Vanilla Sky: Simply mix the cocktail yourself

The Vanilla Sky cocktail is reminiscent of cheesecake and can easily be mixed yourself. We will show you how in the following article.

Vanilla Sky - you need these ingredients

You can prepare a Vanilla Sky based on vodka without a shaker. All you need is a sufficiently large cocktail glass. The following ingredients are also used per drink:

• 5 cl vodka
• 2 cl vanilla syrup
• 1.5 cl freshly squeezed lime juice
• a little sugar
• seedless grapes, preferably red
• Crushed ice

It's so easy to mix the Vanilla Sky

The preparation of the cocktail is very easy. We show you step by step how to proceed:

1. Put a handful of grapes in the glass and add sugar, depending on the sweetness you want.
2. Squeeze the juice of a lime and add about 1.5 cl of it to the glass.
3. Pour the vanilla syrup into the glass. The following also applies here: You can vary a little depending on your wishes and the amount of sugar.
4. Now crush the grapes with a pestle and mix the whole thing a little.
5. Finally, add the vodka and then fill the glass with crushed ice.
6. Mix everything and garnish the cocktail as you like, such as with grapes.

Cocktail with different variations

The Vanilla Sky is modified frequently and so you can find a number of delicious recipe ideas online. You can also make the sweet vodka-based cocktail a little different, for example:

• Mix 1 cl vodka with 4 cl liqueur and 6 cl banana and passion fruit nectar. In addition to 3 cl of vanilla syrup, you can also add 4 cl of cream.
• Some also mix the Vanilla Sky with freshly squeezed orange or lemon juice instead of lime juice.
• There are also variants that are made with pineapple juice, apple juice or other fruit juices. Here you can let your creativity run wild and try out which Vanilla Sky you like best.

We will show you how to mix a limoncello in the next article.