Once Upon A Dream

I feel like everyone reading must think that all we do is eat cake and cookies...because we are constantly posting picture of some type of sweet. It really isn't that bad. We did some baking over Thanksgiving. Of course we did it all for the girls, and none of the adults ate too many cookies (shifty eyes).

Here are a couple of the projects that we did. The first cookies are for eating. Very easy to make...and fun for kids.

The next project that we did was for decoration. These cookies do not taste good...although you could eat them. Gillian asks me to eat them everyday....We used to make these with kindergarteners when I worked many moons ago. Some of you may have made these before...they are so easy...and they smell delicious. After they dry, they become hard. We put them on a tree in our entry way to give out to people who visit over the holiday. Pictures are posted first....then the recipe will follow for any of you who are interested.

Spice Ornaments

3/4 cup cinnamon
2 T ground cloves
1 T nutmeg
1 T all spice
1 cup applesauce

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.

Mix the cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and all spice together. Slowly add the applesauce until you get a consistancy like that of sugar cookie dough. You may not need the whole cup. Add more cinnamon if it becomes too moist.

Sprinkle cinnamon on the counter top to keep the dough from sticking. Roll the dough to 1/4 inch thickness and use your favorite cookie cutters to create shapes. Use a drinking straw to create a hole at the top of the ornament/shape.

Place the ornaments on a cookie tray and bake. Turn the ornaments with a spatula every 15 minutes. Oven baking will help the ornaments to dry faster, but it is not necessary. They can dry on their own over several days.

We quadrupled the batch in order to make enough ornaments to cover the small tree.