Once you make homemade fruit leather, you might never buy the packaged stuff again!
Have you ever eaten Fruit Roll-Ups? These chewy, fruity treats are produced by General Mills and have been in supermarkets since 1983. That’s a long time. But rolled fruit snacks have actually been around far longer.
More than 100 years ago in New York City, a Syrian immigrant imported apricot paste and turned it into a fruit leather called amardeen. It came in large sheets, so when a customer wanted to buy some, they simply cut off a long piece and handed it to them.
Our 10-year-old recipe tester, Selah, said, “It smelled so good while cooking. It’s amazing how it changed colors.”
Triple-Berry Fruit Leather
Makes 12 fruit strips
Vegetable oil spray
4 cups mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries and strawberries — strawberries hulled and chopped)
2 large Granny Smith apples (8 ounces each), peeled, cored and chopped
1/4 cup sugar
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 200 degrees. Use a pencil and ruler to draw a 14‑by-11‑inch rectangle on a large sheet of parchment paper. Flip parchment and place on a rimless baking sheet. Spray parchment evenly with vegetable oil spray.
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