Best Cinnamon Cider Recipes

BELGIAN WAFFLES WITH HOMEMADE CINNAMON SUGAR BUTTER AND SAUTEED CIDER APPLES

Steps:

• For the waffles: Preheat your waffle iron and brush the grate with butter. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt in a medium bowl.
• Whisk together the eggs, melted butter and buttermilk in a small bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Do not overmix. Set the batter aside at room temperature for 20 minutes. Cook the waffles according the manufacturer's directions until golden brown. Remove to a baking rack. Cut or tear each waffle into quarters. Top each quarter with some of the cinnamon sugar butter and sauteed apples.
• For the sauteed apples: Combine the apple cider, light brown sugar, and cinnamon sticks in a large saute pan over high heat and boil until reduced by half and thickened to a syrup.
• Remove the cinnamon stick, whisk in the butter and add the apples and cook until soft and caramelized. Set aside.
• For the homemade cinnamon sugar butter: Combine the heavy cream and salt in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and beat until it becomes butter. Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and fold into the butter. Scrape into a bowl. (Yield: 1 cup)

CINNAMON STREUSEL APPLE CIDER MUFFINS

Steps:

• FOR STREUSEL: Stir brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in small bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender. Set aside.
• FOR MUFFINS: Lightly oil twelve 2 1/2-inch muffin cups or line with paper baking cups; set aside. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center. In a small mixing bowl combine egg, apple cider, and oil; add all at once to flour mixture. Stir just till moistened. (The batter should be lumpy.).
• Spoon about 1 tablespoon of the batter into each prepared muffin cup. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of the brown sugar mixture over each. Fill with remaining batter. Sprinkle tops of muffins with remaining streusel.
• Bake in a preheated 400° F oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Remove muffins from pans; cool slightly on racks.

HOT CINNAMON APPLE BRANDY CIDER

Steps:

• Combine apple cider, apple brandy, 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, pepper, and salt in a pot over medium-high heat. Simmer until flavors combine, about 10 minutes.
• Pour apple cider mixture into heat-proof mugs. Twist orange zest strips between your fingers to release the essential oils; drop 1 into each mug. Add 1 cinnamon stick to each mug.

CINNAMON DUMPLINGS WITH APPLE-CIDER SYRUP

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Stir together sugar and 3/4 cup water in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook, without stirring, until sugar begins to melt and turn light amber, about 14 minutes. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar has melted and mixture turns medium amber, about 2 minutes more.
• Meanwhile, work butter into the flour mixture using your fingers or a pastry blender until flour is incorporated but mixture is still crumbly. Whisk together egg, egg yolk, and milk in a medium bowl. Form a well in the center of flour mixture; pour in egg mixture. Stir gently with a fork until combined.
• Remove sugar mixture from heat; slowly whisk in cider. Return to heat; bring to a simmer. Using your hands or a small spoon, divide the dough evenly into 12 pieces, and roll into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Carefully drop 6 balls of dough into the simmering cider syrup. Cook, turning once or twice to coat fully, until dumplings have tripled in size and are deep golden brown, about 20 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer dumplings to a platter, and cover. Repeat with remaining balls of dough. Divide dumplings among 6 bowls, and drizzle with the remaining cider syrup. Serve with creme fraiche.

APPLE AND CARAWAY TARTLETS WITH CINNAMON-CLOVE ICE CREAM AND CIDER-CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• For crust:
• Blend flour, sugar, caraway and salt in processor. Add butter and process, using on/off turns, until butter is cut into pea-size pieces. Add 5 teaspoons ice water. Blend until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. Cut into 6 equal pieces. Press each piece of dough into 4 1/2-inch-diameter tartlet pan with 3/4-inch-high sides and removable bottom. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover each crust; chill.)
• For filling:
• Place 3/4 cup Cider-Caramel Sauce in heavy large skillet. Add apples and cinnamon. Cook over high heat until apples are crisp-tender, about 8 minutes. Cool filling completely.
• Place rack at lowest position in oven; preheat to 375°F Divide filling among crusts, overlapping apples, if desired. Place tartlets on oven rack; bake until apples are tender and crust is brown at edges, about 40 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool 30 minutes. Push up pan bottoms, releasing tartlets. (Can be made 8 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.)
• Rewarm remaining sauce in small saucepan. Place tartlets on plates. Top with ice cream and some warm sauce. Garnish with grapes and mint, if desired.

CINNAMON APPLE QUICK BREAD WITH APPLE CIDER GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an 8 1/2-inch-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and cloves. In a large bowl, whisk together the oil, applesauce, sugars, eggs and apple.
• Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined. Transfer to the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
• Transfer to a rack to cool slightly, then remove the cake from the pan and let it cool completely.
• When the cake has cooled, prepare the glaze: Bring the apple cider to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Continue to cook the cider until it has reduced to 1/3 cup, about 10 minutes. Add the butter, confectioners' sugar and salt. Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer and continue to cook the mixture, whisking often, until it has become syrupy and thickened slightly, about 4 minutes. Set aside to cool until it thickens slightly.
• Drizzle the glaze over the cake, and serve.

