A dish is often only as good as the ingredients you use, and when it comes to vanilla, it really doesn’t get much better than Taylor & Colledge. For more than 120 years, it has expertly crafted the finest vanilla extracts and pastes to help elevate your recipes like never before. For starters, the vanilla is produced in small batches to ensure it’s of the highest quality. It’s also entirely organic and made from only the finest quality ingredients, with no additives and nothing artificial.
Happily, every product in the range will help to bring out the full flavour of your dishes, though you’ll find each will also offer your creations something unique. To get you started on your Taylor & Colledge adventure, TV chef and dessert lover Lisa Faulker has created six delicious recipes that are sure to excite your taste buds.
“I am delighted to be partnering with Taylor & Colledge this year,” Lisa says. “I’ve loved creating recipes using the incredible vanilla paste, extract and pods.” From crowd-pleasing blondies to a seriously moreish roulade, Lisa has gone above and beyond to create recipes fit for all occasions. “I’ve developed treats that I think all levels of home cooks will enjoy making whilst exploring the wonderful world of Taylor & Colledge,” she explains. “The beautiful organic and Fairtrade products have been a joy to work with and are a staple for me when making something sweet.”
Before checking out Lisa’s tempting recipes, read on to discover how you can get the most out of Taylor & Colledge’s quality ingredients in your cooking.
Arguably the most versatile ingredient in the Taylor & Colledge range, this fragrant extract – which is also Fairtrade certified – works in everything from bakes and custard-based desserts to jams and syrups, and even milkshakes and speciality coffees. Its wonderfully intense flavour means a little goes a long way and it combines just as well through doughs and heavier-based creams as it does liquids.
Ideal for your cookies, cakes, muffins – and pretty much any other bake you can think of – this easy-to-use paste spreads perfectly in doughs and batters, without changing the consistency. It provides the perfect vanilla flavour, adding a subtle hint of sweetness and an irresistible aroma to your baked creations. And you can be sure they'll look as good as they taste, thanks to the paste’s flecks of real vanilla seeds.
Vanilla is great for refining your savoury dishes (think mashed potatoes served with lamb or a rich champagne sauce) as well as your sweet ones. Taylor & Colledge’s vanilla pods add a bold flavour without any additional sweetness. To get the most out of your pods, it’s better to scrape out the seeds and add it alongside the pod into milk or cream to get the full flavour and aroma of vanilla. The seeds are also great for adding scatterings of colour to your dishes, along with a delicious fragrance and hand-crafted look.
Specialising in single origin vanilla, Taylor & Colledge is committed to the fair, ethical and sustainable sourcing of all its vanilla products, so it can support growers to expand their vanilla crops and ensure production is viable for the future. It’s also proud to be an active participant and provide ongoing support for the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative – a voluntary industry initiative, promoting the long-term stable supply of high quality vanilla, produced in a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable way.