Taylor & Colledge Vanilla Bean Paste with Seeds, 4.9oz Tube

This is a great vanilla bean paste. It's like a gel and it is full of vanilla seeds and flavor. Use equivalent teaspoon to teaspoon for 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.

Oh my gosh! Just amazing! The taste is clean and pure...as good as a home prepared paste using vanilla beans, or better! I've actually bought several for my baking friends. It's that good.

Strong flavor.Tube makes it convenient

Vanilla bean paste is amazing for baking

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 is the first time I've used a vanilla paste and it did not disappoint! It is full of vanilla flavor in a much better way than liquid vanilla extract. I use this to make homemade vanilla ice cream and it turns out soo nice. Will continue to use this instead of the liquid extract. For some reason I cannot leave a separate review for the lavender paste I also purchased so I'll just say that I wasn't sure what it would taste like, it wasn't bad but I feel like I got more of a smell than a taste of lavender. I also used this in a batch of ice cream and it turned out pretty good.

A recipe I was making called for vanilla paste, so I ordered a tube of this. I was very disappointed. The formula is more of a slimy gel, and is slightly viscous and runny. The texture was pretty off-putting and reminded me of the slimy trail a slug leaves behind, which is likely due to the Gum Tragacanth used in the ingredients. There are visible vanilla bean seeds contained in the slime, but I thought the taste was artificial and cloying. I didn't get anything extra taste-wise by adding this to the recipe than I would have with straight vanilla extract. Next time, I am simply going to scrape some vanilla bean pods, use some extract and call it good.

Smells great.

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