One of my favorite memories of Christmas was the year my mom made an edible tree. Everything on it was homemade and something you could eat!. I remember her going all out with a gingerbread house and everything. It's amazing that it's things like that I remember about Christmas. I think that tree ranks up there with my all time favorites. This year I decided to do something similar at our house for the kids. I was lucky enough to have my mom come down for the weekend to help me put it all together. Everyone at our house is enjoying the fact that Nanny and Papa come pretty often!
I found my tree, tree skirt, and topper at Hobby Lobby. They are currently running a 50% off deal on all Christmas items. While home for Thanksgiving I was lucky enough to come across silver flatware for $1.25 at a local antique store. I wrapped some some ribbon around them and instant ornaments. I also placed cookie cutters, dried fruit, cinnamon applesauce ornaments, and cranberry garland. My house smells amazing right now!
We did an orange for everyone in our family with cloves making their initial. Jake even did a tangerine for Mollie!
I cut my applesauce cinnamon ornaments out of cookie cutters from every state we've lived in since we've been married. It was neat for the kids to have something from their birth state on our little tree!
Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
1 Cup cinnamon (I bought a big container at the dollar store)
2 individual cups of applesauce
2 tablespoons of craft glue
Mix ingredients together. If the mixture looks and feels loose, add more cinnamon. Shape dough into a ball and sandwich between two sheets of wax paper. Roll out to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thickness. The thinner they are the less time it will take them to dry. Cut out shapes using cookie cutters and place on baking sheet. Bake in oven at 200 degrees for 2 hours, turning after the first hour to keep edges from curling. Depending on thickness, ornaments make take more or less than 2 hours. Just keep checking them.
Smelling these make my day every time I walk into my kitchen. Merry Christmas!
