The Christmas tree is the most important symbol of the New Year, bringing the atmosphere of a long-awaited holiday into the house. When decorating the interior, we always give it the most place of honor, we decorate with the best toys and garlands, and after finishing with the design we quietly sit down and admire the festive beauty.

But Christmas trees can be not only beautiful, but also delicious! And on a festive New Year's or Christmas table, such dishes will look very original and beautiful.

Edible Christmas trees can be prepared from salads and pates, cuts of meat, sausage or cheese, pastries, vegetables and fruits, pastry mastic, as well as make jelly or jellied in containers of the appropriate shape.

In order not to be wise for a long time - after all, before the New Year, every hostess is already full of troubles - go through this collection of delicious Christmas trees, choose the option you like and embody it to the delight of guests and households, adding your own taste and imagination.

Recipes and workshops

The basic principle of creating a Christmas tree from various cuts

This is the easiest way to make an edible Christmas tree for a festive table. Such a tree can be an independent dish, or it can decorate other culinary masterpieces.

Sausage, cheese, cucumbers, various vegetables - all this is perfect for an original Christmas tree snack.

You will need a wooden skewer and half an apple to make the base of the tree. Then string the prepared food slices in a spiral, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest. You can crown the tree with a crown cut from the same product or something brighter.

To make the appetizer look more elegant, decorate the dish with vegetables, herbs, make “snow” from grated egg whites - let your imagination run wild and it will turn out even more beautiful! Try to ensure that the products which you intend to use as an addition or decor, go well with the product from which the tree itself is made.

On the "twigs" you can also place " Christmas decorations"Cut from vegetables and fruits, lingonberries or cranberries, red caviar," snow "from grated cheese or egg white, a drop of mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup or other suitable sauce or seasonings (mustard, horseradish, etc.)

By placing such snacks on the table, you will make it very elegant and festive. Another option is to decorate a dish with a Christmas tree, for example, a vegetable Christmas tree will look beautiful next to a ruddy chicken cooked whole.

Try making small pre-cut Christmas trees and serve them to guests on separate plates or as an addition to a portioned meat or fish dish.

It is not very difficult to make such Christmas trees, but how beautiful it is! Thus, you can arrange any cuts or appetizers. The Christmas tree will look very impressive against the background of "snowdrifts" - snacks made of cheese, or eggs, decorated in the form of balls. You can also place it on a plate of chicken or quail eggs.

Small Christmas trees made from fresh cucumber

Small spectacular Christmas trees can be made from fresh cucumber.

Cut the trees with baking tins or a knife (pattern).

These mini-Christmas trees can be used to decorate individual portions of dishes.
To give the cucumber trees stability, stick toothpicks into them, the lower part of which is fixed in a small cube of cheese or other hard product.

Christmas trees from salad or snack mass, pâté or sandwich paste

From a cheese and garlic snack, pâté or other finely chopped salad mass, you can mold cone-shaped Christmas trees, and then roll them in chopped greens.

Christmas trees can be decorated with lingonberries or cranberries, green peas, corn, nuts, or small curly pieces of vegetables. To prevent your jewelry from falling off, lightly press them into the mass, after dripping with thick mayonnaise.

And you can roll various masses (including salad) in the form of balls and lay out the Christmas tree from these balls. Sprinkle with herbs - and you're done!

Add spice to your appetizer with a suitable filling or several different fillings that can be placed inside the balls. This will give you a surprise snack.

In the same way, in the form of a herringbone, you can lay out, for example, stuffed eggs, rolls or other small snacks.

Well, do not forget about children - this form of serving is also suitable for desserts: curd mass, puddings and other dishes that keep their shape well.

Christmas tree salads

Christmas tree salads - it's that simple! Prepare your favorite salad (chop all ingredients) and then place on a flat tree-shaped dish.

Can be done puff salad, you can ordinary - it's a matter of taste and time.

if you have Silicone molds for a cake of the desired shape - feel free to fill it with your salad, and then tip it onto a dish (inverted salad).

Sprinkle the salad with finely chopped herbs and garnish with whatever you can find on hand.

If you are at a loss with the recipe, then take a look at our collection New Year's salads and choose the one that suits the taste of you and your guests.

By the way, in addition to the Christmas trees, there are also a lot of original New Year's designs and salad recipes, so perhaps you won't be limited to one Christmas tree.

Rolls

Popular dish today Japanese food- rolls can be laid out not only in the form of a flat Christmas tree, but also to build a voluminous Christmas tree-turret, laying them in layers on top of each other.

For a greater resemblance to the New Year's beauty, you can prepare rolls with green-colored caviar flying fish or from dyed rice.

Finish the top of the turret with a large star cut from some suitable vegetable or fruit, and on the protruding surfaces - "branches" - lay small vegetable figures, pieces of red fish or salmon caviar.

Snack tree

For a snack tree, you will need any dough that you need to wrap a bottle (preferably from a champagne) and bake in the oven until tender.

After baking and cooling, remove the dough cone from the bottle and start decorating the Christmas tree.

Using ordinary skewers, pin the green lettuce leaves onto the entire dough base.

Attach tomatoes (preferably small cherry tomatoes) and boiled shrimps on top of the leaves.

Well, then let your imagination run wild! You can decorate with anything - it can be olives, pieces of pickled mushrooms, slices canned pineapple, any cheese, sausage, seafood and everything, whatever the soul desires and what will be at hand.

Jellied herringbone

In order to prepare aspic in the form of a Christmas tree, you will need the appropriate molds.
If you have one, then you can start cooking, if not, then it's time to go shopping.

