Anybody else totally obsessed over fruit roll ups as a kid? Alright, anybody else STILL obsessed over fruit rolls ups, because you stay a kid at heart? Man, I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved chewy fruity foods.
Homemade fruit leathers are an excellent alternative to commercially made fruit roll ups. Mostly because you can control the amount of sugar in the fruit leather and you can leave out unnecessarily added food coloring and other chemicals. All-natural or homemade fruit leather makes a good snack for camping or hiking. You can also offer it as a treat at kids’ parties instead of sugary candy.
It is that time of year again when I’m going to be inundated with fresh fruit. I already have a refrigerator full of fresh rhubarb and instead of making jam or jelly, I wanted to learn how to make fruit leather. Since we do a ton of hiking, camping, and backpacking, having fruit leather would be awesome. Luckily, there have been other people attempting to use rhubarb to make fruit leathers. For this recipe, this will probably be the first and last time I will actually recommend using strawberries as well.
For this recipe, I cooked the rhubarb until it was completely falling apart. You could also cook the strawberries, but it is not necessary. Fresh strawberries blend really nicely and do not need to be cooked before making the fruit puree for the fruit leather. The first batch I made, I only used 1/2 cup honey. Man was that fruit leather sour! The second batch, I used 1 cup honey. The fruit leather is delicious and awesome. I look forward to making more this summer.
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