Vanilla Bean Paste for Baking and Cooking - Gourmet Madagascar Bourbon Blend made with Real Vanilla Seeds - 32 Ounces

I've been using Gourmet brand vanilla bean paste for a few years now. Flavor is excellent and the price is reasonable. I just recently noticed that it's made by the Vanilla Bean Kings, which is a very reputable company. I always get so many compliments on my baked goods. I highly recommend this product.

This is the first time using paste as I’ve always used extract. What was I waiting for? So good!

This is an excellent vanilla I use for all my baking. it has a much better taste than other brands.

I highly recommend using vanilla bean paste over the liquid! Love this product!

The media could not be loaded. When I give a review, I like to give the positive and any negative after I have tried and or used the product multiple times. I actually used this paste in place of my traditional vanilla extract that I was purchasing from Watson's. The size of the bottle was ok considering the the quality of the product. It is about the size of a large bottle of the migraine medication that starts with an "E". :-)Pros: I used this when making a pan of no bake banana pudding. Babyyyyyy, let me tell you it took my banana pudding from a solid 8 to a resounding 10+. One thing that I never liked about traditional extracts is that IMO you can always taste that alcohol base in the back of your palate. I do not taste ANY of this with the vanilla bean paste. In fact the taste sort of reminds me of a vanilla tootsie roll. The paste has a depth of flavor that the extract simply does not possess. I can envision using this moving forward for all of my baking needs. My sweet potato pies came out so good, it would make you want to smack the legendary Ms Patti LaBelle herself chilee. *chefs kiss, they were ahmazing...Cons: There are only a couple of cons. I ordered a couple of items in this particular order and I was shocked that this bottle was not wrapped or packaged in a way to avoid spillage or cracks in the bottle. This was in those bubble wrap envelopes that Amazon uses and IMO this was very poor packaging. With food orders with Amazon you cannot send anything back so the least they could do is wrap this well. Secondly, I have another bottle of vanilla bean paste that I purchased from Home G00ds and it had a thicker consistency that I loved better for non-baked items. I do feel that when you add it to something that you are going to bake that some of the potency of flavor is lost. So this is why I gave it 4 stars. I took off 1/2 a point for poor packaging and 1/2 a point because I wish the consistency was thicker. I will say I would purchase this again for sure. The vanilla has a wonderful flavor and elevates whatever dish you are adding this too.

I love this vanilla bean paste in my baking

Very fragrant and added a wonderful vanilla flavor to the French toast I made.

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