Homemade Fruit Leather (Fruit Roll Ups)

12 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes
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Homemade Fruit Leather (Fruit Roll Ups) is easy to make with simple ingredients, and your choice of real fruit. Perfect for packed lunches!

This Homemade Fruit Leather recipe is a healthy alternative for store-bought Fruit Roll-Ups. For more homemade snack recipes, try making Chewy Homemade Granola Bars and Trail Mix. 

Sabrina’s Homemade Fruit Leather (Fruit Roll-Ups) Recipe

You’ll be amazed at just how simple Homemade Fruit Leather is. By pureeing fruit with a bit of lemon juice and sugar, and then baking slowly at a low temperature, you’ve created something better than store bought! This is an easy recipe that works for a sweet snack or a fun addition to your lunch. It’s especially great when you’re packing school lunches to add in as a surprise that your kids are sure to love.

Homemade Fruit Leather (Fruit Roll Ups)

Homemade Fruit Leather (Fruit Roll Ups) is easy to make with simple ingredients, and your choice of real fruit. Perfect for packed lunches!
Yield 12 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients
 

Strawberry:

  • 1 pound strawberries , sliced
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar

Mango:

  • 1 pound mango , diced
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar

Blueberry:

  • 1 pound blueberries
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 170 degrees and line three baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Add each fruit, lemon juice and sugar to a blender one at a time.
  • Blend the strawberry mixture until smooth, about 1 minute.
  • Pour the fruit mixture onto the baking sheet and spread evenly.
  • Repeat with the mango mixture and the blueberry mixture.
  • Cook in the oven for 3-4 hours until the leather is dry.
  • Remove from the oven then let cool on your stovetop.
  • Remove the parchment paper, with the fruit leather still attached, and trim the edges with your scissors to make a clean rectangle.
  • Cut the long way into 6 long strips.
  • Cut each long strip in half to make 12 total strips of each flavor.
  • Leave the parchment paper on the backing of the fruit roll ups to make it easier for eating and storing.

Notes

To Store: Put rolls in airtight container, and store at room temperature for up to 1 month. You can also store this recipe for up to a year in the freezer. Seal the wrapped rolls in a freezer bag or another airtight container to keep the frozen fruit from getting freezer burned. 

Nutrition

Serving: 3 Roll ups | Calories: 68kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 152mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 434IU | Vitamin C: 40mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 0.3mg

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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