These Maple Leaf Cookies are bursting with maple flavor: the combination of the sablé cookies with the irresistible maple butter filling makes them melt in the mouth. Just dreamy!
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If you’ve ever traveled to Canada, you’ve most likely seen displays of maple leaf cookie boxes in airport duty-free stores and souvenir shops. They sure look like a gimmick, given the steep price at which they are sold and the fact that they bring together two of Canada’s conspicuous icons: the maple leaf, and maple syrup. It may surprise you to learn that we actually grew up eating them! You see, boxes of maple leaf cookies (made with real maple syrup!) were also sold at grocery stores for a fraction of the souvenir shop price, so those addictive treats were no more an indulgence than say, Oreo cookies. At home when I was a kid, biscuits feuilles d’érable were on heavy rotation in the lineup of cookies that took up a whole shelf in our pantry, and they were always my first choice when they did make an appearance.
Commercial maple leaf cookies:
While I know my parents still buy maple leaf cookies from time to time, I almost never get them from the store anymore. Instead, I make them at home! No surprise—homemade maple leaf cookies are even better than the store-bought treat. Not only is the creamy maple butter frosting bursting with maple flavor (I may or may not have eaten some by the spoonful), but the cookies, which are made with maple sugar instead of regular granulated sugar, have an incredibly appealing sablé texture that melts in the mouth.
Maple leaf cookies are not cheap cookies to make: the recipe does require a nice quantity of maple products (sugar, syrup, and butter), but the yield is impressive, especially if you make the cookies in a smaller size. Plus, I swear the result is better than any maple-flavored store-bought cookie you’ll ever buy!
Of course, you can make these cookies even if you don’t have a maple leaf-shaped cookie cutter and use any other cookie cutter you have on hand. But to me, the maple leaf shape just adds to the charm!
BONUS QUÉBEC TRAVEL TIP! If you come to Québec and want to buy maple products, skip the souvenir shop and head to a local grocery store. Most carry maple syrup and maple butter year-round, as well as maple leaf cookies too, of course (in the regular cookie aisle). They may not come in decorative containers or boxes, but you’ll get much more for your buck. You can also search for a Quebec maple producer that ships worldwide.
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Author: Marie Asselin
These maple leaf cookies look beautiful and delicious! I can’t wait to try it! Thank you for posting such a lovely recipe!
You’re most welcome! I know you’ll enjoy these irresistible cookies 😍
Oh what a unique recipe of maple leaf cookies, that I cannot wait to try! Adding the ingredients to my shopping list. These sound fantastic!
They’re so aromatic and the contrast between the creamy filling and crunchy cookies is just irresistible. You’re gonna love them Hayley!
These cookies seem like such a simple and tasty dessert. Thank you for sharing!
I didn’t have a maple leaf cookie cutter but I made regular shaped cookies and all I can say is OMG! I won’t tell you how many of them I ate, but my family was lucky I left them any
Haha the trick is always to hide some for yourself. At least that’s what I do because they fly off the plate as soon as I turn my back on them!
these are so cute and so adorable. I am sure it will be a fun baking project for my kids. I am planning to get my hands on this recipe on Wednesday so that i have all the ingredients.
These cookies are really fun to make. And the reward is the sweetest! 😍
Wow talk about bringing back childhood memories. I love maple leaf cookies, the wonderful crumb of the cookie and then that creamy, dreamy maple butter filling! Yummy!
My way of tackling these cookies is to carefully separate the cookies, scrape all of that filling in my mouth to melt and be savored. Then dunk the cookies in my milk and feel them just disdintegrate in my mouth with all that flavor running on my tongue! StupendousI think your right your home made would take this experience to the next level!😁🥰❤👍🙏
Hahaha I FEEL SEEN, I used to eat my maple leaf cookies exactly the way you do! Store-bought maple leaf cookies are honestly really really good, but wait until you taste these homemade ones… You’ll fall head over heels in love with the treat all over again!
I fell in love with these at from Trader Joes and when I saw this recipe, I had to try to make them!! Homemade is even more incredible. I love the filling. These are my new favorite cookie!!
That maple frosting is just so incredible! I’ll use it to frost a cake I’m making for a maple-loving friend this weekend. Can’t wait!
Oh hello new favorite maple cookie!!! These are crazy delish and a huge crowd favorite!
These maple leaf cookies disappear so incredibly fast, I can’t keep up!
Wow! These maple leaf cookies look so yummy and have great creativity. The texture it brings makes it enticing and tempting. Loved it!
The combination of textures is really what makes these cookies so irresistible! That, and the maple flavor, of course 😍
Such an innovative recipe. Looks so beautiful and delicious. Love to try these cookies once I gather all the ingredients.
I hope you can get your hands on maple butter because it is the ingredient that makes the frosting so incredibly irresistible!