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Maple Syrup
Maple syrup is one of those things that just makes life a little bit better, and I’m not even Canadian. It’s also one of the best parts of brunch – there’s something kind of perfect about starting your day with something sweet and rich and lush like maple syrup.
Now, don’t be fooled by gross, cheap syrups in the grocery store. Make sure you always buy the one that says maple syrup specifically, or else you’re basically just getting corn syrup. Not the same. Not even in the same league.
Maple syrup has a billion uses, and most of them seemed to be paired with bacon or pecans. I’m down with both. You don’t have to restrict your maple love to your pancakes and waffles any longer. Here are 37 delicious ways to pair maple syrup with just about everything:
1. Walnut Sage Scones with Brown Butter Maple Glaze
via Food52
2. Maple Syrup Pie
via Epicurious
3. Maple Mustard BBQ Chicken
via Chow
4. Matilda, Maple and Garlic Pork Shoulder with Crispy Skin
via Food52
5. Garnet Yams with Maple Syrup, Walnuts and Brandied Raisins
via Bon Appetit
6. Miso-Maple Roasted Roots
via Food52
7. Maple and Cinnamon Sweet Potato Fries
via Lauren Kelly Nutrition
8. Gluten-Free Raspberry Jam Cookies
via CBC
9. Whoopie Pies with Maple Poached Pears and Maple Buttercream
via Pineapple and Coconut
10. Maple Oat Breakfast Bread
via Food52
11. No-Yeast Apple Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Icing
via Recipe Girl
12. Brown Sugar Maple Cookies
via Averie Cooks
13. Chai Cupcakes with Maple Whipped Cream
via Naturally Ella
14. Maple Pumpkin Brulee Cheesecake
via BHG
15. Maple Rosemary French Toast with Vanilla Creme Fraiche
via Food52
16. Maple Custard Pie with Candied Bacon
via Raspberri Cupcakes
17. Baked Acorn Squash with Maple Glaze
via The Kitchen Is My Playground
18. Maple Bacon Biscuits
via Amandaleine
19. Maple Sweet Potato Cakes with Curried Greek Yogurt
via Food52
20. Almost Raw Pumpkin Maple Pecan Cheesecake with Coconut Whipped Cream
via The Sweet Life Online
21. Maple Quinoa Granola
via Food52
22. Gluten-free Coconut and Maple Macaroons
via Box of Stolen Socks
23. Maple Mixed Berry Pie
via Katie At The Kitchen Door
24. Rosemary Maple Corn Muffins
via Love and Lemons
25. Rainbow Chard with Maple Vinegar Drizzle
via Food52
26. Maple-Sweetened Lemonade Margaritas
via The Roasted Root
27. Almond Butter and Flaxseed Cookies
via Amsterdam Food Stories
28. Maple Cardamom Glazed Salmon
via Food52
29. Maple Bacon Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Sandwich
via The Bacon Princess
30. 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Fudge
via Blissful Basil
31. Roasted Spiced Maple Almonds
via Poppies and Papayas
32. Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookies
via Food52
33. Sweet Corn Maple Brown Butter Bacon
via Iowa Girl Eats
34. Sweet ‘n’ Spicy Maple Tabasco Hard Candy
via Peaches Please
35. Grandma’s White Cake with Maple Syrup Frosting
via Food52
36. Tartlets with Maple Vanilla Cream and Blueberries
via Hami-mnami
37. Grilled Peaches with Pecans and Maple
via Lisa Is Cooking
Have you got a favorite maple syrup recipe up your sleeve? Share in the comments!
I’m literally salivating. Drool actually, literally, for real dripped onto my arm. I am revolting and I don’t even care. LET ME EAT ALL THE THINGS
Wonders if it’s possible to make a vegan version of #29.
That one is a paleo version, so it’s dairy-free already! I think they use coconut ice cream.
Now, as for the bacon… Fake meat that shit up!
I’d say tempeh cut into strips with some soy sauce, maple syrup and a few spices, and liquid smoke if you have some (I don’t, but I heard it works great), and then sautéed cripy.
Hi Al,
You can simply leave out the bacon! The cookies themselves are vegan, the ice cream I used is made from coconut milk, and you can roll the ice cream in whatever you’d like. Or, you can try your hand at “coconut bacon” http://www.fettlevegan.com/recipes/coconut-bacon. Enjoy!
For the record, maple and chicken go together so well. and bacon. bacon.
Ohmygodohmygod #22
My mother’s favorite kind of cookie is a macaroon and it seems as if every g-free every recipe and bakery uses xanthum or guar gum which fuck with body as badly or worse than glunten. She has my nut butter cookies and Spanish almond things like turron, all my curds, and my berry pie things to work with but not her beloved macaroons.
Until now.
Her birthday is in September, I think she might cry when I give those gluten free coconut macaroons as a present.
Once again autostraddle ya hit me right in the feels but when I least expected it.
maple apple pie! i don’t have a specific recipe but my friend and i made it once and it’s great (and easy, because the maple syrup helps provide that gooey inside situation without having to mess with thickeners and stuff)
I discovered avodillas recently and oh my god. It’s just avocado in a tortilla, fried with butter/margarine and maple syrup. It’s incredible.
…I need to be able to try one (or seven) of those right now.
‘Maple Bacon Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Sandwich’ – that’s like, a list of my favourite things. #youguys
:) anaphase, glad you liked it. Check out some other recipes on my blog! http://thebaconprincess.wordpress.com/
Thanks for featuring my recipe for #29!!