For portioned jellied are perfect silicone molds for small baked goods or freezing, and if you want to make a large Christmas tree, you will need a cake mold or a salad bowl-tree (there are also such ones).

Prepare aspic the usual recipe from meat, fish or poultry and pour into the molds, after placing the solid ingredients.

For "greenness" make the bottom layer of cucumbers and peas, adding here and there figured carrots and eggs, corn kernels and everything that you plan to put in aspic.

When the aspic has hardened, tip the molds onto the serving plates. To make your masterpiece come out of the forms quickly and accurately, you can first lower them for a few seconds in hot water or put on a hot towel.

You can additionally decorate the ready-made aspic on portioned plates with pieces of vegetables, herbs, paint snowflakes with mayonnaise or sprinkle with grated protein or cheese.

With a large jellied one, do the same as with a portioned one - tip it onto a dish, garnish and garnish around the perimeter with vegetable, meat or sausage slices.

If the aspic was prepared in a salad bowl, then it can be put on the table right in it. Only you need to decide in advance how you will serve the dish in order to arrange the solid components in the correct order.

In addition, if the aspic is supposed to be served in the same form, then the top can be made voluminous so that some of the products protrude from the frozen mass. Just first dip all the "details" in the ready-made bouillon-gelatin mixture so that they become covered with a thin film of jelly and do not become aired or darkened.

Baked meat trees

Delicious minced meat appetizer or complete meat dish with a side dish - it's up to you.

These Christmas trees are cooked in the oven and decorated with herbs, which are glued to regular mayonnaise.

In addition to them, it is served with spices, potatoes in any form or tortillas. But the side dish can be served separately, and small Christmas trees can be placed on a platter and supplemented with vegetables.

Christmas tree made of greenery

A Christmas tree on a salad can be made from greens in different ways. For example, chop greens and mix them with mayonnaise. Then lay out the Christmas tree with this mass, and then attach individual leaves to this sticky mass so that the Christmas tree looks beautiful and neat. Mayonnaise peeking through here and there will represent snow.

Such a green-mayonnaise base will help to better shape the contours of the Christmas tree.

And you can immediately attach sprigs of greens to mayonnaise. Coniferous paws are very good obtained from parsley and dill.

If you just need to cover the figure of a Christmas tree with finely chopped greens, then take what is at hand and use a cardboard template with a Christmas tree or mold cut out inside.

Flat trees on salad

You can draw Christmas trees on a salad or side dish like this: either plain mayonnaise on the dark surface of the dish, or with tinted mayonnaise (for example, mix with finely grated carrots, turmeric or dyes).

Can you do vegetable purees(rub boiled carrots, multicolored Bell pepper) or chop other foods (herbs, green leeks, olives, olives, cheese).

You can also easily lay out the tree with green peas, corn, slices of avocado, sausage or cheese.

Sausage and cheese can be useful for carving a whole tree if the product is large.

Herringbone cutting

Slicing - what could be easier? Thus, in the form of a Christmas tree, you can arrange a meat, fish or cheese plate.

Cut the food carefully and thinly, then lay out the tiers of the Christmas tree, starting with the bottom.

A wide variety of effects can be obtained depending on how you alternate the slices. Your imagination will help you come up with your own dish design, based on the size of the slices and their shape.

The prefabricated cutting of different products that complement each other well.

In some cases, the slicing can be decorated by adding "snow" and "toys", or you can leave it without decoration.

Herringbone of smoked sausage or cold cuts

Herringbone made from sujukh, smoked sausage or slices of dense smoked meat - great option meat and sausage cuts.

In the photo there is sujukh, but the Christmas tree is no worse from smoked sausage!

Cut the food into long slices, and then collect everything on a wooden skewer.

Decorating such a Christmas tree or not is up to you, but it looks great without any decorations.

From meat or sausage cuts, you can make both a large Christmas tree and arrange portioned plates by adding fresh vegetables and greenery.

Fir-trees from fruit slices

Wonderful Christmas trees are also obtained from fruits, which, like vegetables, are cut into thin slices.

For example, a kiwi Christmas tree is bright and beautiful. She will not only decorate the festive table, but also add a good mood.

Kiwi fruits must be carefully peeled and cut into circles, or slightly obliquely, so that the slices are more elongated.

If you want to make small portioned Christmas trees, then the kiwi circles can be cut in half and strung on a skewer so that the halves look in one direction.

Use grains, lingonberries or cranberries to decorate this tree.

A herringbone made of grapefruit, lemon or orange will add not only beauty and brightness festive table, but will also fill the room with a wonderful citrus scent.

Fruit trees are harvested in the same way as vegetable trees, and fruits are cut into slices.

If the circles are large (orange or grapefruit), then cut them in half into wedges.

If it is assumed that the fruit tree will stand long enough, then the slices can be dipped in gelatin dissolved in the appropriate juice before stringing, and the finished structure can be placed in the refrigerator for a while.

Gingerbread trees

Edible Christmas trees can be made from stacked on top of each other gingerbread or cookies.

You will need to bake octagonal or hexagonal gingerbread cookies, or make different sized star-shaped baked goods.

The size of such gingerbread should be decreasing: the bottom asterisk is the largest, then smaller, even smaller, at the top - the smallest.
And you can fasten them with a drop of very thick sugar syrup, icing or melted chocolate.

You can, of course, just lay the gingerbread cookies on top of each other (if they are large enough), but such a structure can crumble at any minute if you move it carelessly.

By the way, if before baking in the center of each gingerbread star you make a hole with a small round recess, then the finished gingerbread cookies can be strung on a wooden rod like a pyramid.

