Cookies, and even more so homemade cookies, are a table decoration in themselves, even if they are simply cut out in the form of ordinary circles, stars or triangles. But if you decorate it gracefully and patternedly, then this dish will instantly become a real festive sweetness.
Instructions
Step 1
You can start decorating even at the stage of preparing the dough. For example, mix cocoa or grated chocolate into shortbread cookie dough. When baking, you will get the effect of a "checkerboard" or "marble" cookie. And if you add finely chopped almonds and walnuts to the dough itself, then these inclusions will look amazing in the structure of the cookie. The same effect will be given by lemon and orange zest, finely chopped candied fruits.
Step 2
If you combine two cookies of the same size together, after having smeared with jam filling, and pour on top with chocolate icing and lightly sprinkle with ground nutmeg or cinnamon, you get almost a cake. While the chocolate is hot, can be topped with chopped emerald pistachios, candied fruit.
Step 3
To make curly cookies, you need to stock up on special curly molds. For example, baby cookies can be cut in the shape of a horse, a snowman, a Christmas tree, a toy car, a flower, a house, etc. Complete the prepared figures on top with suitable dough pieces. For example, make the tail and mane for a horse from dough flagella.
Step 4
Biscuits with a round fluffy top look good if the bottom part - the base - is dipped in chocolate, white or dark, icing.
Step 5
Cover honey cakes in the shape of hearts, stars or crescents completely with chocolate icing. To do this, simply immerse them in liquid chocolate and let dry.
Step 6
Nougat with nuts is a wonderful and versatile decoration for classic round cookies. After covering with it, allow the liver to cool completely. Then you can dip it in chocolate icing.
Step 7
Black and white decoration looks festive and solemn. First, cover the cookies with dark chocolate icing and, while it is not frozen, apply beads, patterns, stripes with white icing. You can sprinkle with snow-white coconut flakes.
