How To Make Cinnamon Sugar that is perfect for topping cakes cakes, donuts and desserts or even a delicious hot chocolate.
Our favourite way to use it is on top of our favourite Classic Cinnamon Tea Cake or rolled into Cinnamon Morning Scrolls.
Quick look at Cinnamon Sugar
- ⏲️ 30 seconds tops!
- 🛒 Ingredients: 2 simple ingredients.
- 🍽️ Makes: As much as you like (I did the maths for you below)
- 🧑🍳 Difficulty: The easiest!
- 🗃️ Make ahead: Keep for months in a sealed container.
The smell of cinnamon always instantly makes me think of my Grandma. One of our favourite things was morning tea dates & a regular was cinnamon toast at a cafe not far from her house.
It was thick toast, slathered with butter and topped with the most deliciously sweet cinnamon sugar. So good!
Our love of cinnamon sugar started a long time before then with The Best Ever Cinnamon Tea Cake - the first cake I learned how to bake & taught to me by my Grandma in he kitchen.
We used to mix up the sweet cinnamon topping in a tea cup and sprinkle it over the cake after covering it in butter (using the very knife pictured beside the cake below) fresh out of the oven.
Cinnamon sugar is a great little goodie to have on hand to add a little something special to your baked goods (or your morning toast).
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Recipe Ingredients
To make cinnamon sugar obviously you will need cinnamon and sugar.
- Cinnamon - the powdered type not cinnamon quills.
- Sugar - You can use raw sugar, white/caster sugar or for a healthier version you can also use this method to make rapadura sugar with cinnamon.
How To Make Cinnamon Sugar
Step 1 - Prepare your ingredients. You will need 1 teaspoon of cinnamon for every 3 tablespoon of sugar. For reference - 1tsp of cinnamon weighs roughly 3g and 3tbsp of sugar weighs about 36g (it will vary slightly depending on the type of sugar you are using).
I've made a little table below with the ratio in different measurements.
| Cinnamon | Sugar |
| 1 tsp | 3 tbsp |
| 3g | 36g |
| 2 tsp | ½ cup |
Step 2 - Mix up the cinnamon and sugar in a bowl. I like to do it in a mug if I'm using it to dust over cake as it makes it easier to sprinkle.
Tip
Put the sugar in the bowl first then add the cinnamon. If you do it the other way around the cinnamon had a tendency to attach itself to the sides of the bowl.
Step 3 - This is really more of an alternative method than a step but you can just throw your cinnamon and sugar in a ziplock bag and give it a good shake.
Step 4 - Use your cinnamon sugar or store it for later. It's best stored in a glass jar or airtight container.
It can be used to top cakes, biscuits, donuts and of course if you're after a serious indulgence, toast (definitely not an every day food but delicious none-the-less).
Recipe FAQs
Yes you sure can. Just make sure it is stored in an air-tight container. Use the table above for ratios.
Sure! As long as it's a recipe where cinnamon would make sense you can use it to add flavour. Chocolate and cinnamon work together deliciously.
Recipe
Cinnamon sugar
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Measure the sugar into a cup then add the cinnamon and stir through thoroughly.
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