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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.
Tips
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.
The standard amount called for in a baking recipe is completely fine for you — no need to worry! While most baking calls for ground cinnamon, whole cinnamon sticks can come in handy in some specific baking applications.
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.
For example, if you're taking medications that may affect your liver, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or statins, excessive intake of the coumarin in cinnamon may increase the chance of liver damage. Also, the spice may enhance the effects of diabetes medications and cause your blood sugar to fall too low.
Responding to the difference in tastes between these types of cinnamon, chefs often prefer cassia cinnamon in savory dishes such as meats and soups and the sweeter, milder Ceylon cinnamon in desserts. Saigon cinnamon is often used to provide bold flavor to baked goods as well as soups like pho.
Ground cinnamon and cinnamon powder are essentially the same thing; the latter may be a bit finer, but both incorporate into recipes smoothly. Both have the same flavor, too, as long as they're the same type of cinnamon.
Add a sprinkle of cinnamon to oatmeal, yogurt, smoothies, or fruits. The spice adds flavor without adding calories and can help control your sweet tooth.
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!
Make Ahead Instructions – Freezing: Baked rolls can be frozen for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and warm up before enjoying. You can also freeze the unbaked rolls and here's how: bake the rolls in step 9 for only about 10 minutes. Cool completely, then cover tightly and freeze.
Crawford explains that the main difference between chocolate chips and baking chocolate is that chocolate chips contain added stabilizers. These stabilizers, often in the form of soy lecithin, help the chocolate chips keep their shape when they are heated.
Cinnamon is a spice created from the inner bark of the Cinnamomum tree. Strips of the inner bark are dried until they curl into rolls known as cinnamon sticks or quills. These can then be ground into powder or made into an extract.
These chips are regularly produced using corn, and their taste is described by a wonderful mix of syrupiness and a bit of fiery cinnamon. At the point when you nibble into one, you'll probably encounter a fresh surface that gives way to an eruption of cinnamon goodness.
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