When it comes to holiday baking, few flavors can elevate your creations quite like vanilla extract. Its rich, aromatic flavor is an essential ingredient, enhancing your cookies, cakes, pies (and also ...

Finding just the right thing for each person can be a challenge, but here’s a homemade gift that requires just a sliver of your time: vanilla extract. Vanilla extract is so easy, so cost-effective and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Bananas are one of the cheapest and most widely available fruits, not to mention a convenient self-contained snack or meal you can take with ...

Vanilla extract is usually made by steeping vanilla beans in alcohol for weeks and weeks and weeks. But the Instant Pot laughs in the face of linear time, and with it, you can make vanilla extract in ...

Rather than buying expensive vanilla extract at the store, try making your own at home. It’s easy, more flavorful and lasts longer than you might imagine (like, decades). In their new book, Paul and ...

I know what you’re thinking: “Christmas? Already? Can’t we at least make it to Halloween before we start getting bombarded with end-of-year holiday hoopla?” I feel you. Seriously. I do. But if you’re ...

Plunking a scraped and spent vanilla bean into an aliquot of alcohol is a good idea. (Those beans are expensive, and you might as well eek out that last bit of flavor.) Buying whole, pricey pods for ...