Well, I plan to keep on doing these as long as people find them informational or a mod tells me to stop. Plus, I find them fun and get me to revisit flavor profiles I haven't taken notes on in a while.
If you care to check last week's post, the principle stays the same. My goal is to post a beginner recipe that greatly improves on some ideas from the recipes in the sidebar, while analyzing the flavors more by themselves to give you a better idea of how to use them.
Pineapple Sunrise Smoothie|% ---|--- Strawberry Ripe TFA | 5 Pineapple TFA | 2 Vanilla Bean Ice Cream TFA | 1.5 Fresh Cream FA | 0.5
Strawberry Ripe - This is a rather weak flavor. Not rare to see it up to 8%. It's kinda like drinking watered down strawberry juice. It's light and airy with tons of EM. It's very sweet and provides a wonderful background flavor. It's a little to dull to provide a top note flavor, but you can use it for the body of the flavor as well.
Pineapple - This flavor is very sharp. Ideal for a top note. At 2%, it will be perfect for giving us just that without overwhelming other flavors in your recipe. It also is a tad on the strong side for a TFA flavor, but that's the nature of pineapple. It's sweet and tart. It does have a bit of a candied flavor at higher percentages, but our creams will smooth that out.
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream - Strong vanilla. Heavy mouth feel. No egg. Strong butter flavor. I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff has a high amount of diacetyl in it. This flavor is also very overpowering after steeping. Keep it below 2% if your actually want to taste your fruit flavorings after a week. Some people will taste pepper. If you get that flavor, just sub TFA Vanilla Swirl.
Fresh Cream - No vanilla. Medium light mouth feel. No egg. Overall, it's a rather light flavor. It's to smooth out creams while still imparting some of that cream flavor. Keep the percentage below 2% or you'll start to get unpleasant off-flavors.
Steep Time - I liked it best between 1-3 days. The fruits were still very sharp, and with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream having such a heavy flavor, you don't really need to let it steep to taste it. It's a very strong flavor. Totally worthy of being a shake and vape if you choose to do so.
That's it. Everything can be subbed. This is just a frame meant to be tinkered with. Switch out fresh cream for sweet cream. Add some TFA Strawberry to bring the strawberry flavor forward and out of the background. Maybe add some guava or mango to make it taste more tropical.
That's all for this week folks.
Looks delicious. I love this Modest Monday thing you're doing. Keep it up, it's a great little weekly thing for some new mixers to look forward to, without being just standalone shake and vape fruit recipes. And your notes are great. Really helps with getting a feel for the flavours, especially more complex and finicky flavours like creams and custards.
Gonna mix this up in a little bit but sub out TFA Pineapple for CAP Golden Pineapple. Been playing around with it for a little bit now, and I love it.
Golden Pineapple seconded
Looks good! I bet a little coconut would be nice in this.
FLV Sweet Coconut at 0.5% is delicious
Here's a similar recipe I make using some of these ingredients, that I enjoy.
Ingredient|% :---|---: Banana Cream (LA)|1.5 Coconut (Flavorah)|1 Pineapple (Hangsen)|3 Strawberry (INAWERA)|0.5 Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA)|6
Flavor total: 12.5%
I find that Hangsen's Pineapple works best for tropical type drinks whereas TFAs is better for bakery type recipes..
Have all but fresh cream :( would sweet cream by TPA work? Or malted milk ?
Subbed TFA for FA Pineapple, should have lowered it a bit, but it's tasty! Pineapple is tricky, it's such a dominant flavor, but VBIC gives it a smooth buttery note and strawberry rounds it off perfectly, the result is quite pleasant! I like these simple recipes that make sense just looking at them, good job and keep it up! :)
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