Cakes and pastries in the form of Santa Claus

I present you the recipe for Christmas baking from our regular contributor Anna. I really liked the cake! So simple - and so original! Two pies in the form of trees we already have, and that's Santa Claus to them :) Get ready for a festive meal, dear readers, Christmas Day is coming soon! I propose to decorate Christmas table beautiful, bright cake in the shape of Santa Claus.

How to cook an original Christmas cake in the form of Santa Claus:

Prepare the dough and leave it for a while. When the dough has risen, divide it into two unequal parts. Most of the roll out dough to form an elongated triangle with rounded corners for the head. Smaller portion divided by 2 pieces. The first smoothed his hands, giving it an oval shape - it will be a beard.

With a sharp knife or scissors cut the beard into strips 1 cm. Take beard with both hands and gently put on the face of Santa Claus. Gently peel off the beard hairs from one another and slightly tighten. Form the dough from the remaining whiskers, nose, hat and pompom. 2 Make the cut for the eyes with a knife, insert raisins.

In piala need to whip egg yolk, add red food coloring or beet juice. Stir, cooking brush to put it on the nose, cheeks and hat of Santa Claus. Separately, beat the yolk still, spread remaining batter.

Put Santa Claus on a baking sheet, cover with foil. Bake at 180 g for 15 min. Then continue to discover and bake another 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! Another Christmas baking

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Such Stolle can be used as a Christmas gift to their friends and relatives!

Christmas Stolle - it is obligatory festive dish in Germany. Without it does not do any Christmas! Pie dough is prepared with different fruits all self-respecting German mistress. Let's learn how to cook this fruitcake!

  And time is the best. After preparing Stolle advance. It bake for 2-4 weeks before Christmas and leave before the holiday, wrapped in greaseproof paper or foil in a cool place.

Category: Baking and pastry

Difficulty: Intermediate

Cooking time: 3 hours

Required Products:

Flour: 375 g + 1 tablespoon of raisins and candied fruits

Sugar: 63 g

Milk 125 ml

Softened butter: 175 g

Yeast: 40 grams of fresh yeast and 13 g of dry

Sugar 1 teaspoon yeast to activate

Vanilla: pinch

Brown raisins: 75g

Yellow raisins: 75g

Raisins Black: 75g

Rum or brandy: 50 ml

Almond Cleansing: 75g

Candied: 50g

Dried apricots: 50g

Lemon peel: with half a lemon

Ground cardamom: pinch

Ground ginger: pinch

Salt: a pinch

To decorate:

Butter: 25 gr

Powdered sugar: 50 grams

Begin to cook with the preparation of fruit. Do this in advance.

     Raisins pour boiling water.
     Apricots fill with boiling water.
     Almond pour boiling water
     After 10 minutes, drain and rinse with water alone.
      Put the raisins glass dish, pour the rum or brandy, cover with a lid or cling film and leave for 12 hours.
     Almonds are clean. If the skin is badly scraped, pour boiling water again, wait until the water cools down. After that, he cleaned very easily.
     Almonds and apricots leave to dry for 10-12 hours.
     After 12 hours, drain the remaining rum or brandy, is absorbed in the raisins. Drain on paper towels raisins
     Preparing dough begins to engage directly before baking, when all fruits are ready.
     Fresh or dried yeast that require pre-activation (see the instructions on the package), dilute a small amount of milk, add a teaspoon of sugar, mash until smooth, let stand until a froth.

     Separately, in a large bowl, sift the flour, add the sugar, vanilla, salt, cardamom, ginger, lemon zest. Mix.
     In the risen yeast, add the rest of the milk, mix and pour the mixture to the dry ingredients. Stir.
     Adding to the dough soft butter, stir. You should have a soft, elastic dough.
     Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place to rise.
     Engage in the preparation of fruits and nuts.
     Chop the almonds with a knife and put on a dry frying pan. Dry almonds. Almond color with the change does not have to!
     Dried apricots and candied fruit cut into small pieces.
     In the dried apricots, candied fruits and raisins, add the flour. Stir. Add the almonds. Stir.
     Allow dough to increase two times. Punch dough.

     Pour the batter mixture of fruits and nuts. Knead the dough blocked.

 

Form Stoll. Place in the form (finished or which are made of foil). Cover with a towel. Stoll Leave for 40 minutes to rise. Turn the oven to 200 degrees. Stoll Bake about 1 hour. Ready Stolle, remove from the oven and shape. More hot grease with butter.




Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Allow to cool completely. Wrap in foil. Remove to a cool place for 2-4 weeks.



Recommendations: 
Bake Stolle in shape. If you do not use the form, Stolle spreads in breadth and almost does not rise to the top.
 Stolle can be used as a Christmas gift to their friends and relatives!

Delicate dessert with red currants or any red berry

Try this original dessert. Air cloud of marshmallow cream and delicately shaded with red currant flavor. Divine!

