today i decided it was time for Josh and I to make some cinnamon Christmas tree ornaments. i found a lovely recipe in a Canadian Living book – The Canadian Living Christmas Book, published in 1993. I have no idea if it is still in print or not.

The recipe is simple: 1/2 cup of unsweetened store-bought applesauce and 1/2 cup of ground cinnamon. that is all! combine the ingredients in a sturdy plastic ziploc-type of bag, kneading it together until it’s well-combined. i found myself adding cinnamon after i had turned it out of the bag, mainly because it just seemed a bit too goopy – it should be the consistency of cookie dough.

Then you want to roll it out to about a 1/8 inch thickness, and cut out shapes with Christmas cookie cutters. Use a straw to make a hold for hanging the decorations, and then place them to dry on a paper-towel lined cookie sheet, nice and flat. turn them several times while drying – they will take between 24 and 48 hrs to dry completely. Then you can decorate them as you wish – royal icing, glitter glue… go nuts!

Josh was quite enthralled with this idea. I told him we were going to give some to his Sunday School teachers but he did not like that idea and wants to keep all of the decorations for himself 🙂