Ingredients to make Apple Pie Spice
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Homemade Apple Pie Spice is simple to make using a blend of warm and bold spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger and allspice to deepen the flavor of apple desserts. I use this blend in my old-fashioned apple pie and apple muffins. It is readily available in grocery stores, however, it is really easy to make your own. Making your own can allow you to swap the amounts of the individual ingredients to use more of the spices you like and less, of the ones you don’t.

This recipe starts with a base of good quality cinnamon and then I add in a bolder blend of other traditional apple pie spices such as nutmeg, cardamom, and allspice. Although not found in most traditional apple spice blends, I add a little bit of ginger to my blend for that extra zing. You can choose to add a little more or less of these four spices to suit your taste buds.

Ingredients to make Apple Pie Spice

Cinnamon comes from dried bark from the tropical Asian cinnamon tree and is available as whole cinnamon sticks or ground. There are two types: Cassia which has a warm, sweet flavor, and Ceylon known as “true cinnamon”, which has an intense spicy bite.
Nutmeg is a warm spice that comes from the nutmeg tree in the Spice Islands. It is available as whole nutmeg, grated or pre-ground.
Cardamom is available in whole cardamom pods, shelled seeds, or ground powder.
Ginger is a root from a plant grown in Southeast Asia. Ginger can be found in a variety of ways such as the dried or fresh root, ground, or crystallized (candied) pieces.
Allspice is made from dried berries from a plant that grows in a tropical climates found in Mexico and Central America. Allspice berries are found in dried, whole form or ground.

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Storage

Keep your mix in a small mason jar and store for up to one year.