Time to make Vanilla for the Holidays! {Beanilla Giveaway}
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Can you believe the holiday season is just a few short months away?! Thanksgiving is just 77 days away! What the what?!!!!
Many of us do some amount of baking for the holidays, whether it’s just a batch of your favorite cookies, fudge wreath, or baking for a holiday party or gift giving. Chances are your recipes are going to call for vanilla. Vanilla extract and vanilla beans are such essential items in a holiday baking spice cabinet.
Last year I shared how easy and much more economical it is to make your own vanilla. It’s so simple to make but needs to sit at least 6-8 weeks before you can use it, so get started now to have plenty of vanilla extract on hand for your holiday baking. Download and Print the free homemade vanilla labels Kelly made and you’ll have a fantastic gift ready to pass out to friends and family in December.
You’ll notice vanilla beans can be pretty pricy at the grocery store, so if you plan to make more than one bottle of extract I highly suggest purchasing your beans online, from places such as at Beanilla.com. right now they have 25 Madagascar Vanilla Beans for $25 + FREE shipping! that’s a fantastic price!
Now is the time to make vanilla for the holidays
- recipe and step-by step instructions to make homemade vanilla extract
- download and print free Homemade Vanilla label
- shop beanilla.com for vanilla beans and bottles
WIN IT! GIVEAWAY ENDED
My friends at Beanilla would like to help two lucky TidyMom readers get their vanilla going this year with an awesome $150 prize pack of vanilla making supplies!
Each winner will receive:
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Madagascar Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Tonga Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Indonesian Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Mexican Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Ugandan Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 5 Indian Vanilla Beans
- 1 Package (vacuum sealed) of 3 Tahitian Vanilla Beans (Tahiti)
- 7 Clear Glass Bottles, 8.5 oz w/ Swingtop
- 1 Vanilla Bean Sampler (7 glass vials containing 3 beans of each variety)
How to enter:
- leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite recipe with vanilla!
- Then simply complete the steps in the giveaway widget below. Personal information will not be shared or used for any kind of mailing list, it’s simply used by me to select and contact the winner.
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Icing, a lot of baking items.
I love this recipe from Smitten Kitchen for using vanilla/beans:
smittenkitchen.com/blog/2011/01/vanilla-bean-pudding/
Ohhh wonderful! I love vanilla. I think for me it’d be vanilla bean mousse. Light, airy, and wonderfully vanillic.
Chocolate chip cookies
Hogg, to pick just one recipe is difficult!!! I think it would be vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing! Or, adding vanilla to my pancakes and waffles! Yummy!!!
I always add vanilia for my french toast
I just love to make dairy free vanilla bean pudding. yum yum!
I use vanilla in my tea with a small drop of organic honey. Tastes great and is good for you too.
I put a drop in my tea with organic honey instead of sugar since vanilla and organic honey are good for you.
I use vanilla in almost ALL my baking!
Death by Vanilla bars. Mmmmmmm…
I love fresh vanilla bean ice cream or if I do not have time to freeze it just a delicious vanilla pudding.
Nothing like fresh vanilla beans and their delicious “caviar” inside.
I use vanilla in my Mom’s tea cake recipe. Makes me think of her whenever I smell them baking.
Oatmeal raisin cookies with extra vanilla
chocolate chip cookies and vanilla almond squares
I love love LOVE making vanilla bean Macarons and sugar cookies.
vanilla vodka and vanilla sugar are my 2 favorite things to make
I love chocolate chip cookies
Homemade chocolate chip cookies
I make a delicious vanilla cupcake – love it!!
I love pure vanilla in many of my chai tea concoctions.
ice cream
I love to add a little Mexican vanilla to my coffee but vanilla ice cream is my favorite!
A simple one that’s great for summer from the Relish cookbook!
Chocolate Fudge Pops
1 13oz can original or lite coconut milk, shaken
5T unsweetened cocoa powder
2T honey
1t vanilla extract
¼ t salt
Blend all ingredients until smooth and pour into ice pop molds. Insert the base and freeze.
This may sound strange, but my favorite recipe to use vanilla in is Pancakes!! I make them once a week and they taste so much better with vanilla
I use it in almost everything I bake, but I love it in my strawberry vanilla bean jam I make…Yummy
Definitely a vanilla ice cream or pudding
My favorite recipe with vanilla is pumpkin cake!
My fav recipe with vanilla is “cronuts” cant wait to try them with vanilla beans! awaiting them to arrive in the mail. (oh yeah, cronuts are a hybrid between crossiants and doughnuts. they are the most amazing thing I have ever eaten!)
I like to add vanilla extract to all my baked goods.
My favorite is using vanilla beans and vanilla extract in homemade vanilla ice cream.
I love the flavor vanilla adds to sugar cookies.
EVERYTHING HAS VANILLA
most importantly, cheesecake. :9
Chocolate chip cookies
my favorite recipe with vanilla (specifically vanilla beans)? ICE CREAM and Vanilla Bean Macarons! 🙂
Love a good vanilla sponge cake!
Favorite recipe using Beanilla vanilla ???? Hmmm this is hard, but overall my absolute favorite is a simple vanilla bean creme brûlée ! Simply stunning! Impresses guests every time!
My favorite recipe to use vanilla in is pound cake.
I love vanilla! I love it in baking cookies, pies, cakes, EVERYTHING! I love the smell of vanilla candles! I really want to try to make my own vanilla especially since I use so much of it! I tend to be a little heavy handed with the vanilla!
i love vanilla! i add it to pretty much everything i bake, especially when i’m using a boxed product like pancakes. my favourite vanilla flavoured item would be a vanilla bean latte, so sweet and soothing <3
As far as I’m concerned, vanilla goes in just about everything, but I definitely love it in a good coffee cake.
My favorite recipe to use vanilla is Cream Cheese pie!
Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Panacotta!
i love to make german nut horns with real vanilla.
I make caramels at Christmas and vanilla is the final ingredient. They wouldn’t be awesome without it!
My homemade vanilla is always added to my husbands cake icing. I don’t have the recipe because he claims it is HIS secret and he will not even share the recipe with me (his wife of 36 years!!). That’s what I get for marrying a baker!
Vanilla ice cream and creme brulee.
Homemade vanilla ice cream!!
I love vanilla buttercream frosting on cupcakes. i also love a little vanilla in my french toast.