Okay, listen up fuckers. I know. There's a million strawberry and cream recipes, and Skiddlzninja's Cliche recipe is easily the best one out there. No problem. As a mixer, I have yet to really mix up one that I can call my own, until recently.

I had been chasing a nice strawberry banana cream for a while now, because in the dessert world, strawberry banana anything has always been my favourite. Shakes, ice cream, fondue, all of it, strawberry banana was always the best in my opinion. So today, I give you Lazy Saturday, the CokeCan version of strawberries and cream.

Before I get into the recipe, I want to point out that this one actually focuses more on the banana notes, because I felt like all strawberry / (insert other fruit here) cream recipes always smacked you in the face with the strawberry, and the accent note was always lacking. Here, I make strawberry the accent, but it works so nicely. Here we go.

Lazy Saturday recipe

All The Flavors recipe link

• JF Sweet Strawberry at 3%
• TFA Banana Cream at 1%
• LA Banana Cream at 0.5%
• JF Bavarian Cream at 2%
• TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust at 1.25%
• TFA Vanilla Cupcake v1 at 2%
• TFA Toasted Marshmallow at 0.75%
• FW Hazelnut at 1%

Flavour Notes

JF Sweet Strawberry - alright, so if you listen to the Beginner Blending podcast, you know that Vurve and I are both in love with this concentrate. Jungle Flavors (ECX) really knocked it out of the park. This is a very sweet, candied, slightly syrupy strawberry flavour that works perfectly in any sweet or fruity recipe. Obviously it isn't a very "accurate" strawberry, but it is more reminiscent of that blood red candy syrup that you get on top of ice cream at Dairy Queen or whatever fucking ice cream joint you frequent. Get it and love it.

LA Banana Cream / TFA Banana Cream - so back in the day, when I was working on my Banana Split recipe, I found that a 2:1 ratio of TFA to LA Banana Cream was the best way to get a full bodied, complex banana flavour. The TFA gives you that sweet creaminess, while the LA gives you that heavy handed banana flavour. Trust me, if you get that banana Runts flavour from LA, don't worry, the TFA negates that note and helps create a perfect banana flavour. However, these are both incredibly potent flavours, so use them sparingly. Even in this recipe, it's pushes its way to the front straight away.

JF Bavarian Cream / TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust - so this is the first time I'm really messing with JF Bavarian Cream in a full fledged recipe, and god damn is it perfect. I haven't used a real bavarian cream concentrate in a long fucking time. I only had TFA DX Bav Cream and I absolutely despise that fucking concentrate, so this was an eye opening experience after months and months of creating my own cream base for recipes. If you dig TFA Bavarian Cream, pick this shit up as soon as possible. It's sweet, creamy, slightly malty, and thick. I paired a little bit of TFA Cheesecake in there because I wanted that malty aspect to be amplified a bit. The cheesecake isn't necessary, because I know plenty of people can't stand that flavour, so if you want more maltiness here, use your preferred method of doing that.

TFA Vanilla Cupcake / TFA Toasted Marshmallow / FW Hazelnut - these are the sweetening elements in the recipe. TFA Vanilla Cupcake just adds the perfect amount of super sweetness with a touch of a thick mouthfeel. As Vurve and I have said before, it's like adding a dollop of thick frosting to your recipe. So. Fucking. Good. TFA Toasted Marshmallow is a killer flavour, and if you don't have it, give it a shot. It is subtle, but is a great accent. It has this slight caramel note to it that plays so well with the creams and the hazelnut. Speaking of hazelnut, if you don't add a little bit of FW Hazelnut to your strawberry recipes, you're missing out on something beautiful. I don't entirely know why, but it just seems to push the strawberries into a different direction. Instead of using dragonfruit to boost your strawberry flavours, try adding hazelnut next time. It adds a little bit of earthiness, a whole lot of sweet nuttiness, and it smooths out the overall recipe very nicely. You don't really TASTE the hazelnut, but you can taste how it alters the strawberries.

Steep time - decent as a shake and vape, but after three days, the bavarian cream really helps calm the banana down and lets the strawberry punch it's way back up front. However, as I stated earlier, this recipe intends to make the banana cream more of the headline, while the strawberry makes up more of the body and exhale/aftertaste. I love it.

So there it is, you fuckin dorks. Mix it up and let me know what you think. I think I'll be vaping on this a lot today.