Homemade Vanilla Extract

Vanilla Beans

I adore vanilla, the smell as well as the taste. For quite a while now I’ve been wanting to search out a recipe for making my own vanilla extract. I was thinking it might be a bit expensive though, since vanilla beans are so expensive. Well, I’ve just come across a utterly simple, perfect vanilla extract recipe completely by chance… well, okay maybe it was serendipity at play The great thing is it doesn’t look like it’s going to be that expensive in the long run because this recipe makes heaps, and you can keep reusing the vanilla beans to make more.

This is actually my new favorite site, lots of excellent information and great stories here, so I encourage you to have a look around on the rest of the site too. But here’s what you’ve come here for…. the Homemade Vanilla Extract recipe. If you end up making some, be sure to come back here and comment to let me know how it turned out.

Did you know?

Vanilla beans come from a special variety of orchid?

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