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Why would you think to capitalize the word vanilla any more than you would think to capitalize strawberry, chocolate, or mint?

There are, of course -and as always-, exceptions.

1.) Capitalize if the flavor is a brand name, in other words, a registered trademark.

also:

2.) Capitalize any word in a flavor name (or anything else) which is the name or adjective form of a country, state, city, region or any other proper name.

Examples of these exceptions:

Do you like my Grand Marnier cupcakes?

Here are some Drambuie cupcakes.

I could eat a dozen French vanilla cupcakes!

Mom baked two German chocolate layer cakes.

"I love Boston cream pie!"

Have a glass of Tahitian vanilla coconut milk.

"This isn't just any old chocolate bar. It's is a yummy Brazilian chocolate one!"

"My favorite treat at Basin-Robbin's is their Rootn' Tootn' Rum Chocolate ice cream."

(In this case even 'rum' and 'chocolate' are capitalized because they're parts of a registered trademark, hence the whole group of words is one proper name.)

"My sister is a baker. She invented a super new flavor of cream puff. She calls them her Montenegro Vanilla cream puffs" (Here vanilla is capitalized because it's part of a registered proper name and may or may not taste anything like 'regular' vanilla.)

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