Extracts you have tried and enjoyed

[Anonymous]

Hi. I love baking and I am always looking for extracts and flavorings besides vanilla.

I invest money in a new extract only to find that it doesn’t taste like what it’s supposed to or is just not good.

Can anyone recommend brands and flavors they like using?

[Anonymous]

Lorann oils are good.

[Anonymous]

I use Watkins banana extract in my banana bread, delish.

[Anonymous]

I use almond regularly. Anything else I've tried has seemed very artificial.

[Anonymous]

I use lemon to up the lemon punch in baked goods. I’ve used peppermint around the holidays for double chocolate chip mint cookies and brownies.

[Anonymous]

Orange extract in hot chocolate daily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use almond regularly. Anything else I've tried has seemed very artificial.

Even vanilla?

[Anonymous]

Lavender extract in Earl Gray tea and a few baked goods. Just a very tiny amount.

[Anonymous]

Penseys has an excellent orange extract.

[Anonymous]

King Arthur Flour has a Fiori di Sicilia that is very popular. It's a orange, lemon and vanilla combo and so good.
But use sparingly; a little goes a long way.

[Anonymous]

I make my own vanilla extract and I’m now going to try branching out to almond extract (did you know most almond extract is made with cherry pits ?!).

I also love lemon extract for baking but haven’t made my own yet .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make my own vanilla extract and I’m now going to try branching out to almond extract (did you know most almond extract is made with cherry pits ?!).

I also love lemon extract for baking but haven’t made my own yet .

I had no idea! Fascinating! Is there almond in it?

[Anonymous]

Most almond extracts are made from the pits of peaches, cherries, or apricots (also called bitter almond). Some contain some almond oil added in.

I will be trying mine with bitter almond .

Strangely enough, my son used to always say it smelled like cherries not almonds and I would tell him he was imagining it lol.

[Anonymous]

I love almond extract. Just a tiny amount goes a long way - its strong! Whatever you buy, make sure its the real thing and not imitation flavors.

[Anonymous]

I used ube extract to make ube crinkle cookies. The color is a beautiful purple color and the flavor is kinda like vanilla.