Taylor & Colledge Organic Vanilla Bean Paste with Seeds, 1.7oz Tube

The versatility of this product is amazing, the texture in your food is like normal extract, it avoids that alcohol taste and aroma, I use this now in all cases where I used to use vanilla extract.

I am planning a two part teaching kids to cook mini-series: "How to make naturally flavored, butter cream icings" and "how to make mini-cupcakes". The target audience is an pair of 11 year olds. On the first day, we will make a recipe of Butter Cream icing and flavor different cups of it with vanilla, strawberry, cherry, and peach. The second say is putting dollops of it on (and in) mini-cupcakes. When I was coming up with the event, Taylor and Colledge vanilla came immediately to mind. This is simply the best vanilla flavor short of slicing a bean and scraping out the goodness. The tube is small but that is a reasonable size to keep the smell and taste on point. It is a bit more expensive that the chemicals sold as imitation flavor but is less expensive than buying beans. The texture is more concentrated vanilla than a paste and the tube stands on end and doesn't leak.

A year or two ago, I purchased a box of 12 tubes of Taylor & Colledge Organic Vanilla Bean Paste with Seeds on Amazon. It was quite expensive, and the tubes were small, but the convenience of the squeeze-tubes outweight the cost. I could not resist buying the lot, as I use vanilla bean paste in many or most recipes, even when they do not call for it (I wear my "mad scientist hat all too often). What I loved most about this product was that, (a) the paste is organic, (b) the tubes are much more convenient than dipping a measuring spoon into a jar, which sometimes can be messy, and (c) the taste is excellent. Sometimes (or most times), I squeeze the tube in with my ingredients and guesstimate if it equals a teaspoon or two. I frequently make homemade vanilla bean paste whipped cream, and also a variation by adding 1/4 cup of Ghirardelli's Sweet Ground Chocolate to the whipping cream mixture, both of which get rave reviews from friends and family (when I have time, I will update this review with both recipes). Anyway, since I gave away too many of the original 12 tubes to friends and didn't leave enough for myself, I was happy to find this larger tube of 4.9 ounces. It is a significant size that will last much longer, and I will enjoy using it. I highly recommend this product and will buy it again.

This product is great for coffee. It has nice packaging that doesn’t leak and is a great value. The color looks good and I would definitely buy again.

Bought third time and will order it again.

This is a high quality and great tasting vanilla bean paste. It is gluten free also (not all vanilla bean pastes are). I loved using it in my baking goods and I have reordered it.

great product

This is super convenient but I will NOT buy again. The vanilla flavor is great in the beginning, but soon turns to an off flavor with a touch of chemical. I was really hoping this would be a staple in my pantry, but my Thanksgiving desserts had more of a funk rather than flavor. My family even asked if I took the easy way out & made desserts from box mixes... Thank goodness everything else one that day was so amazing, that desserts weren't necessary.

Smells great.

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