Cinnamon and chocolate

Cafe Society
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This time of year my favorite ice cream flavor is out: cinnamon! Unfortunately, it’s not a very strong cinnamon flavor. It’s like they sprinkled just a bit of cinnamon into the ice cream. I’d like to have a consistency of cinnamon more like the consistency of chocolate in chocolate ice cream.

But it’s not just ice cream. There are chocolate cookies, but the cinnamon equivalent is snickerdoodles, which are awesome, but still just cookies with cinnamon sprinkled on them. There’s chocolate cake, but the closest thing I’ve found is cinnamon rolls, which is basically bread with some cinnamon glaze in it.

So what’s the deal? Is cinnamon more overpowering than chocolate? Or do not enough people like cinnamon as much as I do?

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Cinnamon can get overpowering and bitter quite quickly, and many people perceive it as a “hot” flavor for which some is better than “alot.”

I love cinnamon, too, but prefer it in moderation/balance to the rest of the treat. (I also go “ick” at about 50% cacao chocolate…)

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and sound like they were invented by Ned Flanders.

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Chocolate is also bitter until they sweeten it for treats. Is cinnamon just that much more bitter?

Maybe I am just unusual, because I can’t get enough cinnamon. I was at the local ice cream store a while back, and they offered me their “cinnamon challenge”. They explained that they are supposed to put 1/3 a cup of cinnamon in the ice cream batch, but someone accidentally put in 3 cups instead! I tried it and it was the best ice cream I’d ever had.

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Years ago when Denny’s experimented with their “Mother Butler Pies” they had a cinnamon ice cream that they’d put on warm apple pie. Mmmm!

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Try baking with Penzeys Indonesia cinnamon. That should give a nice, mellow, rich cinnamon base that’s not too bitter. Maybe add vanilla? Dust with Penzeys Vietnamese or one of their other cinnamons for a bit of a bite?