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Simple Maple Crack Topping

This is a simple topping I like to use most often for pouring over top pound cakes or yellow cakes instead of frosting or glazes and for making a very yummy sticky buns, but it can be used for topping all sorts of recipes.

Maple syrup is tree sap obtained from the maple tree but it is also basically a natural form of liquid sugar. Unlike granulated or other dry sugars, however, you never have to add any water or worry about getting the portions of water to sugar just right to caramelize it — just put it into a clean, dry pan and boil it until it reaches the desired stage (softness or hardness) — or pour over top before baking at 375 F degrees for 20 to 25 minutes and let the oven do the caramelizing for a gooey, sticky bun type topping.

For more about caramelizing sugar and the stages:

Making Perfect Caramel

 

 

 

Simple Maple Crack Topping

Caramelized maple syrup with bacon bits. Maple Crack is most often used for topping pastries and sweet breads, cakes or crackers, but also used on some savory dishes. Some recipes are caramelized right in the oven, but this is a topping for pouring over top of already baked goods such as a pound cake or sticky buns. However, it also works well in the oven for most sticky bun recipes.

You can caramelize maple syrup so that it is still soft but thicker and very gooey or even so that is as hard as brittle depending upon the recipe requirements or personal preference.

1 cup pure maple syrup
3/4 cup bacon bits

 

Poured topping:

In a large saucepan, bring maple syrup to a boil, cooking until it reaches the desired (i.e. soft or hard ball) stage. Stir in bacon bits. Pour over baked goods. It may be used as a drizzle or can be spread with a spatula to cover completely. Allow to cool completely and set.

This works well for topping cakes and just about any recipe desired.

Baked topping:

Alternately, depending upon the baked goods being made and the time they can or cannot spend in the oven, you can top the recipe with maple syrup, sprinkle on the bacon (or stir the bacon into the syrup then top the recipe), and bake in a preheat 375 F degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown, thick, and gooey.

This works really well for most large sticky bun recipes in which the buns need 20 to 30 minutes to bake at 375 F degrees.

 

For Granny’s Maple Crack Sticky Buns:

Simple Maple Crack Topping

 

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Simple Maple Crack Topping

May caramelize in saucepan to pour over already baked goods such as pound cake or bake on top of large sticky buns.

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    Simple Maple Crack Topping

    Caramelized maple syrup with bacon bits. Maple Crack is most often used for topping pastries and sweet breads, cakes or crackers, but also used on some savory dishes. Some recipes are caramelized right in the oven, but this is a topping for pouring over top of already baked goods such as a pound cake or sticky buns. However, it also works well in the oven for most sticky bun recipes.

    You can caramelize maple syrup so that it is still soft but thicker and very gooey or even so that is as hard as brittle depending upon the recipe requirements or personal preference.

    1 cup pure maple syrup

    3/4 cup bacon bits

    Poured topping:

    In a large saucepan, bring maple syrup to a boil, cooking until it reaches the desired (i.e. soft or hard ball) stage. Stir in bacon bits. Pour over baked goods. It may be used as a drizzle or can be spread with a spatula to cover completely. Allow to cool completely and set.

    This works well for topping cakes and just about any recipe desired.

    Baked topping:

    Alternately, depending upon the baked goods being made and the time they can or cannot spend in the oven, you can top the recipe with maple syrup, sprinkle on the bacon (or stir the bacon into the syrup then top the recipe), and bake in a preheat 375 F degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown, thick, and gooey.

    This works well for most large sticky bun recipes in which the buns need 20 to 30 minutes to bake at 375 F degrees.

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I live in Idaho but I am a southerner and moved here for career reasons in 2000. However, I am now a retired widow and have lots of time to focus on what makes me happiest -- cooking, sharing recipes, as well as teaching and sharing with others what I know about cooking and nutrition.

I don't claim to know everything there is to know about cooking and I'm not a chef, although I do know a few and helped them out from time to time and my late husband was a trained cook and baker as well as a master at smoking meats and making BBQ, and I have studied nutrition at two colleges and one university along with other degrees. I like cooking from scratch and recipes made with prepackaged items are the exception rather than the norm.

However, being disabled, I have good days and bad days so I do use what I call "cheats" on occasion. For the most part though I've learned to pace myself and with a little preplanning I manage to do the prep one day and the cooking the next so the cheats still don't happen very often.

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