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Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

on Jul 17 2023
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    For a crust with a little extra warmth, this gluten-free cinnamon graham cracker crust is the one. Just three ingredients: crushed Pamela’s Cinnamon Grahams, butter, and sugar, pressed into a pan and baked or chilled until firm. The cinnamon makes it especially good under pumpkin pie, spiced cheesecake, and fall desserts, though it is lovely any time of year. Deliciously gluten-free, the way Pamela’s has done it since 1988.

    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 10 to 12 minutes
    Total Time about 20 minutes
    Serving Size 1 slice of crust

    Ingredients

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    Directions

    1. Crush the Cinnamon Grahams into fine crumbs in a food processor, or in a zip-top bag with a rolling pin. You want about 1¾ cups.
    2. Stir the crumbs together with the melted butter and sugar until evenly moistened, like wet sand. Press firmly and evenly into a lightly sprayed 9-inch pie pan, using the flat bottom of a glass or measuring cup to pack it tight across the bottom and up the sides. For a cheesecake, press into the bottom, and slightly up the sides, of a 9-inch springform pan.
    3. Bake or chill:For a baked filling like cheesecake, follow your recipe’s baking directions.For no-bake pies, bake the crust at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes, then cool completely before filling.For a fully no-bake crust, chill it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour instead.
    4. Press firmly and cool completely. Packing the crumbs tight holds the crust together when you slice it, and cooling a baked crust before filling keeps it crisp.
    5. To keep it gluten-free: Pamela’s Cinnamon Grahams are GFCO-certified gluten-free, so this crust is a true graham cracker crust with no gluten. Keep your filling gluten-free too.
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    Recipe Tips & Notes

    What to Make With It

    The warm cinnamon flavor is especially good with pumpkin pie, spiced or classic cheesecake, banana cream pie, and no-bake pudding pies. For a plain crust, use our gluten-free graham cracker crust made with Honey Grahams.

    Gluten-Free Cinnamon Grahams

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    Pamela's Gluten-Free Cinnamon Grahams are crisp, GFCO-certified graham crackers made with real butter, a touch of honey and molasses, and a sweet cinnamon sugar topping.

    The cinnamon graham you grew up with, without the gluten

    If cinnamon grahams were part of your childhood, you know exactly what these should taste like: buttery, crisp, and dusted with cinnamon sugar. Going gluten-free should not mean giving that up. Pamela's has been baking gluten-free grahams the whole family loves since 1988, and these deliver the classic flavor with ingredients we stand behind.

    Snack, dunk, and build

    Perfect straight from the box, packed in a lunchbox, or dunked in coffee, milk, or hot cocoa. Layer them with ice cream for easy sandwiches, or swap them into your next s'mores night for a cinnamon twist on the campfire classic.

    Bakes into a beautiful crust

    Crushed Cinnamon Grahams make a rich, warmly spiced crust for cheesecakes, pies, and bars. Pulse into fine crumbs, mix with melted butter, and press into your pan. Get the full method in our Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust recipe.

    What's inside

    Real butter, brown sugar, whole grain sorghum flour, gluten-free oat bran, honey, molasses, and cinnamon. Every box is GFCO-certified and crafted the Pamela's way, because what we leave out matters just as much as what we put in.

    Butter (Cream, Salt), Brown Sugar, Brown Rice Flour, Sorghum Flour, White Rice Flour, Gluten-Free Oat Bran, Tapioca Starch, Molasses, Honey, Gluten-Free Natural Flavors, Cinnamon, Sea Salt, Grainless & Aluminum-Free Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Potato Starch, Sodium Bicarbonate), Baking Soda, Xanthan Gum, Spices. Topping: Cane Sugar and Cinnamon.

    Contains Milk.

    Manufactured in a facility on equipment that processes Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Wheat, Coconut, Eggs, Soy and Milk.

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    Crush Pamela’s Cinnamon Grahams into fine crumbs, stir them with melted butter and sugar until they look like wet sand, and press firmly into a pie or springform pan. Bake it or chill it, depending on your filling.

    For a baked filling like cheesecake, follow that recipe’s directions. For a no-bake filling, bake the crust 10 to 12 minutes and cool it, or chill it at least an hour for a fully no-bake crust.

    About one box of Pamela’s Cinnamon Grahams, which makes roughly 1¾ cups of crumbs.

    It is wonderful with pumpkin pie, spiced or classic cheesecake, and no-bake pudding pies. For a plain graham crust, use Honey Grahams instead.

    Yes. It is made with Pamela’s GFCO-certified Cinnamon Grahams, so it is completely gluten-free.

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