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kek - A very tart and fluffy lemon cake ft. Nonna's Cake
submitted over 9 years ago by diemiserable

Hello /r/diy_ejuice, loooong time lurker here. I've been religiously browsing this subreddit for a couple of years now, absorbing all of this amazing DIY knowledge, and never giving back. I'd like to give my praises by presenting you with a recipe I've been tweaking for over a week.


kek is a lemon cake recipe utilizing Flavourart's new flavoring Nonna's Cake. It's tart, fluffy, and creamy, it covers almost every tier of taste that you'd like to find in an e-liquid.

  • FlavourArt Nonna's Cake - 2.5%
    Nonna's Cake has a lot of notes as a base pastry flavor. It's first and foremost a zesty lemon, being backed up by a cream cheese taste (ricotta?) and a buttery pound cake. This flavoring hits me right in the throat testicles, how does this not contain diketones? It's fucking magical. Great job, FlavourArt.

  • FlavourArt - Bilberry - .5%
    Or as I like to call, Bill. I've always neglected this stuff, it's legitimately an insanely tart berry, but super overwhelming in high doses. This is where our main tart note will come from, while supporting the zesty lemon in Nonna's Cake. At .5, it will be an undertone, not too subtle, but delivers our desired tang.

  • Capella Sweet Strawberry - 3.5 - 4%
    Possibly my favorite flavoring, I love the smell, the taste, and especially the vapor. The strawberry at this percent is not our main note, but a note to enhance Bilberry. Definitely experiment with Sweet Strawberry, it can be brought up for a dominant strawberry vape, or kept at this percentage as a backup for Bill.

  • Capella Greek Yogurt - 1.5%
    I've tried my routine custard/cream bases for Nonna's Cake, yet all have failed to incorporate tanginess in it like Capella's yogurt flavorings. They're top tier creams, very true to their names.They even implement that grainy texture you get from a spoonful of yogurt.

  • Capella Creamy Yogurt - 3%
    see above

  • Capella Whipped Cream - .5%
    This shit will literally whip our yogurt into a whipped cream with a Kitchen Aid mixer at full force. It fluffs our cake up into an airy delight. Your clouds will pierce the heavens.

  • TFA Marshmallow -1%
    This will add some density to the entire vape, think of it as the paste to cement our layers of cake together. It's incomplete without marshmallow.

  • Capella Super Sweet - .5-2%
    Not entirely sure what diy_ejuice has against sucralose, I fucking love it, even though it's a nightmare for our wicks. Super Sweet is going to completely sap the curdled milk taste from our yogurts. I highly recommend you use it, unless you somehow enjoy sour milk.

Total Flavoring - 15%
Max VG
EDIT: Let it steep for 2 days, or exile it in your darkest cellar for a week. Also a great shake and vape.


This concludes my first recipe submission. This recipe is super versatile, as any cake really should be. Play around with it, even drop some Joy in it for a more fried/powdered sugar taste. GET YOU SOME NONNA'S CAKE ASAP!

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6 points
 
by abdadaover 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Anyone else sing "Nonna" out loud to the tune of "Lola"?

5 points
 
by diemiserableover 9 years ago

I do now, thanks.

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by abdadaover 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

I figured I'd pass it on because it's been stuck in my head all week, and one of my employees told me yesterday "I think the song is Lola."

My response? "Not anymore it isn't."

6 points
 
by vapaioloover 9 years ago

Ah yes. The cross dressing, prostituting Italian grandmother who lures men in at London clubs. Of course.

2 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

N-O-N-N-A, NONNA!

4 points
 
by The_Perrycoxover 9 years agoMentholatier

[Common] : Bur

1 points
 
by diemiserableover 9 years ago

got a 2 month ban for exploiting "L t A A f" as Horde.

1 points
 
by tranceinateover 9 years agoIn a good mood for now - don't piss me off.

<3333

3 points
 
by cjinctover 9 years ago

By any chance, have you tried Inawera's Lemon Cake?

And if so, how different/similar is it to Nonna?

Nice recipe btw and I've got everything for it, except for.... you guessed it, Nonna ;)

2 points
 
by sixxer1211over 9 years ago

In my experience, IA Lemon Cake is a very dense lemon pound cake, nothing at all like the subtle lemon notes in Nonna. I'm sure it would make a good recipe in this, but wouldn't be a sub for Nonna.

2 points
 
by xithyover 9 years ago

Yes, INW is a very strong and potent lemon pound cake. The cake leaves your hands wet with vegetable oil. The lemon used is half juice, half skin peeling, exactly as a southern mom would make it. It's sweet, it's sour... It's pretty much perfect taste and economic-wise (3% is too strong for full VG as single flavor). A downside is that it's pretty harsh and dry (even through you can smell the vegetable oil in the cake), it needs something to smooth that out.

The flavor has many layers but it is not nuanced.

1 points
 
by diemiserableover 9 years ago

I'm sure the INW would work as well, I have yet to try it.

2 points
 
by captaincannibalover 9 years ago

Don't have any yogurts so I can't make this but it definitely sounds yummy.

But I also got some Nonna's Cake today. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet but it smells yummy. The nose reminds me of that old e-juice phenomenon "Gooey Butter Cake". I could see a lot of great uses for it.

2 points
 
by chewymidgetover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Who has Nonna Cake in stock?

You guys getting straight from FlavourArt?

1 points
 
by sixxer1211over 9 years ago

http://www.diyvaporsupply.com/nonna-cake-fa/

At the moment, it's out of stock here: http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=Nonna&Submit= , but worth watching for a restock.

1 points
 
by HocusKrokusover 9 years agoMixologist

Oh, Nonna

1 points
 
by [deleted]over 9 years ago

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by DuskMSover 9 years ago

Upvoting for Nonna's out there everywhere keeping it OG with the pastries, piercing the heavens, and obviously this very well put together recipe and read.

Thank you :)

1 points
 
by sixxer1211over 9 years ago

Just an update on the status of Nonna....it is now available at www.nicotineriver.com, $6.50 for 60ml. Good company, great service.

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