Baking & Sweet Spice Blends

Baking and sweet spice blends are pre-mixed combinations of warm spices formulated for desserts, sweet baking, and spiced drinks. The most common version — often labelled “mixed spice” in Australia or “pumpkin pie spice” in American-influenced products — typically combines cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves in varying proportions.

These blends save the home baker from measuring out five or six individual spices. They’re used in fruit cakes, biscuits, spiced muffins, stewed fruit, rice pudding, and warm drinks like chai and spiced lattes. In Australian baking, mixed spice is a classic addition to hot cross buns, Anzac-adjacent biscuits, and Christmas puddings.

The flavour profile is warm, sweet, and aromatic rather than hot. A little goes a long way — typically a teaspoon or less per recipe.

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How it's made

Sweet spice blends are made by combining pre-ground spices — most commonly cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves — in a fixed ratio. Commercial producers source the individual ground spices, weigh them to a consistent formula, blend them in a mixer to ensure even distribution, and package the result. The quality depends largely on the freshness and grade of the individual spices used.

Nutrition (per 100g)

Energy 342kcal
Protein 5.8g
Carbs 54.5g
Fat 12.6g
Fibre 14.8g Sugar 7.8g
Mass Distribution

1 tsp is about 1.7 g — roughly 10 kcal of this.

What it costs the planet (per kilo)

Carbon ≈0.53kg
Freshwater ≈130.03L
Land ≈0.43m²

≈ Estimated — worked out from a category-typical value further up its supply chain. Where this comes from →

Where it comes from

In the kitchen

Used as

sweet autumn spice blend

Goes well with
pumpkin cream vanilla brown sugar apple
Classic dishes
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Pumpkin spice latte
  • Spiced apple cider
  • Pumpkin bread

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Where this data comes from

Nutrition data from

USDA

How it was calculated

SR Legacy

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