Pure, homemade extracts are easy to make and add better flavor to your cooking and baking. These simple instructions can be ...

Did you know that you can make vanilla extract at home using only three ingredients? Allow Ina Garten to demonstrate. Last month, the Barefoot Contessa, 75, posted a tutorial video on her Instagram ...

The Totonacs of Veracruz, Mexico were the first known people to cultivate vanilla. By the 1400s, the Aztecs were using it to sweeten chocolate. After Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés brought the pods ...

Let's face it: Vanilla beans are pricey. Each is priced at $3, $4 or more, and some vanilla extracts can run nearly $4 an ounce. Vanilla beans can last for years if stored properly, but they can dry ...

Perfect Pumpkin Pancakes that are easy to make and taste just like pumpkin pie! ✅Ingredients • 1½ cups buttermilk • 1 cup pumpkin puree • 1 large egg • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 3 tablespoons brown ...

Vanilla suffers typecasting as ordinary. In software, it's vanilla versus custom. In finance, it's vanilla versus exotic. In the bedroom, it's vanilla versus kinky. But vanilla hardly counts as plain.

When it comes to holiday baking, few flavors can elevate your creations quite like vanilla extract. Its rich, aromatic flavor is an essential ingredient, enhancing your cookies, cakes, pies (and also ...

Some bakers maintain that blueberries make every summer confection better. Fold a generous cup of the little silver-hued blues into a buttery batter mixed with vanilla extract and seeds scraped from a ...