In this case, the structure will be durable, and the gingerbread does not need to be glued together.

The top of such a Christmas tree can be decorated with half a marshmallow or marmalade.

Decorate the finished Christmas tree with "toys" made from candied fruits, dragees, gummies or small chocolate figurines, securing everything with drops of chocolate or glaze.

To make a sweet Christmas tree elegant, you can prepare candied fruits from bright orange and lemon peels by cutting out small stars, hearts, flowers and other figures from them. You can also sculpt decorations from pastry paste.

You can draw “snow” from white glaze or white chocolate, and “confetti” from colored ones.

A beautiful Christmas tree will turn out if the gingerbread cookies are pre-glazed, dried, and then assembled the entire structure.

Flat gingerbread trees

Bake flat Christmas trees according to any simple or your favorite gingerbread recipe and paint them with icing.

Gingerbread trees can be made large and small, in different shapes and with holes for hanging as a decoration for a real Christmas tree.

Delicious painted gingerbread Christmas trees are a great original gift for New Year, which you can make with your own hands for friends and family.

Place the cooked gingerbread cookies in a beautiful box or wicker basket, add a little Christmas card and the gift is ready!

For the New Year's table, gingerbread cookies can be decorated not only with glaze, but also with various cream, marzipan or pastry mastic.

Christmas tree-shaped potato cakes

Pyramidal Christmas trees can also be made from the plastic mass of some cakes without baking or sweet sausages. You can simply shape them with your hands.

For making Christmas tree cakes, the base from the Anthill cake, the plastic sweet mass for the Potato cakes and the mixture for chocolate sausage from cookies are suitable.

To make the base, combine the biscuit crumbs, ground biscuits or croutons with condensed milk and butter. Knead until homogeneous and the desired density - so that the figures do not crumble and do not float, but keep their shape well.

The mass can be dyed with cocoa powder or green food coloring, flavored with vanilla, citrus zest, liqueur, etc. optional.

You can also add crushed nuts, chocolate chips, chopped dried fruits, raisins, candied fruits, pieces of marmalade to the mass - there are a lot of options and you can experiment and make cakes with different additives.

Form a cone-shaped Christmas tree from the finished mass, roll them in the "snow" of coconut chips or colored sprinkles, or decorate as desired with various small delicacies, cream, whipped egg white, etc.

The cakes must be refrigerated to soak and harden.

Christmas tree made of profiteroles

Profiteroles - small balls of choux pastry which, if stuffed with cream, would become custard cakes (eclairs).

To make a Christmas tree from such balls, dip the profiteroles in melted chocolate. It will act as glue and connect the balls.

You can use white chocolate, then your Christmas tree will be "snowy".

You can decorate a Christmas tree in the same way as a gingerbread or "potato" one.

The Christmas tree can also be assembled from “full-fledged” cakes, filling them with cream or whipped cream, and then laying them on the dish in tiers, starting with the largest ones.

To keep the structure strong, prepare caramel and dip one side of the cake in it. The caramel will harden and glue the cakes together.

The finished tree can be decorated caramel threads, icing snowflakes or mastic toys.

Choose right away the dish on which you will serve the Christmas tree, because after assembly it is unlikely that it will be possible to neatly rearrange it. However, the base of the tree can also be made edible by placing the cakes on a muffin or biscuit.

Herringbone made of nuts and coconut

To decorate the cake in this way, cover its surface with a layer of cream, and then use a paper template to draw the outlines of the future tree.

Remove the template, draw the missing lines, and carefully lay out all the outlines with nuts.

Fall asleep in the middle of the drawing coconut flakes colored green. Add bright elements - "toys".

Such a Christmas tree on a cake can be laid out not only with nuts, but also with any small sweets or fruits. You can also just put a gingerbread Christmas tree on the cake.

Cupcakes and Cakes with Cream Christmas Trees

You can decorate biscuit or shortbread, cakes, or regular small cream muffins. You can bake the base yourself, or use ready-made cookies or muffins. This is done using a pastry bag with a nozzle.

The Christmas tree can be completely creamy, or it can contain a "surprise" inside - in this case, in the form of a strawberry. By the way, strawberries, in turn, can also be filled with jelly, or

Instead of strawberries, you can place a nut, candy, marshmallow, marmalade and whatever you like inside.

To prevent the structure from falling apart, connect the parts with icing, melted chocolate or thick jam.

The cream dyed with food coloring will add naturalness to the tree, and small bright stars and candy peas will make it beautiful and elegant.

Christmas trees from confectionery mastic

Christmas trees can be made from pastry mastic, which will serve as an independent dessert, or will be an excellent decoration for cakes or pastries.

They can be of a wide variety of shapes, sizes and methods of execution, because mastic opens up very wide opportunities for creating different figures.

Please select suitable recipe pastry mastic or buy ready-made. And then go to our page, which shows the manufacturing options step by step.

Fruit Christmas tree

A fruit tree is a dessert pyramid with berries and fruits strung on "branches". This option for serving fruit is also called a fruit bouquet.

The tree frame can be of several types.
The first option is half an apple with a core cut and a peeled carrot inserted into it.

Apple and carrots are pierced with toothpicks, onto which pieces of fruit (tangerine slices, grapes, strawberries, etc.) are strung.

The second option is a cake " Chocolate sausage"Or" Anthill ", formed in the form of a cone (you can do this with a parchment bag and let it harden). And then, too, chop the berries on skewers and stick them into the cake.

The third option is based on the principle of the Fruit Bouquet, when the base is made of inedible material, and pieces of fruit and berries are also attached to it with skewers.

