Vanilla Extract

Ingredients

• 8 oz vodka
• 2-3 whole vanilla bean pods (mexican is wonderful!)
• pinch sugar

Instructions

1. Set the vanilla bean strands into bottle so they stand upright. Pour vodka into bottle covering vanilla beans almost all the way to their tops. Add the pinch of sugar into bottle. Put stopper on and store for 6 weeks to naturally steep. Then it is ready for all of your baking and soy milk shakes! Lasts over a year — keep the vanilla beans in the bottle or add them to other recipes.