Blueberry French Toast

Where do I start?

That recipe really sucked. I had a friend who wanted my blueberry french toast without the blueberry. I mixed it and I realized it was all wrong. Most of the flavors were there, but it was all out of sync. My critical error in this was that I worked the recipe backwards. I started with the blueberry which I intentionally made overpowering due to the way my inspiring food tasted.

Revisiting this recipe and redesigning it from the base flavor up, I came up with this. Before I forget, I have to give /u/Enyawreklaw some major credit. I borrowed heavily from his recipe Top of New York when I realized he had already figured out some of the stuff I had not.

Blueberry French Toast|% ---|--- Acetyl Pyrazine|0.25 Almond (FA)|0.5 Bilberry (FA)|.5 Blueberry Wild (TPA)|1 Brown Sugar Extra (TPA)|0.5 Caramel (FA)|0.5 Cinnamon Danish Swirl (CAP)|0.5 French Toast (CAP)|1.5 Sugar Cookie (CAP)|0.5 Vanilla Swirl (TPA)|1 Waffle (CAP)|3

First impressions, damn that's a lot of ingredients. If I can find a good maple syrup flavor, that would cut down a few of the ingredients for sure. Ok, now lets get to what this recipe does right that the other one did wrong.

The French Toast - When I took the blueberry out, I realized the old recipe was rather light. Not a heavy enough of a mouth feel. The Cinnamon Danish Swirl with the waffle made it too light. I cut the danish swirl down to 0.5% and waffle down to 3%. Having both of these flavors too high increased the airiness of the juice to a point of it tasting more like a puffed pastry instead of a dense, rich french toast. Increased CAP French Toast to 1.5%. This is really pushing the limits of about how high you want to take this flavor, otherwise you start to get a fried egg off-flavor. However, since this is part of the flavor profile we want, it will be alright for this recipe. AP and almond help lend to the overall complexity of the bready flavor which I have found hard to nail down. FA Cookie also gives us a nice buttery sweetness and crunch like would you want in the crust of a french toast.

The Wash - CAP French Toast does a good job of giving us the cinnamon, nutmeg, and fried egg, in addition to getting an extra boost of cinnamon from Cinnamon Swirl. We are still getting our creaminess from Vanilla Swirl, which is also giving us vanilla. I tried VBIC in this roll, but it's just too creamy and makes the mouth feel too heavy in the wrong way. It still tasted very good, but it just wasn't right.

Topping - Blueberry/Bilberry. These got reduced a bit as to not completely overpower everything else. I also added some maple syrup with the addition of Brown Sugar Extra/Caramel/Almond. Don't know what I can say about this combo that Wayne didn't mentioned in his flavor notes. It's very rich and complex which adds to the overall flavor of the juice.

Well, that's it.

My friend and I both agree this is a far superior combination of flavors. I personally don't think it's perfect, but I think that about all of my juices. And since people have recently been telling me that they've been going through my post history, I wanted to do the honor of giving them something worth making.