Popular Uses for Tanzania Vanilla Beans
Baking & Desserts
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Cakes & Cupcakes: Split and scrape the seeds to add rich, natural vanilla flavour to cakes, cupcakes, and batters.
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Cookies & Bars: Enhances cookies, brownies, and dessert bars with deep, creamy vanilla notes.
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Pastries: Perfect for croissants, Danish fillings, tarts, and sweet doughs.
Custards & Creamy Desserts
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Custards & Puddings: Ideal for pastry cream, crème brûlée, puddings, and flans.
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Ice Cream: Infuse whole beans or seeds into ice cream bases for authentic vanilla flavour and visual flecks.
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Cheesecakes: Adds depth and warmth to baked and no-bake cheesecakes.
Homemade Vanilla Products
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Vanilla Extract: Excellent for making homemade vanilla extract using alcohol or glycerin.
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Vanilla Sugar: Bury spent pods in sugar to create fragrant vanilla sugar.
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Vanilla Paste: Blend seeds and pods into paste for concentrated flavour.
Beverages
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Coffee & Lattes: Infuse into syrups or milk for natural vanilla flavour in hot or iced drinks.
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Hot Chocolate: Adds smooth, aromatic vanilla notes to cocoa drinks.
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Infused Spirits: Ideal for flavouring vodka, rum, or bourbon.
Savoury & Gourmet Uses
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Sauces: Adds subtle sweetness to dessert sauces, fruit compotes, and glazes.
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Vanilla Oil: Infuse pods into oil for baking or gourmet finishing uses.
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Pantry Essential: A premium ingredient for home bakers, chefs, and culinary enthusiasts.
- Species: Vanilla Planifolia
- Cultivation: Grown Organically using All Natural Farming Practices on Small Holding Family Farms.
- Type: “Bourbon”, Grade A,Gourmet, Fresh, & Aromatic!
- Average length: 17 cm / 6.5 inches
- Condition: Beans are Moist, Soft, Plump and Freshly Harvested! Average moisture content is 34.9%.
- High Vanillin Content (Averaging 3.1% Vanillin), they have a very strong aroma!
- Aroma & Flavour: Rich & Creamy with Deep Warm Notes of Caramel & Honey, Subtle Floral Aroma
- Country of Origin: Tanzania (Kagera Region)
Homemade Vanilla Extract recipe, allrecipes