The fruits used can be pre-dipped in syrup with the addition of gelatin or chocolate icing and let it freeze. In this way, you prevent the pieces of fruit from drying out, drying out and losing juice. In addition, the syrup can be flavored with juices, alcohol, vanilla, spices and this will add piquancy to the usual fruits.

But this strawberry tree is made by gluing strawberries onto a cardboard cone using melted chocolate. Simple, but how effective!

Candy tree

The candy tree is edible only partially, but it is very effective and hides a surprise - a bottle of champagne.

It is best to create such a Christmas tree on a cardboard cone slightly larger than a bottle, and not glue candies and decorations directly onto glass.

The cone is pasted over with tinsel or other material, and then candies are attached to it.

You can also pack and fix the candies in a special way on skewers, and then stick them into a foam cone, decorating the empty spaces with tinsel, bows and other decorations. This option is suitable for children.

Such a candy tree is a great New Year's gift and it is not at all difficult to make it. The main thing is to choose sweets that will suit the taste of the one you are going to present. And if this gift is intended for a child, then instead of champagne, you can use its non-alcoholic children's counterpart or apple cider, which is sold in the same bottles as champagne.

If you liked the idea of ​​a candy tree, go to our page with New Year's candy bouquets - there are more detailed description the process of making such compositions and many more interesting things.

Of course, these are far from all the options for creating edible Christmas trees, as you can see by looking at the pictures below and reading the recipes and master classes given at the beginning of the article. We hope our article and selection will help you decorate the festive table and give you a lot original ideas that will decorate your holiday.

Ideas, ideas ...

New Year is getting closer and closer every day. We offer several ideas for decorating dishes for the holiday. See what beautiful edible Christmas trees can decorate your New Year's table! The creation of such edible beauties will not take much time, but it is guaranteed to become a festive highlight of the table!

A delicious Christmas tree for the New Year's table can be made from sweets, cookies, fruits or vegetables. Or you can even bake a pizza or a pie in the shape of a Christmas tree, or serve a salad, laying it out in a slide and decorating it with an asterisk. Use whatever you want to create an edible beauty, and to give it a green color, do not forget about dill, parsley, cucumbers, broccoli, spinach, kiwi, green apples. Food coloring will help you in baking. But the New Year tree can be multi-colored, like the real one - decorated with multi-colored toys, tinsel, garlands. Imagine with what delight your children will help to create and then “destroy” such a New Year's beauty!

We've put together some delicious Christmas tree ideas for you. We hope that among them you will find the one that you really like and will decorate your New Year's table!

1. Fir-trees from vegetables and fruits

The idea is quite simple to implement, so every housewife will be able to cope with it. You can make such Christmas trees from anything, and on the New Year's table they will look elegant, spectacular and natural. Such trees (especially small ones) can become a decoration various dishes and snacks.

To create such Christmas trees you will need:
- fruits and vegetables to choose from: pickled or fresh cucumbers, cheese, bell peppers, sausages, oranges, lemons ...
- additional decor at will: fresh herbs, olives, olives, bright vegetables ... - half an apple for the base
- wooden skewer (about 20-25 cm long)

The process of creating Christmas trees from vegetables and fruits:

First of all, let's prepare the base of our Christmas tree. To do this, cut the apple in half lengthwise. Take one half and turn it over on a plate, and stick a wooden skewer in the center (the sharp end should point up!).

Next, slice a snack, such as pickles or pickles. One tree will take about 2-4 cucumbers. You need to cut it obliquely and not very thinly (this applies specifically to pickled snacks, since they are soft). Thus, the branches will not sag and a beautiful shape should be obtained.

Now begin to string a slice of vegetable on a skewer in a circle. Start with the largest pieces and work your way down to smaller pieces. String in such a way that the most beautiful edge looks out. It will look more beautiful if the skin on the outer edge of the piece is facing up.

Take the smallest cucumber, cut it in half and use it as the crown. Anything will do here! You can cut a star out of a carrot, plant a small cherry tomato or an olive.

Decorate the plate itself, for example, fresh greens will look great in this case. By analogy, you can create a Christmas tree from fresh cucumbers, only you need to cut it a little thinner, as they will keep their shape well.

Create Christmas trees not only from vegetables, but from fruits. You can use them as decoration for desserts.

Such Christmas trees are quite convenient both in movement (it is only important to take it by the apple, and not by the stem), and in use. It is enough to remove the top of the Christmas tree and it is ready for use.

2. Baguette herringbone

For a salad, three cheese, eggs, cucumbers, chop the nuts and crush the garlic + mayonnaise, mix well. Cut the baguette in half and dry in the oven, stuff with salad and put together on a plate, put some salad. We hoist our sandwich vertically and coat it with salad. Now we are making a Christmas tree - we begin to fasten (stick at an angle) dill, bring the dill to the top.

We insert the needle into a long thread, at the end we tie a toothpick. We string alternately tomatoes, grapes, shrimps, cheese and mussels. We stick one end of the toothpick at the bottom, then wrap the Christmas tree and stick the second toothpick on top. We make snow with squirrel and stick a cheese star into the top.

3. Chocolate herringbone

For real magic for the New Year's table, you can prepare a real chocolate Christmas tree. The recipe for this delicious dessert very simple. But it will truly delight not only guests, but also the smallest sweet lovers.

