Maple Wreath or Garland


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Recipe — Maple Wreath or Garland
Cooling Time:
12 portions
Metric Imperial

Ingredients

  • 1 cup maple syrup (preferably dark syrup for its robust flavour)
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • Maple sugar or maple candy for decoration
  • Cake gel, icing, candy of your choice to decorate with

Method

  1. Butter a 2-L (8 cup) glass bowl. Pour into it maple syrup and butter and melt in the microwave oven on high for 6 minutes.
  2. Remove from oven, add baking soda and salt, mix and cool.
  3. Pour mixture into a mixing bowl, add egg and flour, a little at a time, and mix until you obtain a ball of dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 1/2 hours.
  4. Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F).

Wreath

  1. On a floured surface, knead dough to a 30-cm (12-in) diameter circle with a 0.6-cm (1/4-in) thickness. In the centre, cut a 20-cm (8-in) circle.
  2. From the removed dough, cut out various-size stars using a cookie cutter.
  3. Place the wreath and stars on a baking sheet and bake in top of oven for 15 minutes. Cool before decorating. Stick stars to wreath using icing.

Garland

  1. On a floured surface, knead dough to a 30-cm (12-in) diameter circle with a 0.6-cm (1/4-in) thickness. Using a variety of cookie cutters, make cookies.
  2. Place on a cookie sheet, prick two holes in each cookie and bake in top of oven for about 12. Cool before decorating. Thread a ribbon through the holes to make a cookie garland.

The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers are not in any way responsible for the identification or presence of allergens in recipes or for the classification of any recipe as vegetarian or vegan.

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More about Maple

Maple syrup comes in four classifications, according to colour and taste.

At the start of sugaring season, syrup is generally clear, with a lightly sweet taste. It becomes darker and caramelized as the season goes on.

An unopened can of maple syrup keeps for many years.

Once the can is opened, syrup should be kept in an airtight container in a cool place.

100% pure maple butter contains no butter or dairy.

Like all 100% pure maple products, maple butter comes from the sap of the maple tree… and that’s all.