Ours is made by mixing our premium vanilla beans, dried and ground, to pure cane sugar and resting them for weeks to carry that vanilla flavor all through the sugar. When you add our vanilla sugar to, well, anything, you will get that speckled vanilla bean look and wonderful vanilla flavor! This time around, we used the earthy-sweet Indonesian beans, fairly traded from a single farm. You may not have heard of this before. Boy, have you been missing out! So, how do you use it? You can use it 1:1 in anything that takes sugar. My absolute favorite way to use it is to put it on fruit to draw out its juices - particularly, strawberries. Yum! I'd recommend using it in meringue, icing, creme brulee topping, coffee, tea, and toppings for other sweet products. The vanilla won't carry well when cooked or baked; extract is needed there (we have that, too). But seriously. This is what your tea didn't know it was missing.
Available in "hmm, let me try it" or "bakers gotta bake" sizes for your convenience.
Our vanilla extracts are single source and fairly traded for different vanilla flavors: earthy Indonesian, flowery Tahitian, warm and familiar Madagascar. Those beans are either marked as "bourbon" or "mexican" after their country name to denote how the grower chose to process the beans, following either a process originating in the Bourbon Islands or in Mexico. Don't get confused like I used to, as this word bourbon doesn't designate an alcohol!
Then we pair our precious vanilla beans with different alcohols for background notes of sweetness (rum) or deepness (bourbon) - or no background note (vodka) to let the vanilla stand on its own.
Some we extracted double-strength for when you want more vanilla flavor but no added liquid content. We outdo the FDA by a smidgen so that our single-fold or double-fold vanilla is a tad stronger than average but still appropriate to recipe expectations. It's our little secret superpower!
We also have some extracts that were processed at full vanilla strength alongside cinnamon and cloves, for robust flavor that is still very vanilla, but with a whiff of Christmas that you won't identify specifically: adding that little extra something to make guests ask your secret.
Which fits your needs?
2 oz - $10
4 oz - $18
8 oz - $32
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Maddy - Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans in rum for a familiar taste and a hint of sweetness
Maddy+ - Maddy, but double-fold (=double strength)
Veronika - Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans in vodka, for the most familiar top-shelf taste
Veronika+ - Veronika, but double-fold
Evan - Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans in bourbon, for a robust and deep tone
Poe - polynesian for "pearl", Poe is Tahitian bourbon vanilla beans in rum for a sweet, delicate, flowery vanilla bakers love for creams and icing
Noelle - Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans in rum with cinnamon and cloves, for a holiday vanilla surprise! (Honestly I use this year round to set my vanilla flavored items apart!)
Holly- Madagascar bourbon beans in spiced rum, for a bolder holiday feel
Anela - Hawaiian for Christmas angel, this Tahitian bourbon vanilla is in rum with cinnamon and cloves