Homemade Cinnamon Baking Chips recipe (2024)

FAQs

What does cinnamon do in baking? ›

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.

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.

What About Chocolate Chips? While you can bake with chocolate chips, they are not the same as baking chocolate. Chocolate chips have less cocoa butter and contain stabilizers to help keep their "chip" shape while baking. They usually can't be used interchangeably with baking chocolate in recipes.

Melting chocolates are made with cocoa butter so it can be melted and reset multiple number of times. On the other hand chocolate chips are made with temperature stable oils so they can be used in baking and other high temperature applications.

Ceylon cinnamon is more delicate and floral. It is suited for baking or savory foods, but they should be lighter types of food. Try Ceylon cinnamon as a seasoning for baked chicken or fish, or steeped in hot water as a tea. It's also great in lighter baked goods, like a pillowy-soft snickerdoodle.

Use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon for every 1 cinnamon stick called for in a recipe.

This can be prepared by roasting whole cinnamon and then crushing it into a fine powder. While grinding add 1 tbsp of brown sugar (for one cup cinnamon sticks). Dry roast cinnamon in a pan for 2 minutes on low flame. Switch off the flame and transfer roasted cinnamon to a big plate.

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.

Putting potato chips in the freezer extends their freshness from a matter of days to months when stored properly in a sealed, air-tight bag. So when the instructions on the bag say to store in a cool, dry place, your freezer provides all that!

We've frozen cinnamon chips in an airtight container for up to 3 months. Allow them to defrost, then add them to your desserts.

How long does homemade cinnamon last? ›

Whole spices like cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and peppercorns last for years and years. Ground spices have a shorter shelf life because their surfaces are more exposed to the elements, but can still be good for 1-2 years, easily.

The main difference is in their texture. Cinnamon powder is much finer and easier to mix into recipes, whereas ground cinnamon has a coarser texture and can add a bit of crunch to dishes. This means that cinnamon powder is better suited for baking, while ground cinnamon is better suited for savory dishes.

Composition: Baking chocolate is made from cocoa solids and cocoa butter, and that's about it. It's unsweetened and lacks the additives found in chocolate chips.

Cinnamon chips are a great way to add spice and sweetness to classic bakes. Explore these recipes for scones, bars, cookies and more.