Thanks to everyone who joined in last week's Flavor of The Week discussion about Coffee.
As always, the purpose of this thread is to gather the community to explore a flavor and its many uses. And it's also to have FUN!
Post recipes containing this week's Flavor of the Week, as the star or in a supporting role, with or without development notes. Talk about other people's recipes that use it. Compare and contrast different manufacturers' versions of the FOTW. Ask for help using that flavor in general or to achieve something specific, offer advice, brainstorm ideas, consider substitutions, suggest pairings... really anything at all as long as it's on topic.
This week's flavor is: Donut
Past FOTW posts can be found here
Prepare yourselves, next week's FOTW will be: Passion Fruit
The week after that will be: Blueberry and Bilberry
The week after that will be: Blackcurrant
The week after that will be: Apricot
The week after that will be: Papaya
The week after that will be: Pistachio
The week after that will be: Puddings
The week after that will be: Walnut
The week after that will be: Cinnamon
The week after that will be: Oddball Berries (Huckleberry, Boysenberry, Lingonberry, Saskatoon, Acai, Goji)
The week after that will be: Shisha.... INW Shisha everything. How to use them, when to use them, best recipes with shisha flavors.
The week after that will be: Grape
The week after that will be: Oats/Grains
The week after that will be: Frostings/Icings
The week after that will be: ??? You tell me. Please take this opportunity to suggest one that interests you (or send me a PM to do that). Otherwise I'm going have to resort to picking one of these from /u/tranceinate: pandoro, panetonne, pumpkin, pasta, paprika, parfait, pastry, pesto, pickle, potato, praline, pretzel, pulled pork, pizza, pancake, pie, pie crust, pie filling, peppers, plantain. And from /u/Turbonatorcharged: Butter Chicken, French baguette.
This is one flavor I have messed around with for a while. Still not finding a flavor that satisfies the craving.
TFA Frosted Donut - I hate this stuff. It tastes like airy dirt, if that's a thing. It lacks pretty much everything you would hope a donut has. People say it has more of an emphasis on a powdered sugar on top of the donut. I personally have never tasted it.
Amount Used - Around 1%-2%
CAP Glazed Donut - You either love this stuff or hate it. People seem to be divided between play-dough and a donut. I personally don't pick up a very strong play-dough note from this. I like using it every once in a while. Now days there are better options. This stuff usually needs a helping hand from cake and bakery flavors to really pull it in a donut direction.
Amount Used - Around 2.5%-6% (Too high and the taste of play-dough makes it self known)
FA Wow/Zeppola - These are pretty much exactly the same. Wow has a fruit note in it Zeppola doesn't. Like a very light strawberry and raspberry flavor that is incredibly easy to cover up. Just like FA Strawberry it fades incredibly fast. Zeppola is probably the closest thing to an actual donut I've tried thus far. Zeppola It has a nice baked pastery flavor. No fried notes really there. You have to use FA Joy to start to bring it out. This is a great starting place to try and make a donut. I would personally get Zeppola over Wow because the fruit note in Wow is so light and non-existent after a steep you can just add your own fruit flavors to bring it in any direction you want.
Amount Used - 1%-3% (I've tried it as high as 4% with no extra benefit or funky off notes)
Flv Donuts - If you do not like FA Joy do not buy this flavor! I was going to try and get a review out for this before this FOTW but I got too busy. My first impression of it is pretty good. I am excited to start using this flavor. It is concentrated. I didn't use more than .4% to start to really get a flavor from it. This isn't an actually full flavored fried donut. It's in the same realm as FA Joy without the funky wax or beer notes at low percentages. If you use too much of this stuff it will over take the entire mix and has a potential to start to get funky. This is were it would have potential to start to taste of stale beer. You would use this to bring out a fried pastry flavor.
Amount Used - .1%-.4% (.4% the flavor starts showing it's face in the background)
I unfortunately didn't get around to testing FLV Fried Dough/FLV Sweet Dough for the purpose of this FOTW. Assuming they can lend any hand in making a donut hopefully someone else can chime in on them.
Thanks for the great donut notes!
> CAP Glazed Donut - You either love this stuff or hate it.
I don't hate it. I like the little bit of kindergarten nostalgia. All I need now are some paste and crayon flavors.
I've bought about 500ml of CAP Glazed Donut in total and some of it's been absolute garbage with that strong playdough flavour, I believe it's due to oxidation.
