My girls have always loved fruit roll ups! One day while at the super market, I pulled a box off the shelf to look at the ingredients and my mouth about hit the floor! Just take a look at what is in the supermarket version of fruit roll ups.
- Strawberry Ingredients: Pears From Concentrate, Corn Syrup, Dried Corn Syrup, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Acetylated Mono And Diglycerides, Pectin, Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Color (Red 40, Yellows 5 % 6, Blue 1).
Now I knew there had to be a way to make these with using wholesome natural ingredients. Here is my recipe…3 ingredients and my girls love them. Need a quick snack? Add some nuts and one of these fruit leather roll ups and you will have a quick and healthy snack.
These delicious treats can be made in 4 Easy Steps!
Blend all ingredients in a Food Processor for 1 minute. Simmer in saucepan until thickens, about 15 minutes.
Pour onto jelly roll pan lined with parchment paper. Bake, Cook, Roll up and watch your children smile!
Organic Strawberry Fruit Leather Recipe
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Total time
Nutrition Info: Calories: 56.5 Fat: 0.4g Carbohydrates: 14.0g Protein: 0.7g
Serves: 6 fruit roll ups
Ingredients
- 1½-2 pounds of fresh organic strawberries, hulled and cleaned
- 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup coconut palm sugar (adjust to desired sweetness, if the strawberries are super sweet you might not need as much. If you are using strawberries out of season, then you might need a little more.)
- dash of nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170 F.
- Put all of the ingredients in a food processor and blend for 1 minute or until well blended.
- Pour into a small sauce pan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Simmer for 10-15 minutes or until the mixture thickens.
- Line a 11?x17? jelly roll pan with greased (i used coconut oil) parchment paper.
- Pour the mixture onto the parchment paper leaving a ½ inch of parchment paper on all sides.
- Spread to ⅛?-1/4? thick, you don’t want to get it to thin or you might have a hard time peeling it off the parchment paper.
- Bake for 6 hours.
- Allow to cool.
- With scissors, cut into 6 rectangles, leaving the excess parchment paper for easy peeling.
- Roll up and tie with a piece of string.
- Store in fridge or an airtight container.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 fruit roll up
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And I bought the special trays for my dehydrator! Have yet to try making them. I loved those darn fruit roll ups, glad we can make a healthier version.