Ingredients:

• 500 g dark chocolate (the bars should be just chocolate, no additives)
• 60 g Extra dark chocolate
• 250 g of roasted nuts (you can take either walnuts or hazelnuts, as well as almonds or even cashews),
• 1 nut for decoration (almond or Brazilian),
• Powdered sugar (for decoration) - 20-30 grams

Preparation:

Prepare in advance a metal tray for making "spruce branches". To do this, wrap the tray with foil. It is important that the surface is level so that the branches do not sag. You can also use a wooden board wrapped in foil, but then the mass will harden longer. Mark 9 crosses on the foil, leaving 2.5 cm between each cross. Cross sizes: 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 cm.
You also need to prepare the base of the tree: it can be a dense, rigid cardboard circle, etc. with a diameter of 20 cm, wrapped in foil. Mark an 18 cm cross on it.

Break the chocolate into pieces and put on water bath... When the chocolate is completely melted and smooth, remove from the water. baths, stir with coarsely ground nuts. Stir everything well.
Important: you cannot use a blender to chop nuts, because nuts are needed in large pieces.

With the help of teaspoons, put the soft chocolate-nut mass on the cross of the base of the tree and on the rest of the crosses and allow to harden.

Do not freeze! If the kitchen is cool, you can cool it there. If it's warm - in the refrigerator. In the room, the mass takes longer to cool, but has a stronger shine.
Then carefully separate the finished branches from the tray (we do not touch the base of the tree, we will glue the rest of the branches onto it).

Melt 60 g of Extra chocolate until soft and add about half of 1 tsp into the middle of the cross of the base of the tree. On this "glue" carefully place the largest cross-branch. Press down slightly and allow the glue to dry. Further in the same order.

Place a drop of chocolate on the last branch in the center and stick a nut for decoration. Sprinkle the finished Christmas tree with icing sugar.

Such a Christmas tree can decorate any festive table as a New Year's dessert!

4. Fruit and berry Christmas trees

Christmas trees from grapefruit, orange, lime, lemon, kiwi are harvested in the same way as from cucumbers. Cut the fruit into circles (about 0.5 cm thick). If they are large, cut in half. Lemon and lime Christmas trees, in addition to tea, are served with cognac and fish dishes.

Sweet assorted Christmas trees made of apples and pears will be a pleasant surprise for kids and adults. The principle of their manufacture is the same, but pear and apple half rings must be immediately sprinkled with lemon juice, otherwise they will darken. Ready Christmas trees are watered sugar syrup and decorate with raisins.

You can prepare this version of the fruit tree: Cut 2 apples into thin circles. Cut hexagons using shapes of different sizes. Fold them on top of each other, you can pierce them with a skewer for stability. You can use a pear instead of an apple. To do this, cut the pear in half lengthwise, remove the middle, then cut into slices (they are almost triangular). Lay them out with an asterisk on a plate. Decorate with grapes.

Another fruit tree made of 1 pear and 1 apple, sealed with cream:

5. Cheese Christmas trees

For a delicious cheese tree, you need 300 g hard cheese, 4-5 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1-2 cloves of garlic, fresh dill, lettuce. Cheese is grated, chopped garlic and mayonnaise are added to it. The products are mixed well and form small cones from the resulting mass.

Dill greens are finely chopped. In it, carefully, so as not to lose their shape, the cones are rolled: the fluffy Christmas trees are ready. They are placed on a large flat plate lined with lettuce leaves.

Now you can take care of a beautiful outfit for the Christmas trees. At the top is a star from lemon peel, in diameter - beads of red caviar or pomegranate seeds.

You can use soft feta cheese to create small sandwich appetizers. From soft cheese form small cones, roll in chopped greens, set the herringbone on a salted cracker or crouton and decorate with a pomegranate seed or carrot star.

6. Edible gingerbread herringbone

In a large bowl, combine 600 g of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 2-3 teaspoons of ground ginger and a pinch of salt. Butter (200 g) is rubbed with 150 g of brown sugar using a mixer. A mixture of dry ingredients is gradually added to them. The mixer should be running at the lowest speed. The homogeneous dough is divided into two equal parts, each is wrapped in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Patterns-stars for the Christmas tree with dimensions of 20 cm, 15 cm, 10 cm, 7 and 5 cm are cut out of cardboard. One part of the chilled dough is rolled out between sheets of paper for baking into a thin cake (5-6 mm). Using templates, cut out 3 blanks of each size, except for the smallest, with a sharp knife. They are made from the second half of the dough, as much as possible. A suitable cookie cutter will make the job much easier.

The stars are baked in the oven at 180 degrees until golden brown, 7-10 minutes. The baking sheet is not greased, the workpieces are laid out on special paper.

While they cool down, whip one egg white... Gradually, 1.5 cups of powdered sugar are poured into it (2 tablespoons each). This white "glue" is thickly smeared and the stars from the dough are connected. First, the largest ones are taken, 5 cm stars are placed between them, and their rays should not coincide. The structure is crowned with a small asterisk, placed vertically. The remnants of the whipped protein are applied to the branches of ginger spruce, for beauty.

If desired, the Christmas tree made of dough can be decorated with dragee balls, small candies, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

7. Olivier salad - herringbone

Make an Olivier salad according to your favorite home recipe but no cucumbers. Put it on a platter, giving it the shape of a Christmas tree. Grate cucumbers on a coarse grater. Cover the salad with cucumber needles on all sides. Decorate with cherry tomatoes on top, make a garland of corn or peas.

Or make it easy for yourself and place a herringbone of pickled green peas on top of the salad.

8. Sandwich Christmas trees

Use your imagination and make small Christmas tree-shaped toasts, then either garnish them with slices of fresh cucumber, or make small double sandwiches with different spreads.

