November 30: Cinnamon Cut-Out Ornaments

I'll start by saying I was excited to make these with the boys but was a little disappointed with the outcome.  Maybe a few "tweaks" would improve it. 

We made the following recipe and then used our cookie cutters and play-doh cutters to get the shapes we wanted for our ornaments (not necessarily Christmas shapes as Koen wanted the letters of their names and numbers of their ages).  The dough was very sticky and messy...too much for the boys to handle, so I mixed it and tried to roll it out, but I ended up having to just press it down with my hands because the rolling pin tore the dough apart.  Koen, despite my repeated warnings that this dough was NOT for eating, licked his hands and wasn't impressed with the taste.  Ty keeps calling them "chocolate cookies" but hasn't tried to eat one...yet.  We're now waiting the suggested six days for our ornaments to harden so we can hang them on our tree. 

Cinnamon Cut-Out Ornaments
1 cup cinnamon
3/4 cup store-bought applesauce -- slightly warmed

Mix together in a bowl.  Form into a ball.  Sprinkle the work space with additional cinnamon and roll out the dough so it's 1/4" thick.  Cut out desired shapes and set in a flat space to dry.  Poke hole near the top to string ribbon through after it's dried.  Let dry for six days before stringing and hanging the ornaments.

Note:  I went online to look for additional/better recipes and came up with some ideas...

• Roll the dough out between wax paper
• Add a Tbs. of white glue to the mix
• Add glitter to the mix
• Use paint after ornaments are dry to paint "frosting"