Easter is a special holiday for the Orthodox. On this day, it is customary to invite loved ones to dinner and treat them to the most delicious dishes. But they must have not only excellent taste, but also be beautifully designed.
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You will need
- For biscuits;
- - 1 egg;
- - 200 g butter or margarine;
- - 1 cup of sugar;
- - 2 cups sifted flour.
- For cream:
- - 1 sachet of gelatin;
- - 50 g of sugar;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 pinch of vanillin;
- - 50 ml of milk;
- - 1 teaspoon of lemon juice;
- - 50 ml of water;
- - baking soda on the tip of a knife;
- - 1 pinch of salt.
- - food colorings.
- To decorate:
- - marmalade;
- - chocolate;
- - confectionery sprinkles;
- - dragee;
- - straw;
- - multi-colored coconut flakes.
Instruction manual
1
Bake the most common shortbread cookie. Mix the softened butter or margarine with sugar and egg, add flour to the mass and knead the elastic dough. Roll it into a layer and cut out circles and ovals.
2
Heat the oven to a temperature of 180 degrees. cover a baking sheet with parchment paper or brush with margarine. put cookies on it and put in the oven for 15-20 minutes until cooked. After that, remove the pan and let the liver cool completely.
3
Make a cream. For decoration, any, buttery, protein, from condensed milk is suitable. But it looks very beautiful marshmallows, in addition, it is quite simple to apply to the surface, and it will not lose shape when the cookies are on the table. So, fill the gelatin with boiled and chilled water and milk. Stir the mass and leave for an hour, during which time it should swell. Then put the mixture on the fire and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Add a pinch of vanillin and continue heating the gelatin until the granules are completely dissolved. After that, remove it from the stove and let cool. Mass for the cream should be warm.
4
Separate the whites from the yolks. Beat them with a mixer in a light foam. Then gradually add sugar, add a pinch of salt and continue whisking for about 5 minutes at medium speed, then set the maximum and whip the cream for another 10 minutes, the protein should turn into a strong, stable foam. Add the swollen gelatin to the protein mass. Beat another 10 minutes. Then add the soda on the tip of the knife and lemon juice. Whip the cream for another 5 minutes. As a result, you should get a white glossy mass.
5
Divide the cream into parts and add to each food coloring. Gently but thoroughly mix the mixture until smooth.
6
To make chicken, take a round cookie. Spread it with a layer of yellow cream. From the orange marmalade, cut the scallop, beak and legs and place them on cookies. Chicken wings and feathers can be made from pieces of straw. Draw the eyes with chocolate melted in a water bath.
7
A colored egg is an indispensable attribute of Easter dinner. To decorate cookies in the form of dyes, smear the oval pieces with marshmallow cream of the desired shade. From marmalade cut strips and attach them to the surface. Garnish cookies with sprinkles and small dragee sweets. You can also put the cream in a pastry bag and draw the desired pattern.
8
The original idea is to make cookie nests. Spread the round biscuits with cream, sprinkle generously with coconut and put 3-4 oval sweets.
