As part of our homemade Christmas this year I made some vanilla sugar to put into the baskets too. Last year I bought vanilla beans in bulk from here, and needing a place to store them I stuck them in sugar, the result of that is vanilla bean flavored sugar. You could easily do this with a casing from a vanilla bean that you needed and scraped the seeds out of.
Vanilla Sugar
1 vanilla bean with or without seeds
Sugar
Place vanilla bean in container with sugar and seal. It should ready in about 2 weeks, keep adding more pods when you have used ones. As you use your sugar keep adding more to it. Put on the lid and give it a good shake to mix it up a bit.
The sugar is rather clumpy since it has drawn the moisture from the vanilla beans. The clumps can be easily broken with a spoon.
Note: I didn't put my vanilla bean pods in with the sugar, I used them (pod and all) but since the beans had been in the sugar for 16 months it is very flavored. I will be giving instructions on how to keep the sugar going.
You always come up with the best ideas! Love it. Love your backdrop of beautiful Autumn leaves as well. Most of our color here is gone now - blown away on the winds, but there are still a few trees remaining. The only people we gift are our children, my parents, each other, and my nieces, though I still usually always make something for my sisters because I just want to. :)
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