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So a couple people found interest in this recipe that I mentioned in another thread. After looking through my tasting notes, I realized it was a drunken creation that I did not accurately record. This is not the best vanilla wafer banana pudding recipe in the world, but just a tribute.

Vanilla Wafer Banana Pudding|% ---|--- Banana Cream (LA)|4.5 Banana Cream (TFA)|1.5 Banana Ripe (TFA)|.25 Sugar Cookie (CAP)|.5 Vanilla Swirl (TFA)|.75 Meringue (FA)|.25

Two Main tasting notes to this recipe: Banana Pudding & Vanilla Wafers

Banana Pudding:

So I will put this in one of my own threads rather than commenting it once again. To me, Banana Cream (LA) tastes exactly like you pureed a banana with a little bit of cream. Banana has a natural creaminess to it when you put it in a smoothie. This is exactly what it tastes like to me. I have no clue where people get candy and runts from when they describe this flavor, because I don't taste it. I hate candied banana. I would never use this flavor if it tasted like that to me.

Alright, so we have our base banana flavor. Now we need a shining top note. That's where Banana Ripe comes in. It adds a sharp accent of banana, but we don't want too much. It becomes over-powering very quickly. That's why it's used at a meager .25%. Otherwise, you'll feel like you're eating a banana peel.

Now for a nice creaminess. Tada! Banana Cream (TFA). Now, this tastes like artificial banana to me. Cue eating a cup of banana pudding with our dear old friend Mr. Bill Cosby. A little goes a long way. Add too much and it completely drowns out the other banana flavorings with watered down pudding.

Lastly, a wonderful sweetness. Mer-inh-gay (FA). A much better sweetener than other options when you can fit it into your recipe. So much sharper than EM without muting flavors or gunking coils like sucralose.

Vanilla Wafer:

Banana Cream (TFA) adds a decent bit of this flavor, but its soggy, like you found it in the back of your fridge a week after Thanksgiving. We need to sharpen it up and bring the taste out. This is where we find Sugar Cookie (CAP). It adds a nice buttery, fresh sugar cookie. It's not too dry like Cookie (FA) which just inputs too much harsh dryness. After all, it is supposed to be soaked in pudding.

Joy (FA) just sorta rounds out the cookie aspect to this at a very low percentage. I tried Biscuit and AP, but even at 1 drop per 30ml, both just made it way too sharp and the flavor just wasn't right. We want all these flavors blending together.

edit: After going back and making another batch without Joy (FA), I'm not entirely sure it's needed, and I don't think I used it in the original recipe. I'll just have to let these steep and see which one I like better after a week. Between Banana Cream (TFA) and Sugar Cookie (CAP), I think the cookie note is exactly what I'm looking for.

Lastly, Vanilla Swirl. I don't think I have to explain why it was used. It adds Vanilla to the wafer. Creaminess to the banana pudding. I love this flavor. This flavor is love.