Single-bite cinnamon snacks?
April 17, 2012 3:19 PM Subscribe
Please suggest recipes for bite-sized cinnamon snacks (cookies or other things) that keep well.
Lately I've been craving little bites of cinnamon cookies.
The closest thing I can think of is a kind of crunchy buttery cinnamony cookie I used to get on airlines (probably Southwest).
Cinnamon graham crackers would be fine, except I'm imagining eating a 1" square every day, and guessing the rest of the package would go stale before I got halfway through it.
Preferences:
* easy to make tiny servings (aiming for 25-50 calories here)
* cookie or cracker-like texture - chewy is fine, crisp is probably better (gooey - oatmeal-like or applesauce-like - is not what I'm looking for)
* keeps well in a sealed Ziploc or Tupperware
* freezes and thaws well
* healthy is better (lower sugar, lower carb)
* easy to prepare is better
* easy to make in small batches is good
* other flavors (raisins, chocolate chips, oatmeal cookies) are okay, but I'm mostly going for the cinnamon here
If your favorite cinnamon snack doesn't match all of my preferences, I'd still love to hear it.
Also, while recipes are preferred, suggested store-bought products would be great too.
Thanks!
Lately I've been craving little bites of cinnamon cookies.
The closest thing I can think of is a kind of crunchy buttery cinnamony cookie I used to get on airlines (probably Southwest).
Cinnamon graham crackers would be fine, except I'm imagining eating a 1" square every day, and guessing the rest of the package would go stale before I got halfway through it.
Preferences:
* easy to make tiny servings (aiming for 25-50 calories here)
* cookie or cracker-like texture - chewy is fine, crisp is probably better (gooey - oatmeal-like or applesauce-like - is not what I'm looking for)
* keeps well in a sealed Ziploc or Tupperware
* freezes and thaws well
* healthy is better (lower sugar, lower carb)
* easy to prepare is better
* easy to make in small batches is good
* other flavors (raisins, chocolate chips, oatmeal cookies) are okay, but I'm mostly going for the cinnamon here
If your favorite cinnamon snack doesn't match all of my preferences, I'd still love to hear it.
Also, while recipes are preferred, suggested store-bought products would be great too.
Thanks!
How about the cinnamon goldfish cookies? They're moderately healthy, easily portionable, and keep pretty well. They're fairly cinnamon-y, and I imagine you could up the ante by dumping your own cinnamon into the bag and shaking it up.
posted by charmcityblues at 3:34 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by charmcityblues at 3:34 PM on April 17, 2012
Best answer: Totally sinful and probably not helpful to your cause, but it needs to be said:
Spread butter on a tortilla and coat generously with cinnamon/sugar mixture. Fold twice (quartered) and microwave for about 10 seconds.
posted by carsonb at 3:36 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Spread butter on a tortilla and coat generously with cinnamon/sugar mixture. Fold twice (quartered) and microwave for about 10 seconds.
posted by carsonb at 3:36 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
This is not healthy, but whenever I make a pie I make little cinnamon rolls out of the leftover pastry dough: roll the dough out, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, roll up into a log, cut the log into little rolls, and bake at 350 in a toaster oven for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. You could just make some pastry dough, skip the pie, and roll out a bunch of these. I've never frozen them, but pies freeze well so these should too. And you'll have the satisfaction of eating something tasty and homemade.
posted by sy at 3:36 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by sy at 3:36 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Oh, this is a better suggestion: chew on a cinnamon stick.
posted by carsonb at 3:37 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by carsonb at 3:37 PM on April 17, 2012
Best answer: I think the airplane cookies you are talking about are Biscoff - they are available in some regular supermarkets, and probably places like World Market - but for DIY, here are two recipes. I keep intending to try these, but just haven't gotten around to it yet...
posted by illenion at 4:06 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by illenion at 4:06 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Maybe speculaas - Dutch spiced biscuits - would suit. The Belgian version is called speculoos, and the Germans have Spekulatius.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried making them. When you get commercial versions with coffee, though, they're very crisp and crunchy, and noticeably more cinnamony than anything else. I think they might be a close match for what you remember Southwest serving.
