I am very proud to be a Canadian girl through and through. I love my country, and I am so blessed to enjoy the freedoms that we can experience here. My brave grandparents left East Germany in WWII to come work in Eastern Canada. They found refuge here, and later they moved west to Alberta to raise their family of 7 children (including my mom, who was born in Lethbridge, Alberta). I was born in Calgary, Alberta and I now live near Edmonton, Alberta.
I'm happy to be raising my precious little girlies in this beautiful country and I'm looking forward to celebrating Canada Day here on Monday with my husband and my daughters.
As part of the festivities, we're making these cute little maple leaf shaped sugar cookies with yummy Canadian maple syrup glaze. Because what's more Canadian than maple syrup, right? These are soft, mild and scrumptious and a special treat to serve this Canada Day holiday.
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Sugar Cookies with Canadian Maple Syrup Glaze
Yield: About 3 Dozen
Ingredients:
Sugar Cookies (adapted from Better Homes & Gardens)
- ¾ cup softened butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
Maple Syrup Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 teaspoon (or more) maple syrup
Beat together the butter, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt. Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until smooth. (I mix all of my baking by hand, but this also works well with a mixer.)
Mix in 2 ½ cups of flour. Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour.
Roll the dough out to about ¼" thickness. Cut maple leaf shapes out of the dough (I found my maple leaf cookie cutter at The Real Canadian Superstore.
Bake each batch of cookies for about 7 minutes at 350 degrees F until they are just slightly golden on the edges.
To make the maple syrup glaze, mix about 3 tablespoons of syrup into 1 cup of icing sugar until you reach a nice, dripping glaze consistency.
You may need to add more syrup. Mix and test the consistency as you go. Drip the glaze over your baked & cooled cookies with a fork.
Happy Canada Day, friends! What do you love about our country?
Shari G
Oh I love the twist of the maple glaze!! That's genius! I love being Canadian, this is a great country to be a part of!
Doreen
I definitely must try this recipe. Thanks.
Leila
I love sugar cookies! Love the cookie cutter, think I'll go and pick one up! Visiting from #TGCBB
Inspire Me Heather
Thanks so much for your recipe, I've Pinned it - Happy Canada Day!
Jennifer
those are adorable and I bet tasty too! I'll be pinning these! You should link them up to the Canada round up pinterest linky for TGCBB (second linky on the pinterest page)
Susan
Made these tonight - it's a pretty big recipe!! I hope everyone enjoys them at the Canada Day party we are at tomorrow! Thanks again.
Ann
Yum! I might just make these with my kiddies today! Hope you had a fantastic Canada Day! (www.cookingdangerously.com #tgcbb)
Lyne Proulx
Yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe, I just pinned it! Wide open space and nature, friendly people and bloggers.
Nancy @ Whispered Inspirations
OMG, those looks absolutely delectable. YUM and maple, drooool. Thanks for participating in The Great Canadian Blog Bash and we are very happy to have you!
Nancy
YashY
These look delicious.. being preggers I've been using it as an excuse to eat way too many sweet stuff... may be putting this on my hitlist!
Little Miss Kate
I love maple flavoured treats!
Thanks for taking part in #TGCBB
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