Jennifer Garner’s 2-Ingredient Maple Butter Is as Easy and Delicious as It Sounds (Ina Agrees!)

Peanut butter and jelly. Mac and cheese. Cacio e pepe. It’s fairly clear, with regards to meals, that good issues are available pairs. And due to Jennifer Garner, you possibly can add one other dynamic duo to your kitchen arsenal: maple butter.

Jen shared the super-simple recipe on her #PretendCookingShow on Instagram. And sure, it’s simply maple syrup blended with butter. Once I first noticed it, I believed maybe it was too good to be true, however then I noticed within the feedback that Jen’s buddy Ina (sure, that Ina) had signed off on it too — so I headed to the kitchen to strive it for myself.

As Jen demonstrates in her charmingly kooky method, you warmth 3/4 cup maple syrup (ideally grade B syrup) in a pan, after which whisk it with 1 stick of butter. As Jen’s butter melted, she realized that the maple syrup was imagined to go in first, however she pressed on — after which drizzled the creamy syrup over what gave the impression to be a slice of panettone. 

Within the title of science, after I made my maple butter, I attempted it each methods: whisking the syrup into the butter and vice versa. I can affirm that what Jen says is true: “It seems you are able to do the butter first or the maple syrup first. It doesn’t matter.” 

Whereas the maple butter was nonetheless heat, I drizzled it over a stack of pancakes and was immediately smitten. You recognize that factor the place you solely get butter on sure elements of the pancake, leaving different bits solely maple syrupy? With maple butter, every chew will get butter and syrup, which my husband, 6-year-old son, and I all agreed was a superior consuming expertise. However what stunned me most was what occurred after I stashed the maple butter within the fridge.

When it was totally cooled, the butter solidified, however not utterly, turning the combination into one thing like a maple glaze. It was a creamy blonde shade and really satisfying to stir (do this and inform me I’m fallacious). It was wealthy and creamy and completely drizzle-able, making it nice for spreading onto toast. I additionally drizzled it over some candy potatoes that had been nonetheless heat from the oven, and extremely advocate that have, too.