Homemade Pancake Syrup!

While in Hawaii last week, our friends made some homemade pancake syrup. It was sooo yummy! So, I decided that I would take a shot at making some. Her recipe included maple flavoring, however I didn't have any. So I made do with the items I had in my cabinet and I got 2 big bottles of syrup...for free!

We eat a lot of waffles and pancakes in our house and with my new love of spam, eggs and rice with syrup - we will be going through a lot more syrup than we already do.

Here are the 2 recipes I made yesterday:

Milk & Honey (sugar free)

3/4 c 1 tbl 1 tsp milk

1/4 c vanilla

1/4 c brown sugar (optional - obviously doesn't make it sugar free)

1/2 c butter

Melt it all together and pour it into whatever you are storing your syrup in. I chose some salad dressing bottles and I still had about 1 c left over.

Molasses Pancake Syrup

1 c sugar

2 c water

1 tbl molasses

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp maple extract (I didn't have the extract so I used 1 1/2 tsp vanilla instead)

Bring it to a boil and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. This one has a light flavor, but because of the molasses, it feels more like a fall type thing, but very good!