Maple Date Syrup
Looking for a healthy pancake syrup? This luscious Maple Date Syrup is a healthy and wholesome way to sweeten your morning.
– Better blood sugar levels
– Reduced IBS symptoms
– Easier weight loss
– A clearer mind
– Fewer mood swings
– And many more benefits!
How? Simply from eating less sugar.
How to Make It Happen
But we like our sweets. How do we get from “good idea” to actually putting it into practice?
One approach that has been shown to be successful is to replace sugary foods with a healthier, low-sugar or sugar-free alternative. That way you don’t feel deprived of the sugary food because you have something delicious to eat in its place.
That’s where this lovely Maple Date Syrup shines.
This healthy pancake syrup is made from healthy, whole-food ingredients, is loaded with nutrients, and even offers you some slimming fiber.
How to Use Maple Date Syrup
This Maple Date Syrup can be used to replace sugar in so many ways.
This syrup is a delicious replacement for syrup or sugary sauces (like commercial fruit sauces) over French toast, waffles, and pancakes. (I like to put fresh fruit over my waffles and then drizzle the Maple Date Syrup over all.)
Instead of buying oatmeal with sugar-added, you can cook plain oatmeal and drizzle Maple Date Syrup on top of it.
It’s even yummy as a spread for bread.
Pure maple syrup vs pancake syrup
Pleeeeease do not use regular pancake syrup in this recipe. Why? What’s the difference?
Pancake syrup and maple syrup are not the same
Although they may look the same, pancake syrup and pure maple syrup couldn’t be more different.
Pure maple syrup is a natural food that is made by concentrating the sap from maple trees. Nothing is added and nothing is taken away (except that water is evaporated from the sap to concentrate it).
Pancake syrup is a highly processed product that is made from lots of potentially harmful ingredients such as corn syrup, caramel color, gums, flavorings, and preservatives. (I’m looking at you, Aunt Jemima.) Even organic pancake syrup that doesn’t have corn syrup in it is still a very highly-processed food that contributes to obesity, diabetes, and other healthy issues.
Is pure maple syrup healthier than pancake syrup?
Much healthier. But only because pancake syrup is so bad for you.
There is nothing super healthy about pure maple syrup. Yes, it does have a few naturally-occurring nutrients, like manganese and zinc, and it is not highly processed like pancake syrup – but it certainly isn’t a health food.
So why this Maple Date Syrup recipe?
This recipe is an attempt to help us all refrain from eating any more highly-processed pancake syrup and to help us be able to sweeten our breakfast in a little bit healthier way than just straight pure maple syrup.
Yes, it would be better to eat only fresh fruit over waffles, pancakes, oatmeal, etc. Or naturally sweetened sauces. But if you aren’t quite ready for that, this Maple Date Syrup is a huge step in a much healthier direction.
Date Nutrition
Every recipe of Maple Date Syrup has 1 1/2 cups of naturally-sweet dates in it. Dates are a whole food that are full of fiber – which is the key nutrient for weight loss – and other beneficial nutrients like potassium – a nutrient many people are lacking in their diets.
Because dates are a whole food, are very good for you, and are naturally-sweet, they’re a great substitute for sugar in a lot of recipes, like these yummy breakfast cookies.
Looking for more delicious ways to eat less sugar?
I have lots of yummy, sugar-free recipes!
Want to avoid hidden sugar?
Check out my post about Hidden Sugar – How it Affects Your Body and What to Do About It.
Looking for some more healthy waffle and pancake toppings?
Here are some of my favorites.
Healthy (Slimming) Breakfast
Now you can eat your waffles and be skinny too!
Maple Date Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup whole, pitted dates
- 3/4 cup water
- 2/3 cup pure maple syrup - – or up to 1/3 cup more if desired
- 1/4 teaspoon maple flavor
- 2 teaspoons frozen orange juice concentrate - – optional
Instructions
- Place dates and water in a saucepan, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until dates are very, very soft.
- Transfer dates and water to blender, add maple syrup and maple flavor and blend until very smooth.
- Add more maple syrup or water to thin to desired consistency.
Serving Suggestions
- Serve warm over waffles, French toast, pancakes, hot cereal (like this Fig Pear Oatmeal), or toast.
Notes
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I am interested in your Maple Date Syrup. Have you tried making it without maple flavor?
Yes, I have. It’s quite good even without the maple flavor.
As with all sweeteners – too much is easy to get even when we make a more healthy sweetener – the fact is sweeteners are highly concentrated food that are hard for the body to handle. That is why the Bible cautions against eating too much honey. – How much is too much – if your sugar intake exceeds 6 teaspoons per day then serious damage starts to be done to you from whatever sweetener you use. So use caution with all sweetening and your mind will clear and your concentration will increase and your overall feeling of well being will improve. God wants us to prosper and be in health. And it seems that no matter how much wealth a person has – that it cannot be enjoyed without health. God’s ways are best and He calls us to better health – cause He likes us to feel better all the time.
Amen. I was wondering if you had a mozzarella cheese recipe or cream cheese?
Yes, here is my vegan mozzarella recipe.