Our story
A baking platform built around real vanilla.
VanillaGoods began as a vanilla company. Today it is a free home for bakers: thousands of tested recipes, the calculators and classes to bake them well, and a community of people who love to bake. The vanilla is still the heart of it.
What's here, free
Everything a home baker needs, in one place.
No paywall and nothing to sign up for to use it. Recipes, calculators, classes and local food guides that work together, so a recipe can take you to the tool you need, the lesson behind it and the market to shop for it.
The platform
Tools that do the math, so you can do the baking.
Every part of VanillaGoods is built to answer the questions bakers actually have in the kitchen: how much, how long, what pan, what goes with what, and where to buy it.
Recipes you can trust
4,000+ recipes with US and metric measures, timings, nutrition and allergens. Scale a recipe from half to triple, or convert it to grams from the recipe page.
Search recipesBaking Tools
56 free calculators: cups to grams, pan conversions, recipe scaling, ingredient substitutions, candy temperatures, dough hydration and more. Every recipe page links straight to them.
Open the toolsDessert Builder
Design your own cake, cupcakes, pie, cheesecake or doughnuts: pick a base, a filling, a frosting and a finish from our tested recipes and get one complete recipe, scaled, with a shopping list.
Build a dessertBaking Academy
12 free courses and 60 lessons, from your first bakes to bread, pastry and croissants, with lesson notes and the tools each lesson uses.
Start a courseBake the Season
A monthly baking plan built around what's in season, with a bake-along, the recipes and the gear for the month.
See this monthFind local food
Farmers markets, farms and farm stands near you, with what's in season and recipes to cook with what you bring home.
Find a marketLearn and listen
The Journal for baking stories and guides, our pick of baking podcasts, and a calendar of vanilla, coffee and tea events.
Read the JournalA community of bakers
Built with the bakers who use it.
VanillaGoods is shaped by the people who bake with it. Members save what they love, log what they bake, share their own recipes and photos, and tell us what to make better. Their questions decide what we build next.
The best baking site is one bakers help build.
- My Kitchen, your baking homeSave recipes, tools, lessons, markets and events, and pick them up on any device.
- Log what you bakeMark "I baked this", keep notes on what worked, and share a photo of the result.
- Your own baker pageShow your signature bake, your favorite recipes and the collections you build, if you choose to share them.
- Share your recipesSend us a family recipe or a twist on one of ours; we review every one and credit you if we publish it.
- Bake it forwardInvite a friend who bakes, and grow the circle of people baking with real vanilla.
Always in development
We're building the best baking tools and data on the web.
VanillaGoods is never finished. We work on it every day with one goal: to give home bakers the most useful baking tools and the most accurate baking data anywhere, free.
Better data, every week
We check recipes against tested ratios and food-safety temperatures, add metric weights, nutrition and allergen labels, and fix what we find. The library gets more accurate over time, not just bigger.
New tools and recipes
New recipes, calculators and lessons are added all the time, chosen by what bakers search for and ask us about.
You set the roadmap
Missing a recipe, a tool or a feature? Tell us. Your questions shape what we build next.
Tell us what to buildWhere it started
It all starts with real vanilla.
Before the recipes and the tools, there was the vanilla. We import whole beans, make our own oak-aged extract and sell it at a fair price. Our recipes are written around real vanilla.
- Careful sourcingWe select beans for origin, aroma, moisture and curing quality, because great extract starts with great beans.
- Controlled extractionControlled extraction, proper aging and release standards, so every bottle tastes like the last.
- Flavor researchWe test origins, extraction methods and oak aging, and every recipe on the site is a chance to learn what each vanilla does best.
- Fair valueVanilla is a volatile crop. Watching the market closely lets us keep quality high and prices honest.
Come bake with us.
Save your favorites, log your bakes, learn something new and help shape what we build next. It's free.