Or you can simply fold the canapes with cheese in the shape of a voluminous Christmas tree, as in the middle picture:

9. Christmas trees - cupcakes

Cook any chocolate muffins, attach herringbone waffle cones on top and decorate green cream(use food coloring to create the desired shade).

You can also make mini-cupcakes by decorating berries - strawberries with cream.

10. Crab salad

Crab sticks, corn, eggs, rice, mayonnaise. Stir, lay out in a cone, garnish with chopped leek stalks:

11. Christmas tree cookies

Bake cookies according to your favorite recipe. Cut out decorations from the same shapes, draw a garland with glaze:

12. Jellied

Meat or fish aspic can be made in a herringbone-shaped baking dish:

13. Cake

And your favorite cake is easily decorated with a Christmas tree made of kiwi slices:

14. Vegetarian broccoli trees:

15. Snack tree

Another vegetarian and very a budget option Christmas trees - celery and carrots:

16. Pizza - Christmas tree

Roll up puff pastry roll and cut into small balls, put them on a baking sheet in the shape of a Christmas tree, decorate with the filling on top.

Or just bake a tree-shaped pizza according to your favorite recipe:

17. Pita Christmas trees

A beautiful Christmas tree is also obtained from pieces of ready-made pita. Let's decorate the tree with guacamole and bell pepper. If you don't have a ready-made Mexican guacamole sauce, you can make one. To do this, beat the pulp of one avocado with salt and a few teaspoons in a blender. lemon juice or lime juice. If desired, you can also puree chili peppers, tomatoes, herbs together. In a bowl, combine the guacamole, sour cream, and chopped parsley. Cover the finished pita with sauce, pieces bell pepper arrange on a pita in the form of a garland or Christmas tree balls.

And a few more options for edible trees with which you can decorate the New Year's table:

Christmas tree - the main element New Year's decor... According to tradition, toys, garlands, tinsel are hung on it to make it look like a real beauty. However, some Christmas trees are not only admired and admired, they are eaten with pleasure ... Because they are made from different products.

Read in this article:

Edible herringbone made from fresh or pickled cucumbers

Cucumbers are cut obliquely, fresh - thinly, and pickled, as softer - a little thicker. The slices are strung on a long stick. First, the largest pieces are used, and closer to the top, small ones.

A green olive, a bean, or just the tip of a cucumber is used as the crown of such a Christmas tree. You can crown it with an asterisk made from boiled carrots, red bell pepper, cheese.

Herringbone snack with cheese (smoked sausage) and olives

The basis for the cheese tree is a half of a tomato or a thick circle of cucumber, and the trunk of the tree is stuck into it - a wooden skewer. Cheese is taken without large holes, dense, otherwise it will crumble. They cut it into triangles of different sizes and put it on a skewer, alternating three slices of cheese and one olive, and finish with it.

The plate on which the Christmas tree stands is filled canned corn, olives. Or lay out a bright border of greenery on it, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.

Cheese can be substituted smoked sausage... An appetizing salami or cervelat Christmas tree will not go unnoticed on the festive table.

Fruit edible Christmas trees

Christmas trees from grapefruit, orange, lime, lemon, kiwi are harvested in the same way as from cucumbers. Cut the fruit into circles (about 0.5 cm thick). If they are large, cut in half. Lemon and lime Christmas trees, in addition to tea, are served with cognac and fish dishes.

Sweet assorted Christmas trees made of apples and pears will be a pleasant surprise for kids and adults. The principle of their manufacture is the same, but pear and apple half rings must be immediately sprinkled with lemon juice, otherwise they will darken. Finished Christmas trees are poured with sugar syrup and decorated with raisins.

Edible salad herringbone

various edible Christmas trees - design ideas

For tasty edible herringbone you will need 300 g of hard cheese, 4-5 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1-2 cloves of garlic, fresh dill, lettuce. Cheese is grated, chopped garlic and mayonnaise are added to it. The products are mixed well and form small cones from the resulting mass.

Dill greens are finely chopped. In it, carefully, so as not to lose their shape, the cones are rolled: the fluffy Christmas trees are ready. They are placed on a large flat plate lined with lettuce leaves.

Now you can take care of a beautiful outfit for the Christmas trees. At the top is a star made of lemon zest, in diameter there are beads of red caviar or pomegranate seeds.

Edible gingerbread herringbone

In a large bowl, combine 600 g of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 2-3 teaspoons of ground ginger and a pinch of salt. Butter (200 g) is rubbed with 150 g of brown sugar using a mixer. A mixture of dry ingredients is gradually added to them. The mixer should be running at the lowest speed. The homogeneous dough is divided into two equal parts, each is wrapped in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Patterns-stars for the Christmas tree with dimensions of 20 cm, 15 cm, 10 cm, 7 and 5 cm are cut out of cardboard. One part of the chilled dough is rolled out between sheets of paper for baking into a thin cake (5-6 mm). Using templates, cut out 3 blanks of each size, except for the smallest, with a sharp knife. They are made from the second half of the dough, as much as possible. A suitable cookie cutter will make the job much easier.

The stars are baked in the oven at 180 degrees until golden brown, 7-10 minutes. The baking sheet is not greased, the workpieces are laid out on special paper.

Whisk one egg white while they cool. Gradually, 1.5 cups of powdered sugar are poured into it (2 tablespoons each). This white "glue" is thickly smeared and the stars from the dough are connected. First, the largest ones are taken, 5 cm stars are placed between them, and their rays should not coincide. The structure is crowned with a small asterisk, placed vertically. The remnants of the whipped protein are applied to the branches of ginger spruce, for beauty.

