What does vanilla extract add to a recipe?
I have been cooking for a while and have noticed small amount of Vanilla extract needed in cakes, cookies, muffins, even a smoothie recipe. Often times I forget the Vanilla or don't have any. What am I losing in general in a recipe without any Vanilla Extract?
Then in this recipe 1 cup yogurt, 1 banana, 4-6 cups milk, 1 peach, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract what does the Vanilla add or subtract?
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I find vanilla extract doesn't do much at all! I have baked cupcakes with and without vanilla extract but they both taste the same!
Vanilla is just for a flavour but you can add almonds, chocolate and strawberries or anything else really!
Vanilla acts sort of like salt. It is not just there to add flavor but to enhance the flavors around it.
In recipes that contain eggs (mainly deserts), vanilla might not add any noticeable vanilla flavor but it will remove the unpleasant egg smell.
Vanilla extract adds the flavour of vanilla! Not as nice as using a real vanilla bean, but significantly cheaper and much easier to get hold of.
Bringing out the flavors of the other ingredients as mentioned, but if you don't have it you can use maple syrup in its place in equal amounts.
Vanilla bean would be expensive, but so incredibly good. Vanilla extract is massively produced, it isn't as concentrated as real bean. They add other ingredients to stretch the vanilla flavor.
But the bottom line is, vanilla enhances flavor.
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