Five Star Chef Gourmet Vanilla Paste, 32 Fluid Ounce - Rich & Aromatic Bean Paste for Baking, Desserts, and Beverages – Intense Flavor with Real Specks – Perfect for Cakes, Cookies, Ice Cream & More

This is a great alternative for pure vanilla bean paste at a fraction of the cost. The taste and smell will bring out the best in all your baking and cooking needs. It comes in a large bottle that barely fit in my cupboard so I just add it to a smaller bottle for ease of use. It is easy to use as an exact exchange of any vanilla in your recipe and provide a great outcome to any product.

I have been baking sugar cookies professionally for over 5 years. I have just discovered this vanilla bean paste after the one I usually use has been out of stock for a while. I won’t switch back. This has great flavor! My icing might be better than it’s ever been! For the price it’s well worth they buy.

Good quality,good value

This vanilla paste taste like plastic ...it comes in a plastic bottle, mine was bowed out at bottom so wobbled and the taste is gummy plastic.Sorry I bought this. Kim J.

Not very pleased with it, thinner consistency, taste is okay

Works great and is cheaper by a lot

For the price, this product is a steal. I've come to accept the fact that I will probably always use pastes to add caviar and extracts or emulsions to add flavor. It's cheaper than buying beans to add caviar and honestly, it keeps longer. Beans can dehydrate or even get moldy if stored improperly. A paste like this takes all the worry out of proper storage and honestly, will last a really long time. For flavor I'd say it's just meh but honestly, most pastes would get that reaction from me. The conclusion I've come to is that pastes are really just thickened solutions to suspend caviar with sugar, thickeners and some extract added. I've started using pastes in addition to extracts and emulsions to get the flavor I want in what I'm making. I'll use extracts if I'm not baking and emulsions if I am. I have yet to try vanilla bean powder but I hear it's one of the most potent ways to add vanilla flavor. This is still a great value just don't expect it to give a strong vanilla flavor in your items. I actually tried it straight yesterday and I was like...yeah...mostly sugar. But that's ok because the caviar is gorgeous and looks great in ice creams, custards, candies like marshmallow etc... Plus it is adding some flavor just not a ton.

I'm another former Neilsen-Massey bulk buyer driven here in desperation that that product has literally doubled in price, and I can't justify paying $120+ for vanilla bean paste, no matter how much I love baking. This is definitely not as good quality, but for the price it works just fine. It's been really nice having a big bottle in the kitchen again that I can use liberally instead of sparingly trying to ration out a 4 oz bottle to last months. Definitely recommend purchasing, I will definitely buy again when I run out.