Maple Butter Cookies Recipes

MAPLE BROWN BUTTER WAFFLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325?F. Melt butter in a sauce pan over medium heat; cook, whisking occasionally, until butter foams and begins to turn amber and smell nutty. Heat butter in a sauté pan over medium heat, until it melts and bubbles. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. Set aside 1 tablespoon brown butter for icing. In a stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream together brown butter, sugars, maple syrup, and extracts. Add egg yolk and beat 30 seconds more. Mix in flour, cinnamon, salt and baking powder. Dust a clean surface and rolling pin liberally with flour. Shape dough into a flat square; dust with flour and roll into a 1/4-inch thick square. Use a sharp knife to cut off any rough edges; slice square into 2-inch rows vertically and horizontally, forming 2-inch squares. Place cookies 1/2-inch apart on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets. Dip the pointy side of a meat mallet into flour and press into each square to make a waffle pattern. Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown at edges. Let cool completely on parchment. Mix together sugar, maple extract and syrup, cinnamon and reserved brown butter in a medium bowl. Add coffee until icing is thin enough to drizzle. Place icing in a zippered plastic bag and snip corner. Drizzle to simulate a puddle of syrup on each cookie. Use a sharp knife to cut white chocolate bar into tiny cubes of butter. Place one cube in the center of each cookie. Let icing set 30 minutes or until hard.

VERMONT MAPLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs and maple flavoring. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in baking chips and pecans., Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. , For glaze, in a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Remove from heat. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar, syrup and maple flavoring until smooth., Drizzle over cookies; let dry completely. Store between pieces of waxed paper in airtight containers.

MAPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Pour maple syrup into a medium saucepan; add cinnamon. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until a candy thermometer registers 240 degrees (soft-ball stage), 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the pan from heat, discard cinnamon stick, and stir in butter until melted.
• Immediately transfer mixture to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat, starting on low and increasing to high, until mixture is thick, opaque, and creamy, about 8 minutes. Store in an airtight container, refrigerated, up to 2 weeks.

CHEWY MAPLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg, syrup, and vanilla until well mixed.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Stir in coconut. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2-inches apart onto greased baking sheets.
• Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 10-12 minutes.

MAPLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar. Add the egg, syrup and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda. Stir into mixture until well blended. Shape into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar. Place on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart and flatten slightly.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Let cool on wire rack.

PEANUT BUTTER MAPLE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in syrup and vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture. Stir in peanut butter chips. , Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

MAPLE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy.
• Add syrup and the egg yolk and beat well.
• Mix in flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
• If necessary, refrigerate for 15-30 minutes for easier handling.
• Shape dough into 1" balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• With a fork dipped in sugar, flatten balls with a criss-cross pattern.
• Bake at 350° for 8-12 minutes until golden brown.

MAPLE BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in maple syrup and egg yolk.
• Combine salt and flour; fold into butter mixture.
• Chill dough, wrapped well in plastic wrap, until firm; about 2 hours or overnight.
• Dough may be made 4 days ahead and kept chilled.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Divide dough in half; place remainder back in refrigerator.
• Lightly flour work surface, and quickly roll out to 1/8-inch thickness.
• Cut out cookies with floured cutters; reroll any cut any scraps.
• Repeat process with second batch of dough.
• (If using maple leaf cutters, mark cookies decoratively with back of knife.).
• Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes until golden.
• While cookies are cooling, combine ingredients for glaze.
• When cookies have completely cooled, dip into glaze, and allow to dry on wire racks.
• Cookies keep in airtight containers 1 week.

MAPLE LEAF BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a standing electric mixer cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy and beat in maple syrup and egg yolk until mixture is combined well. Sift together salt and flour over mixture and fold in thoroughly. Chill dough, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 2 hours. Dough may be made 4 days ahead and chilled.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Divide dough in half. Keeping one half chilled, lightly flour other half and on a lightly floured surface gently pound with a rolling pin to soften. Roll out dough 1/8 inch thick and with a 3-inch floured maple-leaf cookie cutter cut out cookies, chilling scraps. Arrange cookies on buttered baking sheets and if desired, with back of a knife, mark cookies decoratively. Make more cookies in same manner with remaining dough and with all the scraps pressed together.
• Bake cookies in batches in middle of oven until edges are golden, about 12 minutes, and transfer to racks to cool. Cookies keep in airtight containers 1 week.