>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? >--- > 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