Man oh man, donuts are my weakness in real life, but being that I have to maintain a weight class I sure can't eat them as much as I want, so it's always been one of my favorite kind of vapes.

After many test, tweaks, and variations I finally came to a donut base that I love, it's heavy, sweet, dense, and just a touch yeasty like you'd find in a freshly made donut from a donut shop.

• RF Baked bread RAW Extract @1.75%
• JF Biscuit @1%
• CAP sugar cookie @3%
• CAP Cake batter @1.25%
• FA Meringue @.75%
• INW Waffle 10% dilution @.5%

I found this to be the perfect glazed donut base for what I was looking for, so once I finally got that down I knew I needed to put it to work with other flavors, because if it didn't work in a recipe I wouldn't consider it a success. Being fall, and me being a cranberry fanatic I knew I wanted to bring that tart little fruit out to play.

So I present to you, The Thankful Donut, a spiced cranberry glazed donut.

• RF Baked bread RAW Extract @1.75%
• JF Biscuit @1%
• CAP sugar cookie @3%
• CAP Cake batter @1.25%
• FA Meringue @.75%
• INW Waffle 10% dilution @.5%
• FLV cranberry @2%
• HS Apple mix @.5%
• CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl @.75%

Flavor Notes

RF RAW Baked bread

This is a pretty strong yeasty flavor on it's own, but it captures the taste of a freshly baked bread very well, bring some of the grain notes forward as well as a moderately dense mouth feel. I was pretty positive it would fit perfect for a donut recipe instead of FA Joy, which brings a weird spicy and stale note if used to high for me.

JF Biscuit

The INW Biscuit killer. I love biscuit, I really do, but again it leaves a weird spicy and dry notes if used to high, and if used in a donut recipe it always reminded me of a day old donut instead of a freshly made donut. But JF Biscuit, now this is sweet, buttery, slight vanilla hint, and a dense mouth feel, helping to give some body to the baked bread flavor.

CAP Sugar cookie

What can I say that hasn't been said? This is more or less the base of the whole recipe, it's soft and sweet and will change from cookies to cakes to donuts all depending on what you use with it.

CAP Cake batter

The best donuts are fried, period. This flavor does a few things for the recipe, first it brings a little bit of a heavy, grease feel to it. At first I used it to high and it really killed the recipe, but at this % it gives just the right mouth feel to it, not to heavy but also keeps it from being to airy. Then the sweetness of the flavor helps to create the base of a sugar glaze over top.

FA Meringue

Another flavor that I can't say things that haven't been said. Just a little here to mix with the cake batter and it creates a sweet, sticky glaze over the donut.

INW Waffle 10% Dilution

If you've never used waffle, it's a INCREDIBLE strong flavor. If you don't dilute it, even a couple drops in a 30ml will take over the recipe. But, when diluted and used in small % it brings the PERFECT fried bread taste. I knew I needed this in the recipe but balancing it in was a bit challenging. To little and you don't get any fried taste, to much and it's all you taste. .5% proved to be just enough for that hint of fried flavor without overpowering anything else. Seriously, if you like bakeries get this flavor ASAP.

FLV Cranberry I've only used OOO cranberry before this, which was terrible. But I heard a few people mention FLV cranberry so I decided I had to get it and I'm glad I did. It's a bright, tart, very slightly sweetened cranberry. Can easily be used in a drink or candy recipe as well. with 2% if breaks through the heavy cakey flavors and gives you a perfect cranberry exhale to the recipe

HS apple mix

This flavor is one of the best fall flavors I've used. It's not really an apple mix, so much as a fall spice mix. Notes of apple, cinnamon, cranberry, and perhaps some other spices, maybe nutmeg? Anyway, the tartness brings the cranberry forward and the spice blend helps to incorporate the FLV cranberry into the donut making it feel like it's cooked into the donut instead of just being on top of it.

CAP cinnamon danish swirl

To be honest, I don't like this flavor. It's got this weird alcohol taste to it I can't get past most of the time, but used at very small % it does give a great baked cinnamon taste to a recipe. At first I was gonna use FLV Rich cinnamon but it was just to forward in the recipe and weighted down the cranberry, FLV cinnamon crunch added an extra grain note that took away from the donut base, so I finally tried this flavor and found it blended perfectly into the donut to give a spiced cranberry flavor to the entire recipe.

Steep time 7-10 days for sure. Fresh mixed the baked bread comes forward with a very strong yeast taste, but after about a week it calms down significantly and you get a fresh, fried donut flavor

So there it is, this is the recipe I'm most proud of at this point and the first I'm posting to the front page. I doubt many people will have the RF baked bread but for creating a donut the mix of the baked bread and INW waffle were the keys to rounding a donut flavor out, something that all the other recipes just slightly missed for my taste.

https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/16736