New Year's children's table recipes and decoration. Sugar cookies “Deer horns”

Dishes for children's New Year's table should be different from what will be served to adults. If the composition of the dishes can be the same, then it’s worth thinking about the originality of presentation and other bold children’s ideas in advance.
The menu for a children's New Year's table should not include many items. The main thing is that each recipe meets children's preferences and attracts the attention of children with its bright unusual presentation. We offer children's New Year's dishes to choose from, which will be relevant on the New Year's table 2016.

Recipes for children for the New Year

According to the recipe, this is a regular Olivier. If you prepare a lot of this salad, then some of it can be served on the adult part of the New Year's table. But for one tomato, designed for one child, for a salad you will need one boiled fillet, three tablespoons of green peas, boiled carrots and potatoes, two hard-boiled eggs, one hundred grams of sour cream, green onions, pickled cucumber and one large tomato. Cut all ingredients, except tomato, into cubes and season with sour cream, add peas. Peel the center of the tomato and put the salad in such a beautiful and appetizing salad bowl. You can decorate with pieces of olives and onion rings.

And your child is guaranteed to love it.

For eight eggs you will need four tomatoes, 100 grams hard cheese and ham, onion. Boil and peel the eggs. Cut off the tops and remove the yolk. In a bowl, mix fried and finely chopped onion, yolks, the inside of a tomato, grated cheese and finely chopped ham. Add salt. Place the egg white filled with the resulting mixture on a plate, cover with a hard half of a tomato on top, and decorate the cap of the resulting fungus with specks of sour cream or mayonnaise.

Prepare this dish recommended in separate small fireproof bowls. Each pie serves one child. The recipe makes three such servings. The ingredients you will need are two teaspoons of vegetable oil, one chopped onion, 100 grams of chopped green onions, 375 peeled potatoes, 40 grams of butter, 200 grams of minced chicken, 50 grams of grated carrots, two teaspoons tomato paste and 100 ml chicken broth. For decoration you will need a bunch of green onions, tomatoes and carrots, a few peas and sweet corn.

Heat vegetable oil, add onion and fry until half cooked. Boil the potatoes and mash them using butter and milk. Add the onion to the pan minced chicken and grated carrots. Keep on fire for about five minutes. Place the contents of the frying pan into a food processor and mix until smooth. Return the mixture to the pan, add ketchup and chicken broth. Cover with a lid and keep on fire for several minutes.

Divide the chicken into three parts and place in bowls. Place puree and a little butter on top. Bake in a preheated oven until formed golden crust. After the pie is ready, you need to decorate it with pieces of vegetables.

It's hard to imagine New Year's dishes for the children's table without dessert. The menu must include a cake. This confectionery product will not only be sweet and tasty, but also thematic. The ingredients you will need are three eggs, 150 grams of butter, a glass of sugar, three glasses of flour, half a teaspoon of soda, a little vanilla sugar and two bags of coconut flakes. For the cream: a glass of sugar and 50 grams of sour cream.

Beat eggs and sugar until foamy. The butter must be melted, cooled and added to the eggs. Mix well, add vanilla sugar, flour, soda and a little salt. Knead the dough. Pour the dough into the mold and bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Cool and cut into 4*4 cm pieces. To prepare the cream, beat sugar with sour cream; if the sour cream is very sour, add more sugar. Every small piece Dip the cake into the cream and gradually place it in the shape of a snowman on a tray. Sprinkle the finished snowman with coconut shavings and, if desired, decorate with nuts, candies and candied fruits.

And to please the youngest family members, you can bake.

A beautiful and impressive dish in its presentation. It will appeal not only to children, but also to adults who love sweets. To prepare you will need four medium sized apples, peach jam, melted chocolate bar, chopped almonds. Core the apple and fill the hole with peach jam. Place the apples on a baking sheet and bake for about 20 minutes. Apples should not be very soft. Place the finished apples on a plate and pour melted hot chocolate over them. Let cool slightly and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Serve the dish after the glaze has completely hardened.

And your child will definitely like it.

We offer to prepare such dishes for children for the New Year 2016. Each dish is guaranteed to be appreciated. The main compliment from kids is an empty plate!

