Maple Cookies are another great use of real maple syrup.

My son, 5, loves to bake with me. And I love to bake with him. He knows how to measure flour into a cup and scrape it off. He likes to crack the eggs and turn on the mixer. He’s messy, but he’s learning stuff, so I let it go. I still drop the dough onto the baking sheets and deal with the hot cookies myself, so after the dough is made, he hops off his stool goes into the living room and proceeds to ask me if the cookies are done every 2 minutes. I plan to parlay that into teaching him to tell time — in 11-minute increments.
We made Maple Cookies this past weekend after a trip to the Maple Fest I bragged about yesterday. They’re sweet and simple, a little like snickerdoodles, and they’re too good to have around the house, so I brought a bunch of them to work in hopes my coworkers would help me out. From the looks of the paper plate behind me, that’s working.