Essentially Leanne - Wellness Advocate

I don’t think people actually realise how easy it is to make your own vanilla extract!

I do have a bottle of vanilla extract that I have had going for a few years but I wanted to make up smaller bottles, some to use ourselves and some for gifts for Christmas. Yes I said the C word lol but it takes months for this to develop, the longer the better so I wanted to get it started now.

What I used

250ml flip top bottles
Vanilla Beans
Vodka
I also decided to try some Dubliner Liqueur I had, so I made up 2 bottles with that.

I split 5 vanilla beans down the middle and popped them in a bottle, then I added the alcohol to cover the vanilla beans, wiped the top of the bottle and closed them up.

That’s it!

I also had to cut some of the vanilla beans down so I just added the off cuts into a jar of sugar to develop into vanilla sugar.

Now they are sitting on a shelf in a cupboard and I’ll continue to show you the process as they develop.