Sweet Christmas tree Such a Christmas tree will be an excellent decoration of the festive table, and later a delicious dessert! The test requires the simplest ingredients, but the peculiarity in cooking is the burnt sugar. It is he who gives the liver a brownish color, and to taste something like ginger biscuits. Decorating Christmas trees can be infinite: at least with coconut shaving, at least with sprinkles, even with colored glaze!
Ingredients:- Wheat flour 2 tbsp.
- Sugar 1.5 tbsp.
- Water 0.5 tbsp.
- Eggs chicken 2 pcs.
- Carnation ground 0.5 tsp.
- Cinnamon ground 0.5 tsp.
- Butter 100 g
- Baking Powder 0.5 tsp.
- Sugar 0.5 tbsp.
- Water 0.25 tbsp.
- Eggs chicken 2 pcs.
- Sweets 25 g
- Step 1 To prepare the "Christmas tree" will need flour, sugar, eggs, water, butter, baking powder, ground cinnamon, cloves ground.
- Step 2 First we burn sugar. Pour 0.5 cups of sugar into a pot or frying pan. I do in a cast iron, because it is quite deep and the risk of burning is minimized.
- Step 3 We burn sugar, stirring constantly, until brown, adding 0.5 cups of water.
- Step 4 Add 1 more glass of sugar. And cook until the grains dissolve completely.
- Step 5 Remove from the fire and add oil. Stir well until the oil has melted. Let it cool at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
- Step 6 Separate the proteins from the yolks. Proteins will be needed for glaze. Yolks are mixed with cloves, cinnamon and baking powder.
- Step 7 Mix the yolks with the cooled sugar-and-oil mixture.
- Step 8 Add 1.5 cups of flour. Knead the dough with a spoon.
- Step 9 The remaining 0.5 cups of flour is poured onto the work surface. We spread the dough and mix the flour into the dough. The dough should be slightly sticky, but you do not need to add more flour! Prepared in this way, the dough should be kept in the refrigerator for about 8 hours.
- Step 10 Roll the cooled dough into a layer 5-7 mm thick and cut out the star shape with various shapes.
- Step 11 Bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for about 15 minutes. It is not necessary to roast strongly. We let the liver cool down.
- Step 12 For the glaze we mix sugar with water. Cook on low heat syrup before evaporation of water. Readiness of the syrup is checked as follows: you need to drop a drop of syrup into cold water - if a "bead" is formed, the syrup is ready.
- Step 13 Whisk the whites into a thick foam.
- Step 14 Whisk the squirrels, gently, with a thin trickle, add hot syrup. Continue to shake, should turn out a brilliant fairly dense protein mass.
- Step 15 Lubricate the "stars" with glaze and connect them together, not joining the rays. I decorated with sweets, but very good looks and coconut shavings or confectionery sprinkles.