New Year's Eve is just around the corner and are you already thinking about the party buffet? Whether you're planning a party at your home or want to make something as a souvenir, you simply can't go wrong with these ideas for New Year's Eve treats to eat. Here are some delicious recipes to bring you happiness in the new year.
Lucky clover cookies
Thefour-leaf cloveris one of the most well-known symbols of good luck. A super simple idea for lucky cloverson the New Year's Eve party tableTo serve it would be to cut out the lucky charms from cookie dough and decorate them with green icing. For example, you can use the following simple cookie recipe:
Ingredients:
For the shortcrust pastry:
- 200 g wheat flour
- 125 g Butter
- 100g sugar
- 1 No
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
For royal icing:
- 1 egg white
- 250g powdered sugar
- 1-2 tbsp lemon juice
- green food coloring (powder)
Preparation:
- Knead the cold butter, flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and egg into a dough and cover with cling film. Let it rest in the fridge for about 3o minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a baking tray with baking paper. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm, cut out the cookies with a clover cutter and place them on the baking tray. Bake the cookies for about 8-10 minutes and let them cool completely.
- Make royal icingand decorate the cookies using a piping bag.
Tip: If you can't find clover cutters, you can put together the lucky clovers from three or four small heart cookies.
Ideas for lucky pigs as a good luck charm to eat on New Year's Eve
Pigs are often given away as good luck charms at New Year's. Here we offer you a sweet and a savory recipe for lucky pigs.
Lucky pig muffins with buttercream
You can make these from simple vanilla cupcakes and red buttercreamcute piggy as New Year's EvePrepare lucky charms to eat.
Ingredients:
For the muffins:
- 1 box vanilla cake mix
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 115g soft butter
- 200 ml milk, full fat
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract purifier
For the frosting:
- 350 g soft butter
- 700g powdered sugar
- 3 TL for Van
- 6 tbsp whipped cream
- pink food coloring
- Piping bag with different nozzles
Preparation of the muffins:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
- In a medium bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, butter, milk and vanilla extract.
- Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- Remove the muffins and let them cool completely before decorating.
Preparation of the glaze:
- Mix all the ingredients for the glaze in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer on medium speed. Mix until the glaze has stiff peaks.
- Remove about 2-3 tablespoons of the glaze and place in a medium bowl.
- In the large mixing bowl, add 2 drops of pink food coloring and stir until well combined. You want to get a light pink color.
- In the medium bowl, stir in 4-5 drops of pink gel food coloring until combined.
- Cut the tips off the piping bags and insert the nozzles.
Instructions for decorating:
- Using an ice cream scoop, pipe some frosting onto the top of the cupcake.
- Use a spatula to smooth out the icing.
- Using a round tip, pipe an oval dollop of frosting onto the bottom part of the cupcake to form the nose.
- Pipe two dots for the eyes using black icing.
- Pipe two lines for the nostrils on the nose with dark pink icing.
- Then pipe two leaves for the “ears” onto the top corners.
- Finally, pipe smaller leaves for the inside of the ear.
... and the sweet lucky piggy muffins are ready!
Make your own lucky pigs from yeast dough with pizza filling
These lucky pigs made from yeast dough will be a real hit at the New Year's Eve party! Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
For the yeast dough:
- 400 g wheat flour
- 1 packet of instant dry yeast (7 g)
- 1 No
- 200 ml natural yogurt
- 100 ml warm milk
- 1 pinch of salt
For the puff pastry:
- 150 g Flour
- 100 g butter, soft
- 1 pinch of salt
For the filling:
- Cheese
- Tomato sauce
- Oregano
- Salt
For gluing and painting:
- 1 egg white
- 1 egg yolk
- some milk
Preparation:
- First prepare the yeast dough. Put all the ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer and knead well. The dough should be soft but not sticky.
- Form the dough into a ball and let it rise for at least 1 hour.
- In the meantime, knead all the ingredients for the puff pastry together.
- As soon as the yeast dough has risen, add the puff pastry and knead well.
- Roll out the mixed dough to a thickness of approx. 3 mm and cut out circles with a diameter of 6 cm. Also cut out smaller circles (3 cm in diameter) that you will need for the noses and ears. To make the ears, simply quarter the smaller circles.
- For the filling, mix the tomato sauce with a little salt and oregano.
- To assemble the pork rolls, place half of the large circles on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Put 1 teaspoon of tomato and oregano sauce and a small piece of cheese in the middle. Brush the edges with a little egg white and place the other half of the large circles on top. Press with your fingers so that they close well.
- Now attach the nose and ears with some egg white. You can use some cumin for the eyes and nostrils.
- Let the yeast rolls rise for another 30 minutes, then brush with egg yolk mixed with a little milk.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 190-200 °C for about 15 minutes.
Horseshoe cookies to eat as a good luck charm on New Year's Eve
The horseshoe is another well-known symbol of good luck. These classic Italian horseshoe-shaped cookies are a great idea for your New Year's Eve buffet.
Ingredients:
- 400 g wheat flour
- 150g powdered sugar
- 1 No
- 250 g soft butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 TL for Van
- 100g milk chocolate
Preparation:
- Bring the butter to room temperature and place it in a bowl with the powdered sugar. Mix both together for a few minutes until a creamy mixture is formed.
- Add baking powder, vanilla and egg and continue stirring.
- Gradually add the flour and continue stirring until the mixture is smooth.
- Form the dough into a ball with your hands, wrap it with cling film and place it in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Form small balls out of the dough and roll into strips. Shape the strips into a horseshoe shape and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Bake the cookies at 180°C for about 8 minutes.
- Remove the horseshoe cookies from the oven and let them cool completely.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath and dip the ends of the cookies in the chocolate.
- Place the horseshoe cookies on a baking rack and let them rest until the chocolate has hardened.
Lucky charm fly agarics as party food for New Year's Eve
Although fly agarics are poisonous mushrooms, they are also considered lucky charms. Here you will find two super easy ideas on how you can prepare “fly agarics” as finger food and bring your guests good luck for the New Year.
Made from tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs and cream cheese
Made from strawberries and marshmallows on skewers
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