>Denise Wrote in RE: to dairy free icing:
>>I would substitute maple granules since I have
>>eliminated cane sugar from my diet.
>    Denise this is an interesting idea. Has any one else tried to make
>Maple Sugar
>from scratch? I've seen it done the old fashioned way with syrup made from
>tree sap,
>but has anyone done this with commercially prepared syrup?
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>

It's pretty much the same thing - only you don't have to spend as many
hours, and the hard part - keeping the mix from carmelizing or burining -
starts at the very beginning instead of creeping up slowly.

Mark Feblowitz