Maple Cream (Maple Butter)
This is a single-ingredient recipe for a spreadable maple condiment. It's made by heating pure maple syrup to a specific temperature, cooling it, and then stirring it to encourage crystallization. The final product has a consistency similar to peanut butter but tastes like concentrated maple syrup.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Pure Maple Syrup
Instructions
- Pour maple syrup into a tall, heavy-bottomed saucepan.
- Insert candy thermometer and heat over medium heat without stirring.
- Heat until temperature reaches exactly 235F.
- Pour hot syrup into a heatproof bowl.
- Place bowl in ice bath and cool undisturbed to 80F.
- Remove from ice bath and stir continuously with wooden spoon until mixture becomes pale tan and loses its gloss.
- Immediately transfer to storage jar before mixture sets.
Notes
Watch temperature carefully - overheating will result in candy instead of cream. Mixture will thicken quickly at the end, so have storage container ready.