This is probably my best recipe to date, or at least the most accurate to its real-world counterpart. My grandma used to make these for me, and I was recently reminded how much I missed them after having them at a renaissance fair. Here it is!
Cinnamon Toasted Almonds
Flavor | Percent ---|--- TPA Toasted Almond | 5% FA Almond | 1.5% INW Peanuts | .75% TPA Brown Sugar Extra | 1% FA Meringue | .75% Vanillin(10%) | 3% CAP Cinn. Danish Swirl | 2.25% INW Biscuit | .75%
TPA Toasted Almond/FA Almond/INW Peanuts: The TPA Toasted Almond is the main note in the recipe, and while the toasted flavor is there, the actual almond flavor is lacking. FA Almond brings out the almond from it excellently, but the authenticity of a real almond still wasn't there. INW Peanuts really made the nut flavor stand out for me. This is a rather dry peanut flavor, which works great here since we're going for toasted.
TPA Brown Sugar Extra/FA Meringue: The TPA Brown Sugar Extra simply acts as the brown sugar coating here, and recreates it quite well. It's a very realistic brown sugar flavor, but I couldn't get the sweetness I wanted with it, without overdoing the brown sugar note. FA Meringue filled this gap, it adds a very nice sweetness without taking anything away from the Brown Sugar.
Vanillin/CAP CDS/INW Biscuit: Vanillin adds the same note vanilla extract would in baking. This was chosen over anything else because I feel it imitates vanilla extract nicely. INW Biscuit adds a nice buttery note to everything. The cookie aspect of it isn't doing much here, but more importantly, it's not masking any of the other flavors. CAP CDS replicates the other half of the coating, and honestly was chosen because it's the only cinnamon I have available. Luckily CAP made this mostly cinnamon, and the danish swirl part doesn't seem to affect the recipe.
Alternatives: If you have FLV Rich Cinnamon, use that! I'd definitely be using it in this recipe, but it's been rough lately, and I just can't afford to order anything else right now. I messaged Botboy with this recipe, and this is what he said. >FLV Rich Cinnamon @ 0.2% would be amazing in this.
INW Peanuts fills its role quite well for me here. Unfortunately I don't have these suggested alternatives to experiment with, but I can definitely see why he did suggest them, especially Walnut. This is also from Botboy. >I'd likely consider swapping the INW Peanuts for a Hazelnut or Walnut flavor IMO
If you do try these out, please let me know how they work.
I hope you all enjoy this as much as I have been, and please let me know what you think of it!
This looks awesome. Thanks for sharing. What kind of power/temp and atty do you use? I've been playing with TFA Toasted Almond (different profile though) and anything over 2% seems kind of harsh.
I've been running this in a Goblin v2 at around 35w, but I also have tried it on a CLT at 70w+ and haven't noticed any harshness. That's pretty odd, have you experienced this using it standalone, or is the harshness from your recipe as a whole?
I have to admit that I didn't try the toasted almond standalone. I did notice the mix I use it in (started as a castle long clone) got a lot smoother when I dropped the toasted almond from 3% to 2%. The harsh could definitely be an interaction w another flavor though.
Looks great - I do love almond vapes. And I just got INW Peanuts in today. I'll mix this up in the next couple days. Thanks for sharing!
I'd be curious to see what this would be like with some TFA Kentucky Bourbon, either in addtion to or in place of the Vanillin.
this actually sounds very refreshing from your avg vape and delicious. going to mix this up tomorrow. only thing I gotta sub is TFA Almond for FA's
edit: I will also try it with CAP Hazelnut in place of INW Peanut and report back to you!! (Don't let me forget please LMAO)
double edit: Oh I see now, It's toasted Almond AND FA Almond. I'm out of Toasted almond, but I got a few Ideas