Kahlua - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 quart vodka
3 1/2 c. sugar
2 c. water
3 heaping tsp. of instant cocoa
1 1/4 c. instant coffee
1 vanilla bean

Preparation

Pour vodka into a dark bottle. Combine coffee, sugar, cocoa and water in saucepan. Make a simple syrup (cook until the mixture is the consistency of maple syrup). Cool completely and pour into a bottle. Quarter the vanilla bean and add to the bottle. Seal and put the bottle in a cool dark place for at least a month. Shake bottle once a week.