New Year for children is a particularly long-awaited magical holiday; children believe in New Year's miracles and prepare with anticipation for the table with treats. Decorating a children's New Year's table is a special task for parents, because here you need to show special imagination in order to give the kids a truly fabulous evening.

Let's consider the basic rules and ideas on how to set the table for the little ones so that it is beautiful and safe, and how to decorate it on New Year's Eve.

New Year's children's table: serving rules

Little guests need not only to be attracted original design, but also to protect as much as possible. It is better to adhere to a number of certain rules that will help you not to worry about your kids.

1. General design style

First, you should come up with the main decor theme for your children's winter party. You can take an idea from some popular New Year's fairy tale or a cartoon or use the main characters of a fairytale night: Santa Claus, deer, snowmen.

Choose a tablecloth, napkins, chair covers in accordance with the main concept. Try not to use too many dark or bright colors in your design.

The length of the tablecloth should not hang down too much, so that the kids do not pull, fidgeting in the chairs.

It’s always better to take paper napkins. And so that children can use napkins with interest, make unusual Christmas trees out of them. We described how to do this in 3 articles on our website.

2. New Year's children's table: serving rules

If most of the children who gather at the table are not yet 10 years old, then use plastic or disposable plates. Firstly, among such dishes you will find a lot of colorful options. Secondly, this will maximally protect small guests, who often drop plates on the floor.

Never use thin glass glasses for serving. You can buy plastic wine glasses - beautiful and safe. There should be no knives among the cutlery, and take special forks for children, with not too sharp ends.

You should not use a table setting with many plates, children will get confused in them, get everything dirty and clutter the table with them. It is better to change the plates to clean ones several times during dinner.

3. Children's New Year's table decorations

To decorate adult tables, glass vases with Christmas tree decorations, candles, and fir branches are often used. None of this should be on the children's table, since all such items are unsafe for children.

Instead of candles, you can place plastic figures with battery-powered flashlights. Large vases and durable glass can be used, but it is better to fill them not with fragile Christmas tree decorations, but with candies. Any figurines of snowmen, Santa Clauses, etc. must be made of safe, unbreakable materials.

4. Dishes for children's table

Try to serve dishes on the children's New Year's table that do not need to be cut with a knife. Of course, children will absolutely love it if you prepare snacks, salads and other dishes in an unusual design.

For example, it could be pizza in the shape of Christmas trees, funny snowmen made from curd paste, dessert in the shape of deer faces and other options that are not so difficult to prepare yourself.

Do not use spicy or too spicy foods for children's dishes. spicy seasonings, hot vegetables and other foods that may cause allergies or irritation.

About the rules for preparing children's dishes, as well as simple examples You can find children's menus in our separate articles.

A few tricks for decorating children's New Year's dishes

It’s not at all difficult to create something original and unusual with the help of handy products and whet your little guests’ appetite if you know a few tricks.

Each child will feel personal and welcome if the seats are signed. You can use cards or signs on chairs for this. In addition, this option will deprive children of confusion and competition in taking places at the table.
Children will willingly eat everything mashed potatoes as a side dish if painted in rainbow colors. For this you can use natural dyes: juice of beets, carrots, greens.
Simple sandwiches can easily be turned into funny smiley faces with the help of ketchup, mayonnaise and pieces of vegetables and fruits.

Children will eat fruit faster if they are peeled, cut and put into beautiful compositions from the pieces.

Diet cutlets, meatballs and other mediocre dishes will be perceived differently by children if you make funny figures from them.
Be sure to insert straws into glasses with drinks; kids drink from them with much more pleasure.

Take the time to search and select special children's tableware, which plays an important role in decorating a children's New Year's table, and pay special attention dishes. Young participants of the New Year's holiday will definitely appreciate your efforts. Children's smiles and laughter are the most best gift, which you can get on this wonderful night.

New Year is a holiday of childhood. In search of ideas on how to celebrate this night, what interesting gifts to give and how to create a menu, we somehow return our thoughts to the times when we were children, waited with bated breath for gifts under the tree, believed in Santa Claus and miracles...

