So i've been out of the DIY game for about 4 or 5 months. Maybe a bit longer. Decided to restock supplies and expand to using capella flavors as well. Mixed up a few recipes I came up with/had been thinking about and thought I'd share them. Any feed back, input, etc is always welcome.
***All Flavors Capella unless otherwise noted, All batches were made to 50ml, 6mg using 100mg vg nic.
Lemon Bar-
Lemon Sicily 8%
Glazed Doughnut 2%
Vanilla Custard 2%
Graham Cracker 3 %
A local Juice Maker makes one that is phenomenal. Tried to clone it, its almost there but not a 1:1. I like it though. May do some tweaking. For anyone wondering this is their website, VB Vapor. Very good juices. Never had a bad one
Orange Cream
Orange Creamsicle 15%
French Vanilla 3%
Thought it would be creamier than what it was, but it isn't. I was hoping for something that tasted like an orange cream soda, but it just lacked taste to me. A friend got a bit of orange from it. Thought to add a bit more of each and it helped bring out the flavor(upped to 20%/6% respectively), but it just wasn't what I had been hoping for. All around it isn't a bad flavor, but probably could use a lot of tweaking
Peach Cobbla
Peach 8%(12%)
Chai Tea TFA 1%
Juicy Lemon 2%
Graham Cracker 2%
Pie Crust TFA 1%
Vanillin TFA 3%
This one was good right away, but I felt the peach was over powered by the cobbler. To me, it was like I was eating the edges of the cobbler instead of a nice big center bite. I didn't want the peach to over power the cobbler either, so I added .5ml(1%) to the original peach and tested after each. I got all the way to 12% before I felt it made a perfect mix of flavor, but i know everyone's taste is subjective. I love the juice though, I'm vaping it as I write this up.
Strawberry French Toast
French Toast 15%
Strawberry TFA 3%
Glazed Doughnut 2%
I want to start by saying one thing: NO. Just don't. This was a god awful abomination that required a demonic ritual to purge the flavor from my mind and my cotton. I still have flashbacks to mixing it up thinking I was destined for greatness. Poor, young naive me from three hours ago. I had never used the French toast before and really only bought it to get me above the WL free shipping(i was going to end up paying the same amount without, so i figured grab some experimental stuff). Everything I looked up said it mixes best at 15%. So I tried 15%. The flavor was just...I can't even describe it. It smelled like amazing strawberry french toast and syrup. It did not taste that way. It tasted like drinking orange juice mixed with burnt food after brushing your teeth....and a hint of fresh strawberry at the end. I thought MAYBE I just used too much French toast, and cut the mixture in half, added some more strawberry and glazed, and a bit of caramel and brown sugar(Capellas/TFA respectively) to get a bit more of the syrup flavor. The only thing that did was just make the above flavor....but sweeter. This was my most hopeful, I wanted to love it, and it be amazing. I fucking love french toast. If anyone has any better recommendations for %'s on it, please let me know.
And there you have it. Few recipes I thought up, and how they turned out for me. If anyone decides to make them or toy with them, I hope the two good ones turn out as good, and the two terrible ones turn out better than they did for me.
Sounds more like Lemon Gaisha than lemon bar lol. I'm flattered :)
-Boss lady at VBV
The lemon bar sounds delicious! As far as the oarnge creamsicle goes, french vanilla by itself is too sharp to provide a creamsicle taste IMO. If you havent tried FA creams, I highly suggest them. Their vienna cream and fresh cream are the best Ive tried so far. And for the french toast, Capellas was disgusting I could never get it right. But vapor trails posted on some their discontinued flavors a couple months back and french toast was one of them, I havent tried it yet but it sounds promising!
French Toast
10% Waffle (TFA)
4% Vanilla Swirl (TFA)
4% Cinnamon Danish Swirl (Capella)