Celery Free Vanilla Sugar
Homemade vanilla sugar is one of those pantry staples that feels almost too simple to be this good. Just two ingredients — granulated sugar and a real vanilla bean — come together over the course of a week to create something deeply fragrant and endlessly useful in baking. The slow infusion process lets the seeds and the scraped pod do their work, perfuming every grain of sugar with warm, floral vanilla flavor that no extract can quite replicate. For anyone navigating food sensitivities, this recipe is a breath of fresh air: no hidden additives, no mystery fillers, just pure sugar and a single spice. Shake the jar once a day and the anticipation alone is half the fun. Use it to rim cocktail glasses, sweeten whipped cream, dust over shortbread, or stir into your morning coffee for an instant upgrade. Once you have a jar of this on your counter, 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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