Let's not forget about this in the bustle of New Year's Eve. When inviting guests, think about the children - with whom will they celebrate this holiday? Thinking through the scenario New Year's Eve, don’t forget about the kids - what games do you organize for them? When deciding what to prepare for the holiday table, try to do the same for the small participants in the celebration - New Year's menu for children it should be such that they are happy and know for sure: there is a fairy tale!

Festive ideas for the children's table are as abundant as a child's imagination. This is only the smallest part of our collection.

Lavash snack for children's New Year's table "Christmas trees"

Let there be... Christmas trees in the center of the children's New Year's table! Many, many Christmas trees - shaggy and prickly, cold and hot, bright and fragrant. No ideas? Start with the simplest thing: fold the lavash leaves into triangles, fill them with something tasty and healthy - and voila!, the Christmas trees have grown and are asking to be eaten.

Ingredients:

5 round sheets of pita bread;
150 g cream cheese;
10 slices of lightly salted salmon;
a few leaves of green salad;
bunch of dill.

Cut the lavash sheets in half - you will get 10 semicircles.

Grease each piece with cream cheese, place a leaf of lettuce and a slice of fish on top. Visually determine the center of the straight line along which the pita bread was divided, and begin to fold triangles, the vertex of which is this central point. As a rule, 4-5 bends are obtained.

Place the finished triangles on a dish (an oblong plate with a “forest” growing on it looks good), put a small layer of cream cheese on top of the pita bread, and sprinkle with finely chopped dill pine needles.

If desired, “Christmas trees” can be decorated with pomegranate seeds, sweet peas or milk corn.

Option for decorating Christmas trees: cream cheese + avocado, turned into paste, and pieces of bright sweet pepper.

You don’t have to buy lavash; you can make it at home - see.

Christmas tree sandwiches for the little ones

Children often perceive the world through pictures - and the brighter they are, the more fun and meaningful they are for the child, the better the information about the world around them will fit into little blond and dark-haired heads. Are you planning to prepare profiteroles with salmon mousse for the New Year's table? Adults will probably appreciate it, but what about kids? I suggest making funny Christmas tree sandwiches for them: the base will be the same mousse, however, the overall picture will compare favorably with the “adult” version.

Ingredients for 3 sandwiches:

6 slices of white bread;
1 boiled carrot;
a piece of bell pepper for decoration;
5 tbsp. l. soft cottage cheese or cream cheese;
50 g boiled salmon;
salt to taste;
a small piece of celery stalk.

Mash the fish with a fork until homogeneous mass, add half the cottage cheese or cheese, add salt and stir again.

Cut off the crusts of the bread and shape each slice into a triangle. Make sure that all the cut pieces are the same size.

Spread fish cream on three slices of bread and cover with the remaining three.

We cut out decorations from carrots and peppers - Christmas balls, star, garlands. We “decorate” the Christmas tree, do not forget to install a “trunk” from a piece of celery at the base of the tree.

Christmas tree garnish – cauliflower and broccoli with béchamel sauce

Traditionally and out of habit, we cook potatoes as a side dish, which no one traditionally eats on New Year’s Eve. Let's try to deviate from the rules? Healthy vegetables, wrapped in a delicate milk sauce, laid out in the shape of a shaggy spruce - in my opinion, such a dish will not only decorate festive table, but also perfectly diversifies the menu, creating the necessary balance between heavy snacks and substantial dishes.

Children perceive with delight everything unusual - and even the hated cabbage, which ordinary days they refuse to eat, it will be a holiday and a reason for joy for them if the vegetables are served in an original and non-standard way.

Ingredients:

400 g cauliflower;
400 g broccoli;
50 g hard cheese;
1 tbsp. l. flour;
1 glass of milk;
50 g butter;
nutmeg, salt to taste;
cherry tomatoes for serving.

Boil broccoli and broccoli alternately in salted water. cauliflower. Grease the baking dish with a small piece of butter, put the rest of the butter in a well-heated frying pan (heat is minimal), sprinkle with flour, stir until smooth and add milk a little at a time, each time stirring the sauce until it has an even, smooth texture. Add a pinch of nutmeg, add cheese, stir. Turn off the fire.

