In my last post I mentioned homemade cinnamon dough ornaments. These are so easy and only require 2 ingredients you probably already have in your pantry, applesauce and cinnamon. The children and I make these every year. They are really very simple and smell amazing. When I make up the dough, I usually triple it so everyone has enough dough to work with.
The recipe is:
1 cup applesauce
1 1/2 cup of cinnamon
To get started, preheat your oven to 200 and line a backing sheet with parchment paper.
Next, measure out your applesauce and cinnamon in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix with the paddle attachment until the dough comes together into a ball, adding more applesauce or cinnamon as needed. the dough will be thick, but you don't want it sticky or crumbling apart. You can also mix by hand.
After the dough has come together, sprinkle some cinnamon on your working surface and rolling pin. Roll out your dough to 1/4 inch thick.
Cut out your dough with cookie cutters.
It is also pretty to roll the impression of leaves or evergreens needles into your dough before cutting out.
Next, take a skewer and make a hole at the top and place them on your baking sheet.
Bake in your oven for 1 1/2 - 2 hours until the ornaments are dry and hard.
Tie string through the holes and hang them on your tree.
These also make very sweet gift tags or decorations for your Christmas gifts.
I must say that even though these are made with edible ingredients and smell good enough to eat, they are in fact not edible.
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