Cinnamon Christmas Ornaments

Yield: 22 ornaments Prep Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cinnamon
  • 2 cups apple sauce (sweetened but not sure if this matters)

Procedure

Bake the Ornaments

  1. Preheat oven to 200 F
  2. Mix cinnamon and apple sauce into dough
  3. Roll out between parchment paper to approximately 3/16-1/4” thickness
  4. Cut into shapes leaving cookie cutter in place
  5. Remove dough from around cookies
  6. transfer cookie in cookie cutter to parchment-lined baking sheet with thin spatula
  7. Remove cookie cutter
  8. Punch hole for ribbon with a straw
  9. Bake for 3 hrs or until hard and darkened

Assemble

  1. Cut string into 12” pieces
  2. Form a loop and tie using an overhand knot1
  3. Pass the loop of string through the hole in the ornament and then pass the knotted end through the loop forming a cow hitch2

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhand_loop 

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_hitch