Pregnancy Friendly Vanilla Sugar
There is something quietly magical about turning two simple pantry ingredients into something that makes everything it touches taste better. This infused sugar is made with just granulated sugar and a real vanilla bean — no extracts, no additives, no long ingredient lists to second-guess. That matters when you are being thoughtful about what goes into your food, and this one keeps things beautifully clean and straightforward. The process is almost meditative: split, scrape, stir, and wait while the warm, floral scent slowly works its way through every grain. After about a week of daily shaking, you end up with a jar of deeply fragrant sugar that elevates baked goods, oatmeal, fruit, coffee, and more. It also makes a genuinely lovely homemade gift, and the vanilla pod keeps right on flavoring the sugar long after you start using 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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