With Christmas quickly approaching —it’s always fun to decide on whether you might make some homemade gifts. Tidy Mom decided to share with her readers how to make Homemade Vanilla (a fabulous gift idea for the bakers in your family). She asked if I would design the labels for the bottles and gave me a couple to use for pictures. I went to work and bounced ideas off my sister, as she is much more experienced than myself in Photoshop. I have to admit that I was tickled silly as to how well the labels complimented the bottles Cheryl used. They look fantastic! And, well, the vanilla is fantastic too…
Making your own vanilla couldn’t be easier and it is far more economical than buying the store bought variety. By making your own vanilla extract, you can also try different beans. Beanilla sells bottles and 7 different variety of vanilla beans, each of which has a unique flavor! Using premium grade vanilla beans will provide significantly better flavor and aroma than commercially produced extracts.
Once you’ve made the Homemade Vanilla with Cheryl,
you’ll want to grab the following supplies:
Full Sheet Shipping Label(s), Printer and Scissors.
You could also use white paper and double sided tape.
The labels measure approximately 2×3 each. Be sure that they will fit your bottles.
I printed on the full sheet shipping label and cut each of them by hand.
Now, it’s your turn! Click on the image below to print a sheet of 9 vanilla labels.
Now it’s time to start gifting and/or baking!
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My grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies are my favorite recipe to use vanilla extract in 🙂
Colletta
I use vanilla extract in my famous chocolate cake recipe.
Love this idea! I put vanilla in pretty much everything. Thanks so much for the giveaway, Kelly!
Vanilla Bean Scones!
I can’t wait to make my own thanks for the new place to order my vanilla beans never made extract, but I make vanilla sugar.. I place my order..
Love the labels! Thanks so much!
Also: I love using vanilla extract in all my muffin and cookie recipes.
My mom’s Christmas Cookie Recipe:) The labels are adorable – thanks so much!!
I love to use vanilla in whipping cream and in french toast. It adds a certain flavour that my kids love. Thanks for the chance to win!
Homemade Vanilla ice cream is my fave thing to make with vanilla 🙂
Awesome…got to get started making this homemade vanilla extract. Wonderful idea for Christmas gifts! Thanks for the idea, labels and site to order the vanilla beans.
Great vanilla bean ice cream or vanilla shortbread cookies!
surprisingly my friends are better bakers than I am so this would be perfect for me to give as gifts this year. However, I do make some delicious heavenly wedding cookies, hummingbird cake and last but not least the most delicious homemade cinnamon rolls. Just sayin’.
I love, love, love vanilla !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would love to try this out and would love to receive these free gifts as money is very tight this year… and there are some very special people I would love to bless this with as well as make some for myself to bake my heart out !!!!
i love to make homemade pancakes with vanilla extract! yumm!
Sugar cookies!
I would love to learn to make this. Thank you
I love making my own vanilla extract – it tastes way better.
I love making cookies with vanilla extract.
this is a great idea, Love it, They make great gifest
I have always wanted to make some but never did. This time I am 🙂
I use vanilla in hot chocolate, and french toast batter… We got a small ice cream maker this summer, so homemade vanilla ice cream would be yummy! Thanks!
Your labels are absolutely beautiful!! Well done, Kelly!
Thanks, Kristen! Hugs.
I just made homemade vanilla this afternoon, and was looking for labels when I found your blog!
One of our favorite things to make with vanilla is homemade ice cream! I also love to make soft vanilla caramels! Thanks for the opportunity to win such a cool prize package!
I use Vanilla in everything, from cookies to yogurt. Beautiful labels too!!
Thanks!
I LOVE Beanilla – I bought vanilla beans from them last year for homemade Vanilla extract. YUMMY and smells divine! Love the labels!
Love the labels and the idea. Thanks. I pinned it.
I’m going to make my delicious White Chocolate Pecan Pie using my homemade vanilla extract….yummy!
I love making my own vanilla! It is so easy and a great gift option!
My world’s greatest chocolate chip Macadamia Nut coolies. The labels are just adorable. You did a fabulous job. Thanks for sharing.
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Jacque
I love making homemade vanilla. But I am stingy with it because it is special….
I love adding vanilla to almost everything I bake. I was actually going to make vanilla for Christmas gifts.
I have never made my own Vanilla Extract but I’m SOOO happy to have the recipe and the beautiful label. Would love to win this giveaway to get started on my first batch!
They really are perfect for the purpose aren’t they Kelly! Great job. I’m inspired now! (yet again)
Would love to make, especially for christmas girts.
I love ANYTHING with vanilla!! I’d wear vanilla extract as a perfume if I could! ♥
Yum! Snickerdoodles sound good right about now.
Awesome! That would be a fun new experience to try. Love the smell of vanilla. Can imagine the house will smell delightful while making the extract!
