Sweet edible gifts for 2018 are made from sweets, from dough, from berries and fruits, from chocolates. Make a Christmas tree, a snowman, which you can then eat with pleasure. Sweet gifts for the New Year will be appreciated by children and many adults. Such presents look very original and can be in the form of bouquets, a small tree, animals, look like a variety of objects.
DIY candy sled
Such an original present will delight any person. A sledge made of sweets can be presented to a relative, teacher, friend, girlfriend, or you can make a delicious craft to decorate a table or room for the New Year.
Here are the materials you will need for a do-it-yourself candy sled:
- striped candy canes;
- chocolate Santa Clauses;
- small chocolates;
- large flat chocolates;
- double-sided tape or glue gun;
- ribbon;
- bows.
You can make several crafts at once, as in this master class, or start with one.
Place a large chocolate bar on a flat surface. Attach candy canes to the right and left, which will become runners. Attach them with a glue gun or tape.
Using the same auxiliary materials, attach 4 small chocolates to the workpiece.
Now you need to put one more mini-chocolate on top of those four bars. Very soon, a sweet gift for the New Year will be ready.
Place 2 more pieces in the third row.
Finally, place another chocolate bar on top. Tie a ribbon around your sweet masterpiece.
If you want Santa Claus to sit on the sleigh, watch the second master class.
It is pleasant to create such New Year's sweet gifts with your own hands. Take two caramel sticks and attach a large chocolate bar to them. It's good if it depicts Santa Claus.
Of course, he will carry gifts. So make a bag of sweets. To do this, take red wrapping paper and cut a square out of it. Put small candies in it, lift the ends of the paper blank up and tie them with a ribbon.
Place chocolate Santa Claus on the sleigh, and in the back of it put a bag of gifts, which must be secured with tape.
It's easy to make a whole mob of these magical heroes to give to children or to decorate the room for the New Year.
You can also use the third workshop to choose which sweet 2018 New Year gifts you will make for the children.
In the photo you will find a list of what you need. It:
- scrap paper like the bark of a tree;
- a piece of cardboard;
- red and white thread;
- two caramel sticks with curved ends;
- chocolate Santa Claus;
- large and several small chocolates;
- glue gun or double-sided tape.
Put the chocolate on scrap paper, wrap this sweetness with it, cut off the excess and glue the edges. Attach two caramel sticks. Fix Santa Claus on the resulting sleigh, behind him, fold a pack of small chocolates and tie them with a thread.
Also make reins from the thread so that the wizard holds on to them.
You can take a break from sweets by switching from these gifts to fruity ones. See how you can present such vitamin food in an original way by packing it in a certain way.
Mandarin wreath for New Year 2018
This is how it will turn out. But first take:
- 9 large tangerines;
- red and white ribbon;
- transparent film;
- the thread is red and white;
- white paper;
- black helium pen;
- hole puncher;
- scissors.
You can use ready-made tags. Get a colored string from a sewing store and a decorative ribbon from your clerical department. Instead of tangerines, you can use small oranges. Lay the film on the work surface, put the tangerines on it in a row so that you can cover them with this film, which you will do.
Cut the rope into pieces of equal size, tie them between the tangerines.
Align the beginning and end of the resulting row. Tie the cling film to form the future wreath. Attach a tag to this last thread on which you write your congratulations.
Now you can give an edible gift or decorate the door by hanging this accessory on it, like a New Year's wreath.
For those who are indifferent to sweets, you can also present a fruit basket or edible New Year's paraphernalia from fruits.
Such edible masterpieces are very expensive, but if you wish, you can make them yourself. Take:
- pineapple or canned slices of this fruit;
- strawberry physalis;
- strawberries;
- mango;
- berries;
- other fruits on your own;
- wooden skewers;
- basket;
- foam blank.
Use a notch or deftly wielding a knife to turn the pineapple slices into flowers. It is better to take raw fruit, as canned fruit may be too soft and not keep its shape. First you need to clean it, then arrange it this way. Pierce the prepared pineapple flowers with a skewer in the center and prick the strawberry physalis.
Cut into slices of mango, melon, papaya can also be used. Stick the prepared fragments of the Christmas tree onto skewers. With cranberries, you can also string them on wooden sticks to decorate an edible gift. Don't forget about strawberries, which will also be a great decoration for your fruit basket.
