5 Beautiful and Edible Gifts for the New Year 2025

New Year's holidays are always characterized by fuss and joy at the same time. But what can you do when you want to combine business with pleasure?

On New Year's Eve, you want something special and incredible not only for yourself, but also for your friends and guests. A list of edible gifts that you can make with your own hands and please your loved ones for the New Year.

1. New Year's pineapple

Of course, it is much easier to take candies and champagne and just give them in a beautiful package. But we are not looking for easy ways. But you can do it much more originally and it will not take much time, does not require special skills. Find a little time, imagination and colored paper and you will succeed. Buy candies in golden packaging so that our future pineapple turns out natural and festive. Use a glue gun to attach to the base. Form the leaves of our gift from colored double-sided paper.

2. Truffle Christmas tree

For such a tree, you need to stock up on candies with shiny wrappers in advance. It is not necessary to choose green ones, make a magic tree and take your favorite candies. You can combine several colors and arrange them in some pattern. Everything is in your hands and depends only on your inspiration and imagination.

3. Christmas trees on candies

The simplest DIY decorations for the New Year's table. Even a child can handle this task, so feel free to invite your children to help. Paper Christmas trees can be cut out of any material, then glue skewers or toothpicks to them and pierce them with candies. By placing them on the New Year's table, they will become a decoration and an addition to the festive atmosphere.

4. Magic Sweet Jar

An original gift for a sweet tooth in the form of a jar filled with sweets can also become a cute decoration. Any child will be delighted with such a gift, but check with mom in advance whether she allows the child such sweets. Even an adult will be delighted with such a jar as a table or Christmas tree decoration.

After the holiday, it's not a sin to enjoy such a decoration. To do this, you need to pour the selected sweets into a glass jar in layers. These can be: candies without wrappers, dragees, lollipops, mini-marshmallows. Just pour candies without wrappers into a glass jar in layers. For example, dragees, lollipops or mini-marshmallows.

To complete the image and as an accent on the holiday, you can add a figurine (also edible!) in the form of a New Year character or symbol of the year. Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman, deer, snowflakes, or a dog made of chocolate or in the form of cookies will perfectly emphasize the solemnity of the moment and complete the picture of the gift.

5. Dog Cookies

Handmade is always tastier, and if the cookies are in the form of dog faces, for kids and even adults it will be remembered for a long time, and they can also participate in the process. To please your family with such cookies, you need to prepare the dough.

Ingredients for making cookies: butter - 100 grams, flour - 3 cups, eggs - 2 pcs., sugar - 0.5 cups, cocoa powder - 2 tbsp., sour cream - 2 tbsp., vanillin - 1 packet, baking powder (1 packet) or soda, slaked with vinegar. Tools: cookie cutters in the shape of hearts, mixer, rolling pin.

To prepare the dough, take the butter and soften it. Then combine it with granulated sugar and mix well. Add sour cream and eggs to the resulting mass, mix until smooth with a mixer. Mix the flour with the baking powder separately, then pour it into the mass whipped with a mixer. It remains to knead the dough. After this, you need to put aside half of the dough and add cocoa to it. The dough should lie in the refrigerator for half an hour. After the time has elapsed, you need to take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it out to a thickness of about 1 cm. Every housewife has heart-shaped cookie cutters, if not, they can be purchased at any supermarket or hardware store.

Cut the cookies into heart shapes. The brown hearts will be the dog's ears, so they need to be cut in half. Spread the dough on a baking sheet to form the dog's face. Make eyes and a nose from the remaining dough. Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven at 200 degrees. Sprinkle the finished cookies with grated chocolate, cocoa powder or any other topping.

New Year gifts can be not only beautiful, but also edible. Thanks to your imagination and good mood, you will give a festive atmosphere to your loved ones!