What a great gift idea for the holidays!! I would definitely use this in my chocolate chip cookies.
I am a vanilla extract addict, I think! I use it in all of my cake recipes! Thanks so much!!
Just bought my first vanilla beans from Beanilla.com. Can’t wait to make my own brew of homemade vanilla with my children. This is going to start a wonderful new tradition for our family.
Love your beautiful labels…thank you!
http://www.nutmegnanny.com/2011/05/30/cheesecake-stuffed-strawberries/
Love this idea. I am going to make some of my own. Thanks for sharing.
This is something great to do with my daughter who loves to bake.
Homemade icecream with the mexico vanilla in it! Yummy!!
I love to make homemade chocolate chip cookies!
My favorite thing to make with vanilla is Creme Brulee.It’s simple and really lets the Vanilla be the star of the recipe 🙂
I found your site thru Pinterest. I love your labels, great job! I am getting low on vanilla so this would be a perfect time to try and make some! Thanks for the inspiration.
I would love to win it as I have been trying lots of new things so this would be great to try and see what happens.
I simply can’t go through a day w/out my vanilla! Daily I use the extract. Loooove the labels, they’re so cute!
would luv to win this and make my own first batch..thanks 4 the chance.
I put vanilla in almost everything from pancakes to cookies. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
What fun to show my girls how their favorite extract is made…and such pretty labels. Love ti!
I have made vanilla with supermarket vanilla beans but I want to try something different. These beans sound wonderful!
I love using lots of vanilla in French Toast!!!
I love cookies with vanilla extract!!!
It would mostly be used in chocolate chip cookies and my cream cheese pound cake. Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway!
Probably bread pudding or Dutchie pancakes. Yum! Thanks!
I love anything made with vanilla. Sometimes I leave a bottle out on the kitchen counter so I can open it and catch the aroma on a whim.
beautiful labels!! fantastic giveaway!!! 😉
I don’t have one, I think I’ll need to try Cheryl’s!
Cool idea!
How fantastic is this give away! Thank you so much for the printable and the chance to win. Just found you today thru BNOTP.
Beautiful Labels, and great giveaway… thank you =) (new follower) Please enter me.
Gorgeous labels plus I love the idea of making your own extract. I love making these shortbread cookies that need a lot of vanilla. I bet this would make them even more delicious!
I made my own vanilla for the first time last year, and I’ll never ‘go back’ to purchased vanilla! I hope to win this wonderful giveaway! Thank you!
I always add vanilla to our french toast… my favorite treat to use it in is probably chocolate chip cookies 🙂 We just ran out of our huge bottle of Vanilla from Mexico {guess it is time for another trip!}. I would love to try to make my own now!
This was exactly what I was planning on makking for Christmas … what a present itself to find your labels! Thank you 🙂
I like to add a dash of vanilla to our french toast wash and I use it in my favorite pecan pie recipe!
I love making vanilla cake!
I love to use the best vanilla available in my stuffed french toast. Very decadent!
I have to have a high quality vanilla extract for my snickerdoodle recipe – LOVE to make my own
Thanks for the recipe… will use it in my vanilla lemon curd cake…
I’ve been using Mexican vanilla for several years now but have been wanting to make my own and then give some as gifts for Christmas but hadn’t gotten around to ordering any vanilla beans yet. Maybe now’s my chance!
Thanks for the labels. I have vanilla extract “brewing” right now, which i started last month. These are perfect!
Just to let you know I featured your wonderful project today.
Stop by and grab a featured button and thank you so much for sharing your project.
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They’re beautiful! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I love the recipie for homemade vanilla extract. And what a clever and unusual gift. I would be thrilled to win the vanilla beans and jars. Thank you for offering it.
Hi Kelly
I just brought the Avery 8165 Labels, after I print out the vanilla extract labels and cut them do I use tape to tape it to the bottles.
Hi Jackie! They should be stickers, so all you need to do is pull off the back and apply to your bottle. Let me know if you have any other questions 🙂 Cheers!
just found your website and I have to say I’m feeling quite inspired. that is no small feat. i lost my husband a year ago and have not been dealing that well in general. this might be just what i need. i love to bake and vanilla is so expensive. thank you.
Just wanted to let you know your lovely labels has been featured on my blog today!
http://www.weststreetstory.com/2013/09/11/holiday-recipe-homemade-vanilla-extract/
I love Beanilla products – hope I win!
Ommgee! Thanks so much for these great looking labels…even though they were offer a year ago. On my list of gifts to make for those I love!!!
Thank you very much for the labels. I love them!
I love the labels. I have been looking for pantry labels for my spies. How can I get custom labels in this pattern?
Hi Ingrid 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by. I can make custom labels for a small fee — feel free to e-mail me at kelly@livelaughrowe(dot)com.
Great labels!