Birthday Cake

• 7% FW Cake Batter Dip

• 2% CAP Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

• 1% FA Meringue

• .5% Biscuit

To start off, this is in no way meant to "compete" with Wayne (/u/enyawreklaw) and his Funfetti recipe. While his recipe is delicious and very well thought out, I felt it was a little different than what I pictured a Funfetti flavor being. Moving on.

I worked on this recipe for maybe a month straight a while back when Wayne first started talking about doing a Funfetti mix. I gave up because I couldn't find anything that really hit the spot for me. I absolutely cannot stand CAP Cake Batter, and saw where someone recommended FW Cake Batter Dip instead. I decided to give it a try last month and knew immediately that this had to be my missing ingredient and decided to revisit the profile.

FW Cake Batter Dip on it's own tastes similar to frosted animal crackers to me. FW really nailed the sprinkle effect with this flavor. I feel like it works best as a main/base note due to the very distinct notes I get from it at higher percentages. Anything below 4% just sort of fades away after a couple days. I used it here at 7% to still retain the entire flavor profile without being either drowned out or overpowering.

CAP Vanilla Bean Ice Cream was used at 2% to give the impression of frosting when used with FA Meringue. Nothing too spectacular here. I felt the frosting needed to have some body that FA Meringue on it's own was missing. My first attempt was a combination of FA Vienna Cream, Fresh Cream, and Meringue. It made the cake too milky, and not sugary enough. TFA VBIC was a thought I had, but I knew to use its qualities for a cake frosting would mean I would detect the peppery note I get from it. That led to CAP VBIC. As I said..nothing spectacular there. Just a nice "aha!" moment when I found the right ratio with Meringue.

FA Meringue was the obvious first choice for the powdery sugar taste. I decided on using this before CAP VBIC and the two fit together very nicely.

INW Biscuit was a little more difficult to decide to use. It definitely wasn't my first, or even fourth choice. I wanted to enhance the baked cake flavor that FW Cake Batter Dip seemed to be missing. My first choice was FW Yellow Cake. It felt a little too bold and sweet to use with FW CBD even using at .5%. Abandoned that idea. My next idea was to use CAP Sugar Cookie at around 1-3%. Any attempts with that still felt lacking, and I didn't want to load this recipe down with flavors. I'm trying to move away from using too many flavors these days. Next option was CAP Graham Cracker at .25-5%. It did seem a little closer, but FW CBD reminds me a tiny bit of CAP Graham Cracker (and CAP Sugar Cookie), and it amplified the graham notes way too much to enjoy. Next was TFA Graham Cracker Clear. Just didn't work. But it did lead me to trying to use Biscuit to finish out a "baked" effect. 1% was way too buttery and dark tasting. .5% seemed to be the perfect level to add that hint of dryness I was missing from FW CBD.

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, and it's been my ADV for the past two weeks. The cake flavor gets a little boosted after a 4-5 day steep, but nothing too drastic. This is as close to a shake & vape as I was going to get without sacrificing flavor.

For /u/abdada, I stuck with my usual 30/70. For you Max VG lovers, give this a week steep and it's delicious. 30/70 is perfect for me, though.

Enjoy!

Bonus recipe!

Guava-Lime Candy

• .25% FLV Pink Guava

• .25% INW Lime

• 1% INW Dragonfruit

• 4% CAP Lemon Lime

• .5% INW Cactus

• .25% FA Fuji

I'm just going to copy and paste my notes from ELR here.

These were the inspiration for this recipe. I always have to beg the lady at the Chinese restaurant for a handful of these every time I go. If you haven't had them, they're basically just a sweet, almost sour guava candy.

If you guys know me, you know literally 90% of my recipes have some sort of cream in them. I wanted to branch out and make a unique candy flavor this time, and I think I've nailed that down pretty well here.

FLV Pink Guava was my first choice for the base note. It's a super strong flavor, resembling grapefruit if used above 1%. I wanted to keep this flavor at a low percentage and just build other flavors around it.

I thought lime might be an interesting addition, and I've been loving INW Lime for any sort of lime hint in a recipe. It tends to overpower a mix even at .5%, so I stuck with .25% for just that hint that I wanted.

CAP Lemon Lime is just used to boost the citrus flavors. It's a pretty light flavor, and 4% seemed to be right where I wanted it.

INW Dragonfruit helps add uniqueness and boost the tropical flavor a bit.

INW Cactus for juiciness.

FA Fuji for a little more brightness.

If I had to describe this in one word, it would probably be "green".

Shake & vape! Enjoy!