Kid’s Fruit Leather with Weaver’s Apple Sauce
- Prep Time: 20-30 mins
- Bake Time: 5-6 hours
- Total Time: 6 hours
- Yield: 10-12 strips 1x
- Category: Berries, Apples, Appetizers, Recipes
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 heaping cup Weaver’s Orchard Apple Sauce
- 1 quart Weaver’s homegrown strawberries, washed, trimmed and diced
- 1 beet, scrubbed, unpeeled and cubed
Instructions
- First, scrub and cube unpeeled beets. Put beet pieces into a small saucepan, just covering with water and set to a boil. Once the pot boils for a minute or two, lower to a simmer and leave uncovered.
- Meanwhile, prep strawberries by washing, trimming and thinly dice. Put diced fruit into a separate saucepan and set to medium-low heat. Stir occasionally until the strawberries cook down and become frothy and bubbly (as in jam making), about 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
- When the strawberries are ready, take off the heat and use an immersion blender to purée until smooth. By this point (about 20-30 mins), the beets should have created a dark juice (if not, continue simmering). Strain off the beet juice into a small jar and add to the strawberry purée to intensify the color to a vibrant red. Add the apple sauce to the strawberry mixture and blend once more to incorporate all of the ingredients thoroughly.
- Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper and scoop out the fruit purée onto the sheets, spreading with a spatula until very thin (try to make an even layer that is thin, but not see-through).
- Place trays into the oven and set a timer for 2.5 hours to check and rotate racks.
- Bake for roughly 5-6 hours in total until the moisture has totally evaporated from the fruit and the leather is sticky to the touch, but no longer wet.
- Remove sheets from the oven and let cool before flipping parchment over onto a sheet of wax paper. Then, carefully peel the fruit leather off of the cooked parchment paper and onto the clean wax paper. Tightly roll up the wax paper until you get a thin tube. Use a pair of sharp kitchen scissors to cut the leather to a desired width (easily make 5-6 rolls per tube). Peel and enjoy!
Notes
This recipe would work great in a dehydrator, but the bake instructions for this recipe are for a standard oven.
Keywords: Kid's Fruit Leather, Apple Sauce, Strawberries