Just a quick tutorial for you today, but it’s super cute and uses orange peel – a pretty common waste product at this time of year!
All you need is citrus skin and something to cut it with. I used cookie cutters, but a knife and a steady hand is fine. A microwave is beneficial, but not essential.
First, peel your fruit in as big a piece as possible. Lay it flat on a chopping board and cut out your shapes.
Once you’ve done this, you can set the shapes aside to dry for a few days, or you can cheat and microwave them on full power for around a minute and a half.
Once the shapes are dry, they’re ready to use. I plan to thread these on some cotton to hang on our tree, but they would also be great as a gift tag – perhaps with the recipient’s initials on.
Some practical notes: larger citrus fruits produce larger skins, but they’re also thicker and therefore take longer to dry. With thicker skins, it might be prudent to pierce any shapes you wish to thread before allowing the peel to dry – it gets increasingly tricky as the citrus skin hardens.
So, that’s it! I would love to see your results if you have a go! Send me a picture here or on Twitter 🙂
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