Danielle's Homemade Products....Cinnamon Applesauce Dough

It is getting closer to that time of year when we think of Christmas gifts and holidays. Every year me and my daughter try to make new ornaments to adorn our Christmas tree. Today, we are working on a new type of ornament. We have done salt dough ornaments, glass ornaments with paint inside (watch for on a future post) and today we are doing cinnamon applesauce ornaments. They smell heavenly and can be hung on the tree or given as gifts.

The dough itself is simple....or so I thought. Equal parts of ground cinnamon and applesauce. That's it. I dumped it in a bagging and gave it to my daughter to squish together. She always loves that part. This recipe, however, made a sticky mess very quickly.



The dough just stuck to her hands and to the cookie cutters. This was not the plan....so I did a little more work on it.

The next batch I tried I put in the same amount of apple sauce but more cinnamon and we had a winner.



My rolling pin broke after my daughter was making ornaments one day so a can works just well or a glass if you have one with straight sides. The new dough rolled out nicely, was still a little tacky but we were able to make the ornaments. Don't forget to use a straw to put a hole in the top where you are going to hang them later.



I didn't have any Christmas themed cookie cutters but we never let that stop us from making something so use what ever you have or whatever strikes your fancy. After you have them all cut out, they will need to dry for atleast 24 hours or until completely dry and hard. They will still have a smell to them so enjoy the lovely fragrance while they hang on your tree.

Here is my final recipe:

1/2 cup of applesauce
1 1/2 jars of cinnamon (each jar of cinnamon was 2.37 oz)
Add more or less cinnamon to make your dough so that it is not too sticky and rolls out nicely

You can double or triple the batch if you want to make a lot of them. Our batch made about 8 ornaments of varying thickness. I recommend making them about 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick so they do not break when you are transferring them over to a surface to dry. I found they tried to stick to my cookie sheet so I moved them over to a cooling rack with wax paper over it. They are still drying now so I don't have any finished ornament pictures (sorry).