Tasty fruit roll-ups you can make at home!
3 cups of fruit (ie strawberries, apples, peaches, pears, nectarines, blueberries, etc)
1/8 to 1/4 cup of fruit juice
Peel, core and slice fruit. Place in a blender with juice and blend until smooth, then place in a saucepan over medium heat for 5 minutes. Let cool and place plastic wrap over a baking sheet. Pour the puree onto the wrap, keeping away from the edges. Spread as thin as possible with a spatula. Turn oven on lowest possible heat, or even just the pilot light. You basically want it to be warm in there, not hot. Leave baking sheet in oven for 6-8 hours (don’t worry, the plastic wrap doesn’t melt). Remove from oven and roll up the dried fruit and plastic wrap like a jelly roll. To serve, cut the roll into 1-inch sections and peel off the wrap.
Strawberries were on sale this week and both Tony and I bought a couple of baskets of them, not realizing the other had bought some too. So we had a lot of strawberries to use up! I decided to make these fruit rolls, and they were such a big hit with the kids. The whole roll was gone in less than a day. I don’t even think Tony got a chance to taste them, but I had some and they were really good. I was a little worried about using plastic wrap because of chemicals leaching into the food, but I guess it’s at such a low temperature it’s probably ok. Still, I think to be on the safe side I might try wax paper or parchment paper next time. I hear they work too so we’ll see.
Food and Whine 
I love your blog! We have similar ways with ingredients, clean, healthy & very tasty. I don’t usually buy my kids fruit leather, but I would absolutely make this recipe. Great job 🙂
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Woah – this sounds way easier than I thought it was going to! Can’t wait to try – thanks for the recipe!
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VERY NICE RECIPE..MY DAUGHTER LOVE FRUIT ROLL UPS WE BUY FROM STORE..WILL DO THIS INSTEAD
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This looks amazing. I can’t wait to try this! I’ll definitely credit you and let you know if I use it. Thanks for this awesome idea that looks so much easier than it sounded initially!
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if your worried about plastic melting i do not think wax paper will be much better. Try parchment paper or a silicon baking mats….also since its a low temp you can use brown paper bag for that.
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Thanks! Yes parchment paper might be better.
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I wasn’t really worried about it melting though, I was more concerned about chemicals.
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I’m going to make some of these tonight with a bunch of frozen fruit I had laying around in my freezer and I’ll use parchment, just in case 🙂 I have the fruit thawing on my counter right now!
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How long do these stay fresh? I am a single grad student, so I like to make up a bunch of food all at one time whenever possible! I can’t wait to try this!
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Since there are no preservatives it would only last a few days at room temp, but if you store it in the fridge or freezer it should last several months.
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Could you do mango?
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Sure! Mango sounds yummy.
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Do you use any juice? Or should you use juice to match the fruit you are using?
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Any kind of juice should work fine. I usually use apple juice, but you can definitely experiment with different flavours.
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Does keeping your oven on for that amount of time become engergy wasteful and/or expensive?
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I’d imagine it probably is if you do it regularly. If so you might want to invest in a food dehydrator instead.
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Do you leave the skin on the peaches?Janine
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