Place broccoli in the center of the mold, giving the inflorescences the shape of a Christmas tree. Don't forget about the barrel. Fill the remaining space with cauliflower. Pour the sauce over the vegetables and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. When serving, garnish with cherry tomatoes.

Fruit snacks on skewers

I have a suggestion - let's decorate the Christmas tree! Well, just don’t laugh sarcastically, listen to the end.

You can buy an inexpensive cone-shaped foam base at flower shops. If you don’t have time to look for something ready-made, roll a piece of whatman paper into a cone, cut off the excess along the base, and blow foam inside. After drying, again remove the unnecessary parts - and you will have the same wonderful base that can be decorated! Cover it with a clean sheet of green paper (foil is a good substitute: simple and elegant) and get creative.

Threading fruit pieces and cubes onto skewers delicious cheeses, shrimp and olives, grapes and ham, insert the skewers with the sharp end into the prepared cone base, forming “Christmas tree needles”. This table decoration will attract a lot of admiring glances, no doubt about it!

One side of the “Christmas tree” can be made for children (pieces of banana and apples, slices of tangerine and mango, cheese like “Russian” and cubes of homemade boiled pork), the second side can be decorated for adults (dor blue and brie, smoked ham and thin slices of salami, pickled olives and stuffed chili peppers).

This Christmas tree is made of fruits, but the “needles” can be any products.

Cake “Woodpile” - a classic for children’s New Year’s table

A holiday without a cake is not a holiday at all, and don’t argue! Even if you are indifferent to sweets, do not forget that children are still waiting for dessert, so I recommend paying special attention to this moment. Let the fashionable “Sacher” and the popular “Esterházy” stand aside, today is the time for delicious homemade baked goods according to grandma's recipes.

In our family, for the New Year, we traditionally bake the “Woodpile” cake - crispy “firewood” with sour cherries, carefully covered with sweet sour cream “snow”. And tell me that your children will not appreciate the fairy tale about how forest animals prepare firewood for Santa Claus, knowing that before the New Year he has a lot of things to do, that he is busy selecting gifts for each child, that after the chimes strike his 12 times on the night from December 31 to January 1, the old wizard comes to his house, where no one has lit the stove... and there is nothing to light it with. Forest animals are sympathetic people: they worry about grandpa, that’s why they collect firewood for him! Maybe you can try the cake for now, and in the morning while walking you will also think about someone else? And not necessarily about Santa Claus - birds, for example, also need attention!

Ingredients for the dough:
250 g butter;
200 g sour cream;
3.5 cups flour;
1/3 tsp. salt;
1/3 tsp. soda

Filling ingredients:
1000 g cherries, canned in own juice(can be replaced with frozen berries).

Ingredients for cream:
700 ml fat sour cream;
2 cups powdered sugar.

From these components, knead a soft dough that does not stick to your hands. We divide it into 15 parts, roll each ball into a long rectangular strip about 5 cm wide. We lay out the cherries in a row along the length of the entire strip, roll them into a tube and pinch the edges. In this way we form all 15 “logs”.

Bake the tubes at 180 degrees for about 25 minutes. After cooling, remove from the baking sheet.

Beat the sour cream with powdered sugar and begin assembling the cake.

Place 5 “logs” on a fairly large dish. Pour a little cream and place 4 “logs” on top. Cream, then 3 tubes, cream, 2 tubes, cream, last tube. Fill the cake with the remaining cream and leave to soak. During the soaking process, scoop up the sour cream from below with a spoon and periodically pour the cake over the top.

Before serving, the Woodpile can be sprinkled with grated chocolate if desired.

Cupcakes “Christmas trees” - cream needles

Well, based on the principle that there is never too much sweets on a children’s holiday table (and not only on children’s), I suggest quick hand Also make cupcakes - funny cupcakes with a huge top of cream. It has been tested more than once: the kids will devour such baked goods in an instant, so don’t hesitate and be sure to bake!

