25 Days of Hand Made Ornaments - #18 Cinnamon Ornaments

Mmmmmm here is an ornament that is pleasing to your sense of smell as well as sight! One of my favorites to make and oh so much easier than regular cookie ornaments! I so wish I had smell-o-vision so you could get a whiff of just how good these really smell.

25 Days of Hand Made Ornaments

Cinnamon Ornaments

Supplies:

Cinnamon

Apple Sauce

Mixing Bowl

Spoon

Measuring Cup

Rolling Pin (or Brayer in my case)

Cookie Cutter

Embellishments

Instructions:

1. Add equal parts apple sauce and cinnamon in a bowl. I used 1/2 cup of each making a pretty large batch of dough.

2. Mix well.

Your "dough" will look something like this ~ it's a light and fluffy dough and it will be pretty wet when it's ready to roll.

3. Dust your surface with cinnamon and roll the dough out just as you would if it were for cookies. I use quite a bit of cinnamon for the first "roll-out" since the dough is so wet. The more cinnamon you use to dust your surface with, the easier it is to pick up and transfer the cut-outs.

4. Cut the ornaments out...in this case I'm using ginger bread boys and girls. I like to place them on a sheet of cardstock since it absorbs some of the moisture from the dough.

5. Once you have cut the ornaments from the first bit of dough you can wad the remains up in a ball and start over until you've use up all the dough.

6. Let your ornaments dry overnight or you may speed up the drying process by placing in a very low heat oven for several hours.

I'll share the finished, decorated ornaments with you tomorrow ;)

I'll also have a fun ornament that will make people jump for a bit more than joy!

Can you guess what it might be?!?!?!?