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. When rolled, the dough should be flat without cracks but not sticky (to be fair, my dough in the photos was a little too dry. They still worked out, but the finish wasn’t as pretty).
- 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/
