Category: Sweet

Salted Maple Sugar Caramel Popcorn Crunch

April 19, 2020 | Recipes, Sweet

Salted Maple Sugar Caramel Popcorn Crunch

This treat is simply other worldly. It’s a delicious combination of salt and sweet, punctuated by the pleasing crunch of popcorn and peanuts. The Salted Maple Sugar Caramel is a delicious addition, adding the flavor of caramelized maple. This treat is excellent as a packaged gift. Drop some off on a neighbor’s porch, bring a bag to a friend who needs a lift or make a big batch and drop it off at your favorite local hero’s place of work.

Chocolate Maple Sugar Babka

April 10, 2020 | Recipes, Sweet

Chocolate Maple Sugar Babka

We are five weeks into quarantine and teaching from a distance and things are feeling hard! Just in the nick of time I came across a recipe for chocolate babka on the Food and Wine site. I adapted it to include maple sugar and maple syrup and the results are spectacular. The dough sits in the fridge overnight and then needs to rise for 2 hours the next day.

Maple Shortbread With Maple Glaze

February 8, 2020 | Recipes, Sweet

Maple Shortbread With Maple Glaze

This recipe comes to me from a great friend and baker, Joanna Beall. She has created endless delights using maple sugar and maple syrup! This recipe also calls for maple extract, which is a natural flavoring and will enhance the maple-y flavor. Bake up some cookies for those you love!

1 cup cold butter cut into cubes
8 tbsp Couching Lion Maple Sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp maple extract

Mix flour and salt,

Maple Sugar Peach Cobbler

September 22, 2019 | Recipes, Sweet

Maple Sugar Peach Cobbler

Three years ago I planted a couple of peach trees near our house in Vermont. I wasn’t sure they would fruit as we’re at 1500 feet and winters up here can be brutal. These were rated for zone 4, the absolute top of what I can safely plant. They hung on for the last few years, giving us beautiful spring blossoms but no fruit.

Peaches in maple whiskey syrup

September 8, 2019 | Featured Recipe, Recipes, Sweet

Peaches Canned in Maple Whiskey Syrup

We have had an exceptional peach season here in Vermont! This is the first time my trees really produced and the branches are bent right to the ground. I was worried the tree might break so I picked a bunch of peaches to remove some of the weight. Naturally I found a way to preserve them with maple syrup!

Assemble:

10-12 pounds of peaches

2 cups of water

2 1/2 cups maple sugar

1/2 cup maple syrup

1 vanilla bean

1/3 cup of whiskey

First,

Maple Sugar Chocolate Fallen Cake

August 25, 2019 | Recipes, Sweet

Maple Sugar Chocolate Fallen Cake

This was our New Year’s Eve dessert. There’s really not much to say, but that 2019 was off to a great start!

½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1” pieces, plus more, room temperature, for pan
¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp. granulated maple sugar, divided, plus more for pan
10 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (61%–72% cacao),

Maple Ice Cream

August 2, 2019 | Recipes, Sweet

Maple Ice Cream

This ice cream has been a huge crowd pleaser! When I was a kid, we always used a
hand crank ice cream maker. We poured layers of ice and salt around a metal
container and as the cranking got harder, one of us kids would stand on top as my dad
turned the arm around and around. Recently I ordered an electric ice cream maker and
while we miss out on the summer ritual of the drippy,

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Maple Sugar Waffle Bowls

August 2, 2019 | Sweet

Maple Sugar Waffle Bowls

When the 5th graders at the Sustainability Academy needed a vessel for their
maple ice cream, we thought about buying cones. This idea was quickly struck
down as traditional ice cream cones are made with white sugar. After weeks of researching the added health, environmental and local benefits of using maple
sugar, we knew we needed to get creative and make our own.

Milk Chocolate Chip Maple Sugar Cookies

August 2, 2019 | Sweet

Milk Chocolate Chip Maple Sugar Cookies

These cookies are a perfect balance of gooey chocolate, with a hint of maple. Adding walnuts creates an other worldly flavor! Using maple sugar instead of white sugar adds a myriad of health benefits including minerals and vitamins. Perhaps maple sugar’s most impressive quality is its lower glycemic index. This means that blood sugar will rise more slowly when consuming maple sugar versus white sugar.

Sugar on Snow

August 1, 2019 | Featured Recipe, Sweet

Sugar on Snow

Winter is long and cold in Vermont and the advent of sugaring season is worthy of celebration! As soon as the first batch of syrup is complete, Vermont kids are asking that it be cooked just a little longer to create a thick, sticky stream. The candy firms into fabulous threads as soon as it hits the snow. The truly hardy kids will eat it outdoors by a fire!

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