So it’s been snowing ALL DAY and the kids came straight home from school today and I’ve not seen them inside yet….
I was trying to think up a fun snack for them and I wondered if it would be easy to make maple taffy and really….it couldn’t be easier.
You need real maple syrup and snow.
Okay, you need to boil the maple syrup first, but really that’s not difficult. Most of the articles that I read mentioned a need for a candy thermometer but I just winged it and VOILA…….
You boil the maple syrup for a while. It needs to get over 260 degrees Fahrenheit and it needs to thicken up a little, so I probably boiled it for about 10 mins.
Then I took my pot outside and found some clean snow and using a spoon, drizzled some onto the snow. Then I called Jeremy over and asked him to eat some of my yellow snow – which he emphatically declined….until I mentioned that it was maple candy.
Here it is in the snow….
And after a few seconds….it comes out more solid, like this…..
And after you’ve taken a big, chewy bite, it looks more like this…
It’s chewy like toffee but tastes like maple syrup. So Delicious and so easy.
Have you made this before? Am I just really behind the times?
(part 2 of “Getting away from it all” coming soon)