APPLE CINNAMON WAFFLES WITH CIDER SYRUP

Steps:

• In 2-quart saucepan, mix 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons Bisquick mix and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in cider and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in butter.
• Heat waffle iron. (Waffle irons without a nonstick coating may need to be brushed with vegetable oil or sprayed with cooking spray before batter for each waffle is added.)
• In large bowl, stir all waffle ingredients except apple until blended. Stir in apple. Pour batter onto center of hot waffle iron. (Check manufacturer's directions for recommended amount of batter.) Close lid of waffle iron.
• Bake about 5 minutes or until steaming stops. Carefully remove waffle. Serve with syrup.

CINNAMON STREUSEL APPLE CIDER MUFFINS

Steps:

• 1. How to Make it: Preheat your oven to 350° FOR STREUSEL: Stir brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in small bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender. Set aside.
• 2. FOR MUFFINS: Lightly oil twelve 2 1/2-inch muffin cups or line with paper baking cups; or 6 Jumbo Muffin Cups set aside.
• 3. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center.
• 4. In a small mixing bowl combine egg, apple,apple cider, and oil.
• 5. Add all at once to flour mixture.
• 6. Stir just till moistened. (The batter should be lumpy.)
• 7. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of the batter into each prepared muffin cup.
• 8. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of the brown sugar mixture over each.
• 9. Fill with remaining batter. Sprinkle tops of muffins with remaining streusel.
• 10. Bake in a preheated 350° F oven until golden brown, about 20-25 minutes.
• 11. Remove muffins from pans; cool slightly on racks.

SLOW-COOKER APPLE CIDER CINNAMON ROLLS WITH EASY CREAM CHEESE-CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Line bottom and side of slow cooker with cooking parchment paper, then spray parchment with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, stir Roll Dough ingredients until dough forms. Turn out dough onto surface lightly sprinkled with Bisquick mix; knead until smooth, about 10 turns.
• Roll dough into 15x9-inch rectangle. Brush with melted butter. In small bowl, mix brown sugar and apple pie spice; sprinkle on top. Tightly roll up dough from long end; pinch seam to seal. Cut roll into 9 equal slices. Place slices cut-side up in slow cooker.
• Note: To absorb any condensation that forms inside the cover, secure a paper towel inside top of slow cooker cover. Cover; cook on High heat setting 2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutes or until rolls are baked through.
• Use parchment to remove rolls from slow cooker. In medium bowl, stir Icing ingredients until well combined. Spread over warm or room-temperature rolls (you might not use all the icing). Serve immediately.

CINNAMON APPLE CIDER MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cider mixes. Separate cinnamon rolls, setting aside icings; cut each roll into quarters. Add to cider mixture; toss to coat., Arrange a third of the dough pieces in a well-greased 10-in. fluted tube pan; top with half of the apples and half of the pecans. Repeat layers once. Top with remaining dough., Mix melted butter, cinnamon and icing from 1 container until blended. Drizzle over top of rolls. Bake until golden brown, 45-50 minutes. (If needed, cover top loosely with foil during last 5 minutes to prevent overbrowning.), Immediately invert monkey bread onto a serving plate; keep pan inverted 10 minutes, allowing bread to release. Remove pan. Meanwhile, microwave remaining icing, uncovered, until softened, about 10 seconds. Drizzle over monkey bread. Serve warm.

HOT MULLED APPLE CIDER WITH APPLES, ORANGE & CINNAMON

Steps:

• Cook over medium heat until steaming; reduce heat to low and simmer gently until spices have infused liquid, approx 30 minute.
• Strain into warmed mugs.

APPLE CIDER CAKE WITH CINNAMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or in a large mixing bowl with a handheld mixer, beat together the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon until smooth and creamy, 4 to 5 minutes.

CINNAMON SPICED CIDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine cider, Red Hots and nutmeg. Place cinnamon sticks and cloves on a double thickness of cheesecloth. Gather up corners of cloth to enclose seasonings; tie securely with string. Add to Dutch oven., Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally to loosen candies. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 10-15 minutes or until flavors are blended. Discard spice bag.

APPLE CIDER CINNAMON JELLY

Steps:

• Combine cider and cinnamon pieces in a large stainless steel or enamel saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat and boil gently for 5 minutes. Strain cider through several layers of cheesecloth, reserving cinnamon pieces to add to jars. Rinse saucepan.
• Measure 2 cups (500 ml) cider and return to saucepan; add sugar. Bring to a full boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Stir in pectin, return to a full boil and boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
• Ladle into sterilized jars, add one piece of cinnamon to each jar and process as directed.

