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This cinnamon salt dough ornaments recipe is an easy way to add handmade charm to your Christmas tree. You’ll love the gorgeous details!
Are you looking for a fun and simple holiday project that you’ll love? If so, I’d recommend you try making these darling cinnamon salt dough ornaments. It’s an easy project and these ornaments turn out to be the cutest little things. I’m totally obsessed!
My inspiration for this project came from seeing Miss Mustard Seed’s salt dough ornaments. They are adorable and you know I’m a sucker for anything handmade. In fact, that same tutorial inspired the air-dry clay ornaments that I made a while back. Super fun, easy and cute.
Don’t ask me why, but for some reason the salt in this salt dough tends to collect near the highest points of the molded surface and produces a beautiful two-toned effect. You naturally get highlighted ridges and shadowed valleys with a lovely contrast. No extra painting or staining required. Can you believe that?!
By the way, I wish you could smell these cinnamon ornaments. The scent is heavenly!
Table of contents
Salt Dough Recipe Ingredients and Supplies
To make these cinnamon salt dough ornaments, you’ll need a few basic ingredients and supplies.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup white flour
- 1/2 cup basic table salt
- 3/4 cup ground cinnamon
- 3/4-1 cup warm water
Supplies:
- An electric mixer or mixing bowl and spoon
- Wooden molds (I used a pinecone, Santa, floral, and Christmas house molds for mine.)
- Pastry brush
- Parchment paper
- Dough scraper or spatula
- Straw or toothpick
- Cookie sheet or baking sheet
- Cooling rack
- Thin ribbon or baker’s twine
How to Make Cinnamon Salt Dough Ornaments
If you can make cookies, you can make these ornaments. Here’s how it’s done:
- Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl, or an electric mixing bowl with the paddle attachment, and mix well.
- Add 3/4 cup of water and mix together until the dough holds together and is able to hold its shape when squeezed by hand. If it is too dry and crumbly, add more water slowly until it will hold its shape.
- Knead the dough together by hand to form a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap until ready to use, if needed.
- Lightly flour the inside of the mold and press the dough inside the mold until it is covered with the dough. Using the flat edge of the dough scraper, press it into the mold firmly.
- With the edge of the dough scraper, scrape out the excess dough. Gently lift the molded dough out of the mold.
- Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, design side up, and using a straw or toothpick, cut out a hole on the top of the ornament where the ribbon with hang.
- Bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. Flip the ornaments over so the back side is facing up, and heat for another 30 minutes.
- When finished, place on a cooling rack to cool.
- Once cooled, thread the ribbon through and hang!
Storing Your Ornaments
When Christmas is over, you can wrap these cute ornaments up and save them in an airtight container for next year. They will likely last for a few seasons.
For an ornament that will be more durable and last even longer, try my air-dry clay ornaments. You can use the same molds for clay ornaments that you used for the salt dough ornaments!
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Cinnamon Salt Dough Ornaments Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup white flour
- 1/2 cup basic table salt
- 3/4 cup ground cinnamon
- 3/4-1 cup water
Instructions
- Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl, or an electric mixing bowl with the paddle attachment, and mix well.Knead the dough together by hand to form a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap until ready to use, if needed.
- Add 3/4 cup of water and mix together until the dough holds together and is able to hold its shape when squeezed by hand. If it is too dry and crumbly, add more water slowly until it will hold its shape.
- Lightly flour the inside of the mold and press the dough inside the mold until it is covered with the dough. Using the flat edge of the dough scraper, press it into the mold firmly.
- With the edge of the dough scraper, scrape out the excess dough. Gently lift the molded dough out of the mold.
- Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, design side up, and using a straw or toothpick, cut out a hole on the top of the ornament where the ribbon with hang.
- Bake in an oven heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. Flip the ornaments over so the back side is facing up, and heat for another 30 minutes.
- When finished, place on a cooling rack to cool.
- Once cooled, thread the ribbon through and hang!
Cinnamon Salt Dough Ornament Variations
I adore the two-toned look of these molded cinnamon salt dough ornaments, but even if you don’t have a cookie mold, you can still have fun with this recipe.
Try rolling the dough out and use a cookie cutter to make shapes. You could also use your hands to make a simple salt dough handprint ornament. Follow the instructions for creating a hole for ribbon and baking.
Can I Paint these Salt Dough Ornaments?
Again, I love these ornaments as-is, but if you’d prefer a different or more finished look, feel free to get creative with acrylic paints, glitter, or whatever you desire. You could also try spraying them with a sealer to make them last longer.
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Need help rounding up supplies for this project? I got you! Checkout my TIDBITS & Company Christmas Moonsift page where I’ll have links to all the products used to make these ornaments, along with other Christmas favorites.
Christmas Ornaments and Crafts
Now it’s your turn to try this cinnamon salt dough ornaments recipe. It’s a fun, budget-friendly way to add some charming decorations to the Christmas tree. The whole family, including kids, can make their own special ornament keepsakes.
Who knows, maybe you’ll even start a new family tradition!
For more Christmas ornament and craft ideas, try:
- How to Make Beeswax Rolled Candles
- How to Make Yarn Wrapped Star Ornaments for Christmas
- Christian Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Dried Orange Peel Star Garland
- How to make Air Dry Clay Ornaments with Terracotta and White Clay
- DIY Names of Christ Clay Ornament Or Advent Idea
- How to Make a Paper Angel Christmas Ornament (So Beautiful!)
- The Easy Way to Make an Origami Star with Video Tutorial
- How to Dry Cranberries for Decorating
- 3 Ways to Paint and Customize a Ceramic Star Ornament
- How to make Dipped Beeswax Taper Candles with Old World Charm
These are Gorgeous!
I found all the molds on Amazon, they range from $6 to $29 apiece, try “wooden cookie molds”.
I also used some silicon star molds, but they don’t show the incredible detail that the wooden molds produce!
Where did you get the molds
Do you have to use a wood mold or can you use a silicon mold?
I could not get these to work in silicone molds
I tried multiple methods, letting them stay in the molds overnight, dusting the molds with flour, spraying the molds with a liitle pam, using both pam and flour, putting the molds in the freezer….
Who is your source for the beautiful wooden molds?
Hello , I would like to purchase the ornament cutters . I do not see a form or price . These are the prettiest . Thanks so much. Hope to hear bk soon.
Elaine