Time’s up!
The winners of the Nielsen Massey Vanilla Giveaway are:
#361 Lindsay: “Plain, for sure. No sense in ruining what is already delicious! :)”
#601 Erin: “i just ran across your blog last weekend, and i am hooked!!! :)”
#1086 Stacie M: “I would eat the vanilla ice cream on top of apple crisp or topped with chocolate, peanut butter and crushed up pretzels!! YUM, wish I had some now :)”
Congratulations girls! I love all of your sweet smilies. I’ve sent ya’ll an email. Happy baking!
Oh guys, I’ve got such a fun giveaway to share with you today! Just look at all these fabulous pure vanilla products from Nielsen Massey. We’ve got three different kinds of vanilla extracts, vanilla bean paste, vanilla sugar, whole vanilla beans, exotic extracts to spice up your baking, and a cookbook filled with bakery and pastry recipes, along with new ideas for using vanilla as an essential ingredient in savory dishes. I got to go through the Neilsen Massey catalog of pure vanilla products and hand pick my favorites to share with you guys, and Nielsen Massey would like to offer this assortment to three (3) Kevin & Amanda readers today.
Nielsen Massey offers three different types of vanilla extracts processed from vanilla beans grown in three different regions across the globe. What a huge difference it made in my baking when I figured out which type of vanilla was best to use in which recipe! Here’s a quick description of the three vanillas, and how to best utilize them.
Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla. The most popular, classic, all-purpose vanilla that is perfect for a wide range of foods from baked goods to barbeque sauces.
Mexican Pure Vanilla. A creamy, spicy vanilla that’s perfect for recipes that contain chocolate, cinnamon or other warm spices. A perfect vanilla for the holidays!
Tahitian Pure Vanilla. This is my favorite of all the vanillas. The flavor is so pure and sweet, and I can definitely tell a difference when I use this vanilla. This vanilla is susceptible to heat, so it’s only for recipes that will not be cooked. It’s perfect for ice creams, fruits, sorbets, frostings, and vanilla butter.
The Giveaway
Three (3) Kevin & Amanda readers will win the following products from Nielsen Massey.
2 oz Pure Almond Extract
2 oz Pure Chocolate Extract
2 oz Pure Coffee Extract
2 oz Pure Peppermint Extract
2 oz Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla
2 oz Mexican Pure Vanilla
2 oz Tahitian Pure Vanilla
Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste
Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Sugar
2 Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans
2 Tahitian Vanilla Beans
A Century of Flavors cookbook
To read more about how to get the most out of these products, visit the Nielsen Massey product information page. You can find Nielsen Massey vanillas at Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table, and online at Amazon.com
How to Enter
To be entered to win the Nielsen Massey Vanilla Giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post: Imagine you have a bowl of vanilla ice cream in front of you. Do you eat it plain or load it up with toppings? Me? I’d leave it plain but turn it into a milkshake! Yum! Kevin would add chocolate and peanut butter for sure.
Contest ends Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 8 pm CST. One entry per person, please. Winners will be chosen by Random.org and notified by email. Giveaway provided by Nielsen Massey.
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I only buy this vanilla extract! Nothing else compares, not even close!
Mini Chocolate Chips or a yummy peanut butter sauce…..or better yet BOTH!! Mmmmmm
how fun! just in time for holiday baking.
What a fun giveaway! I would totally load it up with chocolate sauce and sprinkles – maybe some crushed Oreos, too! Yum!
I LOVE caramel over vanilla ice cream. Hot Fudge is great too! Maybe a few nuts….yummy! Thanks for the chance!
I’d add some chocolate syrup and stir until it is smooth and creamy!
Just sprinkles!
hersey syrup and malt powder sprinkled on top. Although…reading some of these interesting posts has sparked me to try some new options. Wow!!
Like you, I would eat it plain or add a little milk. Yum.
Love Love Love the smell of vanilla.
I would def leave it plain
Yumm
I would load it up with toppings! Caramel and Chocolate and Strawberries!!
it would be between my home-made hot fudge sauce and home-made butterscotch sauce, or maybe a little (or a lot) of both!
I would load it up with toppings! I like fresh fruit and chocolate on my vanilla ice cream. Hope you’re doing great, Amanda! :)
Hot fudge and caramel! YUM! :)
I too would leave it plain…oh, or maybe add toasted coconut! YUM!