As for your list of preferences.... Looking at the recipes, the biscuits should be dead easy to make, and you could make them as small as you wanted (and reduce the batch size too, if need be). I think they're very cinnamony, but you could change the proportions of the different spices if you found them not quite to your liking. And they should keep fine in a sealed container. They're perhaps a bit more sugary than you were hoping for, though, and I'm not sure the texture would survive freezing.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 4:09 PM on April 17, 2012
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried making them. When you get commercial versions with coffee, though, they're very crisp and crunchy, and noticeably more cinnamony than anything else. I think they might be a close match for what you remember Southwest serving.
As for your list of preferences.... Looking at the recipes, the biscuits should be dead easy to make, and you could make them as small as you wanted (and reduce the batch size too, if need be). I think they're very cinnamony, but you could change the proportions of the different spices if you found them not quite to your liking. And they should keep fine in a sealed container. They're perhaps a bit more sugary than you were hoping for, though, and I'm not sure the texture would survive freezing.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 4:09 PM on April 17, 2012
Best answer: I've made pepparkakor cookies using the recipe from an old American Girl cookbook and always thought they tasted exactly like the crunchy cinnamon airplane cookies you're talking about. This recipe seems to have the same ingredients/proportions as the one I've used.
posted by josyphine at 4:10 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by josyphine at 4:10 PM on April 17, 2012
Best answer: Biscoff also comes as a spread, so you can biscoffize anything you'd like Most of the grocery stores are carrying it around here now.
posted by jquinby at 4:18 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by jquinby at 4:18 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
How about the cinnamon roast almonds that several companies make? Higher in protein than most cookies, and lower carb, but still nice and snacky.
posted by bink at 4:35 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by bink at 4:35 PM on April 17, 2012
Best answer: Whoops, sorry! I mixed up the links! Thank you spbmp for letting me know!
roasted chickpeas would work with cinnamon
cinnamon sorbet (swap out sugar/water for sugarfree juice, you could also make it a popsicle)
warm cinnamon apples
coffee cake in a cup (needs some work to make it a cinnamon cake and scale it down, maybe make it in a ceramic egg cup. But it takes only 2 minutes to make and bakes in the microwave)
Sorry I have nothing cracker/cookie like.
posted by travelwithcats at 4:50 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
roasted chickpeas would work with cinnamon
cinnamon sorbet (swap out sugar/water for sugarfree juice, you could also make it a popsicle)
warm cinnamon apples
coffee cake in a cup (needs some work to make it a cinnamon cake and scale it down, maybe make it in a ceramic egg cup. But it takes only 2 minutes to make and bakes in the microwave)
Sorry I have nothing cracker/cookie like.
posted by travelwithcats at 4:50 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Would Teddy Grahams work? They are bite sized and cinnamon.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 5:20 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 5:20 PM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
My mother gave all her kids Biscoff cookies several years ago for Christmas after receiving them on a plane. I just ran across them by surprise at Walmart. The cookie is imprinted with "lotus".
posted by Talia Devane at 6:49 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by Talia Devane at 6:49 PM on April 17, 2012
My all-time favorite cookie is the snickerdoodle. There's a zillion variants out there, you can make them as large or as small as you want, with as much or as little cinnamon as you like too.
posted by Runes at 10:09 PM on April 17, 2012
posted by Runes at 10:09 PM on April 17, 2012
As far as commercial products go, I've been liking cinnamon crunch Somersaults lately (and dang, I have got to start ordering them by mail in quantity instead of buying them a packet at a time when I get coffee — talk about markup).
posted by Lexica at 8:14 PM on April 18, 2012
posted by Lexica at 8:14 PM on April 18, 2012
Response by poster: BISCOFF! The official name AND a bunch of great biscoff-like recipes!
... and it's available as a spread? That may be dangerous information for me to have.
Really great answers, everyone - thanks!
posted by kristi at 4:23 PM on April 20, 2012
... and it's available as a spread? That may be dangerous information for me to have.
Really great answers, everyone - thanks!
posted by kristi at 4:23 PM on April 20, 2012
and it's available as a spread? That may be dangerous information for me to have.
When I found this out, I just got out a spoon and started eating....gained a lot of weight on the Biscoff spread!
posted by la petite marie at 7:59 PM on April 20, 2012
When I found this out, I just got out a spoon and started eating....gained a lot of weight on the Biscoff spread!
posted by la petite marie at 7:59 PM on April 20, 2012
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posted by hydropsyche at 3:31 PM on April 17, 2012