Cocktails with Maple syrup
Maple syrup is a natural sweetener made by evaporating the sap of maple trees, principally the sugar maple, to concentrate its sugars.
Taste profile
Deeply sweet with a warm, toasty caramel-wood aroma distinctive to concentrated maple sap; the body is thick and viscous.
How it's used
Serves as a sweetener and flavouring in one, its viscous body adding weight while it carries a specific maple aroma no plain sugar supplies; poured in small measures and shaken or stirred until it dissolves into the build.
Substitutes for Maple syrup
As a small accent its sweetness and body can be matched by another concentrated sweetener or a dense sugar syrup, but where maple flavour is the point of the drink no substitute works, since the aroma is specific to boiled maple sap and cannot be reconstructed.
Often confused with
Pancake syrup / table syrup
Pure maple syrup is made only from concentrated maple sap; imitation pancake or table syrup is typically corn-syrup based with maple flavouring and contains no true maple sap. Both are sold as pourable brown syrups and are often used interchangeably.
