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Preparing treats for New Year’s Eve is a long and painstaking process, although not devoid of a certain amount of pleasure. For children, this is always a fascinating action, when you can create a fairy tale with your own hands. Why don’t they take an active part in it? The popular German brand Hochland offers to cook together with small gourmets festive dishes that will amuse guests and become the highlight of the feast.
Big-eared hostess of the ball
The symbol of the coming year according to the Eastern calendar is the Yellow Earth Dog. Therefore, a salad in the form of a charming puppy must be displayed on the festive table.
Pre-boil 5-6 potatoes, 2-3 large carrots and 6 hard-boiled eggs. Remove the peel from the vegetables, chop them separately on a coarse grater. Eggs are cleaned from the shell, rub the whites and yolks separately from each other on a fine grater. Cut into cubes 400 g of smoked chicken breast and 200 g of canned mushrooms.
The basis of the dressing will be melted Hochland cream cheese in baths. It is made exclusively from natural cheese, which saturates all the ingredients with a unique creamy taste. So, mix 200 g of melted cheese with 100 g of sour cream, add 1 tsp of lemon juice and a pinch of paprika-the sauce is ready.
Now you can collect the salad together with the children. On a wide platter, spread the base of half of the grated potatoes in the form of a dog’s head. Add salt to the layer and brush with cheese sauce. Then there are layers of mushrooms, chicken and carrots. Do not forget to salt and lubricate the sauce with each layer. Tightly cover the dog’s head with the remaining potatoes.
With the help of grated yolks, we mark the muzzle, and sprinkle the ears with grated whites. They also spread the cheeks. You can make eyes and nose out of prunes, spice stars will help complete the portrait, and make a pink tongue out of boiled sausage. With such a charismatic symbol on the table, good luck in the new year is guaranteed.
Winged landing from Madagascar
Smiles of affection will cause the guests tartlets with penguins. For such jewelry work, small dexterous children’s hands will be very useful.
First, let’s do the filling. Whisk in the bowl of a blender the pulp of two avocados and 200 g of cottage cheese Hochland cream. Thanks to its soft consistency, it is perfectly spread on bread and is ideal for making sandwiches, as well as for use in cooking.
Assign the children the most important part — to make penguins. We will need 200 g of large and small olives without seeds. In large olives, we cut out a small longitudinal fragment, using a pastry syringe, carefully fill them with melted cheese. It will be the body of a penguin — a tailcoat with a white breast. In each small olive, insert a pointed slice of carrot. It will be a head with a beak. Thin long carrots are chopped in even circles. These will be the legs, they are also the base. With the help of skewers, we collect the penguins from the components and sit them on tartlets. Such an ensemble in black and white outfits will look spectacular on the festive table.
The most correct Santa Claus
Stuffed vegetables open up a limitless space for culinary creativity. You can fantasize both with the filling and with the edible decor.
To create an original filling, we will help the cottage cheese Hochland cream. Thanks to its soft consistency, it is perfectly spread on bread and is ideal for making sandwiches, as well as for use in cooking.
Remove the caps from the tomatoes and carefully remove the pulp. In front, you need to cut a strip, visually so we will highlight the beard. Fill the tomatoes with cheese, put the hats on top and don’t forget to make a white pompom! From the stars of spices and cranberries, make Santa Claus a nose and eyes. Make more portions — this snack will not last long on the dish.
A fairy tale in the fir forest
Sandwiches with Christmas trees — another original snack for the New Year’s table. Here we can not do without the cottage cheese Hochland “For cooking”. Its delicate, moderately dense texture will make an ideal plastic base for Christmas trees. The soft curd taste of the cheese complements any ingredients well, allowing you to create harmonious combinations.
Use shaped cookie cutters to cut Christmas trees out of Borodino bread. Spread with cottage cheese. With the help of a delicious decoration of vegetables, green onions, lay out the Christmas tree pattern on the sandwiches!
Such an elegant snack is guaranteed not to be left without the attention of guests.
Happy New Year’s Eve motorcade
Children will prepare cupcakes in the form of mischievous deer with special enthusiasm. We suggest adding one unusual ingredient to the traditional dough — cottage cheese Hochland “For cooking”. It does not spread and perfectly holds its shape during temperature processing, so it can be safely used in baking. Moreover, it gives the dough stunning creamy shades and a unique airiness.
Break into pieces 70 g of dark chocolate, add 120 g of butter and, stirring constantly, melt in a water bath. Beat with a mixer 150 g of cottage cheese, 2 eggs and 150 g of sugar. Pour this mass into the melted chocolate. Here we sift 100 g of flour with 1 tsp baking powder and 2 tbsp cocoa powder. Knead a fairly thick dough, fill it with oiled forms for cupcakes and put it in the oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.
Now it’s the decor’s turn. Melt 200 g of milk chocolate together with 70 g of butter. We lubricate this glaze with warm cupcakes. While it is not frozen, we put round sponge cookies on it — these are the faces of deer. We’ll make the horns out of salted pretzel cookies. Our eyes will be tiny white marshmallows, and our noses will be round candies in red chocolate glaze. Glue them on the cookies with melted chocolate. This reindeer sled will fit seamlessly into the decoration of the New Year’s feast.
We hope that our selection of original Christmas recipes will be useful for you and inspire you to create your own interesting dishes. Whatever you have in mind, Hochland processed and curd cheeses will help you realize any fantasy. These products with a long history always delight with impeccable quality, unique taste and richness of harmonious combinations. Thanks to them, it is so easy to create a fun and unforgettable holiday for family and friends.