Setup: velocity v2; dual 24g SS316 7 wrap; full cotton wicks Testing: CAP Vanilla Cupcake v2 4% aged: 21 days 70/30 vg/pg 1.5mg nic
Flavor description Mostly vanilla cupcake frosting. It’s got a decent artificial vanilla you’d get in store brand cupcake frosting. Dense mouthfeel and its pretty damn sweet. Above 4% it gets cloying for me but from 2-4% it’s a pretty good frosting flavor. At 4% there is a tiny note of some kind of ‘cake’ but its pretty easy to overlook with all the frosting on top. needs some help to be an actual cupcake.
Off-flavors: Get a very slight waxy/plastic taste at 4% but it is covered up in most mixes, at 5% and up I find it unusable. Not much off taste at 2% and below. Throat hit: Smooth, almost none.
Uses: I’ve used this right at 4% as the frosting for a simple cupcake recipe. Also would use this from 1-2% to boost creams. I could also see this working at 1-2% with fruits, mainly berries.
Pairings: Chocolate, cakes and most baked things, most fruits+berries, cereals, caramel, spices, vanilla.
Notes: Overall I like this flavor. I bought it to make Vurve’s Birthday Ice Cream Cake and it’s used excellently there to boost the cream/cake. If you’re looking for actual cake/cupcake flavor I’d go with JF yellow cake or CAP Vanilla Cupcake v1, or CAP Yellow Cake but I prefer Jungle Flavors version.
Second Opinions Someone on ELR mentions plastic taste above 6% there are some other notes there with mixed reviews.
One review on BCF that was positive and mentioned some kind of pepper taste that this and V1 shared
5 reviews on this site, one 3 star review says “Didn’t like it. Ended up down the sink. Others seem to like it, so went middle vote” .. the rest are very positive.
I read that v1 is more frosting, v2 is more cupcake. Anyone else feel this? I've never tasted v2 but my v1 sounds pretty accurate to this review
Currently vaping this in my rta at 4%: same flavor as described. I get some cake nuance but IMO this is really frosting heavy. If anyone has a different experience please leave comments.
also dont know why i did not check out the atf page for this but i see it used for frosting notes in a couple recipes.
also this quote "Capella's Vanilla Cupcake v2: I decided to use Capella's Vanilla Cupcake v2 to supplement the cake base as well as a base for the frosting. I originally used v1 but it was much more of the bottom of a cupcake as opposed to the top where the frosting is at. v2 helps as it still has a bit of that cupcake flavor but the frosting aspect is much more present in v2 than in v1 to me. At 2% it does what I need it to do and it brings the cake and frosting together."
https://alltheflavors.com/flavors/capella-vanilla-cupcake-v2
That ice cream cake recipe looks soooo good. Do you think FW Yellow Cake @ 1% will be a suitable replacement for JF Yellow Cake @ 2.5%?
Give it a go, maybe even up to 2% but I think it will drastically change the final product. It will probably be delicious but I highly recommend JF yellow cake for most of your cake needs. I think the fructose in FW yellow cake will take this into a different realm of sweetness, the recipe has its own nicely balanced sweetness but I'm sure that FW yellow cake will make it even sweeter. Depending what you like could be awesome or not.
I ordered some JF Yellow Cake last night. I'm gonna mix 10mL of it with FW then compare when the JF arrives
If any of you have ever tried our Princess flavor (strawberry vanilla cupcake), we can tell you the key is to not use any flavors with cupcake in their name. The "cupcake" flavors out there are all horrible at replicating a true cupcake flavor. Turn to other bakery elements and you'll have much more success.