Tip Sticky

Tire d'érable sur bâton · Maple taffy on a stick

Tip Sticky

Choose how to make your tip sticky

Pure Canadian maple syrup, cooked hot to 113 °C, poured over snow and wrapped around a nice, firm birch stick. One ingredient. Very sticky. Licking encouraged.

Grab a stick How we do it
Ingredients
1
Sap per litre of syrup
≈40 L
Ready at
113 °C
Ti-Sucre, our mascot: a smiling blob of maple taffy on a birch stick in a red tuque and mittens, waving from a snowbank

How we do it

From tree to stick, nice and slow

Maple taffy is a sugar-shack tradition: hot syrup, cold snow and a little wrist action before it sets. We do it the old-fashioned way, in this order.

  1. 01 · March

    Tap

    We tap the sugar maples when nights freeze and days thaw. That's when the sap really starts flowing.

  2. 02 · 104 °C

    Boil

    About 40 litres of sap boil down to one litre of syrup at 66 °Brix. It takes stamina.

  3. 03 · 113 °C

    Cook

    Back on the heat until it hits 113 °C. Hot, thick and ready.

  4. 04 · Snow

    Pour

    A ribbon of hot syrup hits the cold snow and firms right up.

  5. 05 · Birch

    Roll

    While it's still warm, we wrap it around a birch stick, nice and tight.

Where taffy sits on the thermometer

Water boils100 °C Syrup is done104 °C Tip Sticky113 °C 95 100 105 110 115 120

Syrup is done about 4 °C above the boiling point of water. Taffy needs roughly 9 °C more. Pull out too early and it's a runny mess; leave it in too long and it goes hard as candy. Timing is everything.

The pops

Choose how to make your tip sticky

Every pop is pure maple syrup wrapped around a birch stick. Individually wrapped, because protection matters.

The Classic, an amber taffy pop in snow

Golden · Delicate taste

The Classic

Light, buttery and chewy. Like your first time at the sugar shack, only better.

$4each · 30 g
Campfire, a dark smoked taffy pop with smoke and embers

Dark · Robust taste

Campfire

Late-season dark syrup with a deeper, toasty finish. Bold, a little smoky, for those who like it a bit rough.

$4.50each · 30 g
Snowbank Kit with a bottle of taffy syrup, birch sticks and a snow tray

Make it at home · Serves 8–10

Snowbank Kit

250 mL of taffy-ready syrup, 12 birch sticks and step-by-step instructions. Bring your own snow and do it yourself, at home, as often as you like.

$24kit
A sugar shack in a snowy maple bush, steam rising from the roof vent and sap buckets hanging on the trees
When the roof is steaming, things are heating up inside.

Our story

The best thirty seconds of spring

Every March, sugar shacks lay out troughs of packed snow and pour hot syrup all over them. Everyone lines up with a stick. It's over in thirty seconds, and you're already thinking about next year.

Tip Sticky makes that moment last longer. Same syrup, same snow-set chew, wrapped and ready for the lunchbox, the chairlift or the glovebox.

If your fingers aren't sticky, you're doing it wrong.
Ti-Sucre, a smiling blob of maple taffy on a birch stick, wearing a red tuque and mittens, waving

Our mascot

Say allô to Ti-Sucre

He's a little blob of maple taffy in a red tuque who woke up one March night in a sugar bush in the woods of Quebec. Now he taste-tests every batch, and he has never once let go of anything.

Read his legend

Wholesale, events & sugar parties

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