Required Products: 1/4 cup red currant jam 1 cup heavy cream 25 pcs marshmallow (normal size, not mini) 2 tablespoons liqueur (take any liquor that love) 6 small bunches of red currant for decoration Preparation: Heat the red currant jam in the microwave or on an electric stove to a liquid consistency. Fill them dessert glasses or dessert highest form about 1/4 volume. Filling glasses, keep them at an angle. In this case, the dessert will have a beautiful design. In the same tilted position glasses should be placed in the refrigerator for freezing (about 30 minutes). To do this, it is best to use a container for eggs - it will remain glasses in a tilted position, and you can not worry about that capsize. Whip the cream until stiff peaks. Microwave or in a water bath melt the marshmallow. In the microwave, it would take about 45 seconds Do not forget to cover the plate cover! In a water bath will be a little longer. Marshmallow should melt and completely lose its original shape. It will be very sticky and sticky mass. Melting marshmallow periodically stir it. Add your favorite liqueur and cream into the melted marshmallow and mix thoroughly until the mixture is smooth. If the mixture is warm, let it cool to room temperature. Now pull out of the fridge glasses with jam and carefully lay out a marshmallow. And again, all in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. Before serving, decorate our dessert with whipped cream and berries.

Small salad Santa Claus

Cocktail "Winter's Tale"

Cocktail "Winter's Tale" Cherry syrup - 2 tbsp. spoons, ice cream - 100 g milk - 100 ml prunes or apricots - 4-5 pcs. grated walnuts or grated roasted almonds - 1h. spoon. Soak for a few hours prunes or apricots, wash and cut into slices. Mix dried fruit with syrup, milk and ice cream, beat with a mixer. Pour into a cocktail glass, sprinkle top with grated nuts.

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My husband cooks unusual dinner!

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Interest Ask for you, MY DEAR LADIES! It would be interesting for not only unmarried girls... How to find the best husband? Indeed, it would seem that it is easier to live with a cheerful and sociable person than with a sullen and closed, impassable person. But, not everything is as simple as it seems at first glance. Each Funny Man is a man who loves humor in all its manifestations, has the necessary share of self-irony, has a bright disposition and a surprisingly energetic nature. People around him are drawn to him, are proud of communicating with him, and wish to get him as their friends. And many women dream of having such a husband or lover. It seems to them that living together skillfully seasoned with a “hot sauce of irony” will help not only to facilitate the solution of everyday problems, but also provide them with life in general. However, quite often, such an opinion is erroneous. Why? What do yo think? I will try to explain to you, using my friend Irina as an example. I met her and her family last summer, it seems in mid-August. Then they just moved to our house, having bought before this one of the apartments on the eighth floor. Nobody would have paid much attention to the move of this couple, if not for her husband Greg. He turned out to be such a sociable person that within a month the whole staircase knew about the arrival of such wonderful, sociable people in our house. In addition, almost each of us visited them, having met not only with Irina, but also with their five-year-old Labrador nicknamed Basil. Iren immediately, literally from the first minutes of my acquaintance, impressed me as an uncommunicative and even a little self-contained woman. It seemed to me that she was annoyed and unhappy with something. I wondered: how can she be unhappy when she has such an interesting and cheerful husband? Why is hidden negativity and fatigue felt in every word of her, if she does not work and spends all her free time in beauty salons or at home, enjoying life? If But I received answers to these questions only when Iren with me and I became the best friends. It turned out that she, being the wife of your Funny man, was very tired of her marital status. And more precisely - from constant parties, companies, guests, as well as from trips to friends and colleagues at various events. While Grigory, after work, was eager to visit a disco or to visit friends, Ira wanted to stay at home in a quiet and comfortable atmosphere. Gregory always preferred to be in the center of public attention, and Ira, on the contrary, tried to be invisible. When I still didn’t know Iren very well, I was perplexed at the enviable regularity: if it’s hard for her to live with such a man, then why did she marry him? But over time, the answer came by itself. The thing is that Veselchak is a real magnet for women. When we look at a liberated, cheerful, charming and sociable man, it seems to us that in family life everything will be very simple and easy. And few of us - women, subjugated by the cheerful charm of Veselchak, know that life with such a person may not be so fun. Distinctive important features: Each Funny Man is usually in the spotlight. This is a pronounced extrovert, with ease, coming in contact with other people. He has leadership qualities and is able to captivate others with his ideas. He is very rarely seen in a bad mood, because the Funny Man is an incorrigible optimist. At any time I am ready to help my friends, relatives or colleagues. Due to the fact that he easily makes friends, his house is always open for visits by people of different sex, age and social status. He perceives all kinds of life situations, even if not the most pleasant ones, through the prism of humor, optimism and fun. Another feature of the Funny Man man is the fact that he enjoys increased attention from women. Like naive moths striving for fire, they want to get into his field of vision and be noticed. In the same way, my friend Irena, who was never distinguished by the presence of charisma and a bright temperament, fell in love with Gregory, having heard from him a couple - three jokes and saw his charming smile. Having become his legal wife, she often regretted that she had connected her fate with a man who had only one "fun" on her mind. Endless visits to her weary. The calls of women who were stuffed to her husband as friends were annoying. And the fact that their apartment turned into a “passage yard” completely removed Irina from a state of mental equilibrium and led to periodically repeated scandals with her husband. For all six years of marriage, Irina was only engaged in the fact that she was trying to somehow redo the character of her husband, his habits and lifestyle. This automatically turned her into a “happily unhappy” woman. The conclusions regarding Funny Man are very simple. When choosing such a man as a partner, a woman should be ready for the following: He will often be absent at home, setting forth in his defense all kinds of and quite plausible versions. For example: went to friends to drink beer after work, it was inconvenient to refuse them. He will always enjoy female attention. And some of the most stubborn people will be filled as friends or even mistresses. He will invite friends, colleagues, and relatives home. The reason is simple: he likes to be in the spotlight. The Funny Man is attractive to all women, but living with him will be easy and simple only to the one who herself is the owner of such an easy and cheerful disposition. In alliance with such a person, nothing will bother and bore her.

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