Amber maple syrup cooling in patches on snow beside a metal pan.

Quebec maple taffy

Canada · North America

Short description
This sticky candy is made by cooling concentrated maple syrup quickly on snow.
Ingredients
Boiled maple syrup cooled on snow or ice, then rolled onto a stick.
Cultural note
It is associated with spring sugaring season and outdoor maple-sugar gatherings.
Common misconception
It is not flavored taffy made from corn syrup; the candy is usually just concentrated maple syrup.

image credit

Maple toffee.JPG

creator:
The original uploader was SimonP at English Wikipedia
license:
CC BY-SA 3.0
modified:
Cropped to remove visible people and focus on syrup on snow, then re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.