Gluten Free Vanilla Sugar
Homemade vanilla sugar is one of those pantry staples that quietly transforms everything it touches — from morning coffee to weekend baking. The process is almost meditative: split a vanilla bean, scrape out those fragrant seeds, tuck everything into a jar of granulated sugar, and let time do the rest. Both ingredients are naturally free of gluten, so there's no label-reading anxiety or worry about hidden additives the way there can be with store-bought flavored sugars and baking blends. After about a week of daily shaking, the sugar becomes deeply aromatic and infused with real vanilla flavor that no extract can quite replicate. Use it anywhere you'd reach for plain sugar — stirred into tea, dusted over fruit, or folded into a batter — and the difference is immediately noticeable. It also makes a genuinely thoughtful homemade gift, especially for anyone who loves to bake but needs to be careful about what goes into their kitchen.
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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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