I love making ornaments for our Christmas tree. I think the best ornaments are the rustic ones with special meaning. I am making it a new tradition to make some kind of ornament each year with my kids! This year I chose to make cinnamon applesauce ornaments like I remember making as a kid.
Here is what you will need:
1 cup of applesauce
1 1/2 cups cinnamon (I ended up adding more until a stiff dough formed)
Various mini cookie cutters - I used a star, heart, tree & gingerbread man.
Tooth pick
Diamond tip reamer (for making holes bigger when they come out of the oven)
Twine
Sprinkle some cinnamon on your counter top and roll your dough to approximately 1/4″ thick. Make sure to use enough cinnamon so you don't have a sticky mess on your hands, and counter, and rolling pin!
Use your cookie cutters and cut out the shapes & place them on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Use a tooth pick to make holes in the tops for hanging.
Bake at 200 degrees F for 1.5-2 hours until they are hardened. Let them cool overnight.
When mine were dry, I could not get the twine through the hole, so I used my diamond tip reamer to carefully make the holes a little bigger.
I chose to use my solid red twine to hang my little guys from!
I love how these turned out! And they smell wonderful!! I am going to be hanging them on my little "kitchen tree" along with all my spoon ornaments!
Do you make your own Christmas ornaments? Leave a comment, I would love more ideas!