I’d load it up with nuts, chocolate, cherries, but no sprinkles.
I would load it up with chocolate sauce and sprinkles and make it into a milkshake! Yum! What a fun give away! Thank you!!!
I’d make a banana split with chocolate fudge, whipped cream, chopped nuts and a cherry on top. YUMMMMMM!
I love to put my grandma’s homemade strawberry jam on top of vanilla ice cream! The jam is so delicious and chunky, it’s almost like eating fresh strawberries!
I’d top mine with brownies, oreos, and hot fudge! And I love vanilla.
Can we trade the vanilla in for chocolate, and add some marshmallow cream? Yum!
Peanut butter sauce and tons of hot fudge! Like so much you can barely see the ice cream!! Lol
Butterscotch topping with a sprinkling of salty nuts.
Vanilla ice cream is my favorite & I have to say, I would eat it without any extra ingredients.. but I like your idea of making it into a milkshake. I have always, since childhood, stirred my ice cream in a bowl until it melted just a little. That is the best!!
First, I’d hope it was a big bowl of vanilla bean ice cream and then I’d load it up with fresh strawberries
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Hot fudge and pecans!!!!
Hot fudge, caramel and nuts. Yum!
If I had a brownie or cookie anywhere around I would heat it up, then put it in with the ice cream-and maybe melt some peanut butter and drizzle that over it too. MMm….now I’m hungry!
I would have to put hot fudge on it and some chocolate sprinkles!
Oh I love vanilla and really hope my random number comes up for this!
I love putting chopped strawberries and granola on vanilla icecream!
I love a little warm hot fudge on my vanilla ice cream, and a mound of whipped cream, oh so yummy! What an amazing prize package, I love Massey products, thanks so much for the chance to win!
I like to stir it up a little to make it creamy, but I eat it plain!
I love plain vanilla ice cream….add a little caramel makes it perfect!!
I am a baker at heart and love to find fund things to bake each holiday season and through out the year. Vanilla is such a big part of this activity. But I have been using vanilla at a faster rate than in the past because I have discovered Vanilla Milk…and I drink a lot of milk for the calcium… I use about a capful per quart. Really livens up skim milk and soy milk. Hope I win!!! Happy Holidays to you Amanda and all your readers!!!!
I love vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.
I absolutely love vanilla ice cream with peach cobbler. My other choice would be with caramel, mini chocolate chips, and cool whip.
I definitely eat my ice cream plain!
Oh my gosh! What an awesome give away! mmm vanilla bean paste! I bet that is to die for! *crosses fingers*
Plain vanilla with rainbow sprinkles (the softer sprinkles) YUM!
I love putting M & M’s and broken pretzal sticks on vanilla ice cream. Yummy! Thanks for sponsoring this awesome giveaway.
I’d probably go plain. I never used to, but my kid loves plain vanilla ice cream and has made me find a new appreciation for it :)
Plain for me please. Yumm!
I would add caramel to my bowl of vanilla ice cream!
My husband’s family has a chocolate sauce recipe that is to die for. Vanilla ice cream is the perfect companion!
Most favorite ice cream combination ever: Vanilla ice cream, warm brownie chunks, fresh raspberries. Maybe a little chocolate drizzle. YUM!
HMMM! Imagine a bowl of vanilla ice cream,
I would use bourbon vanilla sugar and coffee vanilla sugar sprinkled on it.
I’d add some caramel!
Vanilla Ice Cream is best with my homemade chocolate sauce. Delicous.
I’m not a huge ice cream fan, but I do love it with warm cookies or brownies!
Oh, how I love to create my own sundaes. There’s no way I would leave it plain! Mine would be loaded up with whipped cream, hot fudge, caramel drizzle, sprinkles, and a cherry on top!
With Vanilla Or Vanilla Bean Ice cream My favorite way to enjoy it has gotta Be RootBeer. My Favorite is Maine Root and Organic and Local ( I’m From Maine) Company and 2 Scoops of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and I am instantly taken back to Summer
I would love to win and try these out!
Do you eat it plain or load it up with toppings? = toppings!!!
And I love N.M. vanilla…it’s SUCH a luxurious treat. I’d love to win some. Great giveaway!
Plain… unless it is fresh fruit season and then strawberries or peaches!!
