Cinnamon ornaments

Liliya and I prepared the dough today for cinnamon ornaments.

Recipe: 

1 cup applesauce

1 cup cinnamon

1 Tablespoon white glue

Mix until it stiffens.

Roll out about 1/4"- 1/2" thick, cut with cookie cutters.

My dough was much too wet.

So I added a few sprinkles of flour, which worked to stiffen it up enough to use.

You could mix in glitter if you're not going to paint them.

A straw is the easiest way to put a hole in them for hanging on the tree.

Let dry for 48 hours or bake at 150 for about 3 hours, flipping halfway.

I doubled the recipe and it made 5 big gingerbread men, a dozen or so stars, 6 tiny angels, a big teddy bear...
basically, if you're only doing this with 1 or 2 kids, use one recipe at a time, with 4 or more kids, a double recipe should be enough.

We bought the cinnamon at Sam's club, in a big bottle for like $3. That size bottle, BTW, has around 3 cups of cinnamon in it.

I'll have the kids paint them tonight and glue googley eyes on.

I <3 handmade ornaments.

Pictures later. 

(or tomorrow or the next day)