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#This week's flavor is: Christmas
#What does Christmas taste like to you?
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For me Christmas tastes like chocolate star cookies
or coquito.
Both are great ideas for recipes :)
On a side note, the other day I realized your username has a definition on urban dictionary.
>Hash Slinging Slasher
>The act of putting french fries in your partner's anus and having sex with them anally and eating the fries out of the cum filled ass.
Totally shines a different light on you now for some reason.
Urban Dictionary is just a bunch of middle schoolers trying to be clever.
Not to say that nobody's never eaten french fries out of someone's ass, someone has probably done it.
Do you have a coquito recipe that you like for the actual drink? A friend made me some last year but she’s not around this year and I want some!
Yep this is for a pistachio version but you can leave the pistachio out if you don't like
1 can of evaporated milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 can of condensed milk
1 can of coconut milk
6 oz of coconut cream
3-4 scoops of pistachio ice cream
2 teaspoon of pistachio extract
(optional) 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Rum to taste Blend everything together.
TFA Apple Pie tastes like Christmas to me. I grew up on an apple farm in Connecticut, so it's just not Christmas until Grandma makes an apple pie.
Mix it with some FA Caramel, and FA Fuji Apple, tastes just like home. Add a few drops of TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, and make it an A La Mode.
I've been toying around with the types of gingerbread cookies and mulled wine that are traditional for Christmas here in Sweden.
The base for the mulled wine was surprisingly simple, using 4% FW Red Wine, 0.06% FLV Clove, 0.02% FLV Rich Cinnamon and 0.25% FA Cardamom, that really is pretty close to the real deal. The problem is binding the flavors together, finding the right mouth feel and level of sweetness. It's a fun little project as the flavors really are there and just scream Christmas at me, it just needs some more work. And time I don't have.
For the gingerbread cookie, I don't have percentages to share but you'd want the spices to be more prominent than in the mulled wine. CAP Gingerbread, FLV Clove and FLV Rich Cinnamon get you pretty close in terms of the spices, FA Cardamom is optional. CAP Sugar Cookie, butter, some sweetener or TFA Brown Sugar, possibly marzipan, and you have a pretty solid foundation.
I may never finish an actual recipe for these, but if you were thinking along the same lines, this should get you off to a good start.
Mulled Wine like this one?
Do you think the gingerbread cookie would need something very dark and molasses-like in there or are gingerbread cookies in Sweden different that gingerbread men in the U.S.?
Not exactly, I've looked at that recipe a couple of times and I don't have TFA Grape Juice but if it doesn't taste like a dense red wine, it's not the kind I'm shooting for. You can make mulled wine with white wine too, and there's no limit to all the ways you can flavor it, but the traditional one I'm thinking of is very specific and doesn't taste anything like a fresh or candy grape. Also has raisins and bitter orange but I skipped those.
I've been trying to compare gingerbread recipes, but there's so many different versions that it's hard to see clearly. They probably aren't all that different. The molasses we use is a brighter syrup, like what you'd use in sugar cookies. No eggs, nutmeg or allspice traditionally, but dig deep enough and I'm sure you'd find that too :)
Flv eggnog has been my jam this year https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/67091#tropical_eggnog_coquito_by_chrisdvr1
I should be getting this soon. I am very timid though as my only other eggnog flavoring attempt was disgusting. Lorann's eggnog... ICK
So who makes Turkey flavor concentrate? I suppose someone could mix up a stuffing flavored juice...
I have FLV Turkish Tobacco. I know, it's not Turkey, but it's Turk-ish.
Add some OoO Cornbread and FA Zen Garden and call it Merry Fuckin' Christmas
INW Falcon Eye tastes like Christmas to me. When single flavor testing I got a bit of gingerbread flavor from it, so ever since then it is all I taste, and that’s pretty much how I’ve used it. Like my Humbug recipe. HS Elder Captain is in there as well, which I could consider a Christmas type of flavor. It’s like a clove and cardamom mixed with a dry tobacco. Used in the .25-.5% range is really good. Throw it in with some other Christmas stuff to really bring out the holiday cheer in a recipe. FLV Eggnog is pretty good. The only other eggnog I have ever had was LA Eggnog, and it was pretty much nutmeg to me. FLV is richer and smoother.
FA Cardamom would be a good one for the holidays. Strong as hell though. I use a 10% dilution at around 1-1.5%. Other than that, I used pretty much all my “Christmas” flavors in that Humbug recipe, so I won’t ramble on about that.
