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9 Sexy Ingredients to Make Your Baking SpectacularBy Regan Daley author of In the Sweet Kitchen 1. Real vanilla – bean or extract: Yes, it does make that much of a difference, especially in a simple recipe like a pound cake where it is the primary flavouring. Real vanilla is one of the most precious liquids on earth. It is made by hand-pollinating the vanilla planifolia orchid on the one night a year it opens; harvesting the resulting beans, alternately sweating and sun-drying them, ferment (...)