FOOD CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat shortening and sugar together in a large bowl. Stir in molasses.
• Sift baking soda, ground cloves, ginger, cinnamon and flour together in a large bowl. Stir this mixture plus water into the sugar and shortening mixture, alternately adding the water and baking soda mixture to the shortening mixture.
• Stir until mixed thoroughly and refrigerate 6-8 hours.
• Cut dough into three equal pieces, knead each piece lightly and then use a rolling pin to roll out each piece to a 1/4-inch thickness.
• Use holiday cookie cutters made in the shapes of gingerbread people and houses to cut shapes out of the dough.
• Use a medium- to large-sized drinking straw or the end of a wooden chopstick to make a hole at the top of each shape. *Tip: make sure to really make a sizable hole (bigger than you think you need), as these do puff up in the cooking process, making the hole shrink.
• Put cookies on cookie sheets and bake for about 20 minutes. Turn oven off and allow cookies to cool in the oven. This will help harden the cookies.
• Place cookies on racks to completely harden. Place racks in a cool, dry place and let sit for two to three days.
• Coat cookies with clear acrylic or varnish and allow cookies to dry thoroughly.
• Paint cookies with acrylic paints as desired. Allow paint to dry thoroughly.
• Thread a 5- to 6-inch length of narrow ribbon or cording through the hole at the top of each ornament. You may have to use a toothpick to chip a little bit of cookie out of the hole if it has closed up a bit, before threading with ribbon. Knot ends and hang ornaments.

Steps:

• Measure out the cinn.
• and put in a med.
• sized bowl.
• Heat the appleauce for about thirty sec.
• in the microwave.
• Transfer the applesauce to the bowl w/ the cinn.
• and mix until dough forms.
• Now transfer to your countertop and roll out.
• (You may want to add a little more cinnamon so that it dosen't stick!) Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and start cutting out the ornaments using reg.
• cookie cutters or Christmas cookie cutters.
• Make sure you poke a hole in the top of each ornament and transfer them to a baking sheet.
• (Carefully I might add!) Bake for thirty minutes on the first side.
• After thirty miutes.
• turn over and bake another thirty minutes.
• One last time, flip and bake thirty minutes.
• Let them cool completely, paint, and loop a string through the tiny hole at the top.
• You're done!