I tested this, kept the 100ml bottle I had, from a solid supplier that could prove it was recently manufactured and resold to me, in a freezer with 10ml in 1 bottle and 10ml in another bottle kept on a windowsill.
A few months later I mix up 3x10ml of:
- 5% CAP Glazed Donut
- 1.6% Zeppola
- 1% TFA Frosted Donut
- 0.8% FA Joy
The mix that used glazed donut from the freezer tasted fantastic, no playdough taste at all. The one I'd left out on my desk tasted a little playdoughy and the one that had been on the windowsill tasted VERY playdoughy.
Fresh I personally think it's a fantastic flavour but steeping it absolutely ruins it for me. I don't make batches larger than 50ml now because of it.
Wow! That is neato. How did you figure that that out? Just by getting some bottles that were play doughy and some that weren't and wondering what might be the difference?
I still have my very first bottle that's over a year old now, I suppose I should throw that out and order new if i'm going to make that little mix of yours above or /u/wh1skeyk1ng 's More Donuts Please
Flv Fried dough is absolutely horrid in any percentage above .3%. That being said, it can be useful at around the .1 or .2% range in the same way fa joy can be used.
I honestly think FA Zeppola and FA Joy are the only Donut flavors worth having.
FA Zeppola has a pretty good bready/pastry flavor. It does lean on the citrus side of things, but you can work around that some. A steep helps tone that down as well. 2-4% recommended usage.
I don't like FA Joy, but it has its applications. People tell me it tastes like fried, but I don't know what they're talking about. It's straight up flat beer. I find this one is best used at low percentages or the whole recipe will turn into old wine.
FA WoW is mediocre. It has this ever-so-slight hint of red fruit. I can't even tell which one. It goes away for the most part after a steep. Zeppola hits closer to the mark without the unnecessary fruit component. I have used this from 1-3% with moderate success.
CAP Chocolate Glazed Doughnut is better than CAP Glazed Doughnut, but only because chocolate covers the slightest bit of the play-doh flavor. It's not a bad chocolate; I wish it didn't include the doughnut. That said, the play-doh totally ruins it. One draw might be interesting, but the second will take you back to kindergarten. Avoid this one.
CAP Glazed Doughnut is play-doh. That's it. Anywhere from 10% down to 1 drop per 10ml is straight play-doh. I've gone through 45ml trying to clean that crap out, and every last drop refused to be anything other than play-doh. Mix at your own risk.
FLV Donut is the most vile flavor I've ever tasted. One drop in 30ml will ruin your mix. It's gross. Absolutely fucking disgusting. It isn't "fried" flavor. It isn't beer. It's like a fucking yeast-infected belly button. It's. Fucking. Disgusting.
Other than those, stuff like JF Yellow Cake, CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl, CAP Sugar Cookie, and the like are decent supplemental flavors to help push the donut flavor of your choosing in the right direction. Vanilla Custard, Holy Vanilla, FA Custard, FA Honey, FLV Rich Cinnamon, AP, FA Meringue, etc help accent donut recipes as well. Those are just some of my favorites to use. Try out a minuscule amount of FA Honey (a drop per 15ml) for a super sticky glaze.
joy and cap funnel cake and flv fried dough are all supposed to taste fried but all taste like beer to me as well.
I wish someone made a donut hole flavor :(
What's the difference between a donut hole and a whole donut?
Well the donut hole obviously is better because it's not the ripoff that the donut is with an entire center piece missing. Donut holes are 100% batter whereas donuts are just 70% batter and 30% air. Donut holes obviously must have more flavor, being 100% batter.
what about zepolla?
*Zeppola
That does have a lot of surface area, actually. Might work!
My ADV rite now is a strawberry doughnut. CAP Glazed Doughnut 5% INW Biscuit 1% FA Red Touch (strawberry) 3% TPA Strawberry (ripe) 2%
The biscuit really helps the glazed doughnut out by adding a butteriness to it. Then red touch and strawberry ripe, obviously. Swap the fruit for your's of choice, or mix it like this. I've really been enjoying it.
Tried every combination of both the cap doughnuts and FA wow / FA joy I could think of along with other pastry flavors to try together with them or by themselves. I think I just do not like vaping doughnut or something, nothing doughnut related has tasted even remotely like something I want to vape and I love other pastry flavors/cereals. :(
Still my favorite ADV for nearly two years. Everyone always worries about the INW Raspberry being high but if you ever have enjoyed these doughnuts you'll know that the raspberry filling is VERY artificial.
