Citric Acid Free Vanilla Sugar
Vanilla sugar is one of those quietly brilliant pantry staples that transforms everything it touches — from morning coffee to weekend baking — with a warm, floral sweetness that plain sugar simply can't match. For anyone navigating citric acid sensitivities, store-bought flavored sugars and vanilla products can be a minefield, since many contain preservatives or additives that sneak in unwanted ingredients. This recipe keeps things beautifully simple: just granulated sugar and a real vanilla bean, nothing else. The pod and its seeds do all the work, slowly perfuming the sugar over the course of a week into something genuinely aromatic and special. A daily shake helps the vanilla distribute evenly, so by the time you crack open that jar, every grain carries that signature scent. Use it anywhere you'd reach for regular sugar and watch ordinary recipes quietly become extraordinary.
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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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