I've been playing with a key lime cheesecake recipe, and hit the search bar to find a lot of comments saying TFA Key Lime is strong, should max at 3%, etc. After a shake and vape of my latest recipe (which had 6% key lime), I agreed and made some notes for the next batch.
I vaped the same batch again after letting it steep for two days, and it's shaping up! The lime is mellowing out, the flavors are blending nicely, but it's still not quite where I want it.
I'm obviously still working on it, but here's my key lime cheesecake (v4 - so far):
TFA Key Lime: 6%
TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust: 2%
CAP New York Cheesecake: 2%
TFA Bavarian Cream: 1%
TFA Marshmallow: 1%
FA Joy: .5%
INW Biscuit: .75%
INW Lemon: .25%
Mixed 70/30 with a frother, steeped for two days (another day or two will probably help), vaped .5 ohm at 22.2w.
All in all, I think I will still knock the key lime down, but only to 5% - the flavor mellowed very nicely in just a couple days.
this actually looks good.
i might omit the Joy out of personal preference, but the rest looks really good. have you tried variations of the lime/lemon percentages?
Thanks. Yes, I started with 1% INW lemon, but that stuff is so powerful, it was overshadowing everything else. Once I got that down to .25% (and I may go a bit lower yet), the other flavors came out. A different, more natural lemon flavor would probably be better - INW is like concentrated lemondrop candy - it's all I have right now.
I had 1% yellowcake in there instead of Joy initially, but it wasn't quite what I was after - others may prefer the yellowcake or omit it entirely... I don't think it's essential to the lime cheesecake experience, just closer to what I wanted out of the mix.
I'll post the final mix once I have it where I want it. This is close, though.
When I use yellow cake it reminds me of lemon, almost like it has a slight lemon zest in at 4% or higher. Lower reminds me of grainy cereal. I use 5% in a lemon pound cake mix, and I was just working on a couple versions of a mini donut, the yellow cake definitely has some zest to it even without lemon. Might be good for what you're looking for here.
I have been playing with a Key Lime Cheesecake for a while now and my final iteration is as follows - I love strong flavors for my palate so am not doing it wrong :-)
- Key Lime TFA - 4%
- Lemon Meringue Pie CAP - 4.5%
- NY Cheesecake CAP - 4.5%
- Graham Craker Clear TFA - 1.75%
- Marshmallow FA - 2%
- Custard FA - 1%
- Biscuit INW - 0.75%
- Lime Tahiti Cold FA - 0.5%
- Joy FA - 0.75%
This one of the first recipes I made from scratch a a year ago - added the FA JOY later to see anything will change.
little I know now , my next iteration will be :
- Key Lime TFA - 4%
- Lemon Meringue Pie CAP - 4%
- NY Cheesecake CAP - 4%
- Graham Craker Clear TFA - 1.5%
- Marshmallow FA - 2%
- Lime Tahiti Cold FA - 0.5%
- EM - 0.5%
How does the joy play with the cheesecake?
I needed it to be extra sweet without adding any sucralose . EM mutes with time and I needed the sweetness to stay with the vapor. But also for some reason I did taste vanilla in Joy o-O !! so I though this might help the mix.
Also, am using this mix as a base line for my ultimate recipe to replicate this
It's coming up nicely and I got three yogurts to play with .