"Fruitstones"
- TFA Fruit Circles - 2%
- TFA Acai - 1%
- TFA Frosted Donut - 2%
- TFA Coconut 1%
- FA Meringue 4%
- CAP Hazelnut 1%
- CAP Vanilla Whipped Cream 3%
- TFA Vanilla Swirl 5%
- TFA Malted Milk 1%
80vg20pg
A bit higher on flavoring than I normally prefer.
Minimal Steep: Shake and Vape-able but definitely gets better with age. (Obligable newbie hint: don’t add nicotine until after you steep your juice, it saves nicotine and if you’re mixing a new batch for the first time you may not even like it, try it at 0nic before wasting your materials)
This recipe may contain DA/AP use at your own discretion
The Notes:
My take on Fruity Pebbles… After months of trying to make Fruit Circles work I decided to take a new approach to the “cereal vape”. Seems to be too little too late as everyone has already moved on to donut vapes but I’m happy to finally have a use for fruit circles.
Instead of breaking down each flavor individually I’m going to talk about the 3 main aspects of this juice as well as the flavors used to bring them together. There’s the Cereal, the Sugar and the milk.
The Cereal:
Easily is the star of this mix and consists of Fruit Circles, Acai, Frosted Donut and Hazelnut. To me Fruit Circles has always been a disappointment. I’ve tried it low and high percentages and it always seems to overpower every mix with a taste of lemon pledge. Here I used a low percentage and another intense fruit flavor: “Acai” to attempt to pit the two against each other to create the perfect balance of lemon and berry that I taste in fruity pebbles.
This alone was good but was missing body, here comes the Frosted Donut at a low percentage to add body and a bit of a bakery note.
The Sugar & Milk Working Together:
The Sugar blends the milk and the cereal together and provides an excellent base to both aspects of the juice.
For this I used Meringue at a higher percentage than I would normally use which to me creates a dry almost crusted sugary taste which highlights both the milk and the cereal. Vanilla Swirl and a splash of Malted Milk lay the groundwork for the milk in this mix. Vanilla Whipped Cream adds additional flavor and sweetness the milk as well.
As sweet as this all sounds, it still wasn’t coming through as milk in the cereal so Coconut and Hazelnut were added to sweeten the milk even more and assist in blending the dry cereal with the now delicious milk.
The Recap
This is a newer mix and I haven’t had much time to play with it, may be modifying it a bit as the overall flavor percentage is a bit higher than I typically mix (20% but I’d prefer to go lower and usually do). To me at least, this reminds me of eating a bowl of fruity pebbles and brings new life to fruit circles.
That’s it, all I got for now. Hope someone out there enjoys it!
Planning on trying this and swapping out malted milk for Dairy mil at .5% and possibly adding .2% yellow cake, .2% INW Biscuit, .2% AP and 1.4% FW rice crunchies instead of frosted donut. Unless you think CAP glazed donut will suffice. Also I don't have TFA coconut but I'm sure FLV coconut @ .2-.35% will work well/better, and dude awesome recipe notes, we should definitely collab on a recipe..
Thanks for sharing this. I'm a sucker for a new takes on cereals and haven't mixed with Acai yet. I almost have all of the flavors. I'll leave out the Vanilla Whipped Cream and Hazelnut for starters to get a better idea of the base profile and see what 4% Meringue is like. Thanks again.
No problem, I know the common opinion is that it's way too much meringue but I've tried it at 1%, 2% and 3% and 4% is the only number that really left a glazed sugar taste in each pull from my velocity same with tanks so far at both low and high wattage. Not sure how it will taste without vanilla whipped cream and hazelnut. Personally I feel like they would round out the edges on the meringue but interested to hear your feedback!
You can taste adjectives? Açaí tastes like thick? That's some hella synesthaesia you've got going on.
I vape vanilla swirl at 5% standalone, maybe try 2-3% and 1-1.5% FA Fresh Cream instead of malted milk? Was never a fan of it
I'll try that out, thanks for the feedback!
TFA Fruit Circles - 2% -> my favorite cereal lemons are FE's (flavor express), lemon meringue pie/inw lemon mix
TFA Acai-- 1% -> fine
TFA Frosted Donut - 2% - you have better options for bakery note, but you could probably get away with this
TFA Coconut 1% - try flv's coconut, its great for cereals, only need a drop or two
FA Meringue 4% ->bring this down to 1%, 4% is too high
CAP Hazelnut 1% - fine
CAP Vanilla Whipped Cream 3% - fine, i personally like it lower but not a big deal
TFA Vanilla Swirl 5% - a little high, bring this down to around 2%
TFA Malted Milk 1% - use CAP Sweet Cream or FA Fresh Cream
I'll give these a shot, not a huge fan of malted milk myself. This is the only recipe I use it in personally but it seems to work here. Going to try dropping Meringue down a bit and subbing in Fresh Cream with 2% vanilla swirl. Mixing now, thanks for the feedback!
EDIT: Mixed it up, it's good but no longer tastes like fruity pebbles at least to me, the higher Meringue seems to make the entire vape taste like it's glazed in frosted sugar but I'll let it steep a bit and give it another go. Going to save it either way because it is pretty tasty, thank you!
higher meringue? I recommended you drop it down to 1%. To me it gets overwhelming if you push higher than that. It may depend on how you are vaping but for me 0.50-1% is all I need.
FA Fresh Cream at 1% is good, there is a steep behind it though.
Not sure what fruit flavors are in fruity pebbles, I was recently taste testing captain crunch berries (milk it was steeping in) I got mainly strawberry flavor (it uses strawberry concentrate), blueberry, little raspberry, and hints of citrus (primary orange). I'd recommend you do the same, buy a box of fruity pebbles, steep the cereal in milk for 5 minutes or so, and see if you can identify what sort of fruit flavors you are tasting.
I would play around with throwing fruit flavors that you not only feel are in the cereal, but also ones you like into it and building it from scratch, rather than using a cereal concentrate because typically they are quite underwhelming.
Try not to overplay the grain aspect of the cereal, focus on the milk/cream, and the fruit background you want. The actual "cereal" flavor in cereal vapes is typically just a little nuttiness the fills out some of the body.
Best of luck!