For the New Year, you can buy a watermelon, from which wonderful fruit bouquets are also made.
Decorate the container with gold colored paper, put a sponge or foam inside and decorate it all with pears, tangerines, apples of the same size. Cut each kiwi in half, placing a small knife diagonally to make flowers like this. We decorate the Christmas tree with berries, and its top is decorated with an edible pineapple star.
For the next edible New Year gift, take:
- a pineapple;
- grenades;
- needles twigs;
- chocolates;
- rosebuds.
Put branches of artificial or natural needles in the basket, place a small pineapple on one side, and pomegranates on the other. Place the chocolates here as well. Decorate the fruit basket with rosebuds.
If this is a gift for an adult, put a bottle of champagne here, then the present will be appreciated.
To make it clear that the gift was made for the New Year, prepare a sticker in advance that will eloquently congratulate you on this holiday. Attach it to apples or to an orange in the basket.
An edible tree is also a great gift. This one costs more than 4,000 rubles in the store, so those who do not want to spend so much money can be advised to make this edible masterpiece themselves.
Take for the Christmas tree for the New Year 2018:
- foam cone;
- wooden skewers;
- strawberries;
- a pineapple.
You can use a green floral sponge. If the skewers are long, cut them off.
String the strawberries on wooden sticks, stick them into the cone on the dish. Peel the pineapple, cut the stars out of it, attach them to the base also with toothpicks. They will decorate this delicious Christmas tree, and a pineapple star will flaunt at its top.
If you want a delicious gift in the form of a Christmas tree to be picturesque, turn it into a snowy one. To do this, dip each strawberry on one side in melted white chocolate, and then, piercing it with a skewer, attach it to the base.
You can continue the sweets theme again by talking about how to make delicious Christmas trees. Even one of these will make the festive table even more chic and unusual.
DIY edible Christmas trees for 2018
Christmas tree made of cookies
To make a Christmas tree out of cookies, you must first bake them. The dough consists of:
- 3 glasses of flour;
- 0.5 cups of honey;
- 50 g butter;
- 120 g sugar; 50 g of water;
- 1 yolk;
- 0.5 tsp chopped spices (cardamom, cinnamon, cloves);
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 2 eggs.
For the glaze you need: 150 g of icing sugar and one protein. Then follow this sequence:
- Sift flour. Put sugar, honey, butter in a saucepan. Pour in water. Heat the container to 70 °, add half of the flour and spices. Knead the dough well immediately so that there are no lumps. Chill it, then add baking soda, eggs and the rest of the flour.
- Sprinkle flour on the work surface and put the finished dough here, which needs to be rolled out into a 1 cm thick layer. The stars are best cut using a cardboard template or a special cookie cutter.
- Lay out the blanks on tracing paper, which is covered with a baking sheet. Brush the cookies with lightly beaten yolk.
- When it's baked, remove and cool, then garnish with icing made from powdered sugar and protein.
- Using the same mass, you connect the blanks to each other, placing large stars at the bottom, and the smallest ones on top.
Edible snowflakes and Santa Clauses can be created from the same dough and frosting or melted white chocolate.
For a red color, take food coloring or use cranberry or red currant juice.
Cookies can be used to make not only a delicious Christmas tree, but also edible toys.
For these stars, you can use the previous recipe or make a new dough. It consists of:
- 400 g flour;
- 200 g granulated sugar;
- 75 ml of milk;
- 100 g butter;
- 1 tsp ginger;
- 1 yolk;
- 0.5 tsp baking powder or soda;
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon.
Recipe:
- Mix milk with sugar and cook syrup from this mass. Cool it down. Pre-softened butter must be whipped with a mixer, gradually adding this milk syrup here. Then add spices, baking soda and sifted flour here.
- Knead the dough and roll it out. Using molds, cut out the figures. They need to be laid on a baking sheet covered with parchment, greased with a mass consisting of a small amount of water and 1 yolk. Don't forget to make a hole so you can tie a ribbon here. Such cookies for the New Year will be baked in 10-15 minutes in the oven at 200 °.
- If you're serving cookies on a plate, you can simply sprinkle the caster sugar over them. And if you want to then hang on the tree, then cover with melted white chocolate, releasing it from a pastry syringe with a nozzle. When the mass hardens, you will need to tie a ribbon to the cookies and hang on the tree.