Under each cupcake you can put a piece of leaf with a number that will determine the number of the forfeit; based on the results of the tea party, the children will be happy to do the tasks that you prepare for them in advance: number one is to go to the neighbors for snowdrops for soup (and don’t forget to congratulate them on the upcoming holiday!), number two - call your godmother and ask if she forgot to turn off the gas under the saucepan with milk, number three - depict a cuttlefish with facial expressions and gestures, postures and movements, and so on.

Ingredients:

2 eggs;
100 g chocolate;
70 g butter;
1/2 tsp. salt;
1/2 tsp. soda;
1/2 tsp. baking powder;
150 g flour;
150 g sugar;
200 ml milk.

Ingredients for cream:

150 g white chocolate;
200 g butter;
200 g powdered sugar;
2 tbsp. l. spinach juice.

For decoration:

strawberries by the number of cupcakes;
small sugar figurines different colors (it’s convenient to use those offered in Easter sets).

Separate the yolks from the whites.
Sift together flour, salt, soda, baking powder.
Beat softened butter with sugar, add yolks. Gently pour in the melted chocolate, continuing to whisk.

Add half of the flour mixture and stir. Pour in half the milk and stir. Stir the remaining flour. Stir the remaining milk until smooth.

Beat the egg whites until they form a stable foam; using a wooden or silicone spatula, carefully fold them into the dough.
Using a spoon, spoon the dough into the molds and fill them 2/3 full. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 25 minutes.

After complete cooling, we begin growing Christmas trees.
Beat softened butter with powdered sugar and spinach juice until fluffy. Add melted chocolate, continuing to beat until smooth.

Glue a strawberry in the center of each cupcake (not dripping large number cream). We transfer the remaining cream into a pastry envelope and, using a suitable nozzle, decorate the cupcakes with “needles”, starting from the base of the strawberry “Christmas tree” and moving upward in a spiral. Decorate with sugar stars-hearts-snowflakes. Don't forget about forfeits!

Porridge with reindeer sausages

I propose to declare breakfast on January 1st a holiday. For us adults, a bowl of yesterday’s Olivier and a couple of dried sandwiches with caviar seem quite a worthy option after New Year's Eve, but for some reason children are happy with completely different things. For example, sausages - due to their low availability (I don’t buy them!), my child seriously considers them holiday food! I suggest pampering a person - a couple of times a year is possible.

Ingredients:

1 sausage;
1/3 cup rice;
1 cherry tomato;
1 tbsp. l. butter;
2 peas or corn kernels;
salt to taste.

Boil the rice in a sufficient amount of salted water, drain the water and rinse the cereal with boiling water (we are not cooking porridge, but just rice as a side dish, so you can resort to this method).

Clean the sausage and cut it in half. On both sides (rounded) we make longitudinal cuts approximately half the depth of the sausage (more precisely, half the sausage). Lightly fry in butter - the cut “horns” will move apart under the influence of temperature, acquiring the desired shape.

Place the rice in a deep plate. We insert the sausages on one side of the plate, submerging them slightly into the grain - you get deer horns. Place a cherry tomato (nose) in the middle, and use peas to mark the eyes.

An excellent holiday breakfast is ready - all that remains is to tell how long the deer ran to your child, jumped over hummocks, fought with the winter winds, carrying another tiny gift from Santa Claus through the snowdrifts. Well, and, of course, give them a box with a puzzle or a set of colored pencils.

Sugar cookies “Deer horns”

For me, January 1 has always been my least favorite day: the adults were sleeping, I wasn’t allowed to walk around the snowy city alone, I watched the beautiful snowflakes only through the window, and all day I had to nibble on candies from gift sets and lazily search for cartoons on TV. Remembering very well my first days of the new year, I propose to organize a different scenario for your children: a joint rise, delicious breakfast, gatherings in the kitchen and playing with dough.

Ingredients:

1.5 cups flour;
150 g butter;
1 glass of sugar;
1 egg;
1/3 tsp. salt;
1/3 tsp. soda

For decoration:

30 ml cream with 33% fat content;
50 g chocolate;
multi-colored round jelly beans like “M&M’s”.

