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[Recipe] Tres Leche cake
submitted over 9 years ago by merrybard

My own recipe, using CCW (cupcake world flavors). This is my first post on this sub, so hope I'm doing it right ..Reddit formatting is kind of confusing for me! I don't use any sweeteners in my recipes.

Just to clarify, CCW are food grade mono-propylene glycol UK based flavour concentrates. They are very strong, a tiny but goes a long way.

Flavour notes: A very slight sweet cinnamon, with a sweet creamy flavour. Cakey, but not overpowering. Just a hint of strawberry, enough to know its there..Cinnamon is a bit more pronounced on exhale.

Recipe is for higher VG juices, to avoid use of sweeteners.

  • Mix your 70vg /30pg or 80vg/20pg base
  • Add your desired nicotine content, I've made this recipe as high as 18mg and the flavour was just as amazing as it is at 0mg
  • Add 1% of CCW flavouring: Cinnamon Churros
  • Add 3% of CCW flavouring: Condensed Milk
  • Add 1% of CCw flavouring: Strawberry

Mix well and let steep for at least 3 days. Longer steeping gives a creamier flavour. Very delicious, I make homemade Tres Leche all the time using a recipe passed down from my great grandma and this ejuice tastes pretty much just like it. Enjoy!

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by southpaw72over 9 years ago

Sounds great but I just don't fancy adding another manufacturer to my list which almost always seen to be growing by the day . Any particular reason you choose ccw and am I missing out in not using it ? Thanks for the posting this btw

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by merrybardover 9 years ago

No reason really, well I like that I can use them for baking too! Steeping really brings out the best of these, but I find some of their flavours like the "key lime" are extremely overpowering and I wouldn't go more than 1 drop per 30ml. Other flavours like their white chocolate, milks, cakes, etc. Are very Moorish. I recently made a cracker jack flavour using salted caramel, popcorn and peanut butter...it is amazing lol. I don't think you're missing out on anything, I think it just comes down to personal choice.

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by HeadlessMamiover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Tres Leches has been my white whale of sorts since I got into DIY (my boyfriend works in a Tex-Mex place that makes an amazing one). While I don't see myself procuring any CCW flavors due to not being in the UK, I'm glad that my hunch to grab Condensed Milk (I'm using FA) was right. I used it at 1.5% in my recipe because it smells overwhelmingly strong and kinda butyric acid-like, and I didn't want to get a vomit taste as my base note.

For my base I'm using CAP Vanilla Cupcake at 4% with CAP Cake Batter at 1% in an attempt to get that moistness Tres Leches cake is known for, but I'm still getting a dryness to it. Should I swap those two around or just go the route OP did and grab a churro flavor for the base while scrapping both of those?

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by UncleManifestorover 9 years agoMixologist

1.5% Condensed Milk?? Are you mad?

I tried it at 1% Con Milk and it was absolutely foul, overpowered everything else by a mile.

That is way way way way way too much, under 0.25% is the region I would cut it down to. (0.1% is the current level I use it at in recipes)

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by HeadlessMamiover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Duly noted (and yeah I am a bit mad, there's a reason /u/TheCatHimself is the brains behind the outfit). I was actually thinking to myself "I'm making a terrible mistake here, aren't I?" as I dropped it in.

I will scrap that bottle and try it again with those much lower concentrations you suggested. Thanks much!

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by Burritoclockover 9 years ago

Me too. In fact I had all but given up until I heard the episode of In the Mix with /u/TheCatHimself where he mentioned the milk cake recipe you listed. I took that and made some things that were ok, but did not satisfy.

I also really wanted to use FW Tres Leches to make something, but it just never worked out. I believe I ultimately ended up using that cake base to make a butterscotch thing which was another white whale of mine, so thank you for the share, and I think I will give it another go with the condensed milk or possibly dairy?

Anyway, thank you and TheCatHimself. (I also think I ended up subbing CAP Vanilla Cupcake for TFA Vanilla Cupcake)

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by TheCatHimselfover 9 years agoPâtissier

Yay, I'm helpful!

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by HeadlessMamiover 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

I also bought FW Tres Leches intending to use it in this recipe and then it came out that it had the same issue Yellow Cake did where there was sugar syrup in it. So into the bin that went.

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by IDSMBover 9 years ago

Thanks for the recipe. My concentrates just arrived today, I ordered 6 so I can try out a few other CCW too, thanks for the tip on their existence!

:-)

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