Vanilla powder is pure, unadulterated vanilla bean, and lends so much flavor to anything you’re baking. It also varies in quality, but Nielsen-Massey is an excellent brand to use. It has a more powerful flavor and gives wonderful vanilla speckles to your baked goods.
Vanilla paste usually includes extract that has been ground with vanilla beans, water and sometimes glycerin. Vanilla extract uses alcohol as a solvent to pull the aromas out of vanilla beans and varies widely in strength and quality. You’ve probably heard of extract and paste, but what is vanilla powder? And more importantly, how do you use it? Let’s break it down. There are three main vanilla-based flavoring products: extract, paste and powder. This is why vanilla products are so useful and in many cases preferable to fresh beans.
As a professional baker, I honestly find the idea of using fresh vanilla beans in any sort of baked good absurd. However, they can be really expensive and also a bit tedious to work with. Learn all about vanilla powder, the supercharged flavoring agent your baked goods have always dreamed of.įresh vanilla beans are a wonderful luxury in the pastry kitchen and should be used whenever possible over bottled extract.
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