If you want to make an edible tree from such a blank, then you need to form stars of different sizes, Collect a Christmas tree from them, coat the cookies with butter. Decorate the masterpiece with whipped egg whites and small colored candies.
Meringue tree
It turns out to be light and airy.
To make a meringue, take:
- 300 g sugar;
- 5 proteins;
- one packet of vanilla sugar;
- green food coloring.
Whisk the protein until firm peaks, add sugar or powdered sugar and food coloring, and stir gently.
Using a special pastry tool, squeeze the mass onto a baking sheet covered with tracing paper, giving it the shape of small Christmas trees.
Decorate these blanks immediately with colored sprinkles and bake for about an hour at 120 °.
You can make a snow-white Christmas tree using a purchased meringue or your own cooked one.
These blanks are fastened with a cream so as to give them the shape of a Christmas tree.
You can also make New Year's sweet gifts with your own hands so that they resemble snowmen.
If you want these characters to be voluminous, then stack the baked pieces one on top of the other in 3, fastening them with butter cream. If you want to skip this step, then squeeze the mass onto a baking sheet so that it immediately resembles snowmen.
Chocolate trees
Not everyone will immediately guess that these Christmas trees are edible. Such a sweet New Year's gift is made of chocolate.
Here's what it takes to create these trees:
- chocolate;
- light cardboard or paper;
- scissors;
- candy for decoration;
- confectionery dressing;
- green food coloring;
- lemon juice;
- powdered sugar;
- protein;
- egg tray;
- chopped almonds;
- curly chewing marmalade.
Roll up the paper bags with a gap at the top, put them in the compartments of the egg tray. Pour melted chocolate inside. When it's completely frozen, peel off the top paper covering.
Whisk the protein and lemon juice, gradually adding the powdered sugar to it. Divide the mass into two parts, add green food coloring to one, cover the trees with this cream.
Using white frosting, attach round cookies, almonds, candy, and other decorations to the Christmas trees. The same mass will help create snow on the tree branches, which is covered with a small amount of dusting. You can place bear-shaped gummies next to the tree, next to which there are also delicious gifts.
Gingerbread dough occupies a special place at this holiday. Figures, little men, beautiful houses, wells and entire expositions are made of it.
DIY gingerbread dough crafts
To make such sweet New Year gifts for 2018, you will need:
- 100 g sugar;
- 150 g of honey;
- 50 g butter;
- 2 cups flour and half a cup for sprinkling;
- one egg;
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, cloves and ground ginger;
- 1 tbsp. l. baking powder.
For glaze:
- one egg white;
- 2 cups powdered sugar;
- half a teaspoon of lemon juice.
You will glue the edges of the box with white chocolate, you will need two tiles
- Put sugar, butter and honey in a saucepan. Melt all this, stirring occasionally, over low heat. When the mass is melted, remove from heat and cool. Then add the egg and stir.
- Pour in spices, baking powder, and then gradually add sifted flour. Knead the dough, wrap it in plastic and put it in the freezer for an hour and a half.
- After this time, take out the dough, cut it in two. Each will need to be rolled into a layer, the thickness of which is 3 mm.
- To prevent the dough from sticking to the work surface and to the rolling pin, you can cover it with wax paper and continue working.
- Take a template in the form of a tin can, make the same parts from the dough. Place them on a baking sheet lined with tracing paper and refrigerate for half an hour. Then you can bake.
- This is done in the oven for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees. The baked blanks need to be cooled and the excess cut off with a knife. Beat the egg white, adding lemon juice, at the end, eat out the powdered sugar, stir gently.
- In the microwave, melt the white chocolate and brush the sides of the rectangles with it to collect the boxes. Hide these corners with whipped protein cream, decorate it with edible beads.
- If you want to give the box a rounded shape, then you can grease an unpainted tin can with oil and wrap it with a layer of dough from the bottom and side. When it's baked, you will need to cool it down and carefully remove the tin can.
After you create these containers, you can put candies in them and give a sweet gift or decorate a room with them to celebrate the New Year.
Here are some edible New Year gifts you can make.
You will see the secrets of making gingerbread cookies by opening the video of the following story:
