Easiest Homemade Maple Syrup

I love homemade maple syrup. The store bought kind is fine, but I prefer not having that "processed" flavor. And I am way too cheap to buy a really good, expensive kind just for a breakfast topper. If I am going all out on breakfast toppings I want strawberries and whipped cream. Anyway, I like to make my own syrup. Cheap, easy, and quick.

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 tsp maple extract or flavor

In small sauce pan boil water. Add sugar. Return to a boil. Add maple flavor and remove from heat. serve warm.
I keep the extra in the fridge for a week or two.

So easy.

It is very runny and not thick and gloppy like the store bought stuff, but the flavor is great and it is fun to play around with it. My dad is the best at making Swedish pancakes for breakfast. Sometimes he adds rum flavor or almond extract to the syrup (same time as the maple). Delicious.