CIDER-POACHED APPLES WITH CINNAMON YOGURT

Steps:

• Bring apple cider and cinnamon stick to a boil in small sauce pan over high heat.
• Let boil, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until liquid is reduced to about 1/2 cup.
• Add apples; cover and simmer about 10 minutes or until apples are just tender.
• Gently remove apple halves and poaching liquid from saucepan.
• Refrigerate until cooled.
• Combine yogurt and ground cinnamon in small bowl;reserve 1 tablespoon.
• Divide remaining yogurt mixture evenly among 2 dessert dishes.
• Place apple halves on top of sauce.
• Sprinkle each apple half with toasted pecans.
• Drizzle with reserved yogurt sauce.

WARM CINNAMON-ORANGE CIDER

Steps:

• Heat apple cider, orange juice, candies and allspice to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 5 minutes.
• Remove allspice. Stir in honey. Serve warm.

TRIPLE-CRUST APPLE PIE WITH CINNAMON-CIDER SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Remove 1 rack from the oven & place the other oven rack in the lower third of the oven. Preheat to 475º F. Sprinkle the bottom of a 9-inch glass pie pan with the flour. Gently pat one of the prepared crusts in the pie pan. Set aside. 2. For the crumb crust, in the bowl of a foods processor fitted with the steel blade, combine the 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup light brown sugar, & 3/4 cup flour. Pulse several times to combine. Add the 1/3 cup butter cut into tablespoon-sized pieces & process with on-off turns until the mixture forms crumbs the size of small peas. Remove from the processor bowl & set aside. 3. For the apple filling, replace the processor bowl on the base & add the slicing blade. Peel & core the apples. Slice them in the food processor. Measure out 5 1/2 cups sliced apples (do not use more than this amount or the pie will not thicken). Place the apples in a large mixing bowl & toss them with the sugars, lemons juice, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, & flour. 4. Pile the apples into the pie pan & press down lightly. Cover with the crumb topping (the pie will look very tall, but that's OK). Cover the crumb crust with the remaining preprepared piecrust. Trim & crimp the edges. Make four 1-inch slips in the top crust to allow steam to escape. 5. Bake for 10 minutes on the bottom rack of the pre-heated over. After 10 minutes, carefully remove the pie from the oven & place the second rack in the middle of the oven. Reduce the temperature to 375º F & place the pie back in the oven on the middle rack. Bake for an additional 40 minutes, until the juices bubble & the crust is nicely browned. Remove to a rack to cool. 6. Meanwhile, prepare the cinnamon-cider sauce. Combine the cornstarch, sugar, cinnamon, & nutmeg in a 4-cup glass measure. Whisk in the apple juice or cider & lemon juice. Microwave on high until it starts to boil, about 2 1/2 minutes. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from the microwave & whisk in butter bits. Serve warm over the pie.

CINNAMON DUMPLINGS WITH APPLE CIDER SYRUP

Steps:

• sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon in medium bowl.set aside.
• stir together sugar, and 3/4 cup water in large pan.over medium heat.
• cook without stirring still sugar begins to melt and turns to amber color -- about 14 minutes.
• continue to cook, stirring occasionally.about 2 minutes more or medium amber.
• work butter into flour till crumbly.
• whisk butter into flour till crumbly.
• forming a well in the center of the flour mixture -- pour in egg.
• stir gently with fork till combined.
• remove sugar mixture from heat, slowly whisk in cider.
• return to heat.bring to simmer.
• using hands, divide dough into 12 pieces.roll into balls --
• drop balls into cider.cook, turning over once or twice until tripled in size and golden brown.
• remove with slotted spoon to a platter and cover.
• repeat with remaining dough.
• drizzle with remaining syrup.
• top with cool whip -- .

CINNAMON ORANGE CIDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine the cider, juice and candies. Place the allspice on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag. Add to pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until flavors are blended, 5 minutes. , Discard spice bag; stir in honey. Transfer to a 3-qt. slow cooker; keep warm over low heat.

BROWN SUGAR & CINNAMON PANNA COTTA WITH APPLE CIDER GELéE

Steps:

• Using tip of small paring knife, scrape vanilla seeds from pod into 5-quart saucepan. Add cream, brown sugar, and cinnamon sticks and bring to a simmer over moderate heat.
• Remove from heat and let steep, uncovered, 20 minutes. Using slotted spoon, remove cinnamon sticks, then let cream cool to room temperature.
• In small saucepan over moderate heat, place 1 cup cream mixture. Add 2 packages gelatin and whisk until dissolved, about 3 minutes. Whisk mixture into remaining cooled cream. Spoon mixture into 10 wine glasses, leaving a 3/4-inch space at top of each. Chill until firm, about 4 hours. (Can be prepared up to 1 day ahead. Refrigerate until ready to use.)
• Meanwhile, in medium saucepan over moderate heat, heat 1 cup cider until hot, but not boiling. Remove from heat and add remaining package of gelatin, whisking until dissolved, about 2 minutes. In large bowl, stir together cider-gelatin mixture and remaining 1 1/2 cups cider. Cool to room temperature.
• When custards are firm, spoon 4 tablespoons cider mixture into each wine glass. Return to refrigerator and chill until firm, about 1 hour.