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Add a touch of spice to every spoonful of honey with this delicious cinnamon infused honey recipe! With just two simple ingredients and a little patience, you’ll have a sweet and spicy sweetener to drizzle into tea, coffee, over toast, and anywhere you’d like!
Cinnamon-infused honey is the perfect blend of two delicious flavors, and one of the easiest DIYs ever.
Basically, you’re going to steep the crushed cinnamon sticks into the honey, let it infuse, then strain out the pieces.
What’s left is a sweet, golden mixture with a deep, rich cinnamon flavor. Perfect for stashing in your tea cupboard or bottling up to give as a homemade holiday gift!
Love the taste of cinnamon? Whip up a batch of cinnamon extract or our favorite cinnamon maple syrup! It adds so much flavor to any batch of pancakes!
Ingredients
- Ceylon cinnamon – We recommend using Ceylon cinnamon, not cassia cinnamon, for this recipe.
- Raw honey – Choose the lightest colored honey you can find, but any honey will do. I prefer to use pure raw honey for this and all recipes.
How to Make Cinnamon Infused Honey
- Crush your cinnamon stick in your mortar and pestle.
- Add them to your mason jar.
- Cover the cinnamon sticks with honey.
- Close the jar, shake, roll, and stir to integrate the cinnamon pieces with the honey.
- Allow the mixture to sit for 1-2 weeks for the flavors to combine. Taste the honey and if it doesn’t taste enough like cinnamon, let it continue curing.
- Once the mixture is done, add a funnel and a strainer to a new jar. Pour the cinnamon infused honey through the sieve to separate the cinnamon and honey.
- Use as desired. Enjoy!
Storing Suggestions
Store the strained honey in an airtight jar. Small mason jars are ideal for this.
Infused honeys are typically stored out of direct sunlight, so choose a pantry or cupboard.
Since the cinnamon is completely dry, this honey should last at least a year or more.
How to Use Honey Infused with Cinnamon
This is the best part – finding ways to use your cinnamon-infused honey. There are plenty of options!
- Stir into your favorite tea for a bite of cinnamon flavor
- Pack into a glass jar to give as a gift to friends and family
- Drizzle over buttered toast or fresh apples
- Spoon over creamy yogurt
You can use this anywhere you use regular honey, so feel free to get creative! It’s perfect for the holiday season (or pretending it’s Christmas in July).
Tips & Variations
Get more cinnamon flavor. Feel free to add another cinnamon stick for a more robust, potent honey.
Multiply this recipe. This recipe makes perfect gifts! If you want to make a big batch, keep the proportion of 2-4 cinnamon sticks per cup of honey. The fewer sticks you add, the longer it will take to infuse.
FAQs
It’s hard to be patient waiting for your infused honey to sit. Most infused honey recipes like this cinnamon infused honey require 1-2 weeks to infuse fully.
You can judge when your recipe is done by taste. If you’re happy with the taste, go ahead and strain out the infusion from the honey. If unsatisfied with it, allow it to continue infusing another week.
Technically, honey doesn’t expire. When you add additional ingredients, that can cause your honey to ferment or go bad.
It should last indefinitely if you add a dry ingredient to honey with no moisture. The standard rule of thumb is a one-year shelf life for infused honey made with dry herbs and spices.
If you find your infused honey crystallizing, you’ll have a hard time straining it to use. You can reliquefy honey by heating it on low heat.
I like to take a stock pot, add a cotton dishcloth at the bottom, and then place the honey jar in the pot. Add water halfway up the sides of the jar and turn the heat on low. You’ll notice the honey beginning to look glossy and shiny.
If you haven’t already strained out the cinnamon pieces, do so now. If your honey solidifies again, you can repeat this process or simply use the honey. Crystalized honey is safe to eat and will dissolve nicely in a hot cup of tea. You can also whip it with liquid honey to make a delicious whipped honey!
More Infused Honey Recipes
Love to tinker in the kitchen? Try these other infusions & syrups!
If you made this recipe, please leave a comment or ask a question below! I’d love to hear what you think or troubleshoot any issues.
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Cinnamon Infused Honey Recipe
Equipment
- 1 mortar and pestle
- 1 8 oz mason jar
- 1 strainer
Ingredients
- 2-3 crushed Ceylon cinnamon sticks
- 1 cup raw honey
Instructions
- Crush each cinnamon stick with your mortar and pestle.
- Add the crushed sticks to your mason jar.
- Cover the cinnamon sticks with honey.
- Close the jar, shake, roll, and stir to integrate the cinnamon pieces with the honey.
- Allow the mixture to sit for 1-2 weeks for the flavors to combine. Taste the honey and if it doesn’t taste enough like cinnamon, let it continue curing.
- Once the mixture is done, add a funnel and a strainer to a new jar. Pour the cinnamon infused honey through the sieve to separate the cinnamon and honey.
- Use as desired. Enjoy!
Notes
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Can you leave this cinnamon sticks in it instead of removing?
Sure! I often forget about them and just use the syrup with them in it. The cinnamon sticks may try to slip out of the spout so if that’s annoying, then go ahead and remove them. 🙂 Otherwise, enjoy!
When you are doing honey with powdered cinnamon, you say 1 Tbsp. How much honey is that for, still 1 cup?
Lynn, Thanks for your question! I’d start with 1 TBS of good quality ground cinnamon per 1 cup of honey. Let it sit for a few days to see how well the honey takes on the flavor. You can always add a bit more!