Hostess Powdered Jelly Donut
INW Biscuit 1% FW Yellow Cake 1% FA Joy 1% FA Torrone 1% INW Raspberry 5%
Mix it, let it steep a day and ENJOY!
What flavor do people get from FA torrone in bakeries? I always see people use it but it tastes horrific to me at any percentage. All I get is pine cones from it.
I have everything other than the raspberry. Will try that as.a base though
Ill share a donut recipe i just made a couple weeks ago but must give a warning that I'm a big fan of KISS(keep it simple stupid). I don't use percentages. I simple just stick to 120ml batches and use ml. When I started diy I never intended to sell or share my recipes, I figured it would be easier just to stick with ml over percentages. This goes a bit out of the norm, but it's a good recipe and happens to be the FOW which has become one of my new favorite juices I made recently.
120ml Batch
JF sweet strawberry 12 drops (thin tip dropper)
Capella Sweet strawberry 2ml
Tfa strawberry ripe 1ml
FA raspberry(berryl) .5ml
Tfa Bavarian cream 2ml
Tfa Ethyl maltol 3 drops (thin tip)
Tfa marshmellow 10 drops (thin tip)
Capella glazed donut 6ml (this can be played around with)
First 3 days the donut is very playdoughy, in a week the donut really gets cakey and resembles a donut flavour. This will be like taking a bite out of a krispy kreme jelly filled donut with the thinnest layer of donut to the maximum amount of jelly.
I apologize for this not being the proper template to share, the timing of the flavour of the week and the goodyness of this juice has me compelled to share regardless. Enjoy?
½% JF strawberry sweet (assuming that's what jungle juice flavor is)
1.66% CAP sweet strawberry
.83% TFA Strawberry Ripe
.41% FA raspberry
1.66% TFA Bavarian cream
.12% TFA ethyl maltol
.41% TFA marshmallow
5% CAP glazed donut
For a cleaner version I would say:
5% CAP glazed donut
1.5% CAP sweet strawberry
1.5% TFA Bavarian cream
1% TFA strawberry ripe
0.5% JF strawberry sweet
0.5% TFA marshmallow
0.5% FA raspberry
Optional drop of ethyl maltol per 30ml
For anyone that may have missed it, I posted this recipe about a month ago utilizing CAP Glazed without getting the Play-Doh funk.
Not sure if anyone actually tried it yet, but it seemed to go over well and I haven't heard anything back about other's taste buds.
I didn't miss it. I just didn't believe you. Nothing personal, I promise, but I've been "lied to" (taste is subjective yada yada) about CAP Glazed before.
"Just steep it for a month, that play dough flavor goes away."
Bull fuckin shit it does.
However, I have all of these flavors. I will give this a try. We shall see.
Nooooooo! Don't do it!
I just mixed some up. I totally missed that recipe. Once it's steeped for a couple weeks I'll let you know what I think! Cheers, man.
/u/wh1skeyk1ng Hey, man. Just busted out the steeped More Donuts Please. It's not bad. I still get play doh on the back end, but it's very subdued compared to most uses of CAP GD. Custard and French Vanilla really do cover it up a lot. It pushes through towards the end though, and the citrus note gives way to it. I think a lot of people who only get some play doh from CAP will really enjoy this. I'm a bit too sensitive to it myself. Great little recipe nonetheless!
That's actually re-assuring in a way. I can always try some other combos for it. I had 5 or 6 people try it with only good things to say.
I have an older recipe that was/is fairly popular using CAP Glazed to make a jelly filled donut.
Reading how often you guys mention it in this thread, I've never got the play-doh taste from donut flavors.
Its specifically about Capella's donut flavors, specifically CAP Glazed Donut but Chocolate Glazed donuts has it aswell. If you dont have these flavors then you havent tried the play do-nuts
I have those I use them in a Couple recipes. I honestly don't get the note off them though.
I am a little late. I just ordered solub arome donut from chefs. Anyone have experience with this flavor?
I do not. I'm excited to hear what you think though!
I know this isn't super relevent but i thoroughly enjoy bobs burgers and this gave me a chuckle. Reminded me of the burger of the day.
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