For at least five generations, my family has used this recipe for dark chocolate pudding. I adore being able to recreate dishes that my great-grandmother prepared in her kitchen more than a century ago. The ideal creamy chocolate combination is in this dessert.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 20 mins |
| Yield: | 1 dozen ornaments |
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 cup salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Combine flour, water, and salt in a large bowl; mix well and knead for 10 minutes.
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- Transfer dough to a floured work surface and knead until soft and pliable.
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- Roll out to a thickness of 1/8 inch; cut desired shapes with cookie cutters.
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- Transfer dough shapes to ungreased cookie sheets; use a toothpick to make a hole in each ornament for hanging.
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- Bake in the preheated oven until hard, about 30 minutes; allow to cool.
- The dough can be mixed with food coloring before rolling.
- Decorate with poster paints or tube paint when completely cool. Allow the paint to dry and spray with clear polyurethane on both sides to preserve. Use ribbon or yarn pieces to hang.
Reviews
Did this with my grandkids and we loved it we had a lot of fun making them
It’s a pretty standard, salt dough – thinner you roll it out the flatter it will be. The longer you let it dry out before baking, the flatter it will be… the lower temp but for longer will also help flatten. I used self rising flour that I have ZERO idea why it was in my pantry.. but I worked the heck out of the dough. I colored the dough – normal and gel coloring work fine… every thing turned out beautifully.
This dough was fabulous to work with. I rolled mine too thick, because they puffed up, but they puffed in the most beautiful way that it almost looked like a paper mache effect! Still, next time I will roll them thinner to see if I can get an even bake .
Definitely will make again! I found that the dough gets super sticky (I halved the recipe) so I added around another 1/4-1/3 cup of flour. When baking some ornaments do crack a good bit while others are fine. I recommend not using all purpose flour. I also baked mine for an hour, 30 minutes just isn’t long enough.
Good
I had fun making it
Very simple, and fun- they did take longer to cook almost twice as long. just pending on how thick they were. Just flip them over. So easy and fun.
No and make them every year
Did anyone else’s puff up? I followed the recipe to the letter. And yes, I used all purpose flour.
Works great! 🙂
Fun for all kinds of crafts.
these puffed up like a pastry! I thought they would be flat but they are like a cloud.
I made these with my preschool class. They baked nicely, kept their shape and impressions we made, and will be nice ornaments for trees. Simple and fun!
Havent had any issues with this recipe. Added a Tbs more water to loosen dough. Rolled out to 1/8th inch, and baked for 50 minutes to prevent puffing. Any thicker and they take longer to bake and more likely to puff.
Less salt worked.out fine
I wasn’t able to do anything with it. It was crumbs and I couldn’t make it stick together even by adding some more water. I made some years ago with ease, and this sounded like the same recipe, but I sure couldn’t make it work! I’m going to buy some clay for my use – dollhouse miniature foods.
Most of our pieces had a largish air bubble. Disappointing, but we painted and hung them anyways 🙂
Loved this!!!! 1. Please remember this for fun time with your Kids or Hubby it’s not flipping artist perfect. If your OCD do not attempt this it will drive you insane. 2. If dough is too stiff add a small amount of water at a time to correct. 3. Keep a small bowl of warmer water handy Incase dough stiffens up dip fingers to slightly moisten 4. After kneading pull off small amount and roll into 6in balls way easier to work with. 5. I put my oven at 350 and baked 20 mins checked added 10 mins to my thick ones. ( all oven times very) 6. Put on tinfoil and straight on rack. DO NOT USE A BAKING SHEET. Yes some puffed up and some cracked but isn’t that what makes them unique and homemade. My kids had so much fun just making the dough and shapes and tomorrow we paint!!!
This recipe was super easy to follow and fun. My son really enjoyed mixing it all together and rolling out his own ornaments. It would have been good to know the thickness of the dough, I did get some that bubbled out and wasn’t sure if I should flip or not as I didn’t see that in the recipe. But other than that thank you for sharing it was lots of fun, now we will paint them.
Great recipe. I might add a bit more water next time as the dough was really hard to knead and seemed dry. I worked with a chunk at a time and wrapped the rest in wet paper towel. You definitely have to bake low and slow. I baked at 300* and still got some puffiness. Also had to bake 1 hr. total to get the shapes hard all the way through.
May need to bake longer for thicker ornaments