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Homemade Cinnamon Ornaments

December 3, 2016 by Abby

With just two ingredients, you can make easy homemade cinnamon ornaments: a perfect DIY for decorating or gifting. What a fun craft for kids!

With just two ingredients, you can make easy homemade cinnamon ornaments: a perfect DIY for decorating or gifting. What a fun craft for kids!

Homemade cinnamon ornaments are something from my childhood, although I can’t for the life of me remember where and when I made them. I have no idea if it was at home, at school, at church. I’ve got nothing. Regardless, when I thought about what sorts of crafts I wanted to do this year with the kids, I knew these fragrant ornaments would make the list.


B and I whipped up a batch during Thanksgiving break. The dough couldn’t possibly be any easier; there are only two ingredients. It rolled out easily, and we had fun choosing shapes. These homemade cinnamon ornaments bake low and slow, leaving the whole house smelling deliciously like Christmas.

With just two ingredients, you can make easy homemade cinnamon ornaments: a perfect DIY for decorating or gifting. What a fun craft for kids!

Homemade Cinnamon Ornaments

Ingredients

1 c. applesauce
1 c. cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200 degrees. In a large bowl, combine cinnamon and applesauce until ingredients are well-incorporated and form a ball. Sprinkle your work surface with cinnamon (just as you would with flour when working with regular dough). Place the dough on the cinnamon, sprinkle more cinnamon on top, use a rolling pin to roll the dough to a thickness of a quarter inch.

Use Christmas-themed cookie cutters (here’s a great set) to cut shapes from the dough. Make shapes in all of the dough before pulling away the scraps. Use your fingers or a spatula to transfer shapes to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Form the scraps back into a ball and repeat the process of rolling and cutting until the dough is used.

Use a toothpick or a drinking straw to make holes in the dough for hanging. Bake ornaments for two to three hours, flipping once, until hard. Allow them to cool and then string them with baking twine or yarn for hanging.

Notes

You can reduce or increase this recipe to suit your needs; just make sure you have equal parts applesauce and cinnamon.

Don’t forget to pin this homemade cinnamon ornaments recipe to make later!

With just two ingredients, you can make easy homemade cinnamon ornaments: a perfect DIY for decorating or gifting. What a fun craft for kids!

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Filed Under: DIY, Holiday, homemaking, in the kitchen, recipes — Tagged With: craft, crhistmas, diy, holiday, homemade, recipe

Comments

  1. Angela @ Setting My Intention says

    December 3, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    I can’t believe that those 2 ingredients make a dough! Crazy! These instructions look simple enough for me! It would also make a great experience to share with the kids.

    • Abby says

      December 3, 2016 at 8:46 pm

      I know! It’s like Christmas magic. I think y’all would love making these, and your house will smell SO good.

  2. Kelsie says

    December 12, 2016 at 8:11 am

    How fun are these? I love cinnamon stuff, especially snickerdoodles! These look like the perfect, fun holiday craft- and yummy too.

    • Abby says

      December 12, 2016 at 9:25 am

      If you love cinnamon, you HAVE to make these! Your whole house will smell wonderful. But don’t eat them!

  3. Farrah says

    December 12, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    These are so cool! I never knew they were a thing until less than 2 weeks ago! (I met up with a blog friend and she had made em’! 😛 ) I have a little cinnamon tree hanging out on my table right now since I have no tree–I need to find a place to put it up! 😛 Love that they’re only 2 ingredients!

    • Abby says

      December 14, 2016 at 4:14 pm

      They’re the best thing! So easy.

  4. GiGi Eats says

    December 13, 2016 at 8:49 am

    I really would just want to eat these off the tree – LOL!

    • Abby says

      December 14, 2016 at 4:15 pm

      I think one bite would be enough! There’s SO much cinnamon in them!

  5. Mariah says

    December 13, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    These are my favorites! I love making these!

    http://moosmusing.com

    • Abby says

      December 14, 2016 at 4:15 pm

      Thanks, Mariah! We had a blast, too.

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