Recipe courtesy of Simon Thibault, excerpted from the book Pantry and Palate

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup icing sugar
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup

Directions:

1. In a bowl, sift the icing sugar over the whipping cream.
2. Start whipping the cream until soft peaks form.
3. Add the maple syrup and continue whipping until stiff peaks just start to form. Serve immediately in dollops on Molasses Cake.

Note: A great way to get kids to help with baking is to take all of the ingredients and place them in a Mason jar. Seal the jar carefully, and give it to the kids to shake the dickens out of it, until it becomes whipped cream. They may need a bit of help from an adult, but it’s a quick and easy way to get kids involved in the process.