Homemade vanilla sugar is a simple and effective way to elevate your desserts and baked goods. With just a few ingredients and minimal effort, you can create a rich and aromatic flavor enhancer that ...

A Perfect Balance of Tart, Sweet, and ButteryIf you’re looking for a dessert that hits all the right notes—sweet, tart, creamy, and crisp—these berry crumble bars are the answer. With a luscious ...

Tossing a spent vanilla bean in a jar of sugar is an old, oft-suggested “hack” with a simple premise: After scraping out the innards of a pricey vanilla bean, you toss the empty pod into a ...

Prepare the fritters: Using an apple corer (or a melon baller or sturdy metal teaspoon), carefully remove the apple cores and discard. Slice the apples into 1/2-inch-thick rings and set aside.

Vanilla sugar and salt The most common use for spent beans is to dry them and bury them in a jar of sugar. Or, better yet, dry the pods and whirr them in a blender or food processor with sugar.

Swift wrote that she served freshly baked chai sugar cookies during her "1989 Secret Sessions," a group of private listening parties where fans heard her fifth studio album, "1989," before it was ...

Cut vanilla pods lengthwise, place them with the powdered sugar into an airtight container and let stand several days. Recipe courtesy of Austrian Desserts and Pastries by Dietmar Fercher and ...

Sugar cookie scents perfectly capture that sweet and inviting vanilla essence. When captured in a bottle, body scrub, balm, or lotion, this classic desert scent gives freshly baked sugar wrapped ...

It lacks the charm of frosting made with real vanilla, but it’s a satisfying spoonful. 140 calories, 5 g fat, 70 mg sodium, 19 g sugar. $3.99 for 16 ounces at Safeway. (3 stars) Wilton White ...