Cinnamon recipes

Be it in a Christmas pudding, an apple crumble or simply swirled into porridge, most of us are well familiar with the warm, sweet spice of cinnamon. In fact, it's such a common ingredient in desserts and puddings that we may overlook it as a fine compliment to savoury dishes, as well.

Cinnamon is harvested from the bark of cinnamon trees, and can be bought dry as sticks or ground into a powder. Both forms have their uses: ground cinnamon is convenient for baking recipes, while cinnamon sticks are a handy addition to a pot of stew or mulled wine.

Native to Sri Lanka, cinnamon is common in Middle Eastern and Asian recipes, where it's often used with other spices like cardamom, cloves and star anise to flavour rich meat dishes. Classic examples are Alfred Prasad's slow-cooked lamb shanks recipe and Geoffrey Smeddle's lamb tagine.

Some of us will be most at home with cinnamon in our baking recipes. Apples and cinnamon are a diamond duo, as you'll find in Shaun Rankin's apple muffins recipe and Marcus Waring's apple crumble, served in slices on a shortbread base. Cinnamon also works well with other warm spices like ginger as in Martin Wishart's gingerbread.

But for a real spice fest, you can't look past Dominic Chapman's classic Christmas pudding recipe where you'll find cinnamon alongside nutmeg and mixed spice to create the ultimate winter indulgence

Cinnamon recipes

Cinnamon macarons Galton Blackiston

Course:	Petit four
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	1 hour
Serves:	10

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Cinnamon doughnuts and chocolate sauce Kevin Mangeolles

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	40 minutes plus 2 hours resting
Serves:	6

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Baked spiced plums with cream chantilly Andy Waters

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	30 minutes
Serves:	4

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Adam’s mulled wine Adam Gray

Course:	Other
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	30 minutes
Serves:	6

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Fig tart with cinnamon ice cream Tom Aikens

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	1 hour 20 minutes plus cooling and freezing time
Serves:	4

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Roquefort and cinnamon doughnuts, white chocolate and cognac jelly Pascal Aussignac

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	1 hour 40 minutes
Serves:	4

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Pear and caramelised white chocolate galette Laurie Gear

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	40 minutes
Serves:	4

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Gingerbread Martin Wishart

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	1 hour
Serves:	4

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Murgh Makhni Alfred Prasad

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	1 hour 50 minutes plus 4 hours marinating and cooling
Serves:	4

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Hyderabadi shanks Alfred Prasad

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	2 hours 30 minutes
Serves:	4

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Lamb tagine Geoffrey Smeddle

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	4 hours
Serves:	4

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Barbecued pork chop with apple and endive Marcus Wareing

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	3 hours
Serves:	4

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Apple muffin Shaun Rankin

Course:	Other
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	30 minutes
Serves:	6

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Lemon posset with ginger snap biscuits and Earl Grey soaked prunes with brandy Josh Eggleton

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	1 hour 20 minutes
Serves:	12

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Braised and roasted whole duck Marcus Wareing

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	2 hours
Serves:	6

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Cherry soup Shaun Hill

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	40 minutes
Serves:	4

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Duck with tamarind and cauliflower Steve Drake

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Challenging
Cooking Time:	3 hours 30 minutes plus curing and 12 hour sous vide
Serves:	6

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Grouse, fried brioche and fig purée Kevin Mangeolles

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	8 hours
Serves:	6

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Pepper chicken Alfred Prasad

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	50 minutes
Serves:	4

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Lonk lamb Lancashire hotpot, roast loin, pickled red cabbage, tangled carrots and leeks Nigel Haworth

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Medium
Cooking Time:	3 hours plus pickling of red cabbage
Serves:	4

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Pigeon bistayeea Greg Malouf

Course:	Main
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	2 hours
Serves:	6

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Pinhead oat porridge Marcello Tully

Course:	Other
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	30 minutes plus soaking time
Serves:	4

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Porridge with maple bananas and Greek yoghurt Marcus Wareing

Course:	Other
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	30 minutes
Serves:	4

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Port and claret jelly with tutti-frutti ice cream Galton Blackiston

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	40 minutes plus marinating and freezing
Serves:	8

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Raspberry curd doughnuts Paul Ainsworth

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	50 minutes plus freezing time
Serves:	6

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Spiced apple crumble slice Marcus Wareing

Course:	Dessert
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	50 minutes
Serves:	12

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Vietnamese pho soup Geoffrey Smeddle

Course:	Starter
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	1 hour 10 minutes
Serves:	6

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Zaffrani Pulao Alfred Prasad

Course:	Other
Complexity:	Easy
Cooking Time:	45 minutes
Serves:	4

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