So I'm still working on perfecting a honey nut cheerios recipe. I'm not exactly sure why as it's not really my flavor profile but it's been a challenge of mine for quite some time and I haven't perfected it just yet.
I started off with a simple cereal base (meringue, hazelnut, yellow cake) and have expanded to where I feel the base needs to be. The problem I'm having is coming up with the actual cheerio flavor. I've also made some adjustments away from traditional almond methodology here and added in a few other variables over time.
So what started as a quest for honey nut cheerios, has turned into a quest after amazing goodness of excellent taste. I seriously want to have a good honey vape for the first time ever and I think it's getting really close. I added Ripe Strawberry to this in an effort to make it feel like a honey nut cheerio bowl of cereal in which you throw a few strawberries (I do bananas too but don't have a banana flavor I like for this).
TFA's Strawberry Ripe works amazingly well with the other notes in this recipe and really does something awesome to the honey.
This isn't spot on what I'm looking for but man is it damn tasty.
My previous post about this from ~2 months ago, can be found here. As you can see I've made a ton of adjustments to the base and really like where this is headed even if it's not perfect yet.
2% FW Hazelnut
1.5% FA Meringue
2% FW Yellow Cake
2% FA Marzipan
0.7% TFA Acetyl Pyrazine
0.4% FA Honey (might be a little much for some, maybe start with 0.2 and increase if you want to)
2% FW Milk (not sure if this really adds much)
1% TFA Almond Amaretto (after playing with Toasted Almond and FA Almond, I like this best in combination with Marzipan instead)
2% TFA Strawberry Ripe
1% TFA Sweetener
Either my tastebuds are gorked or this stuff is amazing. It's actually good as a shake and vape surprisingly, but really comes together after 3-4 days.
I'd appreciate if a few of you could try this out, some should have all of these flavors I believe.
My next iteration will likely include 0.5% FA Caramel and I need to try it with and without the FW Milk also to see if it's really adding anything here.
Much love y'all!
Edit: MAX VG is highly recommended, you need the sweetness of VG to balance out the dry/herbalness of FA Honey.
Edit: Tasting notes: A smooth creamy inhale of bakery and almond, a delicate sweet exhale of honey and a hint of strawbery with an amaretto finish. God I love this stuff.
This is probably a stupid question but would it be possible to put some honey nut cheerios in VG for a period of time to extract the flavour from it?
Hey, I just noticed somebody gave me gold! Thank you!
Is the honey a dilution @ 10% or just straight honey.
Someone decided to down vote you OP for some reason, I've straightened it out and look forward to trying the recipe, might tweak it a little for frosted Cheerios instead.
TFA Almond Amaretto.. now there's an obscure flavor. No clue that existed. But this sounds really tasty, can't wait to give it a try. Great post as well.
I have everything but TFA Almond Amaretto and FW Milk. I will try this w/o the almond amaretto for now and probably sub in Tres Leches for the Milk. Have you tried Tres Leches yet? It is a Milky cake taste that might sub well into this recipe. Either way I will be making this sometime this week.
Perhaps remove the FW milk and replace it with FA fresh cream. Equal parts meringue and fresh cream give a better dairy profile IMO, especially for these cereal types.
I use FA Fresh Cream in a handful of my recipes but I'm honestly not a huge fan.
Have you tried it with TFA Malted Milk? I've been exploring all of the cereal recipes posted here and haven't loved the "milk" notes people are trying to come up with using FA Meringue and FW Hazelnut. The Hazelnut is okay, but I felt my eyes nearly dislocate from the barrel roll they did when I saw your inclusion of FA Meringue.
Try my current milk base: 0.5% of both FA Fresh Cream and TFA Malted Milk. It is milky but it leaves a lot of room for other flavors. The Meringue/Hazelnut combo will seem muddy by comparison.
For homework I'd also suggest getting some Vanilla Soy Milk. It makes Honey Nut Cheerios pop! Seriously do this, it is so good.
I have everything but the milk. I'm so new ti DIY I wonder if I could tackle such a complex recipe? It really sounds good. Honey nut Cheerios are one of my favorites.
On a somewhat related note, I've had great success in using tfa strawberry ripe as a sweetener in some mixes. It just blends so well at lowish percentages to a point where you wouldn't guess it was in there.
I subbed 1% TFA Dairy Milk for lack of FW Milk, used .2% LA Honey in lieu of FA Honey (didn't have that either) and while I like a sweet vape, I usually avoid over-sweetening unless I feel it might need it after the fact, so I omitted the sweetener. I also prefer a livelier Strawberry so I usually mix Ripe in a 3:1 ratio with CAP Sweet strawberry, so I dropped it to 1.5 and added .5 CAP SS. I must say, I wasn't expecting much since most cereals are pretty simple and alot of the cereals I've tried recently have been pretty close to flavorless (not really a bad thing), but... this... This is a wonderfully complex, delicious shake and vape. I really dig the use of marzipan here (it's likely a key component that a number of the cereals I have tried were missing) and have been on a search for a new standby to add to my daily rotation -- I think this just might be it... Looking forward to seeing how this comes together over the next few days/weeks... Many thanks, BB!
If i have my own cereal base mix what would i take out? I guess what im saying is i'm trying to isolate the cheerios.
Hazelnut, Yellow Cake, Marzipan, Acetyl Pyrazine, Honey?
so confused by what you are trying to ask here...
Maybe I diddnt understand your recipe. I was trying to figure out which of these ingredients is the milk base.