Apples, baked treats, and a heavy dose of maple – here are some of our favorite recipes for crisp autumn days.

Make back to school a breeze… fuel up with these simple recipes for quick and delicious dinners any night of the week! BONUS RECIPE:MAKE-AHEAD BAKED OATMEAL ½ cup coconut or vegetable oil⅓ cup maple syrup2 eggs3.5 cups old-fashioned oatmeal1 cup milk (whole or 2%)2 tsp baking powder1 tsp saltBlueberries (or topping of choice!)

Nielsen-Massey® vanillas has been supplying the culinary world with the world’s finest vanilla for well over 100 years. The whole organic vanilla beans we’ve selected have been cultivated and cured on the Bourbon Island of Madagascar. The flavor is full, fragrant, sweet, creamy and mellow with velvety after-tones – a perfect balance with our richRead More

July is Ice Cream Month and we’re showcasing our favorite ice cream sundae combinations Our home state of Vermont has a proud dairy tradition – hello Cabot, Ben & Jerry’s – so we feel it’s our duty to support our fellow agricultural producers by indulging in ice cream all month long… Plus, ice cream is simplyRead More

Salted Caramel Hazelnut Cheesecake Classic cheesecake with a hazelnut crust, topped with Salted Caramel Maple Syrup. Creamy, slightly sour, and a little sweet – one might call this a “basic cheesecake”, but really there is no such thing. MORE: CAKES GALORE

With just two pure, natural ingredients going into our new Vanilla Bean Infused Maple Syrup, you may expect there’s nothing to it… but a lot goes on behind the scenes when creating an infused maple syrup formula. Read on to find out! Ingredient Format We infused our maple syrup with several different forms of vanilla, infusing atRead More

Great Flavor. Natural Ingredients. Better-for-you Cocktail Mixer.

The mission of Reduce Your Lawn Day is simple:to educate, inspire, and convert the underutilized spaces in our yards for a better world. Reducing your lawn can help rebuild habitat, right in your own yard. Read Four Reasons to Reduce Your Lawn and sign the pledge here: Sign the pledge by May 27th and you’llRead More

“What the heck takes so long?!” Since you asked, it takes approximately 96 steps to bring a product from ideation to saturating your pancakes. There’s naming convention, packaging selection, ingredient sourcing, spec sheet builds, material onboarding… plus 91 other tasks to check off the list.  Since winning this year’s New Flavor Contest, our flavor alchemists haveRead More

How do we love maple? Let us count the ways.

Treat the moms and mother figures in your life to something sweet — from breakfast in bed to decadent desserts that will knock their socks off. We have just the right recipes to wow this Mother’s Day.  

Balance is the most important factor in creating an excellent aromatic cocktail. Balance in cocktails started very basically with the Old Fashioned and has evolved through time to become quite complicated indeed. The Old Fashioned was originally just called “the cocktail” as it was the first time in recorded bar recipes where three ingredients wereRead More

Nature’s Golden Ratio Cocktails are maple trees… hear me out… The perfect cocktail is sculpted with the perfect golden ratio, and perfect golden ratios are found in the branches of maple trees. Nature’s golden ratio is a proportion (approximately 1:1.61) that occurs frequently on earth and is used all over human endeavors such as art,Read More

Sour Cocktails: It’s All About Balance What sets a really wonderful cocktail apart from a really average cocktail is balance. A cocktail must be boozy, but not overpowering, sweet, but not too sickly, and savory, but not too tart. The easiest way to create a balanced cocktail at home is to follow and variate offRead More

Not to jinx the trend, but things are looking up here in these United States. We are all busting out of our pandemic cocoons and letting ourselves believe in a world of hugging someone outside our household. And at this point, just shaking a hand feels good. With cautious optimism, we are planning social gatheringsRead More

