{"id":645,"date":"2019-03-02T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.finelimedesigns.com\/2013\/05\/23\/maple-butter\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:29:40","slug":"maple-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeschool.com\/maple-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Homemade Maple Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you've ever wondered how to make maple butter, this post is for you. Making maple butter from pure maple syrup is fairly easy. Grab your digital thermometer and follow these steps to transform pure maple syrup into a pure maple cream spread.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What it is<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The name maple butter, also known as maple cream, is a misleading name: there's no cream or butter in pure maple butter. Maple butter is a spread made from pure maple syrup that has been boiled, cooled, and whipped so that the syrup crystallizes in just the right way to give it this spreadable smooth, creamy texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maple butter is made through the controlled crystallization of sugar. So, while you are trying to prevent sugar crystallization when making caramel sauces<\/a>, with maple butter, you are aiming to force the sugar to crystallize in just the right way to achieve the correct, soft, smooth, spreadable consistency. It's readily available in the New England area, as well as Quebec and Ontario, where most maple products are made. In Quebec, it may be labelled as \"beurre d'\u00e9rable.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maple butter versus maple compound butter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Though some will post \"easy maple butter\" recipes that are made by creaming together softened butter and maple syrup, that's actually not what maple butter is at all! Don't be fooled! Real maple butter is made from pure maple syrup. It's a maple spread that is vegan and dairy-free. If you want to make maple compound butter by mixing butter and maple syrup, that's another option, and you can follow this honey butter recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What's in it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maple butter is made from pure maple syrup and nothing else. You may also add a tiny amount of vegetable oil (or canola oil) when you make it to prevent the maple syrup from boiling over, but there are no other ingredients in pure maple butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to use it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are so many recipes you can make with maple syrup.<\/a> You can use maple syrup to sweeten an apple pie<\/a>. You can use it in this maple fudge recipe<\/a> or a maple syrup pie<\/a>. However, maple syrup is quite fluid and \"loose\" so it doesn't make the best topping or filling in certain instances. This is why maple butter is more interesting in baking: it has less water!<\/p>\n\n\n

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This delicious, creamy, thick maple spread is a more practical way of baking with maple syrup without the mess of dealing with the extra water in the syrup. In instances where you want a maple-flavoured filling, maple butter is what you should use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n