FlavorWest Cookie Butter
Setup: Goon 22 6 wrap dual fused clapton (26n core/36k) .18ohm. 65-75 watts
Testing: 3%
70vg/30pg. steeped: 1 week
Flavor description: dense, sweet cookie with notes of salted caramel.
Off flavors: a strange ashy like taste to it at higher wattages, almost burnt, but dialing it back on the wattage helps with that. I suspect this will be covered up in a mix, but could be problematic standalone.
Throat hit: 1/10 I’m not getting any throat hit from this one.
Pairings: other cookies, ice creams, coffees, peanut butter, tobaccos, custards, most desserts. Stay away from bright fruits, menthols, citrus.
Notes: What surprises me the most about this flavor is the salted caramel note that I get from it. The concentrate itself is a pretty dark color, so I was nervous when I received it that it may be one of those FW flavors that are loaded with fructose. Upon researching, i scrolled down Abdada’s list and this flavor is the only flavor west offering that actually CONTAINS SALT! This is going to be a really fun one to play with, its a pretty spot on salted caramel base. I feel like this could be a great flavor to use in a cookie base as well, adding even another layer of complexity to nearly perfect flavors like CAP sugar cookie.
Rating: 95/100. Looses 5 points for that ashy taste but otherwise its delicious.
Bonus Recipe: Salted Caramel Ice cream base:
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FW Cookie Butter: 3%
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TFA VBIC: 4%
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CAP Vanilla custard v1: 2%
Look up speculoos. People think of cookie butter like a cookie plus butter but it's totally different. It's absolutely like you said, a caramelized cookie with a salty taste. Yum.
People should try speculoos and make their rendition of it.
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FW cookie butter 3%
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TFA Bavarian cream 1.5%
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TFA peanut butter 3%
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CAP sugar cookie 3%
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TFA RY4 double 2%
Trader Joe's Cookie Butter is the best fucking thing ever... But do you actually like this Flavor West shit version that tastes nothing like it?
I actually sell a few different brands of it, but legit speculoos is imported and I guarantee you trader Joe's is domestic.
But that's why you add those other bars in the melody.
What's that recipe up there? Whether you get Biscoff brand, or Trader Joes, or some other speculoos spread, there's nothing (other than the texture) remotely resembling peanuts or any kind of nuts in there. It's literally just pulverized cookies (with no nuts in them), oil, and sugar. There's no way something with 3% TFA Peanut Butter tastes anything like Cookie Butter. You're broken if you think it does. Jesus Christ Peanut Butter. Where are my blood pressure pills?
I'm sorry. I love you. I really really do. But there are few things in this world I'm passionate about and Cookie Butter is one of them. If that's not supposed to be a speculoos spread recipe then I apologize for my rant.
Being Belgian I'd love to find a Speculoos concentrate/recipe, especially since I'm thinking about starting a juice line in the future and Speculoos is a no brainer for a Belgian brand. It's such a classic and ubiquitous cookie over here.
I've never found anything to be even remotely close however. Even FlavorMonks (Belgian concentrates brand) couldn't get Speculoos right at all.
You'll never get that salt taste but look into Carmel flavors and butterscotch. Try saline solution. Really can't make a salty vape tho which I think really makes speculoos special.
- How much of this did you vape and 2) what did your cotton and coils look like after you vaped it?
Granted I never tried 3%, only 5%, but the answers for me are 1) about 2ml and 2) really, really nasty.
I tested at shake and vape and 1 week wickless, so no issues there. About 5mls into my bottle of the base I posted, and yeah, it's gunkin. Still diggin the flavor itself though.
Just got into the RDA game, but what does wickless mean?
There are some fancy coil builds that use multiple layers of wire, the teeny tiny spaces in between those wires can hold small amounts of juice. With coils like these you can just drip onto the coil and have enough for a hit or two. Not great for an all day setup but great for flavor testing. Google Clapton, fused claptons, alien builds etc.
Wickless. I think that might help explain part of why I hate this flavor so much and you're enjoying it (other than taste is subjective, etc). It does unholy things to cotton that probably greatly enhances that bitter ashy taste that you only found very mildly off.