Cinnamon - that most popular of spices - comes from the bark of an evergreen tree. Cinnamon's sweet spicy and warm fragrance adds pungent sweetness to your favorite baked goodies. You can also use it to add a depth of flavor to savory dishes as well.
Suggested Use
Cinnamon is the world's most popular baking spice. You'll recognize its familiar taste and aroma in cakes breads cookies breads and pies dumplings puddings pastries and ice cream. It's common in savory dishes too--soups chutneys catsup pickles squash vinegars and meat glazes--and hot drinks like cider coffee tea and cocoa.
Cinnamon complements fruits like apricots cherries apples blueberries and oranges. Vegetables too--especially carrots spinach and onions--are enhanced by cinnamon's pungent sweetness.
In combination with other spices (like cloves nutmeg cardamom ginger allspice and black pepper) cinnamon shows up in a wide array of spice blends including pumpkin pie spice apple pie spice cider blends five spice powder curries pickling spice even popcorn seasoning!