Tyler Malek, co-founder of Salt & Straw and head of innovation, says two ingredients are guaranteed to give your homemade ice ...

In most countries, vanilla flavoring is available as an extract, essence and flavoring. And they’re not the same. If you’re from the U.S., it’s likely that you haven’t heard of the word ...

Vanilla extract is generally considered to be a baking product, but its versatility goes way beyond cookies and cakes ...

To make the extract itself, a combination of water and alcohol is passed over chopped vanilla beans for several days before the liquid is aged for further flavor development. Imitation vanilla is ...

Vanilla beans (bottom) can be used to flavor ice cream or as vanilla extract, among many uses. (Photo Credit: Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images) Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices in ...

making pure vanilla extract more expensive to make. About 99% of the world’s artificial vanilla flavoring comes from synthetic sources such as vanillin, “a cheaper and less labor-intensive ...