I have been a long-time admirer of the blog Make-and-Takes, along with a few others that regularly inspire me to think, "Wow, I'd really like to do that if I had a lot more time and a little more motivation!" Andrew and I have had lots of conversations recently about taking a hard look at how much sugar and artificial ingredients Aiden and Gracie have been getting. So, I was inspired to try to make Strawberry Fruit Leather. Three ingredients, two steps - how hard could it be? Apparently harder than I thought. Was it cooking it in the oven that did it? Maybe turning the oven off and on in order to a) sleep and b) go to work? Maybe I just didn't have that magic I-make-homemade-snacks-for-my-kids touch. (above - Marie's version). Here was mine - so, so sad...
I am destined to feed my children fruit juice from concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, pectin, citric acid, dextrose, etc. Sorry, kids!
Enjoy -
Chris has the fruit leather insert in his dehydrator. More controlled heat and it might get you better results. We've made some yummy dehydrated cinnamon apple chips and are going to be trying the fruit leather. I'll let you know how it goes.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm.... It's a good thing you got rid of that pan! =)
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