Cinnamon Ornaments Dough

Total Time: 8 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup store bought applesauce

Recipe

• 1 for decorating: tulip puffy fabric paint in matte , acrylic paint, glue, beads or glitter, cookie cutters.
• 2 pour cinnamon in a bowl and gradually add applesauce and stir until mixture forms a stiff dough.
• 3 using extra cinnamon as "flour" roll out the dough to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick.
• 4 cut out shapes with cookie cutters.
• 5 using a straw or skewer punch a hole at the top of the ornament.
• 6 bake at 200°f on a parchment lined baking pan.
• 7 until ornaments are very dry and very hard.
• 8 allow to cool to room temperature.
• 9 the tulip paint looks exactly like royal icing so you can make inedible"cookies" to decorate your tree with (like those big martha stewart ones).
• 10 they last a very long time and do not attract insects.
• 11 if you use a cookie cutter that will imprint a design on your "cookies" you can use a dry paint brush with acrylic paint to give your "cookies" a powdered sugar look.
• 12 or you can decorate your ornaments with beads and glitter to add sparkle to your holiday.
• 13 bottom line: they are easy and inexpensive to make, plus they smell great!