How to Make Cinnamon Syrup
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This easy, 3 ingredient cinnamon syrup recipe takes minutes to make and is the perfect addition to your morning coffee or shaken into a cocktail or mocktail.
You can mix up this cinnamon sweet syrup with just a few simple ingredients and a few simple steps. Homemade Cinnamon Simple Syrup is ideal for iced coffee and any other cold drink where a liquid sweetener mixes in better than granulated sugar. It’s also a better way to sweeten your favorite coffee drinks since you know exactly what’s in it and it costs pennies to make.
Ingredients
- White Sugar – Either cane sugar or beet sugar will work in this recipe. If you’re looking for a different type of sugar to use with the cinnamon, try brown sugar or honey in this recipe instead of the white sugar.
- Water – Filtered water gives the best flavor.
- Cinnamon Sticks – Choose whole cinnamon sticks and skip the ground cinnamon for this syrup. It’s difficult to remove from the syrup and leaving it in will cause the syrup to continue to intensify in flavor over time. This makes it difficult to gauge how much cinnamon syrup you’ll need in a cocktail recipe and will lead to the cinnamon flavor overwhelming the other drink ingredients.
How to Make Cinnamon Syrup
Bring a cup of water to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add a cup of sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.
Remove from heat and add cinnamon sticks. Allow mixture to cool to room temperature.
Pour the syrup – including the cinnamon sticks – into a glass, airtight container. Remove cinnamon sticks after 24 hours and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
How to Make Cinnamon Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2-3 cinnamon sticks
Instructions
- Bring water to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat.1 cup water
- Add sugar and stir until sugar has dissolved.1 cup sugar
- Remove from heat and add cinnamon sticks. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.2-3 cinnamon sticks
- Pour syrup – including cinnamon sticks – into a glass, airtight container.
- Remove cinnamon sticks after 24 hours.
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Recipe Tips
- The longer you leave the cinnamon sticks in the syrup, the stronger the flavor. You can leave the cinnamon sticks in for multiple days, but I find 24 hours gives strong cinnamon flavor without getting too overwhelming.
- Use a glass container, like a pint mason jar, to store your syrup. Plastic containers can take on the aroma of whatever was in it last, so your cinnamon syrup could end up with extra flavors in it that you don’t want.
- Give cinnamon simple syrup as a gift! Pour your syrup into a pretty glass bottle, add a ribbon, and gift it alongside some delicious coffee or tea. Or include it in a DIY Cocktail or Mocktail kit.
Make it Your Own!
Homemade cinnamon syrup is easy to customize! Add a bit of vanilla extract to create a deeper, richer flavor. Or swap the white sugar for brown sugar to create a dupe of the Starbucks brown sugar cinnamon syrup.
How to Use Cinnamon Simple Syrup
- Add cinnamon syrup to your cup of coffee, hot tea, or hot chocolate for a sweet treat.
- Mix equal parts cinnamon simple syrup and 100% pure maple syrup and pour over pancakes, waffles, or french toast.
- Shake it up in my Christmas Spice Martini cocktails.
