How to Make Ground Cinnamon From Cinnamon Sticks

Cinnamon is one of my favorites if not my favorite spices to smell, use, and cook/bake with. Especially if you like grinding your own spices, you need to learn how to make ground cinnamon from cinnamon sticks.

I mean you can’t make homemade cinnamon rolls without cinnamon! So many amazing dishes both sweet and savory require cinnamon.

Don’t let the long somewhat hard fresh cinnamon sticks intimidate you, they definitely grind, and with the right equipment or tools, they grind fairly easily.

Ingredients
1 handful of cinnamon sticks

Instructions
Manual Methods

Microplane Method: Run the cinnamon stick over the Microplane, with a bowl underneath to catch the cinnamon powder. Or do it over your dessert, etc.

Bag and Meater Tenderizer method: Add the cinnamon sticks to a bag, seal it, then pound it into a powder with a meat tenderizer.

Mortar and Pestle method: Break the cinnamon stick in half and place it in the mortar. Then use the pestle to smash and grind the cinnamon into powder.

Electric/Mechanical Methods

High-speed Blender Method: Add the cinnamon sticks to the blender, blend on high for 30 seconds. Check and stir, then repeat. Sift the powder into a bowl, blend the remaining larger chunks again.

Spice/Coffee Grinder Method: Add the cinnamon sticks to the spice grinder and turn it on, grind into a fine powder.