Edit: oh snap! Forgot FA Chestnut. Haven’t quite nailed that one down, but it’s definitely a .25% type of flavor. I have been fucking around a little bit with a chestnut tobacco, but nothing solid yet.
Nude nicotine pumpkin spice goes great with vanillas.
edit:not inw!
I've been really enjoying my Nog Milk this Christmas season.
Dates cooked in sugar, rice crispies, powdered sugar . . . those flavors say Christmas to me. https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/78367#christmas_confections_by_lonesomerhodestn . . . Christmas Confections is an attempt at recreating the date and rice crispies cookies that my aunt used to make at Christmas time. I'm not sure if a date concentrate exists, but I would say the flavor is somewhere between a jammy fig and a cooked plum. I used FLV Fig at 0.5% and INW Smoked Plum at 0.2% (a ridiculously low % . . . but that stuff is powerful) to create the gooey resemblance of dates cooked in sugar. I added the WF Molasses to add the deep sweetness that comes with cooked dates. WF Almond Cookie (2%), TFA Rice Crunchies (3%), and TFA Coconut Candy (0.75%) make up the body of the cookie that's mixed in (similar to rice crispy treats) after the sugar and dates have cooked into a syrupy sweet mixture. FA Meringue (1%) and CAP Super Sweet (0.5%) round this out with that heavy coating of powdered sugar that the warm cookies are rolled in before serving.
Recipe for the real deal: http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/date-nut-balls-272882
I made this White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge last year right around Christmas time. This year I'm trying my hand at a peppermint cookie with frosting. Cheers to it hopefully being monthly recipe thread material.
I think peppermint... like candy canes. The only Christmas-y type vape that comes to mind is Adore's Jingle mint which I think is now called Dark Horse? It's a dark chocolate mint. My attempt to do anything peppermint have been a failure... I would ideally like to turn LB White Choc Peppermint into a coffee -ish vape. I came across this coffee on a Turnpike rest stop... I forgot the name of the coffee shop but it wasn't Starbucks. They made this peppermint choc "bomb" and it was amazing. It had coffee (obvi), dark chocolate chips, crushed up peppermint candies and it was iced. I haven't been able to find it since but I want to vape it!!
Whoa that sounds good!
It also sounds like LB White Chocolate Peppermint + LB Cappuccino with maybe a dash of FLV Mocha and if that's not chocolatey enough, some HS Australian Choc or BF Chocolate Truffle.
I don't have FLV Mocha... but I do think I grabbed the Cappuccino. Haven't tried it yet. I actually put RF Cookies and Cream in the last attempt to make it... and it seemed to work... but the coffee note was trash. I just ordered some Molinberry Dark Roast because when I tested for them, I loved that flavor. I'll try the LB Cap first... and if I like it, I'll do a batch w/ each of the coffees.
Anyone else make a raffaello recipe? I am working on one and would like to see what direction other (probably more experienced) mixers took to recreate this flavor in a vape. Hands down my favorite confectionary/dessert.
I will post what I have so far once I'm home (posting and formatting recipes on mobile is cancer)
My mom always makes AMAZING butter tarts for xmas, and they are one of my favorite dessert/bakery treats for the holidays. So i tried to whip up a canadian butter tart recipe, since i didnt have any raisin concentrates i tried to use FA black currant and FA liquid amber to kind of get in the ballpark of a raisin type flavor... not really super accurate from what i can tell so far, but it seems to work ok.
Anyways here is my recipe, I whipped this one up after seeing this xmas thread - so its still in development... and im a noob so id love some suggestions on how to improve this recipe. The Sugardaddy Sweetener can be subbed for CAP super sweet (2drops/30ml) or your sweetener of choice.
Ingredient|% :---|---: Biscuit (INAWERA)|1.00 Blackcurrant (FA)|1.50 Butter Cream (CAP)|1.00 Cookie (Biscotto) (FA)|2.00 Creme Brulee (INAWERA)|1.50 Liquid Amber (FA)|0.75 SugarDaddy (VAN) Sweetener|0.50
Flavor total: 8.45%
quick flavor notes
- Biscuit - Add some buttery bakery notes and help create the crust
- Black Currant - Using this one for the darker berry notes, as well as its jammy kind of texture for the inside of the butter tart
- Butter Cream - to add some sweet butter notes and richness to the center of the tart, also to help keep the recipe from becoming too dry
- Cookie - main crust note
- Creme Brulee - to add some richness as well as the caramelized top of the butter tart
- Liquid Amber - using this to attempt to bend the black currant to a darker kind of raisin kind of note
- Sugardaddy (van) sweetener - to bring some extra sweetness and some slight vanilla notes