2 April 2011 Feeling Sappy? My Top 5 Maple Syrup Desserts

Feeling Sappy? My Top 5 Maple Syrup Desserts

April 2, 2011 By

Maple Water Bucket

Maple season’s here and every year that I don’t make it home to Quebec for the sweetest season of all, I get a bit homesick. I grew up in a small town in southeast Quebec where my family and four other families of friends owned a sugar shack. I have very fond memories of harnessing horses to a sled hauling a maple sap collection barrel and then bring this sap to the shack for the boiling process that would result in amber elixir our moms then cooked and baked with.

This year, since I won’t be making the pilgrimage north, I decided to bake and cook with maple syrup for a two-week stretch to get my fix in. I even requested the help of my family to expand my maple recipe collection. Here are my top 5 maple dessert recipes from my archives and from newly-shared family recipes:

  1. Eggs in Maple Syrup
  2. Maple Delights
  3. Maple Syrup Dumplings
  4. Maple Syrup Pie
  5. Maple Taffee on the Snow

BONUS 6: Maple Whipped Cream

If you decide to try any of them, please leave a comment on this post so I can let my mom, aunt and grandma who contributed know that our traditional family recipes are being enjoyed.

Cheers!

Veronique

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27 March 2011 Maple Delights (Délices à l’Erable)

Maple Delights (Délices à l’Erable)

March 27, 2011 By

My aunt, Francoise, from Quebec shared her simple recipe for simple maple treats that’s a breeze to prepare.

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup (see ‘notes’ below)
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 8-ounce can of Pillsbury crescent rolls

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. In a 9-inch pie plate, combine the brown sugar, maple syrup and heavy cream using a fork to create a homogenous mixture.  Set aside.
  3. Take the crescent rolls out of the packaging, but do not unroll.  Using a sharp knife, cut the rolls into 8 slices of the same width.  Place all the dough slices on their sides on top of the maple cream mixture.
  4. Place the pie plate unto a cookie sheets (who wants to risk spillovers?) then into the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, until the treats are golden brown.
  5. Remove the pie plate from the oven, and let the treats cool for about 15 minutes before serving with either Maple Whipped Cream or vanilla ice cream.

Makes 8 servings.

Notes: Don’t waste top notch maple syrup to bake or cook with, less fancy grade will do just fine and often offers stronger maple flavors.

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