{"id":678,"date":"2010-11-29T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:09:37","slug":"vanilla-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vanilla <\/p>\n

Vanilla sugar is ridiculously simple to make, and ridiculously good. It makes a great gift, especially in a pretty jar: fragrant, unusual, keeps forever, and can be used in any recipe in which you’d use vanilla extract. Buy plump, slightly soft vanilla beans for this recipe — it’s harder to get them chopped up properly if they are hard and dry (they will still flavor the sugar nicely, though). This makes a fairly ‘strong’ vanilla sugar; if you like it a bit less pungent, just add more sugar. <\/p>\n

\u2014 2 cups<\/em><\/p>\n

*Items marked in green<\/span> are available from The Gourmet Corner.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/H3>
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  • 2 vanilla beans<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2 cups sugar<\/li>\n
  • (optional) 1-2 more vanilla beans<\/span> for garnish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    <\/em><\/p>\n

    Making the Vanilla Sugar<\/H3><\/p>\n

    Put sugar in a food processor fitted with the steel blade.<\/p>\n

    Split two of the vanilla beans lengthwise. Use a butter knife to scrape the tiny black seeds into the sugar, then chop the beans roughly into 1\/2-inch pieces and add them to the sugar. <\/p>\n

    Process on high speed until the beans are finely chopped. The sugar will turn a delicate beige and smell heavenly. <\/p>\n

    Put the sugar in a tightly covered container for at least 2 weeks to allow the vanilla flavor to further infuse into the granules. This step isn’t strictly necessary, but it does give a stronger vanilla flavor to the finished mixture.<\/p>\n

    After infusing, sift the vanilla sugar through a fine-mesh sieve to remove the vanilla bean chips. Don’t throw the chips out! A teaspoon of the chips can be used for flavoring liquid-based desserts like custard (strain them out after simmering them in the liquid for 10 minutes), or the chips can be soaked in vodka for a month or more to produce vanilla extract.<\/p>\n

    Put sugar in jars or other containers that can be closed airtight. If you like, before sealing the containers, cut vanilla beans in half and put half a bean in\/on the sugar in each container. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Vanilla sugar is ridiculously simple to make, and ridiculously good. It makes a great gift: fragrant, unexpected, keeps forever, and can be used in any recipe in which you’d use vanilla extract. Buy plump, slightly soft vanilla pods for this recipe — it’s harder to get them chopped up properly if they are hard and dried up (they will still flavor the sugar nicely, though). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}