Saturday, February 9, 2013

Asheville Girls Vanilla

I love to bake, as many of you who follow my blog know, and there's nothing better than baking with fresh eggs from your backyard chickens and ducks.  It just makes sense to use the freshest, best-quality ingredients you can in all your recipes.  


So I was thrilled when Sharon from Asheville Girls Vanilla contacted me and asked if I would like to try their Vanilla Extract.  Their extract is homemade in North Carolina, using organic vanilla beans and pure alcohol and then aged.  


If you have never tasted homemade vanilla extract, you don't know what you're missing. The bold, robust flavor of their vanilla puts store bought to shame (no surprise there!).  After tasting how good the batch of sugar cookies I baked this weekend turned out using their vanilla, I am sold on it! They will be my source for vanilla extract from now on.  (oh and p.s. their packaging is super cute too!)



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  1. French Toast is the best way to use vanilla!!

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  2. I agree with Jessica, French Toast is wonderful with vanilla. :o) But my favorite is Banana Cake!

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  3. What could be better than baking using my fresh eggs and Asheville Girls Vanilla :)

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  4. My healthy smoofhie always yummy with real vanilla!

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  5. My favorite recipe is Vanilla Pecan Balls .Mom and I made them every Christmas .Now I still carry on the recipe best cookie ever had
    . Cara D

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  6. I have to agree with the french toast.

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  7. Best recipe for GOOD Vanilla is "Butter Nut Ball using Pecans and Vanilla mom and i made them every Christmas Now I carry on myself .The best cookie ever

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  9. Mini choc. Chip meringues! So simple bit sooo good

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  10. Chocolate chip cookies!! Oh, and my Fudgy Sea Salt and Caramel Brownies!!

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  11. Vanilla Brine for my pork - oh so yummy!

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  12. Boiled Chocolate Cookies aka Cow Patties

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  13. I simply love Vanilla Egg cream - if you haven't made it - oh my goodness, so delicious!!!

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  15. My grandmother's coconut pound cake! Uses lots of real vanilla and coconut and it is sooooo moist and delicious! :)

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  16. I think our family's favorite recipe is definitely homemade Sugar Cookies...I must have made more than a dozen batches this holiday season !!!!! But,some of these recipes above look Oh so delicious !!!!! I'm going to have to google Vanilla Egg Cream, Vanilla Pecan Balls, and Butter Nut Ball !!!! Mmmmmm, can't wait to try 'em !!! Happy baking all !!

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  17. My mother used to make a pudding called "Cowpunchers" made with eggs, milk & vanilla. Was most delicious. Thanks for sharing.

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  18. Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. And that's actually doable here in North Texas right now, even though it's supposed to be winter. lol

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  19. I love to make poppy seed bread....delicious warm or cold...mmmm!
    Sandy S

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  21. Homemade Vanilla ice cream made with homegrown eggs and milk - Unbeatable!

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  23. There are too many to name a favorite, BUT, homemade vanilla ice cream has to be one of my top loves for pure vanilla extract.

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    1. Me too! I also like to make vanilla scones

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  24. My FAVORITE recipe? A tie between Peanut Butter Nutella cookies and Honeydoodle cookies. Honeydoodles are just snickerdoodles with delicious honey mixed in! Luckily I'm related to the owner of a honey company, so I have BUCKETS of it.

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  26. Chocolate Chip Cookies or French Toast. Those are a couple of favorites with fresh eggs of course. Would love to try this vanilla.

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  27. Definitely vanilla ice cream made with our goat milk! Store bought vanilla just tastes off :/

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  29. My favorite recipes have to be French toast and baked custard for using vanilla in. You get the best of both world's. Vanilla and fresh eggs.

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  31. oatmeal cookies with raisins, nuts, and dried cranberries

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  32. My favorite recipe using vanilla is my great great grandmother's Peach Pound Cake!! Using fresh Georgia peaches of course :) It would be even better with homemade vanilla!!

    LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog by the way. You and your flock are my inspiration

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  33. Lately, chocolate chip cookies are my favorite recipe that uses vanilla! :)

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  34. I use Vanilla quite a bit..pancakes, french toast, chocolate chip cookies...probably the cookies are my favorite!

