These maple cookies are literally heaven on a plate. They have the perfect taste of maple– not overpowering but definitely not negligible. The dough can be made in 10 minutes, there is no resting period, and the cookies bake for about 10 minutes in the oven. Can you think of anything more perfect in these beautiful fall months? I think not.
Baking (along with reading) is, always and forever, my happy place. I love baking all the time, but I especially love baking on the days when life seems like it’s out of my control.
There’s something comforting about following a recipe to the T. There’s something reassuring about knowing that if you put exactly 1 cup of flour and exactly ½ cup of butter in your recipe, your creation will turn out exactly like it’s supposed to.
I will say this until the day I die: when my life feels like it’s outside of my control, I bake.
The Chemistry of Baking
This reassuring, comforting feeling of baking really disappears when you’re making up the recipe yourself. It’s for that reason that I almost dislike baking for the blog.
There’s a lot of chemistry that goes into baking, and, if I’m speaking candidly, I was never professional trained (or even ameaturely trained) in how exactly to get the chemistry of a recipe right. I love baking other people’s recipes, but coming up with my own brings a lot of stress into my Foreign Fork life.
But as the year was coming to an end, I REALLY wanted to try my hand at baking cookies. The idea scared me, but the thought of finally coming up with my own perfect recipe– and my own perfect Maple Cookie Recipe nonetheless– was too enticing to scare me off.
I made FIVE batches of these Maple Cookies before I finally got them right! And thank goodness I did, because I think my pants were starting to fit a little tighter thanks to all of that cookie dough (oops!).
I still wouldn’t say I’m a cookie-making expert, but I’m certainly more knowledgeable than I was before… and that’s the whole point of this blog, right?!
The Best Things about these Maple Cookies
- They’re so easy to make! The dough comes together in about 10 minutes from start to finish
- The maple flavor is DELICIOUS! And you can make them more or less maple-y depending on your preference
- You don’t have to chill the dough
- They are perfect for the fall months
Are Maple Cookies Canadian?
Darn tootin! They definitely sound like it, eh?
Hehe, sorry.
Anyways, it’s a safe assumption that pretty much any recipe with maple syrup is Canadian in origin. In fact, Canada produces more than 80% of the world’s maple syrup, and they even have a stash in case of a natural disaster! They can’t live without it!
This recipe was entirely of my own creation, but maple cookies are a favorite in Canada (and you’re about to see why!)
What’s in this Recipe for Maple Cookies?
- Butter
- Dark brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Pure maple syrup
- An egg
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Maple extract (found near the vanilla extract)
- Oats or oat flour
- All purpose flour
How to Make Maple Cookies from Scratch
If you have oats instead of oat flour, place the oats in a food processor of blender and grind into a powder. It’s as easy as that!
Melt the butter almost completely and then cream together with brown sugar and granulated sugar until just combined.
Add egg until just combined.
Add maple syrup, vanilla extract, and maple extract until just combined.
Use a wooden spoon to hand mix baking soda, salt, vanilla, oat flour, and all-purpose flour into a dough.
Scoop into cookies and bake for 10 minutes at 375. Remove from oven but leave on pan to continue baking until cool.
Where Can I Find Maple Flavoring in the Grocery Store?
These Maple Cookies use maple flavoring in the recipe. I found my maple flavoring in the grocery store in the baking and spice aisle. The bottle that I used was right next to the other extracts, such as vanilla extract.
If you don’t feel like shopping at the grocery store for your maple flavoring, you can also find it online here.
The point of using the maple flavoring is that you get quite a bit more flavor from the maple flavoring than you do from natural maple syrup… with a lot less liquid!
I use maple syrup as a main form of liquid in this recipe, but I also use the maple flavor. This makes sure that the main source of maple in the recipe is from syrup, but also ensures that the dough doesn’t get too soggy.
What Does Baking Soda Do in Cookies?
Baking Soda is meant to be used in recipes that use a natural acid. These natural acids can include lemon juice, molasses, or buttermilk. Surprisingly enough, brown sugar is an “acid” that requires baking soda!
The chemical reaction between the baking soda and the natural acid (brown sugar), allows the cookies to rise and spread in the way you’d like!
Can Dogs Eat Maple Cookies?
Lol okay so I use this website called answerthepublic.com and you can type in any word and it will tell you the most common questions people google about that word. So I typed in “maple cookies” and this was one of the most common questions??
I’m not quite sure what these humans are thinking, but I figured I’d humor them (as long as you promise to humor me!)
Ummmm my guess is that dogs CAN eat maple cookies? But CAN does not equal SHOULD. I would advise you to keep the maple cookies away from your dog’s tummy, just to stay on the safe side. Lol, what the heck, internet.
Anyways, you should make this recipe for maple cookies. And if you do, you should leave a comment letting me know what you thought!
And if you liked this recipe, you’ll also like:
- Cocadas (Coconut Cookies from Bolivia)
- Tahini Cookies from Armenia
- Shortbread Cookies with Jelly Filling from Algeria
- Sheqerpare (Albian Shortbread Cookies with Syrup)
Maple Cookies
These maple cookies are literally heaven on a plate. They have the perfect taste of maple– not overpowering but definitely not negligible. The dough can be made in 10 minutes, there is no resting period, and the cookies bake for about 10 minutes in the oven. Can you think of anything more perfect in these beautiful fall months? I think not.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter mostly melted
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 3/4-1 tsp maple flavoring depending on flavor preference
- 1 cup oats or oat flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
If using oats instead of oat flour, simply use a blender or food processor to grind the oats into a powder… now you have oat flour!
- Melt butter almost completely. In the bowl of stand mixer (or with an electric mixer) cream the butter together with brown sugar and granulated sugar until just combined.
- Add egg and mix until just combined.
- Add maple syrup, vanilla extract, and maple extract and mix until just combined.
Use a wooden spoon to hand-mix baking soda, salt, oat flour, and all purpose flour.
- Use a small cookie scoop to scoop out dough onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and leave on the cookie sheet to continue cooking until cooled.
Recipe Notes
Recipe copyright The Foreign Fork. For educational and personal use only.
Katie Ackerman says
Made these for a Christmas cookie exchange and they were so good! Simple and chewy – definitely will make them again!
Alexandria Drzazgowski says
Yay! I’m so glad that you liked them Katie 🙂 Soft and chewy is the only way I like my cookies lol