Easy Homemade Maple Bars
Growing up, my grandma would make homemade maple bars for holidays and everyone loved them! Here is the easy homemade maple bar recipe!
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 is very useful, as it lets you know the exact temperature of the oil. Sometimes dough can cool down the oil, causing the doughnuts not to cook properly!