Vanilla beans infuse sweets with their delicious flavor. While many bakes use the seeds within, the pod is also useful for infusing vanilla ice cream, milk, or even a three-ingredient crème ...

Using a real vanilla bean to make this homemade Vanilla Simple Syrup gives you a warm, sweet vanilla flavor that beats ...

Here are five ways to repurpose leftover vanilla bean pods. 1. Vanilla sugar and salt. The most common use for spent beans is to dry them and bury them in a jar of sugar.

As its name implies, it’s made by macerating chopped vanilla bean pods in alcohol, which extracts the flavors and fragrances from the bean. Look for pure vanilla extract (more on imitation ...

As the pastry chef at New York’s Café Altro Paradiso and Flora Bar, Natasha Pickowicz knows vanilla is anything but plain—the long, oily pods have a heady, sweet aroma and a complex fruity ...

A vanilla bean is a long thin pod with tiny black seeds encased in the pod. Most of the vanilla beans sold come from Madagascar. A jar with just two to three beans is about $10.

Most recipes call for several vanilla bean pods added to 8 ounces of alcohol, often flavorless vodka. Slice open the beans, scrape out the seeds, then add everything to alcohol in a glass jar.