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A simple vanilla custard
submitted over 9 years ago by goldfish18Diketones, Schmiketones

Custody

Flavor | % ---|--- CAP Vanilla Custard V1 | 7 CAP NY Cheesecake | 1.5 TFA Vanilla Swirl | 2.5 FLV Coconut | 0.1% or about 1 drop/30mL Steep Time | At least one week. After two weeks it's golden!

This is an awesome buttery, thick, creamy, vanilla custard that is super newbie friendly. What I mean by newbie friendly is that it's simple, tasty, few ingredients, and you know exactly what you're going to taste from this.

Custards were all the rage for a while (not sure if they still are) and I still love a custard flavor. Originally I tried to make a custard that had 11 ingredients and everything just muddled each other so I went back to the drawing board to focus on simplicity.

CAP Vanilla Custard is pretty self explanatory but it's super thick, rich, and vanilla tasting. It's the holy grail of vanilla custard flavorings in my opinion and I found 7% to be just right. 10% was way to eggy to me and at 5% the NY Cheesecake stuck out too much. Plus, VCV1 is the holy grail and 7 is a holy number so it was meant to be.

CAP NY Cheesecake is one of the best cheesecake flavorings along with TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust. NY Cheesecake to me is creamy, kinda thick, ever so slightly cheesy (not in a bad way), and a little buttery. Those descriptive words or phrases were all in my notes for this flavor so I felt that it fit right into the profile I wanted. Some people say this flavor tastes like sweaty socks or they get a rancid taste from it, but I do not at 1.5%. If you start to creep up in percentage (3% and up), that's where I get the more pronounced cheesy taste so keep the percentage down for this recipe.

TFA Vanilla Swirl is used to add more creaminess and to add more vanilla. It's a pretty versatile flavor that can be used at any reasonable percentage without much worry. It's in almost all of my creamy recipes so I had to use it in this one. Feel free to increase or decrease according to how much more vanilla you want to add on top of the vanilla from VCV1.

FLV Coconut is a crazy flavor that at low percentages gives you a thick, buttery, fatty, heavily creamy taste and that's exactly why it's in here. I'm not using it for it's coconut tastes, only to add that fatty butter taste. If you vape something with FLV Coconut in it, you will absolutely know it's in there no matter what percentage it's used at so be very careful with it and stick to 1 maybe 2 drops per 30mL.

What I do with this recipe is mix up a 30mL base of just the flavorings, let that homogenize for a week, add the flavor base at 11.1% (3.33 grams/30mL) to a bottle, then top off with pg, vg, nic, and then let it sit for another week. Once the flavor base has been sitting for more than a week, it really cuts down on overall steep time.

Substitutions

I have not tried substituting VCV1 with VCV2, but if you feel inclined to do so, do it at your own discretion.

TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust can be used in place of CAP NY Cheesecake at the same percentage if you get that sweaty sock taste from the NY.

I'm sure you could replace Vanilla Swirl with any vanilla and be happy, but I really like the added creaminess I get along with the vanilla from TFA Vanilla Swirl.

FLV Coconut is mandatory in my opinion and it really finishes this recipe off, but it can be left out as I'm sure most don't have this flavor. If you do not use FLV Coconut, just know that it won't be as buttery as the original recipe.

Lastly, this recipe is kind of lacking a secret top note and it's mainly all base and mid note flavorings. Feel free to add something that you think will take this to the next level. I will be playing around with adding things like FLV Rich Cinnamon, Lemon (I need to find a lemon with less candy taste that will fit in here), Creme de Menthe, and probably some fruits. If you have any suggestions or criticism, feel free to throw them at me. Thanks!

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4 points
 
by cookfryover 9 years ago

The best thing i ever did for my vanilla custard recipe is add 2% TFA - Dulce de Leche. Seriously.

5 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

I'll have to add that to the never-ending "flavorings to order" list. Thanks!

4 points
 
by RuntDastardlyover 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

Second this! Also consider INW Creme Brulee @ 1%.

3 points
 
by CubeXombiover 9 years ago

I'm kicking myself for buying a 4oz bottle of TFA Caramel Candy and only a 3ml tester of DDL. while Caramel Candy isn't bad in my mix, it doesn't smooth out as well as DDL I find...

