Basic Pancake Syrup

  • Prep Time: 2 mins
  • Total Time: 7 mins
  • Yield: 2cups
  • About This Recipe

    “Simple syrup for pancakes or icecream.”

    Ingredients

  • 1cupsugar
  • 1cupbrown sugar
  • 1cupcorn syrup
  • 1cupwater
  • 1teaspoonvanilla
  • Directions

  • Boil together and cook gently for 3 minutes.
  • Bottle and store in refrigerator.
  • Reviews

  • “Thanks Barb, you saved my butt!I promised to make the kids pancakes this morning before I realized that I didn’t have enough syrup.It’s snowing like crazy and I didn’t want to venture out to the store so I searched Recipezaar and found your syrup recipe.It was very good and still warm when we ate it.I put the rest in the fridge for next time.I may not ever buy store syrup again.”

  • “YUM!Extra-curricular wonderful syrup, Barb! And so easy to put together. We enjoyed it on homemade waffles this a.m.! I got me a new bran favorite!Thanks for sharing.Laudee”

  • “Very good and super easy!Not as cloyingly sweet as storebought pancake syrups.I reduced the amount of water to 3/4 cup, because I like a thicker pancake syrup.I added a pinch of salt, because I add salt to every sweet thing I make to create a richer flavor.I used 1/4 tsp. butter flavor, 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract and a couple drops almond extract to flavor.Yum!”

  • “Yep, this recipe is fabulous.My five year old said, “Mom, your syrup isn’t good…it’s the BOMB!”My husband totally agreed, “Empty out the store bought bottle and use it to keep this stuff in.”I added two tablespoons of butter, will probably add more next time.Thanks for the recipe!”

  • “This is the first time I have made syrup but decided to try since maple syrup is so expensive.I used honey instead of corn syrup so that it is healthier.I used a light tasting honey but I can still taste it.It turned out very sweet but I am not sure if that is because of using the honey.I will give it a try tomorrow and let my kids be the final judge.I think I may add a bit of earth balance to cut down the sweetness.Thanks for the recipe!”

  • “We liked the syrup but I had problems with the consistency – it was just like water.I followed the recipe exactly as written but after three minutes the sauce was still very thin. So, I decided to give it another 2 min and still no change.Added 2 tbsp brown sugar and 2 tbsp of corn syrup and that didn’t help either.However, after cooling it for three hours it is now perfect consistency and tastes great.I donot know where I went wrongas none of the other reviews mention this problem.In fact others say they used it right away but I couldn’t.If you can offer suggestions, please do as the syrup tasted great and I will make this again either using less water or just enough in advance that it has a chance to thicken.Thx Aroostook.”

  • ” Bye Bye Mrs. Buttersworth!This was wonderful-much better than store boughten.I tried this recipe because I made eggnog pancakes and didn’t want the maple flavor to overwhelm the eggnog taste.I added a litle rum extract and it made the pancakes perfect.”

  • “Quick and delicious, you would never know it wasn’t store bought! DS#1 wanted french toast for breakfast, but I was out of syrup.I remembered I had saved this to my cookbook.So glad I did!A real keeper!”

  • “Thanks Barb for this delicious syrup.Coupled with Lennie’s Good Mornining Pancakes this is a keeper.Thanks again! “

  • “Thank you for this.It is really good as is, but no recipe is sacred.I have to fool with them.So I added a 1/2 tsp of rum flavoring, a tsp of coconut flavoring, and a 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, and 2 Tbs of butter.The only thing that was missing were the bananas for bananas foster.And the syrup was perfect for my waffles.And it will go good over ice cream too.And the recipe is really good for other flavors too like blueberry or even adding your own maple flavoring with some cinnamon too.Probably won’t buy syrup at the store anymore.Thank you for sharing.”

  • “My husband had french toast made.He went to the closet and realized our “sweet” sons had not told us they used the last of the syrup.I found this recipe and it was a HUGE hit.I have been told by my family not to buy store syrup any more!!!!!!!It was very easy to make and tastes great!”

  • “It was late, I still had to make dinner and did not want to go to the grocery store. Easy dinner for us is sometime breakfast. I decided to make pancakes and once I had my batter mixed up realized I was very low on syrup. I found this recipe, made sure I had all the ingredients on hand and made it with the hopes it would be edible….I was pleasantly surprised! Simple, easy and delicious. After my husband and kids tasted it they all wanted this syrup and not the little bit that was in the bottle. Since the recipe called for you to put it in the fridge after making it I simply put my pan in a bowl of ice to cool it down and thicken it up. No more store bought for me!”

  • “I made pancakes this morning feeling pretty awesome using my little griddle thingy like banging out pancakes 5 or 6 at a time only to have my June Cleaver morning come crashing down on me when I discovered that I have no syrup. I tried out this recipe, but a little different. I did one batch the way the recipe called for it except I used 3/4 cup water instead of 1 cup, and I added a pinch of salt as one of the reviews suggested, and I poured half of that into one serving cup and the other half into another one, and I kept one as is. The other one, I added some Strawberry flavoring (I have no idea how much, like I just poured some in there, but I would guess about a teaspoon). The Strawberry one is the winner with the kids, and my Cleaverish mom moment (and it was ONLY a moment) was restored, that was until I attempted to scrub my floor with my kids going bat crazy in the background.”

  • “Thanks!A real life saver when we ran out. This is what we have been using for a while now.Whenever we don’t feel like dishing out the big bucks for the actual “real maple syrup”, we use this rather than store boughtartificial.Tastes better and easy.”

  • “you saved breakfast! no one knew the difference. i think i liked it better than anything you can buy at the store!”

  • “It took only minutes to make and it went so good with our blueberry pancakes!Both recipes are so good!”

  • “This is a great, easy recipe. When first made it is extremely thin but thickens as it cools. That’s the only reason I rated it four stars- I don’t think it’s the best right after it’s made. That said I will be making this more often, especially when I can’t afford maple syrup (which is most of the time haha). Thank you!!!”

  • “This is a great variation of syrup for pancakes, crepes, waffles etc.Next to Vermont Maple Syrup, this is the best!”

  • “This recipe was a life saver!!!!! Very hectic on school mornings especially when you have pancakes ready and no syrup. No fear though, I looked up this recipe, took me about 5 minutes to make it start to finish and it was wonderful!!!! I did add some cinnamon and some butter but I am sure it is great without!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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