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Five year old me is cheering me on as I write this post. You see, 23 years ago my family made these incredible cinnamon ornaments. Our little hands rolled the dough out and used cookie cutters to make fun Christmassy shapes. We hung them on pipe cleaners and put them on the tree. They became sort of a thing – every year, we’d take them out of the ornament box, smell them, and place them on the tree. We were wondering when they’d lose their cinnamon scent. Of the couple dozen we made so many years ago, there are still about three going strong on my parents’ tree up in Alaska. And they still smell divine. <\/p>\n
This is my little family’s first year having Christmas at our own house. That means it’s the first year for having our own tree. We bought some cheap Walmart ornaments to cover it, but the tree looked bare. I remembered those cinnamon ornaments and decided we needed a few. <\/p>\n
Alex and I made them together. He’s a little too small for rolling dough, but he loves pressing cookie cutters into it. The only problem was that he thought this must be some kind of cookie dough and he wanted to eat it. I wouldn’t let him, and so he had to go read books with Dada while I finished alone, which brings me to the warning. WARNING: This is NOT edible even though the ingredients are. The dough will make you very, very sick – copious amounts of cinnamon have that effect. So, no matter how yummy these guys look, avoid eating them. If you’re looking for a good ginger-type cookie fix, snack on these Talkeetna Roadhouse Copycat Ginger Molasses Cookies<\/a>. They’ll keep the snackies at bay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>
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