Our 16 Best Cinnamon Dessert Recipes To Spice Up Your Life
The warming spice is perfect in apple desserts, breads, and sugar cookies
Our favorite baking spice adds subtle, earthy warmth to everything, and we have to confess that when fall arrives, it's really all we're craving (but, of course, we'll eat it year round). We're coating our donuts in cinnamon. We're sprinkling it on our breakfast rolls and adding plenty of it to cookies. And how about pie? Yep, there's cinnamon there too. We'll never say no to any of these cinnamon recipes.
Gluten-Free Cinnamon Crumb Cake
Sorghum flour and almond meal give this cake from Gluten-Free Baking (Weldon Owen 2014) a soft, fine crumb; tangy yogurt balances its subtle sweetness. A dense brown sugar and walnut crumble tops the cinnamon-and-vanilla-scented base, making for a satisfying breakfast or snack. Get the recipe for Gluten-Free Cinnamon Crumb Cake »
New England Hermits
These classic bar cookies, spiced with cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg and studded with raisins, are adapted from a recipe in the 1880 New Cook Book. Get the recipe for New England Hermits »
Cinnamon Simple Syrup
Great in fall cocktails, this flavored simple syrup is also wonderful drizzled over pancakes or stirred into coffee. Get the recipe for Cinnamon Simple Syrup »
Swedish Cinnamon-and-Cardamom Bread
Fika means “to drink coffee” in Swedish. But it’s more than just that. It’s a moment to take a break, chat with friends, and enjoy a pastry—a tradition worth emulating. And one that’s charmingly detailed in Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall’s upcoming book Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break (Ten Speed Press, April 2015). Get a fikasugen (a fika craving) for proper Swedish coffee snacks like this cinnamon-cardamom bread. The yeasty cardamom-spiced dough is cut into a decorative pattern before baking. Get the recipe for Swedish Cinnamon-and-Cardamom Bread »
Glazed Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Laden with dried cranberries and drizzled with a sweet cinnamon glaze, these go beyond the typical oatmeal cookie. Get the recipe for Glazed Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies »
Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
This perfect combination of snickerdoodle and sugar cookie is warmly spiced—just the thing to have with a cup of tea, by a roaring fire. Get the recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Cookies »
Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Yeast-raised, sticky, moist cinnamon rolls are made even more decadent with the addition of cream cheese. Get the recipe for Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls »
Todd's Snickerdoodles
Cinnamon-sugar dusted snickerdoodles are always one of the most-requested holiday cookies. Get the recipe for Todd’s Snickerdoodles »
New England Cinnamon Sugar-Cider Donuts
A simple glaze of boiled-down apple cider, butter, and confectioners’ sugar makes for a great donut dip. Get the recipe for New England Cinnamon Sugar-Cider Donuts »
Cinnamon-Sugar Ice Cream
Buttery cinnamon-sugar crumbles swirled into a creamy base are reminiscent of cinnamon toast. Get the recipe for Cinnamon-Sugar Ice Cream »
Cinnamon Coffee Cake
A buttery cinnamon crumble tops a sweet breakfast favorite; the cake itself gets an extra boost of flavor from cinnamon extract. Get the recipe for Cinnamon Coffee Cake »
Spice Applesauce Cake
Applesauce adds moisture and sweet apple flavor in a lovely cinnamon-spiced, autumnal cake. Get the recipe for Spice Applesauce Cake »
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