Homemade Fruit Roll-Ups
It’s back to school time, which means back to routines, earlier mornings and… drum roll please… packing lunches! This is my all-time favorite recipe for homemade fruit leather that is guaranteed to be a hit with the kids for back-to-school.
Ingredients
- 3 cups ripe fruit, chopped up (e.g. peaches, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, plums)
- 1 Tbsp honey or maple syrup (more or less depending on how sweet you want the leather to be)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 150 degrees F (or the lowest temperature your oven will go). Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat. If you don’t have a silicone baking mat, you can use parchment paper.
- Puree the fruit and sweetener in a blender or food processor until smooth. Pour the mixture onto the baking sheet and spread out so it’s evening distributed on the sheet.
- Put baking sheet in the oven and bake for 6-8 hours until the fruit leather is set and the center is not tacky.
- Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature. Gently peel off the fruit leather from the baking mat and cut into squares or strips using a pizza cutter, knife or scissors. You can also roll into fruit roll-ups. Store in an air-tight container. The fruit leather will keep up to a month in an air-tight container.
Jenn Giurgevich is the founder of Spark Nutrition & Health, a virtual nutrition consulting business.
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