Fructose Free Vanilla Sugar
Homemade vanilla sugar is one of those quiet kitchen luxuries that makes everything it touches taste a little more special. Plain granulated sugar gets infused with a whole vanilla bean — pod and seeds both — so the flavor that develops over a week is genuinely deep and aromatic, not the artificial sweetness you get from store-bought flavored sugars. For anyone managing fructose intake, this is a beautifully straightforward swap: just pure cane sugar and a vanilla bean, nothing hidden, nothing processed beyond what you put in the jar yourself. The method is almost meditative — split, scrape, stir, and wait — and the daily shake becomes a small ritual you'll actually look forward to. Use it anywhere you'd reach for regular sugar: stirred into coffee or tea, dusted over baked goods, or folded into whipped cream for an instant upgrade. Once you have a jar of this on the counter, it's hard to go back.
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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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