Saturday, August 1, 2009

Make your Own - Vanilla Extract

So, I never knew that it was easy to make your own vanilla extract...until my crafty friend, Brenda, was telling me that she makes her own. You just need some vodka, vanilla beans, and patience, and apparently, you are good to go. We had a little bit of Vodka left that I wanted to get rid of, and I finally splurged the other day and got some nice vanilla beans at Whole Foods. I just put it all together into a bottle, and I am going to let it do its thing for about 8 weeks now. I will report back once I have maxed out my patience :)

Here is one of the sites that I checked out for a recipe...
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2009/02/homemade_vanilla_extract.php