We always add the scraped seeds from a plump, good quality Tahitian vanilla pod to our vanilla cake with excellent results and a real, extra good boost of vanilla flavor (we don't use extract). The bakery smells heavenly when we bake our vanilla bean cake, and customers always ask what smells so good!! I've always wonder why cake is called 'yellow' or 'white'. Yellow and white aren't flavors. Is chocolate called called 'brown' cake? Didn't think so.

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