Butter room temperature grind with sugar, salt and soda, add the egg and, adding flour, knead soft, elastic dough, does not stick to your hands.

Roll out the dough into a layer 3-4 mm thick, cut out cookies using a fairly large glass or round cookie cutter. Place the rounds on a baking sheet (no need to grease them with anything), bake the cookies for about 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Decorate the cooled cookies. Melt the chocolate and cream, pour the ganache into a ready-made or homemade cornet (or a regular medical syringe - once you get used to it, you can work with it). At the top of the deer’s “head” we draw small deer horns using chocolate mixture. Glue a nose (colored round candy) onto a drop of chocolate in the middle. We designate the eyes (with ganache). Let it dry - and we begin a competition: whose deer can quickly reach the mouth and disappear into its depths!

And more photo ideas for a children's New Year's table, collected all over the Internet. Bunnies made of marshmallows, Santa Clauses made of strawberries, Christmas trees made of green fruits on skewers, graffiti on jam (or tomato), baked potato-reindeer, pizza-tree...

Cover the New Year's children's table fabulous! Wishing you childhood imagination and happiness in the New Year!

New Year is primarily a children's holiday. And so that our children remember these wonderful days like the most magical and fabulous ones, you need to make some effort. A children's holiday table is very different from the feast that we adults are used to. And it's not just the lack of alcohol. After all, the kids don’t care what culinary delights will stand on the table, they don’t care how much money you spent on red caviar and trout. Children, as you know, “eat with their eyes”; for them, what is important is not what is on the table, but rather how everything is decorated.

When preparing a table for little guests, you will have to show considerable ingenuity and imagination and remember yourself as a child. Do you remember how interesting it was to eat the most ordinary sandwich, which was not just bread and butter, sausage or cheese, but looked like a mouse or a lion cub? Even the simplest dishes can be decorated and served in such a way that all the treats will simply be swept off the table. We’ll talk about how you can present your little guests with delicious and beautiful dishes.

Just let's agree right away - no sausage, no mayonnaise and no ready-made sweets! Everything is homemade and healthy. Instead of store-bought mayonnaise, if you really can’t live without it, you can use a salad dressing based on cream and natural yogurt(“creme fraiche”) or prepare a light one homemade mayonnaise based on milk and butter. To do this, beat 100 g of vegetable oil and 100 g of milk at the same temperature (preferably at room temperature) in a blender and add mustard, salt, sugar and lemon juice or vinegar to taste. The whole mixture is whipped up in seconds! But a sausage substitute can be made from chicken meat.

Ingredients:
1 chicken (preferably chilled)
10 quail eggs,
1 chicken egg,
10 olives or black olives,
1 large packet of gelatin,
100 g cream,
2-3 carrots (it should not be thick and even),
spices, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Remove the skin from the chicken, separate the meat from the bones and grind it in a meat grinder. Beat the resulting minced meat with the egg and cream in a blender or food processor until smooth, add salt, add spices to taste, and place in the refrigerator. Meanwhile, cook quail eggs, boil the carrots. Clean. Use a carving knife to cut longitudinal strips across the carrots. If you don’t have such a knife, then simply cut the strips with a regular knife, just be careful not to cut to the core. Remove the minced meat from the refrigerator, beat it again, add gelatin, mix well. You don't have to skimp on gelatin! Line the inside of an empty juice box, preferably square, with a plastic bag. Start laying out the minced chicken, topping it with whole quail eggs and olives, placing them evenly. Insert the cut carrots into the minced meat the entire length. Tap the box on the table to remove any possible voids. Place the bag of minced meat in the pan, pour water to the level of the minced meat, cover the minced meat with the bag and let it cook for 1.5-2 hours under the lid, depending on the size of the “sausage”. Remove the finished “sausage” from the water, cool and refrigerate overnight. The “sausage” turns out tender, with gelatinous edges, and when cut, eggs, olives and carrot “stars” are visible.

This sausage is a decoration in itself, and its square or rectangular shape makes it ideal for mini sandwiches. Spread any spreader on a piece of bread (cheese, curd, garlic, etc.), place ours on top beautiful sausage, press slightly and cut crosswise so that you get 4 sandwiches. Garnish with a mint or parsley leaf.

