Easy Vanilla Extract Recipe | Homemade with Vodka

Easy Vanilla Extract Recipe | Homemade with Vodka
I show you how easy it is to make homemade vanilla extract. I use this vanilla in many of my other videos as well!

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[NessaRossini...]

We are so much alike. I made Vanilla about 5 years ago. I bought the big jugs of: clear rum, dark rum, spiced rum, vodka, whiskey and gin. They've been sitting away in a closet since I'm still using vanilla I already have open. I used the Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans. I'll have to sneak in there and take a look at them, haven't seen them since putting them away after 2 months of shaking the bottles. 🌹

[PURPLESILLYMONKE]

I never knew you could make your own until now!? So helpful I gotta try this thank you!

[marilyn]

I think you and I could be great friends. We love doing the same things. I’m so glad I found your channel. I made some vanilla 2 years ago and it wasn’t very good. I just ordered the beans you suggested. Hope it works!

[larrywasserman]

Thank you very much for what you do appreciate the show you did very well done JP from Miami. I really haven’t made it. I’ve always bought it the 32 ounce while the Hotel did but now I have to do it on my own. Thank you again JP from Miami.

[marilyn]

This is the best recipe for vanilla I’ve found and lasts a long time

[ThisLifeInMotion]

I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile! So helpful!

[marilyn]

I’m making your recipe right now and started it 2 weeks ago and it smells like vanilla already! 😃

[chiefschicktx]

FYI: because of the alcohol you can keep your bottle going indefinitely just adding beans and vodka occassionally rather than starting over. the vodka (or other high proof alcohol) preserves the beans. It's important to keep the beans covered in the alcohol doing it that way though.

[ErnestineCosenza]

I have a bottle of vanilla I made like that about 10 years ago, of course its lost its potency, would you dump that and start over, or remove the beans and add new ones? I forgot how much I used to love this

[Heather-jt]

Double fisting at the end 😂😂
You’re so cute! Thanks and Happy New Year!

[diannemiller]

I use Kamchatka vodka, absolute vodka, Jim Beam Kentucky Bourbon, fireball whisky and Bacardi Rum.
These all make great flavored vanilla 😋 i really like the fireball but cant open the bottle very well 😊😂my son has to do it for me. I think the sugar content makes it stick😅😮😊

[d.sylvester]

Hi Kara! Going to try your snickerdoodle recipe today. Yum. But I saw your homemade vanilla link and I’ve been wanting to make my own for a good long time. Do you use the Madagascar or Tahitian beans from the Amazon link? I realize this video is a couple years old.

[DeeSperling]

Instead of slitting and cutting the beans, could Imput the hooch and vanilla beans in a container and use an immersion blender, wait a few months and strain? I seems like that should work.

[karenc]

Does it matter what amount of alcohol you start out with?

[jostienawanis]

When youre adding additional vodka to a ready vanilla made bottle, does that need time to settle as well? Or you can you continue using the old bottle with new vodka?

[feliciaoffenbacker]

How long can you keep adding vodka to refill before it loses it's vanilla flavor?

[janpos]

Is it cheaper to make your own? I have no idea how much vodka or the beans cost.

[susies]

After it has been the 6 months, what do I do with the vanilla beans???
Throw them away?

[rojerww]

Technically speaking, you can't call that vanilla extract - you are making vanilla flavoring - especially once you dilute it with more alcohol (tsk, tsk, tsk, do you do that with your coffee grounds, just keep using them over and over and just adding more and more water?).

If you want real, pure vanilla extract, you should be weighing your beans: 1 ounce (minimum) of vanilla beans (VBK has good prices) to each and every 8 ounce (1 cup) of alcohol (that is between 35% ABV - 50% ABV = 70ºP - 100ºP). It's okay to make the ratio of beans to alcohol higher but not lower. If you dilute the vanilla extract, you are down to weaker vanilla flavoring (no matter how long you let it sit, beans are "spent" after about 6 months but aging will add complexity and depth of flavor).

Your kitchen, your rules!

BUT! if you try to sell it - your bad (not saying you are bad, rather properly using slang as in: my bad, Well, unless properly labeled as vanilla flavoring rather than using the FDA regulated term: vanilla extract).
Just make more extract OR try making vanilla paste (which can be used immediately in baked goods or aged a few days or so for non baked purposes). ;-)