Well, the holiday season is upon us at last (she says three weeks into it). Despite my lack of posting, I have indeed been cooking, baking, and decorating. The week of Thanksgiving I hosted my annual Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving at my apartment. Fifteen friends showed up, brought food and drinks, and we feasted spread out on my living room floor. I made two
corn souffles, two kinds of stuffing, corn bread, and gravy.
After that, I ushered in the Christmas season very slowly. It is very unlike me to be this disinterested in Christmastime, but I only started baking and decorating this past Sunday. The first order of baking business(I'll get to the decorating in a subsequent post) was to make a batch of
caramel shortbread bars, cinnamon applesauce ornaments, and another round of
peppermint sugar cookies. I somehow managed to make all of these at the same time.
I picked up a jug of applesauce and several containers of cinnamon at the local Dollar Tree and decided to make scented ornaments for the tree like when I was a little girl. I couldn't seem to make a clay-like consistency, so mine are a little misshapen. I tried. Towards the end, I just started making circles with holes in them because the cinnamon was burning my hands.
Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of applesauce
- 1 1/2 cup of cinnamon
- Mix ingredients together until it forms a clay-like consistency.
- Roll dough out flat and use cookie cutters to make shapes.
- If using as ornaments to hang, use a pencil or toothpick to make a hole.
- Leave out to dry for 3 or 4 days.
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