Subscribe to mevsthehouse.com

.

Tie with ribbon to hangAdd the scent of cinnamon to your holiday with homemade cinnamon Christmas ornaments. These ornaments can be hung from the Christmas tree, used to decorate packages, strung together to make a beautifully scented garland, or as great holiday gifts. Since the recipe is simple these are a great Christmas craft project to do with kids!

This recipe makes 12 – 14 medium sized Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments. It takes about 15 minutes to make and knead the dough, and 2 1/2 hours to bake, for a total time of 2 hours, 45 minutes.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp. ground cloves
  • 1 tbsp. nutmeg
  • 3/4 cup applesauce

Making the Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments:

  1. Preheat oven to 150°.
  2. In medium bowl, combine cinnamon, cloves & nutmeg.
  3. Add applesauce, stir to combine.
  4. Work the dough with your hands for 3 or 4 minutes until dough is smooth and ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
  5. If the dough is a little crumbly, add a tablespoon of applesause at a time to it until it is smooth and a bit sticky.
  6. Roll out dough to 1/3 inch thickness. It will be sticky, so be careful with it. You can use cinnamon like flour on your pin and rolling surface to stop it from sticking.
  7. Cut dough with cookie cutters. Simple shapes like hearts, bells, trees and gingermen are easier to work with than cutters with complicated shapes.
  8. Using straw make small hole in top of ornament.
  9. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 150 degrees for 2 1/2 hours
  10. Remove from the cookie sheet and cool on a wire rack.
  11. Loop a ribbon through the top.

Work the dough with your hands until smooth Roll out dough, cut dough with cookie cutters Using straw make small hole in top of ornament Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 150 degrees for 2 1/2 hours

Additional tips:

  • You can dry ornaments without the oven. Set them on the wire rack at room temperature, and let them stand 2 days or until completely dry. Turn them a few times throughout the process so they dry even and flat.
  • If you have a food dehydrator you could also dry them in that.
  • You can use acrylic paints to decorate the ornaments once they are dry.

Some other posts you may enjoy…

What’s Next?

If you like this article, I’d appreciate your sharing this by voting for it on DIGG, Stumble, Shoutwire, deli.cio.us and other great sharing sites.

Print This Post Print This Post
19 COMMENTS
  1. beth Said,

    yummy! my salt dough ornaments got kinda warped and curved air drying maybe these will work better. I like the natural brown color too.

  2. Cleo Said,

    How to Make Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments: Homemade Ornament Recipe:

    A useful hint: buy a box of gloves (you may need latex free gloves) to wear when mixing the ingredients. It makes clean up so much easier!!

  3. anne Said,

    Have you ever put a glossy finish on your ornaments? What did you use? Also, for decorating, did you use acrylic paints in a paint pen or squeeze bottle? I am trying to figure out how to get fine lines.

    thank you!

  4. Lexayy Said,

    I am only a minor and my family and i have been making these for years also if u heat the oven 200 degrees’s for 1 hour 45 min. then its much quicker.

  5. Laura Said,

    These look great! I have an early childhood website, and we are currently having a winter and holiday idea contest, and would love to have you submit some of your ideas! Prizes are gift cards to Discount School Supply for the top rated ideas!

    Hope you will consider participating in our contest – http://www.theseedsnetwork.com/contest.php!

  6. june Said,

    I have made these in years past and used the cookie cutters that imprint and then painted each detail with acrylic paints. this year I plan on using just simple gingerbread boys and girls and giving each individual details.

  7. bella Said,

    it was ok

  8. alliaskamina Said,

    tis was not fun

  9. du pallaunnadaquacj Said,

    it was not fun urgh

  10. tig botty Said,

    no fun made my son whimper

  11. boli asscotta Said,

    my son said that the coockie tasted nast

  12. dule alinata Said,

    su le enacje on;d

  13. menic alli otago Said,

    omg i am not happy this suxs ding dong

  14. big jay Said,

    Did this for a p.a. day craft a few years all the kids I was watching loved it. We don’t eat them we hang them on the tree every year. Makes the house smell nice.

  15. Homemade Christmas Ornament Recipes | Frugal Diva Frenzy Said,

    [...] Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments This entry was posted in freebie and tagged freebies. Bookmark the permalink. « [...]

  16. harlie Said,

    The cookies are NOT to be eaten, they are for decoration only.

  17. Sisters Playing House Said,

    Blogged about this today. We used a different recipe but will try yours too.
    http://sistersplayinghouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/homemade-gifts-week-applesauce-cinnamon.html

  18. Lyme Dr, Diets, Carts, & Christmas | Tenderherb's Blog Said,

    [...] morning Grandma, Aunt Shirl, Brooklyn and Dani came and we made those cinnamon [cookie] ornament things. (I can’t find the original recipe I used, just add 2 TBS elmers glue to that recipe in link [...]

  19. Debbie Said,

    Lol that someone would actually feed these to their kids. We used to make these with our summer camp kids and they loved it. Kids made them for their parents as air freshness for the car. The dough can be a hot on the hands due to the amount of concentrated cinnamon. We bought cheap food grade gloves and had the kids and staff wear them. We also used a straw to poke the hole. We would make them on Monday and send them home thursday and Friday after flipping several times. I’m going to try to make them at home this year with my kids for Xmas and try to oven bake them. I hope by baking it doesn’t burn off some of the yummy smell.

Add A Comment