Try Our Unforgettable Cinnamon Ice Cream Flavor
Where Homemade Tradition Meets Cinnamon Ice Cream
Clementine’s cinnamon ice cream began as a homemade family recipe, inspired by Sunday ice cream-making traditions in Colorado with Tamara’s family.
The flavor highlights cinnamon as more than a background spice, creating a warm, creamy, nostalgic scoop with woody, fragrant notes and just enough spice to linger.
Cinnamon ice cream pairs beautifully with cozy desserts like apple pie, pumpkin pie, snickerdoodle cookies, brown sugar cookies, and vanilla bean cake.
Where It All Started: Homemade Cinnamon Ice Cream
Like many of our original recipes, our cinnamon ice cream got its start in a lively family home in Colorado. Our founder and her family, including four older brothers, had a tradition of making ice cream at home every Sunday after church. Spread out around the kitchen, you'd spot the typical tools for making homemade ice cream: bowls, scoops, sugar, salt, and a vintage hand-crank ice cream machine. And on this specific Sunday, the available ingredient was cinnamon. And more cinnamon.
This cinnamon experiment is what led us to create a cinnamon ice cream flavor as one of our original ice cream recipes for our first parlor.
What Does Cinnamon Taste Like?
Cinnamon flavor tastes warm, sweet, woody, and gently spicy, with a fragrance that can make a flavor feel cozy before you even taste it. In ice cream, cinnamon does more than add spice. It brings depth to the dairy, balances sweetness, and creates a soft, lingering warmth that works beautifully with vanilla, brown sugar, caramel, chocolate, coffee, apples, pears, and baked inclusions. For the best cinnamon ice cream, Saigon cinnamon is a great choice when you want a bold, fragrant, cinnamon-forward flavor. In contrast, Ceylon cinnamon is better for a softer, more delicate scoop with floral and citrusy notes. Cassia cinnamon is the most common cinnamon in the U.S. and gives a familiar, classic “cinnamon dessert” flavor.
Cinnamon Ice Cream at Clementine's
Our cinnamon ice cream is treated more than as a background spice. We use ground cinnamon to build a scoop that feels warm, with a creamy texture and deep aromas with just enough spice to linger without overpowering the richness of the dairy. The result is cozy and nostalgic, but still refined: sweet cream softened by cinnamon's natural warmth, with woody, fragrant notes that make every bite feel like the best part of a fresh-baked pastry. It is the kind of flavor that feels simple at first, then slowly reveals its delicious depth.
Dessert Pairings with Cinnamon Ice Cream:
Cinnamon ice cream pairs well with warm desserts like apple pie and cobblers.
Apple pie
Brown sugar cookies
Vanilla bean cake
Pumpkin pie
Snickerdoodle cookies
Make anything above an amazing sundae with whipped cream and sugar cinnamon!
Nutrition Information
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