Red Meat Allergy Friendly Vanilla Sugar
Homemade vanilla sugar is one of those pantry staples that quietly elevates everything it touches — from morning coffee to weekend baking projects. The process is beautifully simple: a single vanilla bean does all the heavy lifting, infusing plain granulated sugar with a warm, floral depth that no store-bought bottle can quite match. Since it's made from just two ingredients, there's nothing to second-guess here — no hidden additives, no complex supply chain, just sugar and a real vanilla bean doing their thing. The scraped pod stays right in the jar alongside the seeds, continuing to perfume the sugar as it sits, so the flavor only gets better with time. It's the kind of recipe that rewards patience, and once you have a jar on the counter, you'll find yourself reaching for it constantly.
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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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