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Vanilla Bean Cola: Real vanilla, cane-sugar cola and sweet cream.

Vanilla Bean Cola

Real vanilla, cane-sugar cola and sweet cream.

Base
Cola
Time
3 minutes
Mood
Classic, Creamy

A soda-fountain classic made properly. Vanilla bean syrup deepens the cola's spice notes, and a pour of sweet cream turns the whole thing velvety.

Ingredients

  • —Pebble or nugget ice, packed to the rimShop ↗
  • 1 ozVanilla syrupShop ↗
  • 14 ozMexican Coca-ColaShop ↗
  • 1 ozHeavy cream
  • —Split vanilla bean

Method

  1. 1

    Fill a glass with pebble ice.

  2. 2

    Add the vanilla syrup.

  3. 3

    Pour the cola slowly down the side of the glass.

  4. 4

    Float heavy cream over the top.

  5. 5

    Tuck a split vanilla bean against the glass.

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