Christmas cookies

Ingredients for cookies:

-3 cups flour
-2 teaspoons baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 cup unsalted margarine
-½ cup sugar
-1 egg
-1 tablespoon vanilla extract
-1/2 a teaspoon of grated lemon or orange

How to do it:

Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

Beat margarine and sugar mixture, and also add egg and vanilla extract andgrated lemon ororange. Gradually add dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt). Make 2 balls, and with a rolling pin to stretch one of the masses. Then cut the mass with the form wanted, you can do it with lots of differents funny forms. And strain it in a can of paper butter.Bake for about 6 to 7 minutes.

They are more beautiful decorated with glasé and that's what we are going to do now.

For its consistence, the glaze or "glasé" can be used to perform pair edges, ruffles, flowers,joiningpieces of tablets, etc.

You can make a certain amount and then divide to give different colors.

Ingredients

-1 egg white
-Sugar ¼ glass (powdered, powder)
-Lemon juice

Preparation

In a bowl beat the egg white and incorporating a little sugar and then a few dropsof lemon juice.Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
Place into a sleeve or cartridge and decorate.

The consistency of the glasé will depend on the mixing time.

Secrets
Galze toosoft. In this case only need to add a bit more sugar.
Glaze too thick. One only need to add a few drops of lemon juice.

Then we put the glasé on the cookies and we have a sweet cokies with differents forms, normally in this case with Christmas forms.

Hope you enjoy it! :) (308)

Chocolate with "churros"

I suggest a snak to end with those Christmas meals. We are going to do a delicious tea that make us a little bit fatter this holidays.

These are the ingredients that we need to prepare the chocolate with churros:

For the hot chocolate:

-200 grams of chocolate to melt.

-1 liter of whole milk.

For the churros:

-200 gr of bread flour.

-1/2 teaspoon salt.

-1 teaspoon baking soda

-320 g of water.

For the preparation of churros first thing we have to do is put the water to heat and bring to a boil.

When the water reaches a boil add the salt, baking soda and flour and gradually sifted to avoid lumps. Remove from heat and cook for about five minuter or so and stirring until you have a dough.

Now we have to cool the mass of churros and stand at least fifteen minutes spread on a flat surface. You can put on the kitchen counter but it has to be very clean. (LOL)

We put in a deep pan oil sunflower to heat and then introduce the mass in a "churrera". Once we have it with that golden colour, very careful because it will brown very quickly, we remove to paper towel to release the excess oil and cool slightly before eating.

We have tea with the development with hot chocolate and the first thing to do is put he milk until it boild and cut the chocolate into chunks.

Just when it comes to boil remove from heat and add the chocolate, stirring constantly and until we see that it has melted. We open the heat again, now simmer, and when it boils again we have to retire it and all this without stop removing the chocolate to avoid that it doesn't stick to the pan.

We repeat the same operation above, bring to a boil and remove from heat, again for the third time we have our hot chocolate ready to serve with churros that we had prepared previously.

I hope you enjoyed my first recipe and try to prepare it, it is a very good tea in special afternoon with family or friends when it is winter.

Thank you :). (368)

Welcome!

Hello everybody! This is my first entry in my new blog. I'm going to write about different recipes of food. I hope you enjoy it and learn to do something new. Thank you :). (35)