Dried Citrus Ornaments – A Beautiful Mess

Citrus season is upon us! what meaning, don’t you? Elsie might be whipping up an orange cranberry margarita with the tart fruit, and I’ll be over right here butchering oranges and lemons for vacation residence decor. Haha!

That’s proper, I’m getting au naturel and turning meals into Christmas ornaments. These dried citrus ornaments scent nice whenever you make them, and you may eat the leftovers. Seems like my type of craft!

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Methods to Make Dried Citrus Ornaments:

Step One: Slice your fruit into 1/4″ slices and thoroughly take away the seeds. Use a large blade knife (this knife set is so cute!) to make sure uniform thickness of particular person slices.

Step Two: Organize the fruit slices onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place in a heat oven set to about 150-170°F.

Bake for 3-4 hours, flipping each hour till the fruit is dried (however not fully shriveled up). You need the slices to retain their colour and never look brown across the edges.

Can You Air Dry The Citrus Slices?

I additionally tried a method of air drying the citrus slices and was shocked at how shortly they dried out.

It took about 4 days for them to get to a pleasant stiffness, although the orange slices curled up slightly than staying flat as they did after baking them. The lemon and lime slices didn’t curl.

Step Three: Pierce the dried fruit slices with decoration hangers. That’s it! Now you may have fairly ornaments in your tree. These would additionally make an ideal reward.

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I like how the slices are a bit like little items of stained glass. The sunshine shines via them creating a fairly orange glow.

These citrus ornaments work nice with an amber vase of evergreens, held on a Christmas tree, and even strung up for a lovely garland in entrance of a window. And I like how they give the impression of being subsequent to my DIY porcelain tree lights.

And if you happen to’re pressed for time, it’s also possible to purchase your orange slices already dried!

We’ve received a ton of enjoyable vacation decor and recipe inspiration in our Christmas archives, so discover one thing enjoyable (and scrumptious!) to make this vacation season! –Mandi

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Make your individual dried fruit ornaments utilizing lemons, orange, or limes

Prep 10 minutes

Cook dinner 3 hrs 30 minutes

Complete 3 hrs 40 minutes

Directions

Slice your fruit into 1/4″ slices and thoroughly take away the seeds. Use a large blade knife to make sure uniform thickness of particular person slices.
Organize the fruit slices onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place in a heat oven set to about 150-170°F.
Bake for 3-4 hours, flipping each hour till the fruit is dried (however not fully shriveled up).You need the slices to retain their colour and never look brown across the edges.
Pierce the dried fruit slices with decoration hangers. That’s it! Now you may have fairly ornaments in your tree. These would additionally make an ideal reward.

Notes

I additionally tried a method of air drying the citrus slices and was shocked at how shortly they dried out.
It took about 4 days for them to get to a pleasant stiffness, although the orange slices curled up slightly than staying flat as they did after baking them. The lemon and lime slices didn’t curl.