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  35. Vanilla is SO good in so many things. Our gluten-free brownies and cake always get a good dose!

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  36. Banana muffins, my family begs me to make these all the time. I use vanilla in so many things that I make and would love to try Ashville Girls Vanilla.
    Thanks for sponsoring the giveaway and giving me a chance to win.
    cjbrick@ymail.com

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  37. Actually my hubby is the baker at our house and he makes a great pound cake using vanilla.

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  38. I love using vanilla in my great-Grandmother's cookie recipes! We also use vanilla in pancakes and waffles.

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  39. Gotta have real vanilla for old fashioned pound cake and lots of fresh eggs!!!! Hubby loves it for breakfast with his coffee.

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  40. Gotta have real vanilla for old fashioned pound cake and lots of fresh eggs!!!! Hubby loves it for breakfast with his coffee.

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  41. Oatmeal cookies or pancakes are a few favorite that I use vanilla.

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  42. My absolute favorite recipe, that I will spare no expense for the best vanilla available is: EggNog. And I make THE BEST eggnog--- if I do say so myself. Blessings~

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  43. Homemade cheesecake...just made two last night. Yum!

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  44. Creme Brulee is one of my favorite things to make.

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  45. I use vanilla extract and coconut oil in my brownies.

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  46. My favorite is vanilla buttercream frosting. I make it with real butter, raw milk, confectioners sugar and vanilla. Tastes great on any cake, but especially on my Great Grandmother's Devil Food cake using fresh eggs from the coop and of course more vanilla.

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  47. I use vanilla extract in my homemade granola bars and chia seed smoothies! Would love to try theirs!

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  48. I make a homemade Vanilla Latte that is delicous, always use a lot of vanilla to get the right flavor. Would love to try their vanilla.
    Marcie
    marringt@gmail.com

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  49. Chocolate Chip Cookies....I always double the vanilla

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  51. I like to add a dash of vanilla to my smoothies. :o)

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  52. I must have homemade vanilla! I use it in my Grandfathers recipe for Vanilla Ice Cream. Its the best
    Cyndi cyndikm@windstream.net

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  53. I think this would make my butter cream frosting sing!

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  54. I just made it - Surfer Squares. Delicious, and possibly one of the easiest recipes ever.

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  55. Grandma Lindsey's Sugar Cookies.

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  56. I would have to say pound cake. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  57. Sugar Cookies with fresh Vanilla?! Yummy...

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  60. I think it would have to be my Moms homemade peanut butter vannila fudge. YUMMM

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  61. It would have to be my cinnamon rolls!

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  62. I'd love to make my mom's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with this vanilla!

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  64. Chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies!

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  66. Egg nog! There are a lot of recipes I love that use vanilla, but with egg nog, a great vanilla (and this sounds like it is!) makes all the difference.

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  67. Gotta go with the French Toast being the most frequently made thing with vanilla in my house.

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  68. Double Vanilla Cupcakes- NOM!!!!!
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  69. Favorite recipe would have to be some sort of chocolate cupcake. And I typically double the amount of vanilla called for.

    Jenny
    ~Black Fox Homestead.com

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  73. I like to use vanilla in most all of my baking and what ever amount it calls for I always put extra. I like it in my pancake batter, cookies, cakes, icecream you name it.

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  74. How sweet! Yummy! I want a pound cake for sure.

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  75. My favorite Powdered Sugar Cookie recipe...

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  76. I have a kickin' recipe for Bourbon Pecan Pie that is TO DIE FOR! I'd love to try this vanilla in it and take it to the next level. :)

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  78. Homemade vanilla ice cream is so much better with really good vanilla. That'd have to be my favorite recipe for vanilla. Maybe I will win :-)

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    1. Thanks for hosting this giveaway. I'm gonna share it on "Our Crazy Coop" FB page.

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  79. I use vanilla in my homemade coffee creamer!!!

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  81. I use vanilla in chocolate chip cookies.

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  82. I found a yummy chocolate chip recipe on MADE that I make all the time. Fresh eggs and fresh vanilla would be delicious.

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