What desserts will decorate any holiday

Strawberries of lemon waffles, bezel swans, calla biscuits, peaches, nuts, mushrooms, cherry on pine needles... Remember those treats? Before, no wedding in a tent was complete without them.





Candies for the wedding During the holidays these sweets They beckoned children with their beauty. The cherries were the first to disappear from the cremans! And how much did my mother and I recycle these sugar berries?

Having a culinary education and experience in the factory canteen, my mother often cooked at weddings, wires, anniversaries. At that time, desserts, as well as money, were tight, had to get out. Every cook knew, How to make homemade candy It's as good as a store.





Recipes of these sweets are a little lost in time, but the editors "Site" I found them and rehabilitated them. The city will not understand, but the inhabitants of the outback will say thank you and remember their childhood.

Wedding sweets "Countess Cherry"



The ingredients

• 750g powdered sugar
• 3 tsp instant gelatin
• 1.25 tsp citric acid
• 150 ml of apple juice or water
• 0.5 tbsp. juice (cherry, beet, orange or carrot)
• 0.5 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp cornstarch

Preparation

1. Dissolve gelatin in water or apple juice and leave to swell. Meanwhile, sift through the powdered sugar so that there are no lumps, and mix with 1 tsp. citric acid.
2. Stir gelatin carefully so that it completely dissolves. Take 0.5 tbsp. the resulting liquid (the rest is not needed) and pour it into powdered sugar in small portions. Mix a mass similar to elastic dough. It should be thick, viscous, a little sticky.
   
   
   
   
3. Leave the mixture for 10 minutes at room temperature. Then try rolling a ball out of it. If it retains its shape well, then the mass is ready. If it is soft and the ball “floats”, add a little more powder.
4. Now act quickly, the mass dries up and it needs to be stirred periodically. From the sugar mass roll balls and stick in each pine needle. You need to pierce the balls right through.
   
   
   
   
5. So that the balls do not stick to your hands, periodically sprinkle your palms with a mixture of powdered sugar and corn starch.
6. Put the cherries on a big plate and let them dry a little. Check the readiness like this: take the cherry by the ponytail and shake it slightly: if the ball does not roll off the needle, then you can start painting.
   
   
   
   
7. In beet juice add 0.25 g of citric acid. Take each cherry by the ponytail and dip in the juice for 2-3 seconds. Pump the berries in sugar and put on a tray sprinkled with sugar. Put it in the fridge to freeze.
   
   
   
   

Strawberry cake made of waffles



The ingredients

• 500g waffle
• 200g butter
• 1.5 tsp citric acid
• 1 tbsp beet juice
• 3 tbsp sugar

Preparation

1. Sodium waffles on a grater or grind in a blender. Add the softened butter and stir.
2. From the resulting test, blind the cones, put them on a plate and put them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
   
   
   
   
3. Mix the juice and citric acid. Soak the hardened blanks in juice, then collapse in sugar. Make strawberry tails out of mint.

Hedgehog cake



The ingredients

• 400g sand cookie
• 0.5 cans of condensed
• 150g butter
• 4 tbsp cocoa
• 4 tbsp poppy
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• 100g peeled sunflower seeds
• decorator

Preparation

1. Grind the cookies to crumb. Add the softened butter, cocoa and condensed.
2. From the mass obtained, form the torso of hedgehogs. Crash the products in a mixture of powdered sugar and poppy, leaving the “face” clean.
   
   
   
   
3. Make needles from sunflower seeds, eyes and nose from chocolate. Put the finished cakes in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
   
   
   
   

Today, supermarkets can offer an unimaginable variety of sweets from all over the world, but many people with nostalgia recall the taste of cakes from childhood. Sand dough baskets with cream mushrooms, chocolate sausage and favorite cake "Potatoes"... Memories of these delicacies still drool.

Try to surprise the younger generation, and remember these unusual sweets! And remember to tell your friends, How to make these sweets and cakes at home.