MOO Vanilla Sugar
An ingredient in many sweet recipes, vanilla sugar, or vanillan sugar (depends on the brand and where you live as to what you call it) costs an absolute fortune!
And yet it is the easiest, simplest thing to make, and you can make a whole kilo of it for less than the price of a 50g jar.
I use it mostly in my cheesecake recipe (which is my mother's cheesecake recipe) and to top off a coffee cake or muffins. But you can use it is milkshakes, coffee, custards, sauces - just about anything that has both vanilla and sugar in the ingredients. It is just delicious sprinkled over porridge.
You will need:
1kg white sugar
4 - 6 vanilla beans (how many will depend on how strong you want the flavour to be and how quickly you want to use the sugar)
A large jar with a good, tight fitting lid
Step 1. Sterilise your jar.
Step 2. Take your vanilla beans and split them down the centre. Then cut each one into three or four pieces.
Step 3. Fill the jar with the sugar. Add the vanilla beans.
Step 4. Put the lid on and shake, shake, shake until the vanilla beans disappear into the sugar.
Step 5. Put the jar in a cool, dark cupboard for four weeks. Give it a shake every couple of days to move the beans around.
After four weeks, take the lids off and breathe in that delicious vanilla scent - it's ready to use.
And yet it is the easiest, simplest thing to make, and you can make a whole kilo of it for less than the price of a 50g jar.
I use it mostly in my cheesecake recipe (which is my mother's cheesecake recipe) and to top off a coffee cake or muffins. But you can use it is milkshakes, coffee, custards, sauces - just about anything that has both vanilla and sugar in the ingredients. It is just delicious sprinkled over porridge.
You will need:
1kg white sugar
4 - 6 vanilla beans (how many will depend on how strong you want the flavour to be and how quickly you want to use the sugar)
A large jar with a good, tight fitting lid
Step 1. Sterilise your jar.
Step 2. Take your vanilla beans and split them down the centre. Then cut each one into three or four pieces.
Step 3. Fill the jar with the sugar. Add the vanilla beans.
Step 4. Put the lid on and shake, shake, shake until the vanilla beans disappear into the sugar.
Step 5. Put the jar in a cool, dark cupboard for four weeks. Give it a shake every couple of days to move the beans around.
After four weeks, take the lids off and breathe in that delicious vanilla scent - it's ready to use.
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