Kroger has a store brand of maple-cinnamon flavored syrup I am fond of. Depending on the type of pancake I have different flavored syrups though. For my bacon pancakes it’s the Kroger brand but sometimes I make dark cinnamon pancakes that only need butter and a sprinkle of confectioner’s sugar. Corn cakes get honey. I make a chocolate syrup my daughters prefer on thin pancakes whereas I prefer butter and raspberry preserves.
We eat a lot of pancakes around here. 
Try using crème fraîche rather than sour cream. It too is yummy! 
Grew up with Karo or Log Cabin. Now it’s Sugar Free Log Cabin, sometimes Sugar Free Smucker’s Blueberry.
Until I married and moved to Ontario from BC, it was Rogers Golden Syrup all the way. DH was/is a Karo fan. Now my favourite is Ontario #2 (dark amber) maple syrup - much more flavour. I still like Rogers Golden when I go home.
I’m probably one of the few that prefers the heavily processed sorts of fake pancake syrup to actual maple – maple is so thin that I find it doesn’t really stick to the pancake/waffle/french toast. Mrs. Butterworth is my favorite, I think.
The issue with real maple syrup is that it’s so stupid expensive per oz. that my childhood and inherent frugality make it painful to use more than a dollop per pancake and it just sinks right in a little quarter-sized circle and the rest of the cake has nothing. So I use regular fake syrup for my pancakes, waffles and cornbread and save the real stuff for salad dressings, marinades, baking and the like.
But my favorite pancake topping is the smuckers fruit syrups. They’re what my grandpa always had when we had breakfast at his farmhouse.
We do the mix melted butter with the dark real maple syrup also.
We picked up a couple bottles of the boysenberry syrup when we were in California a couple years back, but mrAru is from California so if we need anything from there we ask someone i his family to pick it up and send it to us - usually for a birthday or Christmas.
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When you say “corn cakes”, do you mean corn fritters? Or is there another type of pancake-like item with corn that I’ve missed out on? :eek:
If there is another pancake-like corn item, can you please share or PM the recipe?
We like corn around here. 
I use a little vanilla and brown sugar in the sour cream. And butter and real maple syrup.
I enjoy a variety of pancake toppers including butter, cinnamon, honey, PB&J, whipped cream, ice cream, fruit, compote, powdered sugar – but the old stand-by is pure Grade B Maple Syrup.
Or ricotta cheese.
I remember that in Hawaii they used to serve a coconut syrup with pancakes that was out of this world.
Or Mascarpone, mmmmmmmmmmm! :o
Mascarpone also makes a more than acceptable substitute for Devonshire clotted cream when eating scones for tea. Top with strawberry jam.
Real maple (any grade) or powdered sugar and lemon.
However, on a camping trip I am perfectly contented with Mrs. Butterworth’s or the like. As long as there is cream for my coffee.
Blackstrap molasses.
I like the bitter with the sweet
Not just maple syrup…
HOMEMADE maple syrup, we tap the maples on our lawn and boil the sap down to grade A dark amber or grade B
Nothing as good as homemade from your own trees
I think what we can commonly get from the grocery stores around here is Grade A - Dark Amber, so that’s what we use. We do have some sample-bottles of Fancy and other stuff that my wife got while in Vermont, but they mostly taste like sugar syrup relative to the darker grades.
I may hunt down a bottle of Grade B to see what it’s like.
Thank you for that. I will give it a shot.