If desired, the Christmas tree made of dough can be decorated with dragee balls, small candies, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Now imagine a Christmas tree on a festive table, and an edible tree. The Christmas tree is one of the main symbols of the new year! Cool?

A beautiful and tasty Christmas tree made of fruits and vegetables will be an ideal decoration for your New Year's table, and will give everyone a New Year's and cheerful mood. Such an elegant Christmas tree will decorate not only a Christmas or New Year's table, but also any children's, and perhaps even an adult's, holiday. Since the Christmas tree consists of fruits, it will not be eaten immediately and will have time to please the guests with its appearance.

You don't have to limit yourself to the selection of foods that are in the photos of our recipes. You can diversify this Christmas tree by turning on your imagination.

With the help of special knives, fruits and vegetables can be shaped into almost any shape.
If you have no desire to come up with something new yourself, then you can use simple recipes, which we have chosen to decorate the New Year's table.

To create edible Christmas trees, you will need the following foods and items.

Fruits and vegetables to choose from: fresh and pickled cucumbers, cheese, bell peppers, sausages, oranges, lemons ... Products for decoration are fresh herbs, olives, olives, various bright vegetables, and most importantly - half a large apple for tree basics... Wooden, bamboo skewer (about 20-25 cm long), as well as ordinary toothpicks.

Cooking Christmas trees

The first thing we need to do is prepare the base for the Christmas tree. To do this, take a large apple, half mode.
Take one half and turn it over onto a plate, and stick a wooden skewer in the center - with the sharp end at the top.

Such Christmas trees are quite convenient both in movement (it is only important to take it by the apple, and not by the stem), and in use. It is enough to remove the top of the Christmas tree, and it is ready for use.

How to make a Christmas tree from fruits and toothpicks

• Cut off the bottom of the apple, place it on a saucer on the cut part.
• Peel the carrot, place it on a toothpick with the wide side and stick the other end of this toothpick into the top of the apple in the middle.
• Poke toothpicks into the carrot and apple, onto which you will string the fruit later.

• The tree skeleton is ready.
• Place the lettuce leaves on a platter around the apple.
• Cut the fruit into slices, slices, slices.
• Flowers and stars can be cut out of pineapple slices.
• Use whole berries.
• String fruits and berries on toothpicks, as your imagination tells you.
• On the top of the tree, place the star carved from the pineapple circle.

In order not to spoil appearance your Christmas tree, chopped fruit should be sprinkled with lemon juice.

If desired, under the herringbone, lay greens - dill or parsley. You can lightly garnish the tree with whipped cream.

Cooking Christmas tree made of cheese with olives

Required:

• cheese (sliced),
• pitted olives,
• a slice of a large cucumber,
• a slice of pepper for a star.

Cooking method

Cut off a thick circle of cucumber and secure a wooden skewer in it. Cut triangles out of the cheese and string them onto a skewer.

After 3 slices of cheese, string one olive.

Cut each next three cheese triangles a little smaller.

Cut a star or spire out of the pepper and attach it to the top of the tree.

We wish you a happy and cheerful New Year!

DIY edible Christmas trees.

New Year is rushing to us! DIY edible Christmas trees.

Christmas tree made of fruits.

You can serve on the New Year's table extraordinary salad from fruit in the form of a herringbone, which will come in handy.

For the Christmas tree, you can use any favorite fruits and berries, for example, strawberries, banana, kiwi, plum,
black and green grapes, pieces of pears and apples, etc.

Use one medium to large carrot for the frame and an apple for the base. Peel the carrots. Cut off the bottom of the apple for stability. Punch a hole in the apple so that the carrots fit tightly into it. Insert toothpicks into the carrots and apple along the edges and put fruits and berries on them, decorate with a carrot star on top.

The fruit tree is ready!

Herringbone made of vegetables using the example of a cucumber.

A very simple idea for decorating a New Year's table - a cucumber herringbone decorated with bell pepper.
Such decoration will take no more than 5 minutes.

Create a base for the Christmas tree, for which cut off the "butt" of the cucumber and insert a kebab skewer into it.

Slice the cucumber diagonally into circles (slightly ovals). Then start slipping the cucumber slices onto the base.

Decorate the finished tree with colored pepper pieces as toys. The star can be carved from bell peppers.

Such Christmas trees can be created from almost any fruits and vegetables, see for more ideas.

Christmas cake in the shape of a Christmas tree.

To create a cake you will need:

For a biscuit for 6 cakes:

3 eggs
- a pinch of salt
- 75 g sugar
- 100 g ground almonds
- 25 g starch
- 25 g flour

For snow tops:

3 tbsp. l. icing sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice

For decoration:

100 g white chocolate
- 100 g pistachios
- powdered sugar for the image of snow

The process of making a herringbone cake:

To bake these biscuits, you will need baking paper... Draw circles with a diameter of about 20 cm on paper, cut them out, cut them radially to the center, roll them up in small bags and secure with paper clips.

Paper buns must be arranged vertically, for example,
in glass glasses with a smaller diameter than the diameter of the bags.

Separate the whites from the yolks, beat until firm foam with a pinch of salt, continue whisking,
adding sugar gradually. Then add the yolks.
Mix ground almonds with starch and flour. Gently mix the flour mixture into the egg mass.

Fill a pastry bag with the dough and use it to fill paper bags.
Or use a teaspoon, making sure that no voids form in the bags.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, preheating it to 180 ° C.
Remove from oven and leave to cool.

Detail the pistachios. White chocolate melt in a water bath.

The cooled biscuits must be carefully freed from the paper with a sharp knife,
trim the base evenly if necessary.

