This mouthwatering collection of maple dessert recipes will allow you to treat your loved ones with the sweetest, most aromatic desserts!
In Québéc, the first signs of spring mean one thing: it’s maple syrup season! It’s the sweetest of seasons – in fact, it might be my favorite time of year. I certainly have many maple dessert recipes here on this site that make the most of it.
In this list, I’ve pulled together a collection of my favorite maple dessert recipes, allowing you to showcase maple products in all their sweet glory. There’s everything from the incredibly Canadian Maple Leaf Sandwich Cookies to Maple Syrup Fudge. I have cakes and cookies, panna cottas, meringues and tarts and, of course, madeleines and financiers.
There’s a maple-flavored dessert for every baking skill level and I’m sure you’ll find a sweet maple treat for every occasion.
1. Homemade Maple Leaf Cookies
The Maple Leaf Cookie may be one of the most recognizable Canadian desserts. How many people mark their trip to Canada by taking home a box of these beloved maple leaf sandwich cookies? They’re available in every tourist kiosk! They are also one of my favorite maple dessert recipes to make at home and this version, using sablé cookies stuffed with a maple butter filling, is just bursting with maple flavor.
2. Pecan and Maple Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are so nostalgic and my Pecan and Maple Thumbprint Cookies will make your home smell ah-mazing. Their maple goodness will be inhaled before you even know what happened. You’ll simply have to make another batch!
3. Crispy Maple Meringues
Crispy Maple Meringues are sweet, crispy treats that melt in your mouth—just as honeycomb does. They’re flavored with maple syrup and dusted with maple sugar for a light-as-air maple treat. They also make a great gift!
4. Maple Syrup Fudge
Maple Syrup Fudge is maple dessert perfection. It uses four ingredients and comes together for one of the most memorable maple dessert recipes you’ll ever try.
5. Chewy Maple Syrup Fudge and Pecan Cookies
You can’t have enough good cookie recipes and these Chewy Maple Syrup Fudge and Pecan Cookies are so beloved that I often gift them during the holidays or just because. If you love my Maple Fudge, you will love these cookies!
6. Orange and Maple Madeleines
It’s really not possible for me to pull together a dessert collection without including recipes for madeleines of financiers! Orange and Maple Madeleines are a lovely treat to nibble on after dinner or with a hot cup of tea while reading a book. Understated but perfectly elegant (and delicious).
7. Clementine Squash Cupcakes with Maple Italian Meringue Buttercream
These delightfully tender, maple-infused Clementine Squash Cupcakes are infused with aromatic clementines and topped with an elegant maple syrup-based Italian meringue buttercream. It’s one of those maple dessert recipes you’ll want to serve for every occasion: from birthdays to the holidays!
8. Maple and Cranberry Muffins
These festive maple and cranberry muffins make for a delightful, just-sweet-enough, good-for-you breakfast muffin you should enjoy year-round. Transform these into dessert in a snap by drizzling liberally with maple butter!
9. Pecan Maple Macarons
These Pecan Maple Macarons are a tribute to maple syrup, the liquid, natural, golden syrup that gives a sweet, special touch to any dessert. This recipe comes complete with links to comprehensive resources that will allow you to successfully make French macarons on your first try, including a video class!
10. Maple-Roasted Fig and Hazelnut Financiers
Financiers are easier to make than most people think and these Maple Roasted Fig and Hazelnut Financiers have crunchy edges and a nutty, tender crumb. Topping them with maple-roasted figs makes them absolutely irresistible.
11. Pouding chômeur à l’érable (Québécois Maple Pudding)
This Pouding chômeur à l’érable (Maple Pudding) is the classic Québécois dessert. It’s rich in flavor, easy to make, and an utterly comforting dessert. To me, it’s perfect when topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
12. Orange and Maple Panna Cotta
This Orange and Maple Panna Cotta combines my love of maple and citrus. It’s topped with bright and juicy orange pieces and a delightfully crunchy maple pecan crumble for a lovely combo of flavors and textures.
13. Better-For-You Maple Cheesecake
This better-for-you Maple Cheesecake tastes incredibly rich and is full of lush maple flavor and yet, it is much lower in calories and fat. How does this magic happen? It’s all thanks to a clever, secret, and perhaps surprising ingredient that nobody ever guesses!
14. Tatin Cake (Upside Down Apple Cake with Maple Caramel)
This Tatin Cake turns the traditional Tarte Tatin on its head—literally! This easy upside-down apple cake is doused in maple caramel for the ultimate in maple goodness. This maple dessert recipe is sure to become a year-round favorite.
15. Walnut and Maple Cream Tart
The fluffy cloud-like maple cream tart perfectly highlights maple flavors with maple syrup and sugar. The meringue crust is crisp on the outside and pillowy on the inside and the rich maple scent is heavenly.
Maple Desserts & Treats Cookbook
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