This is a quick and easy cinnamon candy recipe that your friends will love!
Homemade Cinnamon Candy
Wrapping the cinnamon candy up in a tall mason jar keeps it airtight and makes for an adorable gift.
Hello everyone! My name is Cindy and I blog at Skip to my Lou. I love making home made gifts! You might enjoy browsing through my Home Made Gift Guide!
Cinnamon Hard Candy
(printable recipe below)
2 Cups white sugar
1/2 Cup light corn syrup
1/2 Cup water
2 teaspoon cinnamon flavoring
red food coloring (as desired)
Stir sugars and water over low heat to dissolve sugar. Bring to a boil and cook to 290 degrees (do not stir). Remove from heat and stir in flavoring and coloring. Pour out onto greased marble slab or baking sheet covered in aluminum foil. Just before it cools cut into squares with a pizza cutter.
Once it’s cooled, store in a mason jar, add a cute bow and a tag to the mason jar, and you have a great homemade gift!
Quick and Easy Cinnamon Candy
Ingredients
- 2 Cups white sugar
- 1/2 Cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 Cup water
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon flavoring
- red food coloring as desired
Instructions
- Stir sugars and water over low heat to dissolve sugar. Bring to a boil and cook to 290 degrees (do not stir).
- Remove from heat and stir in flavoring and coloring.
- Pour out onto greased marble slab or baking sheet covered in aluminum foil.
- Just before it cools cut into squares with a pizza cutter.
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I love making hand made gifts for family and friends
My favorite thing to make for the holidays is a classic Italian meal that reminds me of my grandma: stuffed cannelloni, herbed roasted chicken and roasted garlic and rosemary potatoes!
They are all family favorites and I would never make them all at once during the year, it’s way too much food! But at Christmas… 🙂
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How cute are these! Love them and what a cute month long event!
So cute! Homemade candy is the best for holiday gift giving. What a fun series this is going to be, Rach! Pinning!
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If I substituted the cinnamon flavoring in these with another flavoring, would the recipe still work? I can’t have cinnamon.
Christmas wouldnt be the same without all the traditional Christmas cookies I grew up with each year!! mmmm
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Dessert!
We usually make fudge and those pretzel-rolo-pecan turtles but I’m looking forward to making this candy!
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The recipe sounds simple, but lacks a lot of important information. Like, how much does this recipe make? What size baking sheet should be used? And how much time is considered “right before it cools” — 30 mins, an hour??? If this information would’ve been included, I wouldn’t have had to trash my “product” last night when I tried the recipe.
Great recipe made a green and red for a Xmas treat exchange afternoon thank you
I’m so glad to hear that! Love the red and green idea!
Hi, I have cinnamon oil for flavoring. 2 teaspoons will be too strong. How can I convert for this recipe?
Hi Jan,
I haven’t used cinnamon oil, so I’m not really sure what the best way to adapt from personal experience, however, the research that I’ve done says to divide by 4 if using oil in place of extract/flavoring. Hope that helps!
What if you can’t find cinnamon oil… Would the regular ground cinnamon work ?