Easy Cranberry Spice Jam and Cinnamon Chip Biscuits (Plus Gift Idea Too with Free Printables)

It’s time for us to share another foodie gift that we made for friends and neighbors. If you can’t tell already, foodie gifts are my favorite to give to others. I love making things for others and I love providing ease for others to make things. Basically, my own homemade convenience foods for others. It’s a joy and a blessing!

Earlier in the season, I was experimenting in the kitchen with cranberry recipes of all kinds. I love cranberries and I love being able to get fresh cranberries during this season for cheap. I buy a lot and they do last several weeks.

I make the cranberry pineapple jello salad (this is the favorite of my second child), homemade cranberry sauce (AMAZING), DIY craisins, Christmas Potpourri and many desserts and so much more with cranberries. We also shared the Sparkling Holiday Jam recipe last week, but this week, we are sharing Cranberry Spice Jam. This is a refrigerator jam, although you could can it for long term storage too. But we eat it so fast and give it away during this season, that refrigerator jam is even easier and still will last in the fridge for several weeks.

I created this recipe by experimenting. It doesn’t require pectin, but very simple ingredients. Only 5 ingredients to be exact. It really can’t be much simpler!

Here’s the ingredients needed for Cranberry Spice Jam:

• 3/4 Cups of orange juice (I like to use the kind with a little bit of pulp!)
• 1 Cup sugar
• 12 oz. cranberries (this is one regular size bag or about 3 cups if you don’t have a food scale)
• 1/4 tsp of cloves
• 1/4 tsp of cinnamon

The process is quite simple:

• Add the sugar and orange juice to a sauce pan.
• Bring to a rolling boil while stirring.

• When it is a rolling boil, add the fresh cranberries and drop the heat to medium
• Stir occasionally as it is boiling.

• Also, listen for the cranberries to “pop” as they begin popping, stir.
• Continue to stir and boil on medium for about 4 minutes.
• Add the cloves and cinnamon and then cook for another 5-6 minutes, until it is a thickish jam consistency.
• When the jam is a deep red and thickening, take it off the stove and let it cool for about 10 minutes.
• Then scoop it into the jars you intend to store/give it in.
• This recipe is about 16 oz. of jam. I can fill four 4oz. bottles.

Now, the second part of this idea is the Homemade Cinnamon Chip Biscuits. They are amazing with the cranberry jam!

Truly a party in your mouth and tastes of the season. It’s a great Christmas morning treat, or even as the bread side with a classic Christmas dinner.

Here’s the recipe for the dry biscuit mix

• 2.25 cups of flour
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 TBSP Sugar
• 1/2 cup cinnamon chips (each bag will make 3.5 batches of biscuits)

To actually make the biscuits, use the dry mix above and combine with these ingredients:

• Cut in 1/2 cup butter
• Mix in 1 1.4 cup of milk and blend until well mixed

• Drop the biscuits on a greased pan and bake for 12-14 minutes in a 425 degree oven or until golden brown.

• Serve warm with the jam! Makes 12 biscuits.

• Yummo!!

You can “gift” this too! For me, I provide the jam and the dry biscuit mix with the recipe instruction card.

<== Download your printable Cranberry Spice Jam and Cinnamon Chip Biscuits Gift Tags HERE

I wanted to make this easier for you as well and so I have provided the biscuit preparation gift tags for you to print.

Finally, if you wanted to print the recipes, you can print them in full below:

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