If you want to tinker, try making shaped sandwiches: use a cookie cutter to cut out Christmas trees from bread, cheese, sausage and assemble sandwiches, covering each product with a thin layer of brushing that suits your taste. Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise or butter on top and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Children do not need monumental dishes; they are more likely to be attracted by a buffet table, where there will be a mass of a wide variety of individual snacks. But you can’t get by with sandwiches alone, so you need to come up with something that will be interesting and tasty.

Ingredients:
chicken drumstick - according to the number of eaters,
noodles in “nests”,
salt, spices - to taste,
tomato or pepper - for decoration.

Preparation:
Fry the chicken drumsticks until done. While the chicken is roasting, cook the noodle nests until tender, but do not overcook them! Sprinkle the “nests” with cheese and lightly heat in a hot oven until the cheese melts. Place a “nest” of noodles on a plate, with the drumstick facing up inside. On the top of the drumstick, draw a scallop with mayonnaise, stick in some eye-shaped carnations, make a beak and wings from a piece of tomato or pepper. These chickens will amuse the kids!

Liver dragonets

Ingredients:
500-600 g chicken liver,
200-300 g champignons,
1 large onion,
50 g milk,
50 g butter,
salt, spices - to taste,
mashed potatoes - for decoration.

Preparation:
Boil the liver in salted water, fry the mushrooms on vegetable oil along with finely chopped onion. Combine the liver and mushrooms, grind in a food processor or blender, add a little warm milk and softened butter, mix. Place the mince in the refrigerator for a few minutes until it begins to set. Then make the dragons: about 2 tbsp. Roll the minced meat into a ball and pull it out on one side to form the dragon’s face, and on the other make a tail. Insert eyes - cloves, make a nose out of peppercorns. Place in the refrigerator to harden. Meanwhile, prepare the mashed potatoes with the egg and butter, whisking until well combined and smooth. Place the puree in a cornet and plant “needles” on the neck, back and tail of the dragons in the form of a ridge. Make paws from the puree. Delicious dragons are ready!

Ingredients:
1 pack of waffle cones,
500-700 g minced meat,
100 g cream,
1 egg,
50 g milk,
greens - for decoration.

Preparation:
Beat the finished minced meat with cream until smooth and fill the waffle cones with the resulting mixture. Beat the egg with milk, roll the filled horns into the mixture and quickly fry them in hot vegetable oil. Then place the horns on a baking sheet and place in a hot oven for 20-25 minutes. Turn the cones over on the baking sheet a couple of times. Roll the finished horns in finely chopped herbs and place on plates. Garnish with a red pepper or carrot star.

Ordinary cutlets can be turned into dragon nests. Of course, there are no dragons there, but for children you can come up with a story about nests containing dragon eggs. It’s easy to prepare such nests: use the bottom of a glass to make indentations in the formed cutlets, into which pour one quail egg at a time. Place the cutlets in the oven for about 15-20 minutes, then sprinkle with cheese and wait until it melts.

Color regular mashed potatoes in different colors using various products. For example, green puree is prepared with the addition of stewed spinach, mashed in a blender with a spoonful of butter. Orange puree is obtained by adding boiled carrots with butter, crushed in a blender or rubbed through a sieve. Red puree can be made by boiling tomatoes, peeled and seeded, over low heat. Boiled pumpkin gives pink color. Raspberry puree is obtained by mixing with crushed boiled beets or its juice. For yellow - boiled yolks Grind homemade eggs with butter, mix with puree. Place a spoonful of each puree into a plate.

Be sure to decorate salads and appetizers in the shape of a Christmas tree, snowman or dragon. Prepare the sandwiches in a baguette and fold them into a dragon shape. To do this, cut the baguette from the bottom, remove the pulp, mix it with cream and softened butter and grind until smooth. Stir corn, peas, boiled tongue cubes, olives and chopped egg into the resulting mixture. Stuff the baguette with the resulting mixture, wrap it tightly in cling film and place it in the refrigerator. When serving, cut crosswise into slices 1-1.5 cm thick, arrange in the shape of a dragon, make a muzzle from a tomato, a hood from chopped pepper and green onions, eyes made of olives, nostrils and teeth made of sharp drops of mayonnaise.

