Vanilla powder uses
Vanilla powder is a practical way to enhance and complement the taste of various foods and beverages, fruits, shakes, and especially cream and pastry cakes.
Ideas and suggestions
- Fruit juices: Blend your favourite fruit smoothies with a generous amount of vanilla powder, a magical addition to almost any mix of fruit, especially papaya, mango, pineapple as well as countless other tropical fruits.
- Cakes: Mix vanilla powder in cream and/or use as decorative toppings.
- Yoghorts: Dairy-based foods with their subtle flavours are ideal for adding vanilla powder.
- Ice cream: Strawberry, chocolate or already vanilla flavour ice cream, there's rarely enough vanilla. Sprinkle powder on top or mix in the preparation.
- Coffee toppings: Apply vanilla powder with a powder shaker or mix with cacao powder to enhance the flavours and appearance of cappuccinos and lattes.
- Black coffee: Mix with the coffee powder or sprinkle the powder on the beans when roasting. Whether Arabica or Robusta, the vanilla will add dimension to the roast.
- Vanilla tea: As with coffee powder, simply add some vanilla powder to the tea mixture before brewing.
- Avocado juice: Add vanilla powder to thick avocado juice. Chill to near-freezing. A healthy and delicious drink.
- Chocolate: Add vanilla powder to light or white chocolates to enhance the taste with natural vanilla.
- Keep the vanilla powder within easy reach in a kitchen jar or powder shaker and enjoy as an everyday table spice.
Vanilla powder varieties
Vanilla powder of the
Planifolia variety, also known as Madagascar Bourbon vanilla, is the most abundant variety in Madagascar. Powders from Mexican vanilla (
Vanilla pompona), Madagascar cultivated Tahitian (
Vanilla × tahitensis) and Tsy Taitry (
Vanilla Tsy taitra) are varieties cultivated in smaller quantities.
In terms of taste and fragrance, Pompona and Tahitian vanilla powders are sweeter and almost black in appearance, while the Planifolia powder is brown and tastes more like the classic Madagascan Planifolia vanilla it's made from. The Tsy Taitry variety, a hybrid created by cross-pollinating of the Pompona and Planifolia orchids, originates in Madagascar. It has a taste and appearance between its two related varieties.
Our vanilla powders are ground from seasonally fresh vanilla beans and thereafter manually filtered through a sieve, removing possible debris, resulting in a finely grained powder. No preservatives are added and no pesticides are used in the cultivation.
