Cinnamon Salt Dough
An easy to work with cinnamon scented dough that you can use to create lovely heirloom Christmas ornaments.
Equipment
- Cookie cutters in various shapes.
- Straw or skewer
- Rolling Pin
- Twine or string
Materials
- 1 cup flour
- ½ cup salt
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Bake facedown at 250 degrees for about 2 hours, or let air dry.
- Stir together flour, salt, cinnamon and water until a crumbly dough forms.
- Place on your work surface and knead dough until a smooth ball forms.
- Using a rolling pin roll out dough to about a ¼ inch thickness.
- Cut out shapes with cookie cutters.
- Using a straw or skewer pierce dough.
- Place shapes on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 2 hours in a 250° oven. Turn pieces over after 1 hour so that both sides darken more evenly. The side facing the cookie sheet will darken more than the side facing up.
- When dough is dry, remove from oven and allow dough to cool to room temperature.
- Place a length of string through the hole in each shape and tie off.
- Hang your creations on your Christmas tree, use them to embellish gift boxes, or hang them on a holiday inspired garland.
Notes
Recipe can easily be doubled.