Vanilla Extract

I had these dried up vanilla beans lying around, and I just couldn’t throw them away. They were dried to the point where you could literally snap them in half and it’d make this noise. Not usable. But with some vodka I could turn these dried up vanilla beans and make some vanilla extract.

There are actually several other kinds of alcohol types you can use to make extract, I just had extra vodka lying around. The thing with this is that you have to store the extract in a cool dark place for at least 1 month.

Each week I took a picture of the extract to document the change in color as time passed.

 

Now comes time to store it. I usually use this brand to the left for vanilla, but it’s all gone. It’s great, but to the right is the extract that I made and waited a month for. I thought about how annoying it is to measure out the extract each time you use it. Sometimes I put it in my coffee, and a lot of times I use them for baked goods. I wanted single servings of this extract for comfort and speed.

More soon, thanks for reading…