Crafting Ornaments with Cinnamon Salt Dough

Left, the finished result after painting on white faux icing. Right, some of the cinnamon dough
was reserved for shaping into pretend chocolates. These were then glued inside of tin foil sleeves.
Cinnamon salt dough looks just like gingerbread once it is painted! 

       To make cinnamon salt dough you will need to kneed together 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of ordinary salt, 1/4 cup of cinnamon or more and 1 cup of cool water. Sift together the dry ingredients first and then slowly add the water. Add flour to a wooden cutting board and kneed the dough on top of it. Put it into a refrigerator to rest for a couple of hours. Then roll out the dough approximately 1/2 inch and cut with cookie cutters. Put these cut-outs on a cookie sheet and let them dry out in a low temperature oven for about 3 hours. You can prick the surface as these salt dough ornaments dry to prevent air bubbles if you like and you can make a hole through the top of each ornament to have a place for a hook or ribbon to hang them on a tree. I also used cookie molds to craft some of my own cinnamon salt dough ornaments shown here.

Left, the gingerbread salt dough cooling down on a cookie rack. Some of them puffed up
too much so these were tossed. Right, some wooden cookie molds were also used in 
this project.

Left, a mouse then a little man next, a Christmas chocolate and candy cane hang on our tree.

Above are three gingerbread children holding hands.

More Delightful Gingerbread:

• Make a gingerbread castle for your dolls to decorate with inside of the dollhouse
• Color my gingerbread angel from Color The Bible for kids