Notes about Recipes in this book

• Slow-cooked vanilla spice oatmeal

  • TrishaCP on February 15, 2020

    Ugh, we didn’t like this at all. We made the mistake of adding the optional cherries. Don’t do it! Their texture after the slow cooking was gritty and the dried fruit flavor masked anything the vanilla bean brought to the table.

• Vanilla cloud cake

  • sck on March 29, 2014

    Unbelievably good! Like an angel food cake (with more vanilla flavor, of course!) then the icing takes it to another level. Serve with strawberries - yum!

• Twinkie Bundt cake

  • Zosia on May 15, 2017

    Having never eaten a twinkie, I don't know how close this cake comes to one but I do know it's a huge crowd pleaser. The cake is lovely….moist with great vanilla flavour and the filling is light and creamy, quite sweet but not as sweet as the marshmallow fluff that's used. The recipe calls for a 12-cup bundt but I decided to use a 10-cup, something I wouldn't recommend. I was fortunate the batter didn't overflow the pan but it came very close to doing that. I used a cupcake corer to make the initial holes for the tunnel and used those cylinders of cake, trimmed, to plug them back up before inverting the cake.

  • sck on January 01, 2018

    Huge hit! But in cold temperatures the butter and marshmallow creme just would not get fluffy unfortunately - we ended up just using straight marshmallow fluff. The cake was still wonderful!

  • jimandtammyfaye on September 08, 2021

    Excellent cake and addictive fluffy creme. Cake would even be delicious without the creme, although the creme helped the cake remain moist several days after baking.

  • senzler on March 13, 2022

    Cake fabulous. Used on line smitten kitchen filling. Next time would double filling recipe

• Big, soft frosted vanilla sugar cookies

  • jimandtammyfaye on September 08, 2021

    One of the best sugar cookie recipes I've tried. Used standard ice scoop, which made 16 cookies. For the frosting, I flavored with 2 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp almond extract. Outstanding!

• Lemon-vanilla dream bars

  • Zosia on September 09, 2017

    These white chocolate brownies with swirls of lemon curd were simply fabulous. I had a small amount of homemade curd (Joanne Chang's from Flour) leftover from a previous project that I wanted to use up but had no idea what to do with; EYB located this recipe for me...thank you.

• Vanilla biscotti

  • Zosia on April 15, 2014

    These were a huge hit. The cookie was crunchy, not too sweet with great vanilla flavour......good enough to stand alone. A drizzle of white chocolate made them over-the-top delicious.

  • Frogcake on December 09, 2018

    These are so good! Lovely vanilla flavour and extra-amazing drizzled with white chocolate.

• Vanilla bean marshmallows

  • lisibit on December 18, 2012

    These had nice flavor and texture, but they started weeping liquid on day 2 (i.e., the outside became very sticky). The recipe has very high water content--perhaps that's the problem? Haven't had the issue with recipes that use sheet gelatin.

• Baking Bites

  ...you won’t find any “vanilla” vanilla here, as the recipes are designed to maximize flavor and let the sweet, complex floral flavor of real vanilla stand out.

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• Fine Cooking

  ...elevates vanilla from plain-Jane status to something sublime. ...there are delicious recipes for all times of the day. Main courses also get a vanilla kick from a Vanilla Beurre Blanc...

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