Easy Homemade Maple Bars
Grandma Lee's homemade maple bars, which she called maple sticks, made with a soft from-scratch yeast dough, fried until golden, and dipped in a sweet maple glaze.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Butter or margarine Room temperature
- ½ cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs Beaten
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 ½ Tbs Yeast or 2 packets
- 2 cups Water 110 degrees
- 8 cups Flour
Maple Glaze
- Warm water
- Powdered sugar
- Maple extract
Instructions
- Sprinkle yeast over warm water (110 degrees, about 50 sec in the microwave) and let the yeast activate for 5 minutes.
- Cream butter and sugar. Then add the eggs and salt.
- Add the activated yeast and flour into the creamed butter mixture. Knead with dough attachment in a stand mixer, or on the counter until the dough is smooth
- Place the dough in a greased bowl, and let it rise until it has doubled.
- Once the dough has risen, roll out into a 1/4 inch thick sheet. Cut into rectangle shapes.
- Let the cut rectangle dough rise for another 1 hour.
- After the dough has risen for a second time, fry in oil. Use a candy theremometer to make sure the oil stays at or around 375 degrees. Fry for 1 minute, then flip over the donut and fry for 1 more minute.
- Remove the doughnut from the oil, onto a paper towel to remove excess grease.
- Allow the doughnuts to cool slightly before frosting.
FROSTING
- Mix approx 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, and 2 Tbs of hot water, and 10 drops of maple extract to make the maple glaze.
Notes
A candy thermometer makes a big difference here because it shows you the exact oil temperature. Cold dough cools the oil down, and bars fried in oil that's too cool won't cook through properly and turn greasy. Dough can be made through the first rise, covered, and refrigerated overnight.
