Maple candy is another sweet-tasting product created out of birch sap. The process it undergoes takes the same system as that in cooking syrup, butter, or making maple sugar. The procedure begins with sap-gathering and then immediately taken into the sugarhouse where the sap collected will be boiled down until evaporation takes place.

In the United States, the sugar on snow is the more popular gift-treat made out of maple syrup called pure maple candy. It is characterized by a thick, golden brown and glutinous maple syrup that when poured onto a clean snow instantaneously cools off and thickens. In English-speaking areas in Canada, it’s called maple taffy and tire d’érable for French-speaking Canadian community.

The discovery of this delectable sweet was purely accidental. Had there been no super heavy weight snow on top of the tree trunk, a juicy liquid would not leak out of the broken twig and fall right on the snow. Maple taffy is typically mounted on a wooden stick or in a fork -  just imagine a roll of snow on a stick dip with yummy maple syrup.