Even more fun: 10 New Year's desserts with alcohol
Olga Lukinskaya
New Year's holidays - an excellent opportunity to learn how to cook something new. We have chosen ten recipes for desserts, each of which contains alcohol: it will not be possible to get drunk from them, but the taste will certainly be interesting. If now there is no time at all, put the matter aside for the first week of the year: there will be more time, and after the celebration there will most likely be something from the drinks.
Rum truffles
Prepared from the remains of biscuit. The oven is not necessary - just blind and allow to dry.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Crumble the sponge cake and mix the crumbs with cocoa, adding rum so that the mixture is sticky but not liquid.
Blind out the resulting mass of balls.
Roll the balls into the dressing and allow to dry.
Caramel apples with brandy
Another way to make yourself eat more fruit.
INGREDIENTS:
PREPARATION:
Melt butter and brown sugar in a griddle over low heat.
Add spices and brandy, mix.
Put the peeled and sliced apples and cook until they are slightly soft (about 3-5 minutes).
Serve with ice cream, Greek yogurt or on a slice of cake.
Amaretto Cherry Crumble
It goes well with ice cream, but is tasty by itself.
INGREDIENTS:
PREPARATION:
Grease the baking dish with butter, put all the cherries in it and pour amaretto.
In a bowl, mix the egg, sugar, salt, and flour to a crumb-like consistency. Add almonds. Spread the mixture over the surface of the cherry.
Mix melted butter with almond or amaretto extract and pour the crumble.
Bake 45 minutes at 190 degrees and serve warm.
Chocolate Cake with Red Wine
It is prepared without flour, so it is suitable for people with gluten intolerance.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Remove eggs from the refrigerator beforehand and allow them to warm to room temperature. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Prepare a baking dish with a diameter of about 22 cm (grease or lined with paper).
Melt butter and chocolate in a water bath or in a microwave. Remove from the heat, pour in the red wine and let cool.
Mix eggs, sugar and vanilla extract with a mixer at medium speed to a light and fluffy foam. The mixture should be doubled in size.
Gently mix the chocolate mixture with the egg-sugar. Transfer the resulting mass to the form and bake for 35-40 minutes.
Cool and serve with whipped cream.
Beer muffin
Perhaps the most "classic" dessert on this list.
INGREDIENTS:
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease the form and sprinkle with flour.
Beat butter or margarine with sugar until light soft cream. Continue whisking, adding eggs one at a time. Add beer and beat another two minutes.
Pour the flour and baking powder, mix the dough well and transfer it to the form.
Bake 40-45 minutes.
Tartlets with cream cheese and tequila
The most savory option in this collection, similar to the "Margarita".
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Combine the mixture for baking cake, cream cheese and whipped cream and beat for 1 minute with a mixer. The mixture should be very thick.
Add tequila and lime juice and mix for another minute.
Arrange the mixture in tartlets and serve immediately or cool.
Gummies with vodka ice cream
Looks impressive, but do not give to children.
INGREDIENTS:
PREPARATION:
Pour vodka bears and leave for two or three days.
Strain the bears and put a third of them on the bottom of the ice cream molds. Pour lemonade so that only cover the surface of the bears, and freeze for an hour and a half.
When the first layer hardens, add a second layer of bears and soda, as well as ice cream sticks. Repeat by adding the last layer. The whole freezing process takes about five hours.
Whiskey Cake "Potato"
Without flour, sugar, eggs - and you can do it, even if you do not have an oven.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Then add almond oil, and then chocolate, honey, vanilla and whiskey. Mix well with your hands and roll into balls or cylinders.
Put in the freezer.
When the cakes harden, roll them in cocoa powder and coconut sugar. Keep refrigerated.
Pears in White Wine
In fact, they can be cooked in the same way in red.
INGREDIENTS:
PREPARATION:
In a wide saucepan over medium heat combine wine, water and sugar. Add ginger, lemon zest and cinnamon. Bring to a light boil, stirring so that the sugar is completely dissolved.
Add pears, cover tightly, reduce heat. Cook until the pears are soft (10-15 minutes).
Serve warm or chilled.
Champagne Jelly
You can add and sparkling, which is exhaled in an open bottle.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
Boil the water and dissolve the gelatin in it. Allow to cool for a few minutes.
Add lemonade and champagne. Pour the mixture into a flat shape.
Cool 4-5 hours, and better all night.
Knife, oiled, cut into rectangles.
Cool before serving, and sprinkle ornaments directly in front of it (do not do it in advance, because sugar can melt).
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