You can put a snowman made of cheese balls on each plate: grate the cheese, mix with cottage cheese, add a little mayonnaise or thick sour cream for stickiness and roll into three small balls. The balls can be additionally rolled in finely grated protein. Place them on a toothpick, attach a nose from a piece of carrot or tomato, insert eyes from cloves, buttons from peppers, and place a paper bucket with a wish note inside on your head.

Another colorful delicacy that will surprise kids (and not only them!) - striped smoothies. For cooking green smoothie, grind a handful of parsley or spinach in a blender, adding water little by little, until smooth. Add banana and kiwi to the green pulp and beat until fluffy. Blue or purple The smoothie is made by combining and whipping bananas and frozen blueberries. Red- banana and cherry (or strawberry). Yellow- mango and banana (or pineapple). Pour colorful smoothies into clear glasses, alternating layers, and garnish with whipped cream. The smoothie can be frozen like sorbet and served in colorful balls. For better plasticity of sorbet, add 1-2 quail eggs to each type of smoothie when whipping. Why quail? Because there are no salmonella in raw quail eggs, but you need to be more careful with chicken eggs.

The children's table must be literally bursting with fruits and sweets. And if fruits can be placed on plates or fruit slices can be made, then it is not enough to pour candy into a vase. You can use them to make candy bouquets or make a Christmas tree out of them. Of course, you will have to tinker, but your table will be remembered for a long time! To create a candy tree, you will need green wrapping paper, wooden skewers for kebabs, floral foam or polystyrene foam, narrow adhesive tape or tape, and a sheet of thick Whatman paper. Wrap each candy in wrapping paper to form a cone. Secure to skewers with tape or tape. Roll a cone out of thick Whatman paper, glue or tape it, place floral foam inside and secure the entire structure to the saucer with tape. The saucer should be smaller in size than the bottom of the Whatman paper cone. Now stick the wrapped candy into the cone, trying to give it the shape of a Christmas tree. Such a tree can be decorated like a real one, and the tree itself does not have to be green. Any design options are possible.

And, of course, a New Year’s table is unthinkable without cake!

Ingredients:
10 eggs,
800 g sugar,
1 lemon,
100 g starch,
250 ml milk,
450 g butter,
vanillin, cognac - to taste.

Preparation:
Prepare a sponge cake: grind 8 yolks with 300 g of sugar, add lemon zest, starch, mix and carefully fold in 5 beaten whites. Pour the dough into the springform pan round shape and bake the biscuit in the oven at medium heat. Baking time is about 50 minutes. Cool the finished biscuit completely and cut it with a thread into 2 cake layers. The third layer in the cake is meringue. For it, beat 3 egg whites with 100 g of sugar (it’s better to take powdered sugar) to hard peaks. Place the resulting mass in a round pan lined with paper and bake the meringue in a low-heat oven with the door open for 45-60 minutes. Buttercream: stir 200 g of sugar in milk, put on fire and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Then grind 200 g of sugar with 2 eggs until the sugar is completely dissolved, gradually add milk to this mixture and place on water bath. Boil at a temperature of 80-90°C for 5-10 minutes. Don't forget to stir! Cool the cream. Beat the softened butter until white, gradually adding cooled custard. Add vanillin to the buttercream. Assemble the cake: bottom layer - sponge cake, spread with cream, then - meringue, cream, sponge cake, cream. Cover the edges of the cake with the remaining cream. Decorate the cake: glue Christmas trees cut from green pastry paste or strong jelly to the sides. Place biscuit Christmas trees on the surface of the cake, coated with a layer of cream and rolled in green coconut, and place figurines of toy dragons between them. Each child will get their own dragon.

This is just a small part of what you can come up with for children for the New Year holidays. How many design options can you come up with for the same canapés or fruit platters! Fantasize, delight, spoil your children. Let them remember home holidays for the rest of their lives!

Larisa Shuftaykina