Kitchen Moxy

I love using my favorite spice, vanilla bean.  I have offered other culinary delights using vanilla beans to this blog. Do a search for Vanilla, you will find recipes for: Vanilla Bean Syrup, Vanilla Bean Sugar, Vanilla Extract, Vanilla Bean Sugar Cubes, Vanilla Bean Sea Salt, Vanilla Bourbon Sauce.  Any of these items packaged nicely would be a wonderful gift during the holidays.  Enjoy

Vanilla Butter

Ingredients:

• 1 stick butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 whole vanilla bean
  

Directions:

1. Whip the softened butter, and sugar, mixing with an electric mixer until the sugar dissolves and butter is fluffy.
2. Add the caviar from the vanilla bean by splitting the bean lengthwise with a sharp knife, stir the seeds into the butter until totally combined.
3. Serve with warm biscuits, muffins waffles, or pancakes.
   
4. Store butter in refrigerator.
   

The fun with this butter is that you can add other ingredients to the butter after whipping with the sugar and vanilla bean.  Some suggestions are: 1 tablespoon of honey, Bourbon, or ground roasted almonds.  Consider using fine white sugar in place of the brown sugar and add a tablespoon of organic lavender flowers, purple chive flowers, chopped rose petals, or marigold petals.  Whatever the occasion calls for.  Use your imagination but be sure if you do add flowers, they are edible.