19 Vodka Cocktails to Make Anytime You Need a Drink

We use vodka for cooking (see vodka pasta sauce or delve into why the clear spirit works wonders on pie dough), but we’ve also been known to drink it. Enter vodka cocktails.

And while, sure, you could complicate things—level up on your new-found love for the espresso martini with our favorite coffee cocktails, quench your thirst for a frozen drink with this vodka gimlet slush, make a cereal milk White Russian that would blow “The Dude’s” mind—this roundup of vodka cocktails keeps things easy. No double-shake with egg whites, no homemade flavored vodkas (although this pineapple mint number is pretty good, not to mention perennial favorite limoncello). Anyway, let’s get to drinking it, shall we? Now presenting our best vodka cocktail recipes.