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Christmas snacks in the shape of a tree – Italian Cuisine

If you are looking for an idea to immediately amaze guests, these themed appetizers perfectly target the goal: they are simple to prepare and truly original and scenographic to see

Who starts well is halfway through the work, an ancient saying goes. So what to bet on if you want yours New Year's Eve dinner or the Christmas lunch succeed perfectly if you don't give them appetizers that will open on menu? To take your guests by the throat, choose some appetizing and scenographic appetizers that the guests will not be able to resist (despite numerous courses await them). A nice idea could be to bring to the table one of the most famous symbols or theChristmas tree, which can be done in different ways, all simple and rather fast, which is no small thing when you have to prepare many dishes.

Christmas tree of puff pastry

L'Christmas sapling of puff pastry it is easy to make, beautiful to look at, and even the little ones will like it. Roll out a roll of pasta puff pastry and cut strips 2 cm wide. Cut the salami in strips, arrange it on the puff pastry and sprinkle with the parmesan. If you don't like salami, you can also use other cured meats, the result will be excellent all the same. Fold the strip over itself, giving it the shape of a tree, and insert a toothpick, previously wet under water. Arrange the saplings on the baking paper, brush the surface with the milk and bake in a preheated fan oven at 220 ° for about 15 minutes. Once baked, let them cool. Cut some cubes of parmesan, which you will use as a base for the trees, and stick the toothpick inside. At the top, place aolive to decorate.

Christmas snacks: savory saplings with olives and parmesan

The savory Christmas trees made from olives and parmesan are an original and nice idea to open the party menu. Not many ingredients are needed but the result will be mouth-watering. Add 150 g of flour white and 100 g of parmesan cheese grated. Add 100 g of butter cut into pieces. Take two eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Pour the two yolks into the mixture and keep the egg whites aside. Chop 100 g of black olives pitted and combined with the other ingredients. Knead and give the mixture the shape of a ball. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for about 30 minutes. After half an hour, take the dough and roll it out, until it has reached a thickness of about half a cm. Cut the saplings with a special shaper. Arrange them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, brush with egg whites and bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 20 minutes. Let them cool and then serve to your guests.

Savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree

Perfect for the Christmas holidays, the savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree they are a really appetizing appetizer and go well with both meat and fish lunches, depending on the filling you decide to use. Here we propose the version with the Ham. Pour 220 g of the into the robot flour, half sachet of yeast instant, 10 g of butter or oil and 5 g of salt. Start kneading, add 1 egg and continue to mix the ingredients. Take the dough and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Spread it out and make the saplings with one shaper. The molds must be in even numbers because then you will have to overlap them. Take a mold, fill with cubes of cooked ham and cheese of your choice and close with another mold. Seal the edges with a fork to prevent the filling from coming out and decorate with pink peppercorns. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 15 minutes.

Christmas 2019 will have the pink and ecofriendly tree – Italian Cuisine

Among the trends of Christmas 2019 to watch, there will be the artificial Christmas tree, pink and ecofriendly, to challenge tradition with class and elegance

Pink was one of the most popular colors of 2019, with many different shades. After being raised and loved by Millennials and be the trend color for the fashion 2019, in the spring / summer in the cyclamen shade and in the autumn / winter in that coral, the pink is about to conquer even the Christmas, displacing the timeless pine green. Many, in fact, bet on the arrival of an original and ecological Christmas trend, or that of the fuchsia and pastel pink artificial Christmas trees, but also that of the white-gray trees with pink decorations.

The 2019 Christmas tree is "green" but tinged with pink

If we can remember 2019 as a "pinkissimo" year, from many points of view, it should not be forgotten that it was also a decisive year for attention to the environment and the global fight against pollution. It is not surprising, therefore, that the trend envisaged for this Christmas is that of abandoning them definitively Christmas trees true in favor of those artificial and ecofriendly. From now on you can indeed choose from a vast selection of pink trees on the market, with colors ranging from powder pink to peach pink to the most daring fuchsia, and available in every shape and size. To confirm this new trend are the record sales on the online store Amazon and the general increase in sales of these new Christmas trees. For a romantic and classy touch, experts recommend decorating these trees with balls, ribbons and lights of a different shade of pink, for a surprising “total pink” effect, or with ice-colored decorations.

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Decorations and pink decorations on a gray background

If for this 2019 Christmas you are not yet ready for a pink tree, you can marry an alternative trend, or that ofmilk white, gray or silver tree. For this solution, even more chic and elegant, we recommend refined decorations, and in particular flowers, bows and decorations in glass or crystal, with a prevalence of rose, but also a touch of gold and silver, and for the lights white or pale yellow light bulbs with cold light.
Forecasts for Christmas 2019 suggest that this ice-colored tree matches perfectly with blue and powder blue decorations, a chromatic option that, as in the case of gray-pink, infuses calm and serenity.

In short, we are ready to bet that this 2019 Christmas will be perhaps less conventional than usual, but certainly unique, original and carefree!

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Recipe Christmas tree of panbrioche – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

400 g fresh cream
400 g flour, approx
60 g butter
60 g caster sugar
18 g brewer's yeast
4 egg yolks and an egg
honey
Bertillina vanilla
icing sugar
meringues
Orange
orange essence
Grand Marnier
salt
butter and flour for the mold

Duration: 2 h

Level: Middle

Dose: 12 people

Prepare the brioche: dissolve 15 g of yeast and a pinch of salt in 50 g of warm water. Collect 80 g of flour and melted yeast in the mixing bowl; work with a hook whisk to obtain a very soft dough; cut it with a cross cut and leave it in the bowl, to rise in a warm place (about 28 °), until it has doubled in volume, then add the remaining flour (320 g), soft butter, egg yolks, egg, a spoon of honey, sugar, a sachet of vanillin and the remaining yeast (g 3) crumbled. Start the appliance and work this mixture until it is very elastic and soft (if necessary add a couple of tablespoons of warm water). Let it rise for 3-4 hours, then work it briefly forming a ball which you will place in a pandoro mold, well buttered and floured. Let it rise for the third time, until the dough has almost filled the mold, then bake at 175 ° for about an hour. Then take it out of the oven and let it cool. When making the Christmas tree, whip the cream, flavor it with a few drops of orange essence and a tablespoon of Grand Marnier, then color about the fifth part with a few drops of red orange juice. Cut the brioche (which will look like a pandoro) into 8 horizontal slices about half a centimeter thick, so that there remains a rather high base that you will place in the serving dish. Spread it with part of the whipped cream and place the 8 slices, covered with cream, on top of each other, but with the tips staggered (to create the tree effect). Decorate the tree with the balls (meringhette), the golden threads (the colored cream used with a croissant to decorate) and the snow (a sprinkle of icing sugar). If desired, garnish the dish with frosted grapes, whipped cream and candied orange.