Now you should be left with a beautiful dark amber, aromatic vanilla bean paste ready to use in all of your baking recipes and frostings! I store mine in a mason jar and it will keep for up to two years, but mine never lasts more than a month. Again, don’t forget to save the leftover pods to use later! I find using a rubber spatula helps push out any excess paste trapped on the top side of the sieve. Take a clean bowl and metal sieve and strain the boiled paste to remove the large vanilla bean chunks.Place your water, corn syrup/glucose, and remaining sugar into a pot and boil for 1-2 mins and then add in your vanilla sugar mix and boil for another 4-5 mins, stirring occasionally.I mixed for a total of 3-4 mins, but this time may vary depending on your food processor. I found stopping 2-3 times and scraping down the bowl helped move the process along. Place your chopped vanilla beans and half of your sugar into a food processor or spice grinder and process until the beans and sugar are well combined.Remember to keep any offcuts for making extract later! Take 4 vanilla beans and chop the ends off and then the remaining beans cut into roughly 1” pieces.
4 Madagascar Vanilla beans (Planifolia, extract grade).Yield: makes approximately 3 ounces Ingredients Made a batch of Boston cream pie cupcakes this weekend, all components from scratch, and even those who dont like. I love the speckled result from using the paste and the taste and aroma of the Blue Cattle Truck Trading Co. You can also make this recipe using any of other natural vanilla beans such as Tahitian vanilla from Tahiti, Ugandan vanilla bean , or another. I was thrilled to find Mexican vanilla bean paste being a Mexican vanilla convert for a few years now. If you are not a fan of corn syrup, we suggest using other natural thickeners such as arrowroot, corn starch, xanthan gum, or other common emulsifiers. We think it is great for in a pinch but also enjoy combining it with vanilla extract and using it in place of water for that extra, over-the-top vanilla flavor that smoothly infuses into your recipes. Give this simple Madagascar vanilla bean paste recipe a try. Our products have been featured in Traditional Home Magazine’s Cooking School, featured on Martha Stewart’s CupCake Show, Cooking with the Neely's, Better Homes and Gardens, and Throw Down with Bobby Flay among many other programs and publications.
Our videos are a free resource to help you better understand and explore the world of flavors and spices. Life is better with Blue Cattle Truck Vanilla Paste. Slofoodgroup Team Septem2 Comments Using vanilla bean paste in your kitchen and want to try your hand at making your own?Īt Slofoodgroup, we've teamed up with Karlee from KarleesKupcakes to offer you this easy-to-make DIY vanilla bean paste. It uses our grade B Madagascar vanilla beans and is fantastic when used in baked goods.