Cinnamon Extract

Add intense cinnamon flavour to your baked goods with this easy to make cinnamon extract!

4.67 from 3 votes

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 3

Total Time 3 10

Make Cinnamon Extract Sous Vide
Prepare your sous vide water bath. Fill it with hot water from your tap and set to temperature to 135f.
Add 4 cinnamon sticks to a clean 250ml mason jar.
Fill the jar with the Everclear or Vodka, leaving about 1/2 inch of head-space in the jar.
Close the jar finger-tight and lower it into the water bath with a pair of jar lifters.
Cook your cinnamon extract sous vide at 135f for 3 hours.
Once the extract is done cooking, carefully lift the jar out of the water bath and set it on a wire mesh rack to cool before shaking vigorously then straining out the cinnamon sticks.
Make cinnamon extract without sous vide
Add 4 cinnamon sticks to a 250ml mason jar. If the sticks are too long to fit in the jar, simply cut them to size with a serrated knife.
Fill the jar with alcohol, leaving a 1/2 inch head-space. Close the jar tightly.
Place the jar in a cool dark place and give the jar a good, vigorous shake once a week for 9-10 weeks.
Once the extract starts to smell strongly of cinnamon, it's time to remove the sticks.Leaving them in can introduce bitter, over-extracted flavor.

This recipe can be infinitely scaled, just keep the ratio of 4 cinnamon sticks per 8oz of alcohol.

Use your homemade cinnamon extract at 1/4 strength of ground cinnamon, so 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon extract = 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon powder.

Keep your extract in an amber jar or in a mason jar in a cool, dark cupboard.