Alright, a third recipe for today. I reckon y'all are probably getting sick of seeing my name popping up all over this sub, but here's another recipe I just came up with thanks to /u/greeneggsandram pointing out how almost every recipe I post has the old TFA Strawberry Ripe/Dragonfruit combo. So here's a recipe that doesn't have either of those! Flavour notes and concept below.

Drunken Pears

Ingredients

• FA Pear at 4%
• TFA Juicy Peach at 2%
• CAP Cinnamon Danish at 1.5%
• TFA Brown Sugar at 0.4%
• TFA Meringue at 0.5%
• FA Torrone at 0.35%
• TFA Kentucky Bourbon at 2%
• TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream at 2%
• TFA Vanilla Swirl at 0.5%

Concept

One of my favourite desserts to make is some sauteed pears over vanilla ice cream with a bourbon reduction sauce. The soft warm pears sitting on top of that cold vanilla ice cream, slathered in a brown sugar/bourbon glaze is just delicious, and I thought it would translate nicely into a dessert vape. Little did I know how good it would turn out even on my first attempt, especially as a shake and vape. This mix will probably only improve with time, but I might not be able to make my 10ml tester last until the end of tonight. This is easily my most complex and "daring" recipe, and I really thought it was going to taste like shit. But, that first inhale was heavenly.

Flavour Notes

FA Pear/TFA Juicy Peach - so the base of this mix is supposed to be the pears, and I found that FA Pear on it's own is very creamy and sweet, but the pear flavour doesn't really hit you all that hard. I was reading notes on that flavour and it seems that when you hit the higher percentages of it, you lose that ripe, soft pear flavour and get more into a candy note, which I was trying to avoid. Adding that little bit of the juicy peach really gives the fruity notes in this mix some brightness.

CAP Cinnamon Danish - I added this in simply to give a little bit of a bakery aspect to the recipe. While the actual dessert that I make does not include cinnamon or any sort of bakery/bready notes, I felt like it would give the vape a fullness and would play nicely with the other flavours. It really adds to this mix at 1.5%, and it might do well at a higher percent if you want more cinnamon, but for what I was pushing for, this is great.

TFA Brown Sugar/TFA Meringue/FA Torrone/TFA Kentucky Bourbon - this was my sweetener in the recipe and the attempt at the bourbon glaze in the real dessert. What I love most about this combo is that you only really notice it on the exhale. The brown sugar lingers around on your tongue after you exhale, and the mouthfeel in general really emulates that caramelized sugar I was going for. It seems like the bourbon flavour isn't as strong as I would have liked, but I fear that TFA KB might be an overpowering flavour, and I don't want this vape to FEEL like alcohol, simply have that robust note of bourbon flavour. We'll see what happens with more experimentation.

TFA VBIC/TFA Vanilla Swirl - the only thing I don't like about VBIC is how it overpowers everything with time. After a few days steeping of Mustard Milk, all I can taste is the ice cream. So with this recipe, I tried lowering the VBIC a little bit, while adding the Vanilla Swirl to allow that vanilla flavour to stick around even after the VBIC steeps and gets stronger.

Steep Time

As a shake and vape, it's great. Very bright pear flavour on the inhale, creamy vanilla ice cream on the exhale, and a strong brown sugar aftertaste that sticks around for a few seconds afterward. I truly think this might be my best recipe yet, and I am truly surprised at how good it is on my first attempt.

Welp, I'm going to take a break from posting for a little while, I don't want y'all to get sick of me or be thinking, "well, here's Matthew again, fuckin try hard," because that ain't me, I'm just enjoying DIY experimentation far too much, and absolutely LOVE sharing any recipes that actually work.

Please let me know if anyone tries this, I'd love some notes on this other than what I'm picking up on. Cheers!