Three Ingredient Homemade Fruit Roll Ups
Homemade fruit roll ups are surprisingly easy to make and need only 3 ingredients- or less! This version of the childhood treat is full of wholesome real ingredients and sweet delicious flavor.
Servings: 8
Calories: 46kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups fruit fresh or frozen, but thawed if frozen
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2-3 tbsp sugar or honey optional
Instructions
- Place the prepared fruit (i.e. bananas, peeled and sliced, strawberries, washed and hulled, etc) in a blender or food processor and puree until the fruit mixture is smooth without an chunks remaining. Transfer the puree to a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice and sugar.
- Cook the fruit puree over medium to medium high heat for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent sticking or burning, until the mixture has thickened and the excess moisture cooked out. You’re looking for a jammy consistency.
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees, or as low as your oven will go, making sure it’s less than 200 degrees at the highest. Our oven goes from the ‘warm’ setting to 200, and we found setting it in between those two worked out perfectly.
- Spread the puree/jam into a rectangle shape on a baking pan lined with a silpat or with a sheet of parchment paper. Use a spatula to gently help ‘spread’ the fruit puree as evenly as possible, until the rectangle-ish shape is about 1/8 inch thick- without any spots that are thin enough to see-through.
- Cook in the oven for 3-4 hours, until the fruit mixture no longer feels sticky, but just a bit tacky. Remove from the oven and let it cool completely.
- Gently remove the cooked, and now completely cooled, sheet of fruit by peeling it away from the silpat or paper and transfer it to a wax paper lined cutting board. Use a sharp, metal pizza cutter to cut it into long strips. Roll them up into the fruit roll ups, and enjoy!
Notes
- Our oven goes from the ‘warm’ setting to 200. Setting the temperature in between those two worked out perfectly.
- Keep in mind that the fruit rectangle will get even thinner as it cooks so just try to make sure that none of the jam is so thin that you can see through it as you spread it out on the baking sheet.
- If using lighter fruits like peaches and mangoes, your jam may still be see through in spots so really try to focus on keeping it close to the 1/8″ mark.
Nutrition
Calories: 46kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 53mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 179IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 1mg