Everyone knows maple syrup is for breakfast: pancakes, waffles, french toast and bacon. But here in Vermont, we put it on everything. Think Frank’s Red Hot, but sweeter. At Runamok, we have elevated the possibilities of maple syrup and we love to share its various applications through our products and recipes. Some of the bestRead More

Oh, lovely, lovely Makrut Lime-Leaf Infused. If we were to point to one product that cemented what we are all about, it would be this syrup. Back in our earliest days, we were trying herbs and spices to infuse in maple and were reaching for very traditional combinations like cinnamon and vanilla. We got excellentRead More

Ginger Infused Maple Syrup is one of our original syrups and is a customer favorite for good reason. It has many uses in both sweet and savory dishes, and is also one of the best maple syrups for cocktails. We use fresh, organic ginger from Peru. To make the infusion, we pulverize it, often hundredsRead More

Once the sap is in the sugar house it is time to boil it to syrup.  The first step is to concentrate it. The sap is run through a reverse osmosis machine which removes 90% of the water. A reverse osmosis machine (RO) works by using pressure to push the sap through a semi permeableRead More

If we were to choose the infused syrup that showed the most versatility, it would have to be the Cardamom Infused Maple. Desserts, pancakes, stir frys, roasted vegetables, cocktails – this syrup is good for all. Though hard to describe the flavor, when mixed with maple syrup, cardamom tastes of rich oak, with notes ofRead More

The holidays are nearly upon us and boy could we use some fa-la-la-la-las.  There is already plenty of stress in the world, so don’t let your holiday gift list add to it. Some people are easy to buy for, but others are annual head-scratchers. Below is a helpful list of ideas for affordable and tastyRead More

The Covid crisis has been in action for long enough that we now have some perspective on how it has changed us and our business. It is important to take a minute and reflect on a most extraordinary six months and ask the question; what the hell just happened?  So here is a short summaryRead More

Sparkle Syrup is made with pure maple syrup and pearlescent mica.  The sparkles are flavorless so the syrup can be used anywhere you would put regular maple syrup like pancakes or waffles.  But to play up the fun of the sparkles, we have a few suggestions to create a little magic. Make a sparkly lemonade. Read More

When we think of grilling and barbeque, we think of glazes that are robust, tangy and slightly sweet.  Maple syrup is the perfect ingredient for the sugary component – rich, complex, and already in syrup form to add to sauces and marinades. And, of course, using Runamok’s infused and smoked maple syrups make it thatRead More

Here at Runamok, we are always trying to get people to think beyond pancakes when using maple syrup.  There is no better time to demonstrate this than in summer.  This is a season to lighten up and take advantage of seasonal fruit and veggies in salads, desserts and drinks. Consider all of the places youRead More

We have been at our new site in Fairfax for over a year but all of our building renovations have been focused inside (except for one wicked expensive roof repair and a subsequent wicked cool solar array.) Our building has a wonderful history in that it manufactured scrabble tiles and other game pieces for yearsRead More

Boozy, tart, cold and fruity – these are all things we want in a summer cocktail. When we first started infusing maple syrup, we recognized that they would be excellent in cocktails and so we started experimenting. There are now over 60 cocktail recipes using our syrups that you can find on our website.  ItRead More

Maple syrup is the gold standard of agriculture and conservation coexisting.  It is made by tapping trees in a natural forest and gathering the sap in the spring when the weather warms during the day and drops below freezing at night.  Aside from fishing, it is one of the last agricultural industries in which theRead More

For many who buy organically grown produce, their main concern is chemicals on their food. As an organic grower, I understand the inclination, not comprehending why one would put poison on something they are going to eat.  There are some organically certified items, however, that no doubt elicit a bit of eye-rolling.  Have you everRead More

Every winter sugarmakers tap their maple trees by drilling a small hole in the trunk and inserting a spout.  With 81,000 taps to put in, we start the process in mid-January so we are ready for the first thaw.  Tapping all our trees in time is a battle against the elements.  January, more often thanRead More