Maple Tourlouche - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon butter, softened
3 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour, all-purpose
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg or 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup nutmeats, finely chopped

Preparation

Bring syrup to a boil and pour into a generously buttered 8x8x2 baking dish.
Let stand in a warm place,
With a large spoon beat butter, sugar and egg together until creamy.
Mix remaining dry ingredients and add with the milk to the creamed mixture, stirring until well blended.
Place as four large balls into hot syrup, then stretch dough with two forks.
until all are joined together.
This is easy because the dough gets soft when it comes in contact with the hot syrup.
If using nutmeats, add them to the hot syrup.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Tastes great with ice cream or whipping cream, served warm.