XombiCustard:

  • 7% Cap VC v1
  • 3% TFA Caramel Candy (3% DDL is infinitely better in this mix)
  • 2% TFA Cheesecake (Graham Cracker)
  • 1.5% TFA Graham Creacker (clear)
2 points
 
by surfishermanover 9 years ago

Lots of amazing custard V2 recipes out there with 1.5 TFA DDL .

I hate the taste of V1 , love V2.

3 points
 
by Nutz_of_Brinover 9 years ago

V1, so much better.

1 points
 
by surfishermanover 9 years ago

Makes me sick .

1 points
 
by cookfryover 9 years ago

I've only ever used VC v2, but DDL has been a game-changer in my custards and pie-flavored mixes.

1 points
 
by surfishermanover 9 years ago

Agree 100% , works great .

3 points
 
by Nutz_of_Brinover 9 years ago

No FLV Coconut here. I did however, use FA Coconut in my most current recipe which is on day 3 of steep. Funny about the timing, great minds and shit?

I just made up a couple random recipes I put together for custards as I can't get away from custards and bakery flavors. I tried fruits and well, it just doesn't satisfy.

I'll definitely try your recipe if I ever get FLV Coconut in.

3 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Let all my diketones flow through your mouth and you will be satisfied (I hope).

I have never used FA Coconut. Does it give that same fatty butter taste at very low percentages like FLV Coconut?

Also, fruits in custards are kinda difficult. For me they don't fit well unless you put the focus more on the fruit rather than the custard. The custard has to be toned way back for fruit custards to work I think. Candy fruits don't really work you gotta use more of like a darker or more realistic fruit. I really want to find a lemon that will play well with a custard. I tried FA Lemon Sicily at 2.5% in this recipe and it was just decent. I will probably have to drop VCV1 by more than half for the lemon to work.

9 points
 
by SirSmokesAlottover 9 years ago

Diketones should be a lesbian deftones cover band!

3 points
 
by Nutz_of_Brinover 9 years ago

AHHHH AHAHAHAAAHAHAAHAHA

1 points
 
by ID10-Tover 9 years ago

INW Lemon plays well with TFA VBIC. I haven't tried it with CAP VC but if I wanted what you want, that would be the first one I'd try.

2 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Hmm Lemon or Lemon Mix?

2 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngover 9 years ago

FA Lemon Sicily is about as far from candy as I can imagine. It's not sweet, but more like a lemon rind. I'd be interested to see how it fares in this mixture with all the sweet creamy ingredients.

2 points
 
by ID10-Tover 9 years ago

It probably will get swallowed up by all that custard after a steep; but that's my experiecne with VBIC, maybe it will react differently to CAP VC 1 and his other sweet creamy ingredients.

2 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

You are exactly right

1 points
 
by ID10-Tover 9 years ago

Thanks for confirming my somewhat educated guess. I learned this with VBIC trying to make a vape version of Chick-Fil-A's Frosted Lemonade drink (which is just lemonade blended with soft-serve ice cream). Both FA Lemon Sicily and CAP Juicy Lemon were essentially gone after a steep. INW Lemons had staying power with the VBIC. I just imagined it would be the same for CAP VC1.

2 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

At 2.5% added into this recipe, it doesn't show up much. I could tell that there was a faint lemon taste, but I don't think it's the right lemon for a custard or such heavy ingredients. I'm gonna give the Inawera lemon flavors a try.

1 points
 
by Chrisdvr1over 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

I'll mix it up!!! But you will have to wait 2 week for feed back.

1 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Thanks, some feedback would be great. I really want to mix up your coconut marshmallow custard cream, but FLV coconut is the only coconut I have and I'm not sure how similar those two are. Maybe I should just sub them and try it for the hell of it. I'll just have to use way less FLV.

1 points
 
by Chrisdvr1over 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Ya a lot less 1-.5% and that mite still be to much elr advices average intermix .3%

1 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Yeah FLV coconut is freakin potent stuff. Have you tried it?

1 points
 
by Chrisdvr1over 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

So mixed it up but left the coconut out wasn't sher if you where mixing that in the concentrate or adding it after let me know thx

1 points
 
by goldfish18over 9 years ago

Mixed it in the recipe and the concentrate. Just throw in a drop per 15-30mL of what ever you made. Thanks for mixing it up!

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