2 Ingredient Cinnamon Tree Ornaments
A super fun, easy, kid-friendly holiday craft! These ornaments will smell cinnamony for years to come, and they’re always so fun to decorate!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 2.5 hours
- Total Time: 0 hours
- Yield: 14 - 20 ornaments
Ingredients
- two 2.37-ounce containers of generic cinnamon
- 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce, plus more as needed
- your favorite cookie cutters, biscuit cutters
- any kind of decorations like ribbon, hot glue, ornament hangers, puffy paint, glitter glue, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add your cinnamon and applesauce into a large bowl. Mix well with your hands until a dough forms that can be squished into a ball. If it’s too dry, add an additional tablespoon of applesauce at a time, mixing between each addition, until the right texture is achieved.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper onto your working surface and place your dough ball on top. Roll with a rolling pin until 1/4-inch thick.
- Using your cutter of choice, punch out shapes, and transfer the ornaments to your prepared baking sheet. Feel free to re-roll the dough scraps as many times as you can! If your edges are a bit craggily, use your finger to carefully smooth them out or wait until they’re baked and dried to carefully sand the edges to make them more smooth.
- Optionally punch a hole into each ornament where your hanger will go. Alternatively, don’t and just hot-glue a ribbon or hanger to the back once they’re baked and dried.
- Bake for 2 hours, or until dried through.
- Immediately and carefully transfer your baked ornaments to a cooling rack and cool for at least 24 hours, or until completely dry.
- Decorate as desired, and hang on your tree, garland, or wreathes!
- Store in an air-tight container with your other ornaments. I like to wrap each in a paper towel so that they don’t break!
- It should go without saying but don’t eat these ornaments. They’re for decorating, not for eating.
Notes
Recipe from McCormick.
Find it online: https://www.fooduzzi.com/2023/11/cinnamon-tree-ornaments/
