One of the very best inexpensive gifts that will impress even the biggest foodies is homemade vanilla extract. It's a gift that's meaningful, useful, and oh so delicious — and the process to make it ...

Homemade vanilla extract is a gift that keeps on giving—just ask Ina Garten, who’s been feeding her own DIY batch for an ...

For most bakers, it's second-nature to measure out the prescribed dose of vanilla for a cookie dough or cake batter using a ...

Nielsen Massey's Vanilla Bean Paste is also a baker fave.

I once counseled a family whose child was allergic to the smell of cinnamon and vanilla. Rare, but anything is possible. The mom told me she couldn’t take her child into stores from October through ...

Vanilla is an important ingredient, a complex ingredient, an expensive ingredient. Even if you’re not a big baker, the vanilla bean and its extract can be used to bring nuance, depth, and the ...

Ina Garten has a decades-old jar of homemade vanilla extract in her pantry but she uses store-bought on 'Barefoot Contessa' because people may not have the homemade stuff in their kitchen. “I think my ...

Nope, not all vanilla is the same. Here’s what you need to know about where vanilla flavoring actually comes from. To get to the bottom of this food fact, Reader’s Digest dove into the history of the ...