Homemade vanilla!

Making your own vanilla is super easy!🍦 You don't need much and it tastes superior to the one you can buy in the store. Not to mention most of the ones in the store don't even contain any really vanilla! 😧 So for a better taste and cheeper product I recommend you make your own! 🧁 This vanilla you can use in place of any regular store bought.

🤍The ingredient list🤍

You may increase the ratio to whatever you please but here is your base measurements.

🤍1 cup unflavored alcohol 80 proof
(Recommendations vodka or bourbon)

🤍2 1/2 vanilla beans
(I just used 3 whole beans they are cheapest from Costco! More beans stronger flavor!)

🤍 Water even to fill the bottom of your pressure cooker

🤍Glass canning jar that will fit into your pressure cooker

🤍 Pressure cooker and rack to put jar on so it doesn't touch the bottom

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1. Rub the beans in-between your hands to help loosen them, then slice down the middle (just to expose the beans not cut all the way through) from there you can cut into smaller pieces if you please then proceed to put them in your jar.

2. Fill jar with alcohol leaving about a inch of headspace.

3. Wipe rim if you plan on keeping it canned longer.

4. Place into pressure cooker on rack. Fill just the bottom with water enough to cover it.

5. Pressure cook for 40 minutes.

‼️6. This is the most important step LET THE PRESSURE COOKER RELEASE NATURALLY ‼️ DO RELEASE ANY PRESSURE YOURSELF AS THE GLASS HAS A HIGH CHANCE OF CRACKING ‼️ The whole process will take about and hour. Even when the pressure is released glass still may be HOT‼️ Please use caution and common sense! Wait for everything to cool before touching it!‼️

7. You vanilla is ready to enjoy! Use as you would any other vanilla. I recommend keeping the beans in as the can defuse more flavor!

🎂 And just like that you've made your own vanilla. Minimal ingredients and you know what's in it! This brings every recipe up a notch and you might surprise yourself with how good what you made is!🫣 Keep in touch to see how I used this vanilla in my sugar cookie recipe 🍪 that my great grandmother said was the best sugar cookies she ever had!

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