Recipe:
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Biscuit (INAWERA) - 0.75%
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Butter Cream (CAP) - 2%
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Cream Cheese Icing (LA) - 2%
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FLV Vanilla Custard - 2.5%
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Graham Cracker (Clear) (TPA) - 2.5%
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Lemon (INAWERA) - 0.2%
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Lemon Meringue Pie (CAP) - 6.5%
Recipe notes:
Absolutely nailed the slightly cheesy/creamy/velvety lemon curd aspect of this mix coupled with the savory rich buttery pie crust. The recipe has a very good level of sweetness offset with the soft tartness of the lemon and it doesn't ruin your coils! This is my current ADV.
Flavoring/recipe breakdown:
INW Biscuit + TPA Graham cracker clear = Rich flaky buttery pie crust.
CAP Butter cream = Boosting the buttery notes of the crust and adding some cream notes to thicken up the lemon curd.
FLV Vanilla Custard = Main body of the lemon curd. Doesn't overpower a mix like CAP VC (not to mention I don't get on with CAP VC). It's very light on the vanilla and blends everything together nicely.
LA Cream cheese icing = Boosts the sweetness of the recipe and adds a very subtle soft cheese like quality to the lemon curd. This is absolutely critical here to achieve a realistic curd vs thin sharp lemon.
CAP Lemon meringue pie = Quite self explanatory, but after trialing a a few lemons and various marshmallow/meringues (which I also don't get along with well) this flavor hands down nails all the elements I want in a lemon meringue pie. The percentage might seem high but it works so well.
INW Lemon = Bolsters and adds a slight tart edge to the "softer" lemon in the CAP LMP. Be warned, this is an extremely powerful concentrate hence the low percentage to avoid it overtaking the mix.
This is my first 100% satisfactory ADV DIY recipe as I'm very sensitive to a lot of commonly used flavors in the DIY game. No off-putting notes (FA meringue/marshmallow/cookie I'm looking at you) and the recipe has a very good level of sweetness without the need for sucralose (your coils will stay shiny for a good while).
The savory-ness, curd aspect and richness really comes out after a few days of steeping but it's good to go as a shake and vape.
Hope you guys enjoy!
ELR Link: http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/942151/Lemon%20Curd%20%26amp;%20Meringue%20Tart
Love bakery + citrus. Congratulations on your success!
Cheers dude, one thing I've really been enjoying about this recipe is the butteryness of the crust and how well it pairs with the lemon curd on the inhale and then you can almost bite into the slightly chewy meringue on the exhale. I'm probably gushing a bit, but I've never been so happy with a DIY mix before.
Looks very nice. I have most of these (don't have butter cream by Capella or INW Lemon) but I think I can work with it. Thanks for sharing :)
I don't think the INW Lemon is absolutely essential - it just acts as something to tarten the existing lemon so I'm sure another equally tart lemon would work.
It's my first time using CAP butter cream, so there could be another good sub that more experienced mixers might be able to recommend to you. Potentially CAP golden butter (though I have no experience with it) in combination with another dairy cream at a low percentage?
I have FW Butter Cream and Lorann's Butter. Lorann's butter is just straight up butter (diacetyl, basically)... FW Butter cream is like a frosting... fairly light it flavor. I was probably going to use that and Flavor Express Lemon as it sounds similar to what you're describing.
Sounds good bro, I would love to get my hands on some FE lemon but I'm too cheap to spring for the shipping from the US for one flavour (I'm in the UK). Test out them butters and see what works as the butter aspect of this recipe is what made it an ADV for me.
Can you expound on the LA Butter a bit? Have you had success with it in any recipes thus far? I've used it in 2 recipes, but at a very low % as I'm not familiar with it. I've got a tester @3% I mixed up this AM, but haven't tried it yet. I'm really hoping it'll be a good weapon in the buttery-crust arsenal. Thanks.
Man, I really should just get graham cracker clear. I only have CAP graham cracker, and I've had to use that as a sub quite a bit
is this a remix of Darren's recipe? I've been thinking of doing something similar, looks great.