But don’t toss the pod! The leftover bean can still work its magic. Use it to make homemade vanilla extract, infuse cream, milk, or sugar for other recipes, or even enhance a pot of coffee or tea.

Here’s how to figure out which vanilla to use in your baking. Vanilla extract is made by infusing an alcohol base with whole vanilla beans until the vanilla flavor has leached into the liquid.

Pure vanilla extract is made from soaking vanilla beans in water and ethyl alcohol. It tends to have a stronger vanilla flavor than vanilla essence, or artificial vanilla extract. If you’ve made ...

Apart from the most obvious dissimilarity of cost, there are several other differences that exist between vanilla extract and vanilla essence. Read Time: 3 min Let's admit it, there's nothing more ...

But while the price is definitely not to be sniffed at, especially considering a 1L tub of vanilla bean ice cream from the Coles “Irresistible” range costs $6, Aussies have pointed out there ...