Cinnamon-Sugar Tortillas {Edible Bowls and Shaped Crips}

Turn an ordinary tortilla into a dessert bowl or into sweet and crispy shaped treats for the kids. These cinnamon sugar tortilla bowls and shapes are so easy to make. Just shape them in a muffin tin or with cookie cutters, brush with butter, dust with cinnamon and sugar, and bake.

Related: see how to make our cinnamon sugar snowflakes here.

They dessert bowls are perfect for holiday entertaining, and the shaped crisps are a delicious treat to snack on.

The best part? They’re impressive to look at, they taste amazing, and no-one will guess that you made them in minutes.

No matter how prepared we are for the holidays, we can always count on some unexpected challenges to throw us for a loop – a last minute dinner party, surprise drop-ins, or a request from the teacher for classroom treats.

Cinnamon-Sugar Tortilla Treats to the recue! These delicious, edible dessert bowls and sweet cinnamon-sugar crisps will save the day and make you feel like a star when you need to impress in a hurry.

This recipe is so simple but SO DARN GOOD, it’s almost too good to be true.

But it is true. And it will blow your mind. Love at first bite. Seriously.

It’s a really versatile recipe too!

Fill your edible dessert bowls with:

• fresh fruit
• ice cream
• trifle
• mousse
• tiramisu
• sticky pudding

Serve your cinnamon-sugar tortilla crisps:

• with yogurt dip
• as dessert nachos
• with fruit salsa
• as a garnish for hot chocolate and whipped cream

The possibilities are endless!

These sweet, baked tortillas are fun to make too, so get the kids to help. Baking together at Christmas is a wonderful family tradition and one of my favourite ways to create special holiday memories with my kids.

How to Make Cinnamon-Sugar Tortillas:

Note: Each 10” tortilla yields 10-12 shaped crisps

For the shaped Cinnamon-Sugar Crisps:

• 4 or 5 soft flour tortillas (10-inch Original)
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 3 tbsp white sugar & 3 tsp cinnamon, stirred together
• cookie cutters

Lay your tortillas on a flat surface and cut out your shapes with your cookie cutters. Challenge the kids to get as many shapes as they can from one tortilla. It’s a great way to encourage critical thinking and to minimize scraps.

Next, place your cut-outs on a baking sheet. To make clean-up easy, line it with foil or parchment paper first.

Brush all of the shapes generously with melted butter, and then sprinkle them with the cinnamon-sugar.

Flip them over, and do the same on the other side.

Bake your tortilla crisps at 350ºF for 8-10 minutes. Keep an eye on them once they hit the 8 minute mark. I take mine out at exactly the 10-minute mark, but yours may be done a little sooner.

Transfer your crisps to a cooling rack so they don’t stick to the pan. In a minute or two, they’ll be cool enough to eat.

Be prepared to be blown away!

And now…

For the Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Dessert Bowls:

• 6 soft flour tortillas
• melted butter
• cinnamon-sugar
• jumbo muffin tin

You’ll make your dessert bowls pretty much the same way as you made your cinnamon-sugar crisps, but you’ll bake them in a jumbo muffin tin.

Dempster’s Tortillas are super-soft and fresh, so they’re really easy to shape in your muffin tin.

You’ll need to trim your tortillas a little to fit the muffin tin. Use a bowl to press a mark into your tortilla, a little bigger than the circumference of a well in your muffin tin. This will give you a line to trim around.

You can cut your tortilla circles one at a time, but we stacked ours up and cut them all together.

Then, we prepped them for the oven just like we did the cinnamon-sugar crisps.

Butter, cinnamon-sugar, flip ’em over and repeat. Then press them into your muffin tin, pinching a little here and there so they fit.

Note: Don’t be as generous buttering the bowls as you were making the crisps otherwise you’ll have a puddle of melted butter in the bottom of each bowl when you take them out of the oven.

Pop your dessert bowls in the oven at 350ºF and bake for 8-10 minutes. If there are any large air bubbles in your dessert bowls after baking, just pierce them with a sharp knife to deflate them.

Remove your bowls from the muffin tin to cool, and then fill them with whatever you please!

Mmm-mmmm! Cinnamon-Sugar Tortillas!

Delicious! And so easy!

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Click here to see how we made our cinnamon sugar snowflakes!

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