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Do you love cinnamon muffins, scones, cookies, and more?You have to try this simple Homemade Cinnamon Baking Chips Recipe. THEY ARE AMAZING!
Do you know when you get one of those snickerdoodle or cinnamon swirl muffins and it has that little pocket of cinnamony goodness inside? That is caused by these Cinnamon Baking Chips….who knew? I certainly didn’t. I mean I guess I just took for granted that the cinnamon fairy waved her wand and made my muffin that much more special. This easy Homemade Cinnamon Baking Chips Recipe will have you wanting to bake all of the cinnamon treats.
Ingredients
To make these tasty homemade cinnamon chips you need
You will also need a baking sheet, mixing bowl, parchment paper and an oven.
How to Make Cinnamon Chips
In a medium-sized bowl mix together the ingredients. I used my hands to make sure the mixture was good and incorporated together.
Pat out the cinnamon-sugary batter on a parchment-lined pan and pop in the oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes. The side effect is your house will smell like a cinnamon sugar heaven. There are worse things…trust me.
After the disc cools use your hands or a knife to break it into chips. Mix them into muffins, pancakes, cookies, and so much more. We have used them in these Easy Pancake Bites and in the BEST Mini Snickerdoodle Muffins. YUM!
Gluten-Free & Vegan
Not everyone thinks about how hard it is to find gluten free or vegan baking ingredients. These tasty tidbits are both. Another reason I love these Cinnamon Baking Chips!
Other Flavors
While these Baking Chips are the best, I encourage you to get creative with other flavors. Try using Pumpkin Pie Spicein place of the cinnamon to make some delicious fall baking chips.
Are they supposed to be hard? These will have a softer texture. They will not be rock hard. That is ok. You want them to kind of “melt” into your baked goods.
Buy cinnamon in bulk. Once you know how to make these baking chips, you will want to have them on hand all of the time. I love to purchase my cinnamon in bulk from Amazon. Not only do I enjoy it for these baking chips, but I use it to make my own Chai Tea Spice Mix and these adorable Cinnamon Applesauce ornaments at Christmas Time.
Other fats. No vegetable shortening? No problem. You can use palm oil or coconut oil in place of the shortening, even lard.
Uses
I use these in so many recipes, especially during the fall and winter months. You can toss them in muffins, cookies, pancakes, and more. Here are a few of my favorites.
Snickerdoodle Mini Muffins
Cinnamon scones
Easy Pancake Bites
Storage
Store these in an airtight container in your refrigerator until you are ready to use them. I have kept them for a couple of months successfully, but to be honest, they usually don’t last that long.
Make these in bulk and freeze!Make multiple batches of cinnamon chips. Cut them up and spread them in a single layer on a baking sheet and pop them in the freezer. Once the chips are frozen place them in a freezer bag and back in the freezer. Remove and use them in any baked goods as needed.
I have found though that once you realize how good they are in all of your baked goods, they won’t be around long.
Homemade Cinnamon Baking Chips
Do you love cinnamon muffins, scones, cookies, and more? You have to try this simple Homemade Cinnamon Baking Chips Recipe. THEY ARE AMAZING!
Preheat oven to 200F. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a cookie sheet and spray liberally with cooking spray. Set aside.
In a medium size bowl, combine the granulated sugar, ground cinnamon, shortening, light corn syrup and vanilla extract. Mix with fork until the mixture is uniform and crumbly. Spread on parchment lined baking sheet, flattening with your hands and shaping into a rough square about 1/4 inch or so thick. Bake until mixture is melted and somewhat bubbly, about 30 minutes.
Cool completely, and then cut into small pieces.
Makes approximately 2 cups
Notes
Oven temps can vary. You can turn your oven up to 225 if you feel like your chips aren’t coming together.
Quick and easy Baked Cinnamon Chips are made by brushing flour tortillas with melted butter, sprinkling with cinnamon-sugar, and baking until light and crisp. They make a delicious snack on their own, or try topping them with some vanilla ice cream and buttermilk caramel sauce or hot fudge.
Storage. Store your cinnamon chips in the refrigerator inside an airtight container. They should last for about a month, but regular bakers with a sweet tooth will probably use these up quite quickly. You can also freeze your cinnamon chips.
They have a very potent flavor, they are definitely “cinnamon”. However, it has an actual cinnamon taste and not a cinnamon chemical taste. The texture melts similar to other baking chips.
Apart from flavor, cinnamon is also used in commercial baking to impart a specific color to a product. “For certain purposes, it may be desirable to give a baked product high cinnamon colouring and yet only relatively mild cinnamon flavouring,” write J. Thomas and P. P. Duethi in Handbook of Herbs and Spices.
Cassia cinnamon sticks have a single layer of thick bark, while Ceylon cinnamon sticks have several layers of thin bark. Cinnamon chips are small pieces of cinnamon bark. You can buy cinnamon chips from apothecaries like Mountain Rose Herbs, or you can simply smash up cinnamon sticks into smaller pieces.
Different types of snacks have varying expiration dates: Potato chips will last one month after expiration date. Crackers and pretzels can last up to three months. One of the longest lasting snacks is popcorn, which has a shelf life of one to two years.
The good news about spices is that they virtually last forever. It's rare, if not impossible, for a spice to go "bad." The biggest threat of time is that it causes spices to lose potency and flavor. Ground cinnamon that's three years old will not carry as much flavor as cinnamon that's only three months old.
I don't add anything else to my chocolate chips when melting, unless I need to thin out my chocolate for drizzling (more on that below). SAM'S TIP: Make sure your bowl is completely clean and dry! Even a tiny bit of water can cause your chocolate to seize (meaning become grainy/unusable).
If melted improperly or too fast, chocolate can get hard, clumpy, and “concrete” like. This is called “Seizing”. This often happens if water comes into contact with the chocolate.
When you find a recipe that calls for melted chocolate chips, reach for Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips. Our Test Kitchen team found that these chips melted down very easily and had a super creamy texture.
If you're baking, Korintje (Indonesian) cinnamon is the best choice. It's the sweetest of the cinnamons, so its flavor lends itself happily to baked goods. Saigon (Vietnamese) cinnamon has an aggressive flavor, so it's great for savory applications.
Cinnamon is rich in antioxidants and other beneficial compounds. Some research suggests that it may help you manage blood sugars, protect against heart disease, and reduce inflammation. Cinnamon is a spice that has been prized for its medicinal properties for thousands of years.
The concern with eating too much cinnamon relates to its coumarin content, which in excessive amounts, could increase your chance of liver damage. Sticking to no more than half a teaspoon daily is also a good idea because different types and brands of cinnamon might have different quantities of coumarin in them.
These crispy cinnamon bites are made with canned biscuit dough and cinnamon sugar. Just 4 ingredients to make these easy cinnamon sugar biscuit bites! They're the perfect sweet breakfast, after-school snack, or dessert. Like bite-sized cinnamon rolls, everyone will devour these.
The fragrant spice comes from the inner bark of the Sri Lankan cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) and is used in sweet and savoury foods worldwide. Other members of the genus Cinnamomum are also used to create spices, such as cassia from Cinnamomum cassia, and Indonesian cinnamon from Cinnamomum burmannii.
Ground cinnamon and cinnamon sticks are like fraternal twins: same but different. As its name implies, ground cinnamon is the dried inner tree layer that's been pulverized into a fine powder. A cinnamon stick is that same bark, only it left the party before the spice grinder was brought out.
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