Cinnamon Cookie Christmas Ornaments

This will be the fourth Christmas since I have planned on making cinnamon Christmas ornaments with Bill. I wanted to do it the first Christmas, that way every year we could hang ornaments we made together on our tree. Unfortunately, that year we did not find the time. Nor did we the year after that...or the year after that. Of course, we did not necessarily have Christmas trees those years, either. So here we are 3 years into our marriage, celebrating our fourth Christmas together and we finally did it! And we used the very cookie cutters I bought way back when for this very purpose. So, given enough time, everything will be achieved, I guess.

We made santa clauses, Christmas trees, stars, snowmen, and gingerbread men. They smell fantastic and turned out fine.

We used the following recipe:

1 cup cinnamon
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cup glue

Form the dough, roll into a ball and allow to sit for one hour before making into cookies.
Working with a quarter of the dough at a time, roll dough out flat using a rolling pin until the dough is 1/4-inch thick. Then cut using a knife or cookie cutter. Use a straw to make holes for hanging.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Place cookies on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Heat for 2 hours, flipping once.

We found that the ornaments started to turn up at the edges, so we placed parchment paper and another cookie sheet on top to help keep them flat. Then once they came out of the oven, we placed some objects on the top cookie sheet to add pressure and make them lie flat. Only one ended up being a little uneven.

We carved our initials and the date into some of the cookies, as well.