MSG Free Vanilla Sugar
Homemade vanilla sugar is one of those small-batch pantry staples that quietly transforms everything it touches — from morning coffee to weekend baking. Store-bought flavored sugars and vanilla-scented products often sneak in additives and flavor enhancers that have no business being in something so simple, so making your own is a genuinely smart move. All it takes is a real vanilla bean and plain granulated sugar sealed together in a jar, letting time do the heavy lifting. As the days pass, the pod and its seeds slowly perfume every grain of sugar with a warm, floral depth that no extract can quite replicate. A daily shake helps the vanilla distribute evenly, and by the end of the week you'll have a fragrant, golden-hued sugar that's completely clean and endlessly useful. Stir it into tea, dust it over pastries, or use it anywhere a recipe calls for plain sugar when you want just a little something extra.
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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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