Maple Taffy Recipes

Make your own maple taffy

For the second year in a row, we won’t be making the ever-popular, long-awaited outing to the sugar shack this spring. So Maple from Canada wants to bring the sugar shack to you!

Learn how to make your own maple syrup taffy and discover 10 delicious variations to give your taffy a sweet or savoury twist.

How to make maple taffy

Ingredients

  • 1-2kg of ice or snow
  • 300-350ml pure Canadian maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)

Equipment

  • Baking tray
  • Wooden ice cream or lolly sticks
  • Saucepan
  • Thermometer
  • Metal ladle or serving spoon
  • Wooden spoon
  • Food processor

Method

  1. Use a food processor to crush the ice as finely as possible
  2. Fill a baking tray with clean, fresh ice or snow and smooth the top to flatten it
  3. Heat the maple in a thick bottomed saucepan and stir continuously with a wooden spoon. The liquid will soon begin to boil. Once it reaches approx. 115°c it is ready to pour
  4. With a metal ladle or serving spoon drizzle 2 tablespoons of hot maple mixture onto the ice in thin lines about 5 inches long. Let the maple syrup strips cool for 3 – 5 seconds until they begin to slightly firm up
  5. Press the top of the ice stick into the hot maple parallel to the ice, which will quickly start to attach to the stick. Turn the stick to evenly gather up all of the strip of maple
  6. Repeat step 3 and 4 until all of the maple has been collected. Eat while still a little warm

maple taffy bacon

Maple taffy and bacon

Two sugar shack staples meet to bring the tastes and smells of the springtime tradition to your house.

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • 5 slices bacon

Instructions:

  • Fry bacon in the pan, remove, and place on absorbent paper. Cool and crumble.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy pretzels

Maple taffy with pretzels 

Sweet or salty? Have both with this scrumptious maple-pretzel mix!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • 12 pretzels

Instructions:

  • Put a dozen pretzels into a freezer bag.
  • Crush with a rolling pin or small cast-iron skillet.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy matcha

Maple taffy and matcha

It’s teatime at the sugar shack. Maple and matcha make a marvellous mixture!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • Matcha tea powder

Instructions:

  • Use a little sieve or screen to sprinkle right onto the taffy.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy sesame seeds

Maple taffy with sesame seeds

A simple, superb match, crunchy toasted sesame seeds are a fun complement to smooth maple taffy.

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • ½ cup (125 ml) white sesame seeds

Instructions:

  • Preheat oven to 180° C (350° F). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread with seeds. Bake 5 minutes. Remove and stir for even browning. Return to oven for 5 minutes.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy pecan cinnamon

Maple taffy with cinnamon pecans

A flavour combo that you’ll remember and revisit for spring seasons to come!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • ½ cup (125 ml) whole pecans
  • 1 tsp (5 ml) ground cinnamon

Instructions:

  • Spread pecans on a baking sheet and put in a 180° C (350° F) oven for 15 minutes. Allow to cool. Chop and mix with the cinnamon.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy lemon

Maple taffy with poppy seeds and lemon

Think of a delicious lemon-poppy cake. Now put it on a stick of maple taffy. We bet you never imagined that one before!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • 1 lemon
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) poppy seeds

Instructions:

  • Peel and mince the zest of half a lemon. Mix with poppy seeds on a dish.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy cranberries

Maple taffy and cranberries

A beautiful new way to experience the maple lollipop, flavoured and studded with bright cranberries!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • ½ cup (125 ml) dried cranberries

Instructions:

  • Use a sharp chef’s knife to chop the berries finely.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy coconut

Maple taffy and coconut

Take your sugar shack party to the tropics with this exotic take on the classic taste of maple!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • 1 cup (250 ml) unsweetened coconut flakes

Instructions:

  • Spread coconut flakes on a small baking sheet and brown in a preheated 180° C (350° F) for 10 minutes. Mix halfway through cooking time.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy dark chocolate

Maple taffy and dark chocolate

Two classic flavours that are a match made in heaven. We use dark chocolate here but go ahead and use any kind you like or have on hand.

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • 1 bar of dark chocolate

Instructions:

  • Use a sharp chef’s knife to break the chocolate into fine pieces.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.

maple taffy peanuts

Maple taffy and peanuts 

Another mouth-watering sweet and savoury treat! Salted or unsalted, peanuts love maple!

Ingredients:

  • Basic Maple Taffy on Snow recipe
  • ½ cup (125 ml) peanuts, salted or unsalted

Instructions:

  • Use a sharp chef’s knife to crush peanuts finely.
  • Roll your maple taffy in the coating and enjoy.