This might just be my most important recipe. It only takes two simple ingredients to create the absolute best vanilla extract. You can refill it as needed, to keep your pantry stocked with flavorful vanilla all year long! Get the recipe below, along with a few favorites to make it shine!
Now is the perfect time to get this recipe started if you’d like to use it for holiday baking or gifting!
You’ll be using this all the time (it’s vanilla extract, after all!) but here a few vanilla forward recipes:
You can’t say vanilla without thinking ice cream! This no-churn vanilla ice cream is the perfect recipe to make your vanilla extract shine. If you want a topping, try my 3-ingredient rhubarb sauce!
For baked treats, nothing beats a homemade vanilla pastry cream. This recipe is basically a kick-ass vanilla pudding. Use it in eclairs, fruit tarts, or banana pudding.
Vanilla extract is an underrated star of a good chocolate chip cookie, and it shines through in my recipe!
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Here are a few recipes from my exclusive Recipe Index for paid subscribers that might fit your menu this time of year.
Vanilla Pudding from Tara Coleman: This is Tara’s favorite recipe: vanilla pudding! It is used in the Toasted Vanilla Pie you see above, which is available at Hot Hands. If you can’t get there yourself, try the pudding at home!
THE Vanilla Bean Pound Cake: There may be no better dessert than a well-crafted pound cake. It is perfect in its simplicity and purity of flavor. I topped this one with Vanilla Chantilly Cream and Blueberry Sauce, but a simple dusting of confectioners’ sugar is lovely, too. You can also make it into a trifle!
Vanilla Saint Honore from Marc Heu: Marc was so kind to share his recipe for this gorgeous dessert! It requires a few days of advanced planning if you’re making your own puff pastry, but the components themselves are fairly simple. I hope you’ll give this recipe a try!
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