Easy DIY Applesauce Cinnamon Ornaments

Easy DIY Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments smell so good on the tree or decorating the top of a gift. This is a 2 ingredient holiday season recipe you and the kids will love making!

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• Fun Christmas Craft: 2 Ingredient Cinnamon Ornaments
• Supplies to make Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
• Steps to Make Applesauce and Cinnamon Ornaments
• Don't eat!! Ha!
• Ornament Making Tips
• Ornament Variations
• FAQ
• Ornament Making Craft Time
• More Homemade Christmas Ornament Ideas:
• Come join the fun!
• Easy DIY Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments 

Fun Christmas Craft: 2 Ingredient Cinnamon Ornaments

Let’s pull out an old recipe that is still a goodie! We made Easy DIY Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments as a family probably 30 years ago.

These 2 ingredient wonders are so simple to make. With cinnamon and applesauce on the shelf you can mix up the dough in minutes.

Supplies to make Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments

Here are a few supply notes for your ornaments:

• Food ingredients: You need applesauce and cinnamon as the only food ingredients. Check out the full recipe below.
• Rolling pin: You'll need a Rolling pin to roll the dough out thin.
• Cookie cutters: Cookie cutters cut the dough into shapes.
• Drinking straw: You'll use a Drinking straw to make a hole in the top of the cutouts.
• Ribbon: Use a Ribbon or string for hanging the ornament.
• Puff paint: White puff paint is perfect for "decorating" the cutout shapes. Paint in a bottle or tube is easier to use than painting with a paint brush if you are edging the cookies. They have a tip, and the paint comes out in a measured stream.

Steps to Make Applesauce and Cinnamon Ornaments

The whole process is similar to making sugar cookies!

Cinnamon dough ornament recipe- mix dough

Pour the apple sauce and ground cinnamon into a large bowl.

Mix the apple sauce and cinnamon into a dough using a spoon. If the dough is sticky, add a bit more cinnamon until it is like pie crust or sugar cookie roll out dough.

Roll out the dough

Sprinkle some cinnamon on a flat surface and place the dough. You are using the cinnamon like you use flour when rolling out sugar cookies.

Press the dough into a flat round. Sprinkle a bit more cinnamon on top so it doesn’t stick to the surface or to the rolling pin. I even dust the rolling pin with a bit of cinnamon.

Be careful not to breath in the cinnamon or get it in your eyes.

Use the rolling pin to roll the dough out to ¼ inch thick, being careful not to roll them too thin. They break easily and curl up as they dry.

Cut out the ornaments

Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.

Use your Christmas cookie cutters to cut out your Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments. Fit as many as you can on the rolled-out dough.

Pull the extra dough away from the cut out ornaments. Then lift them onto the cookie sheet with your fingers or a thin spatula. Gently reshape them if needed.

Make holes in the top

Use the end of a drinking straw to poke a hole in the top of the ornament. This size hole is good, even my younger grandkids could get the ribbon through. 

Make the holes at least ⅛ inch from the edge. Any closer and the ornaments will break.

Cinnamon ornaments no bake option

The first option is to air dry the ornaments. Leave them on the cookie sheet until they are completely dried. This takes about two days. Turn the ornaments occasionally so they stay flat as they dry.

Air dried ornaments stayed a more red-orange cinnamon color.

Baking ornaments in low oven option

The second option is to place the cinnamon applesauce ornaments in a 200 degree oven for several hours. This option takes less time.

Be sure to turn the ornaments occasionally as they bake so they stay flat.

The ornaments I placed in the oven were a darker brown than the ones I allowed to air dry. Both look great, I just wanted to let you know about the slight color difference.

Decorate your handmade ornaments

If you like the look of the plain ornament, tie a ribbon or string in the hole. I will mention that you can't see the plain brown ornaments on the Christmas tree as easily.

For more color, decorate your ornaments with paint or add decorations with glue. 

I chose white puff paint to decorate some of the ornaments. The puff paint looks like frosting when it lines the edges of the ornaments. They turned out so cute. 

You can also use craft paint on the surface of the ornaments. Just be sure not to use too much water as the ornaments will soften and dissolve.

Add a ribbon to the apple cinnamon ornaments

Let the paint dry and then pull a ribbon through the hole to hang the ornament.

Don't eat!! Ha!

Cinnamon applesauce ornaments look like gingerbread cookies. But you must promise one thing, don't try to eat these things!! They are not edible, that’s for sure.

Ornament Making Tips

Here are a few tips for these easy homemade cinnamon ornaments:

• Cinnamon: Purchase the cinnamon in bulk if possible which is less expensive.
• Pastry mat: Using a Pastry mat makes rolling out dough less messy.
• Cookie cutters: Cookie cutters should be in simple shapes (like a snowman). Small skinny sections burn and break more easily (like legs on a reindeer).
• Thin spatula: Using a Thin spatula is less likely to damage the cutout shapes when transferring the dough to the cookie sheet.
• Drinking straw alternatives: If you don't have a drinking straw you can use a tooth pick or an ice pick to make the hole. But be sure to make it more like the size of a straw so the ribbon slides through easily.

Ornament Variations

• Other cookie cutter shapes: Use other shapes of cookie cutters to give as gifts other times of the year.
• Air freshener: Give them as a gift to hang as an air freshener to hang in the car, a room, or a closet. They add a wonderful cinnamon scent to your room.
• Gift decor: Tie them into the bow on top of your Christmas packages for a personal touch.
• Fall wreath: These would work wonderfully on a fall wreath or garland! The cinnamon is a fall scent too!

FAQ

Ornament Making Craft Time

Over the years I've discovered that kids of all ages enjoy helping make ornaments!

Look how grown-up my grand is getting. I love them all to pieces and am so glad to foster holiday spirit and connect over a creative project!

The video is also on YouTube. While you are there, subscribe to my channel! Link: Easy DIY Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments YouTube Video! 

More Homemade Christmas Ornament Ideas:

Here are some more DIY Christmas ornament ideas that I you'll love!

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This post was originally published in December 2022 and has been updated to add more relevant and detailed content.