Sweet gift for children

According to the Catholic tradition, Advent is25-day period before Christmas. Since in our country Christmas is celebrated only on January 7, such a sweet gift to children can be slightly modified and timed to coincide with the New Year holiday. Let your children look forward to the arrival of the New Year!

To prepare such a sweet Advent calendar, you will need the following ingredients:

• 300 g of butter


• 1 tbsp. Sahara


• 3 eggs


• 4,5 tbsp. flour


• 1/4 tsp. soda

For glaze:

• 150 g of powdered sugar


• 1 egg white


• juice half a lemon

Since we do not just a sweet gift, but a whole calendar, also should be stocked with certain items:

• small cut of beautiful fabric


• 30 pins


• wood rod


• 30 small ribbons


• transparent wrapper

So, let's start preparing delicious cookies. We prepare the dough for the biscuit: softened butter mix with eggs, flour, sugar and soda. Your dough should be soft and elastic enough. Cookie dough is rolled 1 cm thick.

Of course, just a round or square cookiecook is not very interesting, so we suggest you use various molds. Forms choose any. It can be hearts, asterisks, angels, herringbone ... It is advisable that you use different molds for making cookies. Now let's start baking a sweet gift for children.

Cut the dough into a baking tray andput the baked in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Your cookies should be light golden in color. The finished cookies are cooled and decorated with glaze.

The glaze is prepared in this way: one egg white and juice of half a lemonmixed until homogeneous. In it little sugar powder is added in small portions. And that the glaze is well laid on the confectionery, at the end of the cooking, a pinch of flour is added to it. Warm glaze is not required.

The prepared glaze is divided into several parts and added to them food colors of various colors. Leave a little white glaze, with which you will draw on the biscuit figures.

Apply the glaze of different colors on the biscuits and let it dry. From the top now draw figures from 1 to 30. The dried biscuits are packed in transparent bags and tied with a beautiful ribbon.

Prepare the basis for the calendar. To do this, take a cut of any fabric, you caneven with the New Year theme. On the one hand, you should stitch the allowance and insert a wooden rod into it. On this core, the calendar will hold well. To the calendar with pins fasten cookies. Your calendar is ready!

As you can see, these sweet gifts for children are not very difficult to prepare. Therefore, such a calendar can be hanged to children not only a month before the New Year. It's a great idea for a sweet New Year's gift.!