Beef Free Vanilla Sugar
Vanilla sugar is one of those quietly brilliant pantry staples that transforms everyday baking into something that tastes genuinely special. Just two ingredients — granulated sugar and a real vanilla bean — come together over the course of a week to create a deeply fragrant, subtly floral sweetener you'll want to use in everything. The process is almost meditative: split the pod, scrape the seeds, tuck it all into a jar, and let time do the heavy lifting. Since it's entirely plant-based and free from any animal-derived ingredients, it fits naturally into a wide range of dietary lifestyles without any substitutions needed. Use it to sweeten coffee, dust over pastries, stir into whipped cream, or anywhere you'd reach for plain sugar when you want just a little more depth. Once you've made a batch, you'll wonder how you ever baked without it.
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Learn more →Ingredients
16 servings
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
Instructions
- 1
Split the vanilla bean lengthwise with a sharp knife and use the back of the blade to scrape out the seeds.
- 2
Add the sugar to an airtight jar. Nestle both the scraped pod and the seeds into the sugar, then stir or shake briefly to distribute the seeds throughout.
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