Using a brush, coat the biscuits with a thin layer of chocolate and roll in crushed pistachios.

Red balls of jam or preserves can be applied using a simple syringe without a needle.
Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice and spoon the resulting icing onto the tops of the cones.
Sprinkle icing sugar on top of the tree.

Your Christmas tree cake is ready!

Marmalade Christmas tree.

You can also use half an apple or
half a foam ball + wooden barbecue stick.

String gummies, shifting each subsequent one relative to the previous one at a certain angle.

A very beautiful Christmas tree will turn out if you cut stars from thin marmalade and also put on a skewer.
Another idea of ​​such a Christmas tree is here.

Christmas tree made of marmalade.

To create a sweet Christmas tree from marmalade, you will need:

Foam cone
- gummies in the form of balls
- toothpicks.

The process of making a gummy tree:

Take the gummies and start stringing it on the toothpicks.
Then stick them one at a time into the foam blank.

As a result, you will have a pretty appetizing Christmas tree.
With such a New Year's craft, you can decorate both a festive table and any room in an original way.

New Year's wreath of marmalade on the table.

Such a delicious decor can decorate not only the New Year's table, but also the interior.

To create a gummy wreath you will need:

Foam circle
- multi-colored gummies of a suitable shape
- toothpicks (wooden).

The process of making a marmalade wreath:

If you do not have a foam circle, you can make a small wreath,
using a regular pretzel or a delicious bagel as a base.

Carefully cut the wooden toothpicks into two equal pieces using a sharp knife or scissors.
Make sure there are no burrs on the tree

Then start sticking the halves of the toothpicks into the gummies with a blunt end,
and sharp - in an edible bagel or in a foam circle.

Tie a beautiful bow to the finished gummy wreath and you can place it on the table or on the wall,
and also give as a delicious original gift.

Herringbone made of mastic.

Unlike many other home-made trees, such trees can be eaten after the New Year!

To make mastic you will need:

Powdered sugar (500 gr.)
- gelatin (10 gr.)
- water (50 gr.)
- lemon juice (you can use citric acid)

Making mastic step by step:

Soak gelatin in cold water 15 minutes.
After that, it must be melted (in no case boil, so as not to lose its properties).

Sift the icing sugar and gradually add to the gelatin, stirring well,
until you get homogeneous mass white.

The mastic should not stick to your hands. If it turns out to be sticky, then you need to add some more powder,
and if it crumbles, then a little lemon juice.

In general, it is better to immediately use 2/3 of the total amount of powder, and the rest should be added gradually. If you have not dealt with mastic before, it is better not to add lemon juice, from which the mastic dries faster, but the color turns out to be whiter. To begin with, you can add a certain amount to the mastic butter or glycerin - it will not dry so quickly.

Mix the mastic for about 10-15 minutes.
In the end, I should be satisfied plastic mass, similar to plasticine.

To give the mastic the desired color, use food coloring.
Touch up at the end of the batch, if using dry dye, then dilute it with a few drops of water.

The mastic must be stored in an oilcloth, as it quickly weeds.
You can also cover with a damp cloth.

We make Christmas trees from mastic

You can create completely unusual decorative elements from mastic; below are some ideas for creating a Christmas tree from mastic. More creative Christmas trees. The finished Christmas tree will need to be decorated with mastic balls and garlands of other colors.

New Year Cake"Christmas tree"

If you want to make the same edible Christmas tree, it's still better to prepare in advance.
You can make decorations for the future Christmas tree in advance, especially since they can be stored for a long time.
You can also bake the cake itself in advance and store it without seasoning with cream.
And you can fill up with cream the day before.

But let's talk about everything in order.

1. Stand.

We need a three-tiered one. Double-deck candy bowls are fine too.
You can also buy plastic plates of different sizes and drill a hole in them.
Wrap this whole structure with foil and glued the legs from below - 4 plastic bottle caps.
Well, if you do not have the strength for this, your Christmas tree may well be a cone.
Only its size will not be so large, otherwise it will creep under its own weight.

2. Toys.

They are made very simply and quickly - from sugar mastic. It is quite possible to do it yourself.
Or you can buy it in a confectioner's shop. For color, add to the mastic food coloring. .
The principle of working with it is the same as with the cookie dough. Only instead of flour, powdered sugar or starch is used for dusting. Cut toys with molds, and decorate with cake sprinkles.
They need to dry a little. Instead of glue for appliqués, a brush with water is used.

You can use your favorite recipe, for example "Anthill", only grind ready cake into small pieces,
to get a mass for modeling.

Here's one of the recipes:

1 egg
- 250 gr. oils
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup milk
- 3.5 cups flour

Knead the dough and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Pass through a meat grinder and put in slides on a baking sheet.
Bake until golden brown. Break with your hands.

Beat 250 gr. butter with 1 can of boiled condensed milk and 0.5 cans of ordinary.

Mix the chunks and cream together. You can add chopped nuts, dried fruits and raisins to taste. Put the mass, tamping, with a slide and put in the refrigerator for fastening and impregnation for a couple of hours. Better at night.

4. Assembly.

You just need to stick around each tier, pressing and leveling. It is more convenient to do this with your hands soaked in water.

5. Decoration.

For the "needles" we need green mastic.

Cut out triangles with a curly wheel for pies, but you can also do this with a simple knife.
And paste over the tree from top to bottom.

From above, brush with a dye diluted in water - for shine.
Glue ready-made decorations. Instead of glue, use a brush with water.
The Christmas tree is ready. You can sprinkle it a little with "snow" - powdered sugar.