I’d add some pineapple and pecans to my vanilla ice cream! Love love love this brand of vanilla. I use the kind from Madagascar. It’s all I ever use so I’d be delighted to get different flavors to try. I accidentally bumped my bottle over the other day and one-third of it spilled on the counter. I was “sick” about that, let me tell you!
I would definitely load it up with toppings… specifically candy, any sort of chocolate and lots of whipped cream!!
I would turn mine into a delectable root beer float! These looks amazing! Thanks.
Plain, for sure. No sense in ruining what is already delicious! :)
I’m with kevin on this one! I’d so add chocolate and peanut butter and throw in a banana and whipped cream!
I’d top it with some fruits and indulge!
Rainbow Sprinkles….and lots of them!
Vanilla Ice-Cream?! – I just eat it plain when it’s just beginning to get soft – soo creamy and my favorite ice cream to eat – pure unadulterated vanilla icecream!
I’d load it up with toppings – crushed peanut butter cups, Snickers, or maybe some crumbled brownies. Yum!
I love to melt peanut butter and then pour it over vanilla ice cream and then add hot fudge….
MMMMMMMMMmmmmmm! Vanilla! I loves me some vanilla! I take my vanilla ice cream plain. So good!
First off, I’d add no calories! :) Peanut butter & warm brownies with chocolate jimmies would make a delight sundae in my book! Happy weekend!
In a perfect world where I could eat whatever I want I’d add hot fudge and chopped salted peanuts!
Plain old vanilla is simply the best – however, I could come up with a raspberry, vanilla and grand marnier syrup in the summer months if I had some of this gorgeous vanilla – yum yum!
Plain is the BEST!! Thanks for sharing this!
Chocolate and caramel for sure!
crushed heath bar for me!
I would eat it with chocoate and caramel syrups on top.
Amanda until I started reading your blog I never knew vanilla could be so very exciting! I was in Trader Joe’s last week and got Pure Bourbon vanilla. I used it to make Chocolate Chai Bread and what a unique flavor it offered. So… THANK YOU!
In terms of ice cream, I’m with your hubby…hot fudge and peanut butter cups. Mmm, I think I know what I’m having for dessert tonight. :-)
I’d put these wonderful little creme brulee almonds on it that I recently discovered. I am in love!!!
I would love to have some fresh peaches and toasted pecans on mine. Although I love just plain vanilla ice cream.
I would crush up some pretzels and add a bit of caramel. And then eat it very fast before my 2 year old son saw that I had ice cream.
I love to pair my vanilla ice cream with nuts, sliced banana, and chocolate syrup. YUM and slightly nutritious, right? ;)
I love a good vanilla and I would leave my vanilla ice cream plain!
Delicious! Chocolate for sure!
I would top it off with fresh raspberry sauce!
Ooooooo in a bowl with milk poured over it! Not a shake but not just ice-cream. YUM!!!
Load it up! The Reese’s topping that hardens is my absolute favorite, but add on some whipped cream, caramel, and the cherry on top and it would be perfect!
I would add hot fudge!
Awesome! I love putting tons of sprinkles on top & then mixing it all together!
Would love to try Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Bean and
Tahitian Vanilla Bean which seem to be 2 of your favs so they must be good!
I like it plain, or with caramel!
I have to have some toasted slivered almonds in my vanilla ice cream…. hard to beat the sweetness of the vanilla and the crunch of the almonds together!
My VERY favorite: Vanilla Ice Cream, Strawberries & Hershey’s Syrup… AH!
I would pour hot fudge all over it and top it with about 10 cherries. And maybe add some caramel sauce. Yum!!
I’d give the bowl to my husband — not an ice cream fan. Give me something {BAKED} any day! :)
What else to do but make a Coke float! Thanks Amanda
I love really good vanilla ice cream, but I also love it with fruit such as fresh or frozen blueberries (slightly thawed). Yum!
I would put homemade hot fudge and LOTS of rainbow sprinkles! Has to be rainbow! =)
Mmmmm….I love vanilla anything, especially vanilla bean ice cream. It doesn’t have to be adorned with any toppings!
I would definitely turn it into a chocolate pb milkshake!
I would eat my vanilla ice cream with carmel sauce from Pamperd Chef.
I’m with Kevin! Chocolate and peanut butter and lots of it!
Fruit cut up on it! Always bananas and then whatever else I may have in the refrigerator!
Chocolate chips and sprinkles!!