Kirkland Signature Organic Madagascar Vanilla Beans are premium gourmet-grade vanilla beans sourced from Madagascar, the world's gold standard for vanilla quality. These USDA Organic certified beans are packaged in a convenient single vial containing 20 whole vanilla beans.

Madagascar vanilla beans are characterized by their rich, dark and creamy appearance with plump, curved pods that are oily and abundant with seeds. They feature a deep, sweet aroma with buttery notes and a full, creamy, mellow flavor profile with velvety after-tones and earthy undertones of dried dark fruits. The beans are traditionally cured using the Bourbon method to develop their complex vanilla flavor made of over 200 organic compounds.

These versatile vanilla beans are perfect for making homemade vanilla extract, baking, cooking, brewing, and flavoring ice cream, custards, and whipped cream. The seeds can be scraped and used directly in recipes to add visual vanilla bean specks, while the remaining pod can be steeped to flavor other preparations, macerated in alcohol or sugar to create vanilla extract or infused sugar, or ground and sprinkled on desserts. The organic certification guarantees no pesticides or GMOs were used in cultivation.