The world's longest ever Christmas cake, a 1,068 metre-long (3,504 foot) was a vanilla log, with a bitter chocolate frosting, as pastry chef Yusuf Yaran explained.
New photographs of the couple's gluten-free cake from La Tulipe Desserts in Mount Kisco, N.Y., show it to be a four-foot tower of vanilla sponge and chocolate mousse, with hundreds of sugar flowers cascading from its nine tiers.
Of the 130,000 people who visit Maroon Lake each year, only 25,000 continue on to Crater Lake at the Bells' base, an easy 500-foot ascent through vanilla-scented lodgepole pines, Engelmann spruce and groves of aspens with fluttering leaves.
The "Hunger Games" heroine's press tour has been rough (there have been a few worst-dressed moments), but she seems to have found her footing in this vanilla-colored strapless gown with a crystal embellishment.
An exuberant and seemingly famished crowd sized up the room with its 16-foot-high ceilings, vast 12-foot-high arched windows, upbeat vanilla paneling, Art Deco tiled columns, burnt-caramel banquettes and deep-ebony-stained white-oak floors dating from the space's original existence as a brass manufactory.
The 800-square-foot lobby, painted in a shade called vanilla, will have latex curtains and a 10-foot-long white onyx counter.
Guests feel mortal terror one moment and then walk less than 20 feet to buy apple crisp with vanilla ice cream the next.
It is a mere 695 square feet, in the kind of building real estate agents call a vanilla box.
Back in the boat, our guide shares a foot-long, thumb-thick guaba seedpod called "ice-cream beans" for the sweet vanilla flavor of the cotton candy-like white pulp surrounding the large black beans.
She steps foot on the lush carpet of her brothers home, an instant comfort as the smell of vanilla and spices hits her nose.
I remember mum making it with brandy and vanilla when I was little, so I lay responsibility for the booziness at her feet.
