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Homemade vanilla extract a versatile ingredient in kitchen

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Roberta Chong Kee glazes a vanilla bundt cake flavored with her homemade extract.

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Split vanilla beans can be used to create vanilla sugar. The caviar scraped inside the bean pod can be used in baking.

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Roberta Chong Kee makes her own vanilla extract at her home in bottles, pictured at at right. She used the vanilla extract and a vanilla bean caviar glaze as a drizzle over the a bundt cake.