The phrase "a pool of syrup" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large quantity of syrup that has accumulated in a specific area, often evoking a visual image of syrup spreading out like a pool.
Example: "After the pancake breakfast, there was a pool of syrup left on the table, glistening in the morning light."
Alternatives: "a sea of syrup" or "a puddle of syrup."
Kay-Kay had left her school binder behind in a pool of syrup on the kitchen table.
Desserts include a dense, intensely caramel-flavored flan, sitting on a pool of syrup with two crisp wafers rising like antennae, and pumpkin fritters ($6.50), like golf ball-size spheres of rich pumpkin pie, coated with cinnamon and allspice.
It will look like it's sitting in a pool of syrup, but it gets absorbed.
The Cooperage Inn's version of s'mores was a sticky-sweet mound of chocolate-coated graham crackers sitting in a pool of chocolate syrup and gooey caramel sauce, all covered with melted marshmallow.
He strips the non-essential instruments out of the original radio-friendly mix, then takes Belgian singer Bo Saris' sugar sweet falsetto into a pool of codeine syrup and lets it marinate for a while.
Thick bread, such as Italian, Challah or thick rye etc. is the best because you can make a pool of honey/maple syrup, but you have to toast that in the oven or a toaster oven because it doesn't fit in normal toasters.
APPETITE FOR SCULPTURE A waffle that rises seven feet and appears to be enveloped in a thick pool of syrup has appeared on the grassy area of the commons at the MetroTech Center corporate complex in downtown Brooklyn.
It is served in a pool of thin sugar syrup and (if you like) sprinkled with ground green pistachios.
And no wonder -- a snow cone is usually a mound of crunchy hailstones sitting in a pool of synthetic sugar syrup.
Add salt until the thick syrup formed floats to the surface with a pool of fluid formed beneath it.
A crispy rice cake topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and floated in a pool of caramel sauce unleashes a nonstop sugar rush intensified by little slices of banana soaked in bourbon and maple syrup.
