New Year for many people associate with sweets, delicious meals, which are material or dietary reasons, can afford only once a year. The perfect dessert for New Year should combine seemingly incongruous: be easy to prepare, but at the same time elegant, refined and original. Is it possible?

Elegant end of the meal

In light of the many people indifferent to sweet, and yet for the majority of the holiday - not a holiday if it does not complete delicious candy, cake or a luxurious mouth-watering biscuits. Christmas meal without dessert seems some defective, unfinished. At the same time choose the best dessert for New Year's table can be difficult.

There in the night - it is wrong and unhealthy. And abundant food in the New Year's Eve often leads to health problems, and only increases the weight after the holidays almost all. At the same time completely abandon the food in the feast - it means depriving yourself of the set pleasures. There is a solution: for New Year's Eve should create a balanced menu, tasty and refined, but at the same time easy and not too harmful to health.

Selection of desserts depends on what will be snacks Low calorie snacks   and a main dish. If all relatively low-fat foods and not heavy on dessert is quite possible to cook a cake, cakes, biscuits, oil. If the dishes are quite hearty New Year's table, the dessert is better to make it easier - air soufflés and sorbets, low-fat creams and jellies, fruit cakes and pastries yoghurt will provide an excellent end of the meal.

Something special

In the New Year's Eve to decorate all the dishes especially attractive. Undoubtedly, the cookies on the proven recipe is delicious in any case, even if it is crooked cut and neglected decor. But for this to cookies made an impression on visitors should try and come up to him the original decoration.

The easiest way to decorate the dessert, bought at the grocery department of a supermarket food coloring. But the easiest way - not always the best. If the table will be small children or allergies, have to do without synthetic dyes. In such a situation can get help from natural dyes. This is primarily of cocoa and chocolate, the taste of which will blend perfectly with all, including the most exquisite desserts. Green shades can be achieved with spinach juice, but it should be noted that the intensity of the tone will depend on the concentration of green. The yellow hue can be obtained using carrot juice, pink - applying the juice of berries. It is advisable to experiment with painting only desserts in advance, because the result does not always work the same as was originally intended: Raspberry Berry, Raspberry: sweet healer   during heat treatment can acquire a grayish hue, and black currant - blue-green.

Decor can be quite varied, but New Year's Eve decided to use the symbolism of the New Year. Snowmen of marshmallow or coconut sweets, hat Santa Claus or even the New Wizard of strawberries with cream, kiwi Christmas tree, snowflakes meringue - among the many variants of the New Year decoration is easy to find by a simple and very attractive.

Decorating desserts, do not forget about the taste and sense of proportion. Only an objective assessment of their own artistic talents to help create a really nice sweetness, not lopsided crafts style elementary school. If you can not cut out marshmallow angel, as in the picture in the magazine, it is better to leave this venture and decorate a cake simply but tastefully. A single flower of marzipan or chocolate on the smooth surface of the cake will look much more spectacular and more refined than carelessly cobbled together a bouquet of roses.

The optimal solution

By New Year's desserts are presented fairly conflicting requirements. On the one hand, treats should be easy to prepare, because the hostess before the holiday a lot of worries. On the other hand - they must be truly festive, elegant and refined.

As you know, the higher the quality of the raw material, the easier it may be processing. This rule is true for the desserts. So you should use to create desserts only raw materials of the highest quality. Compositionally, the dishes can be quite simple.

For example, one of the simplest and at the same time delicious dishes - chocolate mousse. Chocolate with high content of cocoa is melted and mixed with the egg yolk and then added to the mixture whipped in a solid foam with sugar proteins. For dessert was a success, should be added to proteins in two steps: first, a couple of spoons, and then the rest of the foam. The mixture is then in any case do not whip, but only stirred cautious but decisive movements. Ready chocolate mousse is dispensed into kremanki and cooled for four hours. This chocolate mousse can be made from several varieties of chocolate or chocolate with additives. In any case, get amazingly delicious and yet very simple to prepare dessert.

Another simple, but beautiful and tasty dish - jelly. It is possible to add fruit, whipped cream or English cream. Very impressive look multicolored layers of jelly: cream, cocoa, from strawberry and peach syrup. Even more refined version - Italian dessert panna cotta - in fact, it's just jelly cooked cream with vanilla sugar.

If selected as a dessert cake, better to give preference to the recipe, which allows to bake cakes in advance, at least for a couple of days before the celebration, and on December 31 they only sandwiched cream. It can be prepared in advance and frozen sweets variety - parfaits, sorbets, ice cream. It is only important to remember that these delicacies should get out of the freezer about half an hour before serving.

Maria Bykov

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