Vanilla Powder
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What Is Vanilla Powder?
Buying, Cooking, and Recipes.
Pure Vanilla Powder - Organic Vanilla Bean Powder - Tahitian Variety
Grade = A
Origin: Indonesia
Origin: Indonesia
RECIPE
You’re familiar with vanilla extract, but what about vanilla powder? Made from vanilla beans, vanilla powder has a more intense vanilla flavor than vanilla extract and can be used not only in baking recipes but as a natural sweetener.
The purest form of vanilla powder comes from vanilla beans. The beans are dehydrated and finely ground. But you’ll also find another type of vanilla powder on the market, where sugar is added. This type, called vanilla sugar, is popular in France and Mexico and used as a substitute for regular sugar in some recipes.
How To Cook With Vanilla Powder?
Most recipes call for a teaspoon or less of vanilla powder. Pure vanilla powder made from vanilla beans can be sprinkled on baked goods like chocolate chip cookies, doughnuts, or toast for sweet, fragrant flavor. Add it to coffee, or use it to infuse your homemade pancake or waffle mixes.
What Does It Taste Like?
Pure vanilla powder made from vanilla beans has an intense sweet, rich, vanilla flavor and aroma. Vanilla powder made with sugar has a sweeter slightly milder flavor.
You can also substitute vanilla bean paste or vanilla beans, although they aren’t as common as the extract. Use 1 teaspoon of the paste to replace ½ teaspoon of powder or 1 bean to replace ½ teaspoon of powder.
Where to Buy Vanilla Powder?
Real vanilla is expensive, and so is vanilla powder. On average expect to pay $50 or more per ounce. It can also be hard to find. Some specialty food stores and larger grocery stores will carry it, and it’s also widely available online. If you regularly use vanilla beans, you can make your own vanilla powder. Simply save the bean pods, dehydrate them (you can do this in your oven if you don’t have a dehydrator) and grind them up in a very clean coffee grinder to avoid transferring odors.
Storage!
Vanilla powder will last for up for two years in cool, dry place, out of light. Method of storage: store in a ventilated dry place with temperature 18-23℃.
Nutrition and Benefits
Vanilla powder has trace amounts of magnesium, calcium, potassium, and manganese but the nutritional profile also varies depending on if you’re consuming pure vanilla powder or powder made with sugar. Either way, as most recipes using vanilla powder call for such a small amount it’s unlikely it will affect your daily nutrition significantly.