves the presence of a large amount of spices.
Protein icing for cookies
Finally, the recipe for protein glaze, which, in essence, is the most traditional and familiar, it may seem boring to some, but it is the easiest to make.
Ingredients
- Powdered sugar - 200 g
- Lemon juice - 2-3 tablespoons
- Egg white - 1 pc.
Step-by-step preparation of protein icing for cookies
- Beat the egg white into a deep bowl and beat well.
- Add lemon juice, beat again.
- Finally, add the icing sugar and beat until the mixture triples.
Natural juices or food coloring, diluted in a little water, can also be added to this frosting during the whipping stage, so that it turns out to be colored. You can also sprinkle icing on top with a variety of pastry décor to add prettier, vibrant, and festive flavors to the cookies.
