Ornament Dough

Submitted by FarahC

"A dough to make xmas ornaments or your child's hand print.*Update since I posted last* Its been a while since I made this dough, and a member reminded me that yes you will need more than 1/3 cup water,simply add enough water to mixture to form a moist biscuit type dough to work with."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1⁄3 cup water
• 1⁄2 cup salt
• 2 -3 drops food coloring (optional)
• glitter (optional)

directions

1. Slowly add water to flour. Mix in salt and optional ingredients.
2. Knead with hands about 3 minutes.
3. Roll out dough 1/2 to 1 inch thick depending on your craft project in mind.
4. Cut out whatever shapes you want. Bake 300°F for 25 minutes on each side, or until hardened. Be sure to punch a tiny hole at the top of ornament before baking.
5. When time is up, let cool at room temperature, then decorate with paints, glitters, etc.

Reviews

[Dessert Dawn]

Made these for my pets Christmas 2015. I followed the directions exactly. Super easy and they appear they'll be easy to paint too. Next time, I'll press some glitter into the dough before I bake them.

 

[Jmommy209]

Super easy to make and fun to use. My 3 year old loved cutting out "owmanents fo da Kismas twee"! How fun.

 

[lbrtdc]

My kids and I had a great time making ornaments. Thanks for the easy and fun recipe.

 

[skyeblu]

I wanted to love this recipe, but I tried it three times and it didn't work for me. All three times I used it to make my children's hand print ornaments, so perhaps a smaller cookie-cutter type one would have worked. I baked them the recommended time, but after the second bake, they were always a little brown. In addition, even though they browned, the ornaments remained soft in the middle. I even left them out on drying racks for days, but they never hardened. I did use the 2/3 cup water another reviewer mentioned, perhaps I should have played with it more before going right to 2/3 cup. On a plus, the dough rolled out beautifully and was easy to work. I really wish I had more success since it is a great idea for grandma gifts and my children's prints really looked cute in the dough.

 

[bonjovi4ever]

Easy to make. We had to make my daughter cookies after making these. She wanted to eat the ornaments. Will make more again. Thanks for posting.