Hello Reddit DIY Community. It is I, the long dormant lover of ginger. I was a pretty active poster for a while. I got involved in Mixer’s Club here and every once in a while, would toss a recipe or two out in the monthly thread. I violated the delicate flavor of u/ID10-T’s Longing by throwing some FLV Ginger in it and calling it Ardent. That caught his attention which in turn helped get the attention of other well known mixers. He is the Kingmaker after all.

I was invited to be a guest on the Ginger episode of Noted last summer. I had a blast. It was my first time doing a YouTube show. It was my first time doing single flavor tests. And last fyi. I got to meet Cheeba and Emily. I learned how to use Discord and a new group video chatting software. Many cherries were popped that night for me! I was picked for ginger specifically because I had submitted many mixes that included ginger in them for MC, including a ginger-mango nectar and several ginger infused cocktails. Some of our MC participants dreaded it while others dug it.

By the time the Noted episode rolled around I was participating less in MC and on Reddit. I lost my dad last spring and my mom’s Alzheimer’s has rapidly progressed over the past year. Mom lives with me and I am her primary care giver. It was getting increasingly more difficult to do anything for myself and by myself. And when she was gone on the weekends at my sister’s house, I was more inclined to crawl in bed with some Netflix or an audio book than to spend time on recipe development or being active in the community.

I had one last hurra on Mixin’ Vixens as a guest on the Maple Nut Blondie episode. I also had a blast on that show. The Vixens were great. They inspired a new recipe, which I will be sharing here, and are just a great bunch of intelligent, gorgeous lady mixers! I was looking forward to doing more shows in the future. But then I ghosted. I was still occasionally checking in with MC on Discord but mostly I was gone from the DIY community as quickly as I had come into it.

So now, I’m baaaack! Mom goes to adult daycare and I’m managing things much better now. I’ve reconnected with the folks in Mixers Club, which is now being done fully on Discord, and I just placed my first flavor order in a really long time. I’m ready to get back in the game and reclaim my throne as the ginger queen. I told Dave I wanted some ginger flair! So I am writing this post to earn it! I promised a post with at least 3 recipes with ginger in them. They are on ATF and have been for a while. But I never posted them on Reddit or shared them with the larger community. Two of them were discussed on Noted and the third was inspired by the Vixens.

[The Second Coming](https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/110026#the_second_coming_by_loonicorn)

Warm cooked pears infused with spicy fresh ginger and covered in a sweet bourbon sauce. You may even pick up a hint of chocolate sauce lightly drizzled on top.

FA Pear @ 2%

TFA Pear @ 2%

FLV Bourbon @ 0.5%

TFA Kentucky Bourbon @ 2%

NF Ginger @ 1.5%

FLV Ginger @ 0.5%

TFA Toasted Marshmallow @ 1.5%

This was created for Mixer’s Club March 2018 when the theme was St. Patty’s Day. My thought behind this was this holiday (in the US) represents a bunch of gingers getting drunk. I’m not above using a flagrant stereotype to ensure my mixes match the theme! With that said, this reads as a dessert vape, not a beverage vape. It may not have started that way, but that’s where it ended up. It was inspired by Coop’s famous Kiwi Bourbon but turned into what it says in my description.

I chose TFA and FA Pears because they just work well together. Neither quite gives a satisfying pear experience on its own, but together they are perfect!

TFA Kentucky Bourbon is delicious on its own but I wanted a little more realism in my bourbon sauce, so I added the FLV for a hint of charred flavor.

NF Ginger is really excellent if you want a crisp, fresh ginger flavor. It’s well rounded, spicy, and delicious. FLV Ginger is my favorite. I even like it solo. It’s there to support the NF and add its own unique flavor that I can’t seem to get enough of. Don’t like your mix? Add some FLV Ginger to it and it’ll be great!

TFA Toasted Marshmallow ties everything together, gives the pears a cooked flavor and works some kind of voodoo with Kentucky Bourbon that is simply magical.

What about that chocolate note in the description? No clue! I kept getting some extra flavor that I couldn’t identify. It wasn’t off in the sense of bad, but something was there I couldn’t put my finger on. I vaped it for a week while trying to write the description and finally just wrote the first sentence of the description and called it good. Dave is the one who identified it as chocolate. So I added a sentence to the description after he reviewed it and called it done!

As for the name, The Second Coming is the title of my favorite poem by Irish poet Yeats. Let’s face it, naming a juice simply based on the description is booooring. Mixer’s Club and this sub Reddit have inspired me to be a little more creative when naming my mixes. Give this baby about 7 days for everything to come together and you’ll have a delicious bottle of juice!

[Soulsucker](https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/110753#soulsucker_by_loonicorn)

A ginger-lemonade spiked with gin with an exotic floral twist.

FA Gin @ 2%

HS Ginger @ 1%

CAP Hibiscus @ 0.5%

FA Lavender @ 0.25%

FLV Lemonade @ 3%

This was my 2nd submission for the St. Patty’s Day theme, so again, booze and ginger. This one definitely reads as a beverage vape. It is fantastic, delicious, delightful and refreshing. Don’t let those crazy ingredients fool you. It defies description though I did my best! It is absolutely unique. I had no clue what was going to happen. It was inspired by a cocktail recipe I found online and could never find again. The cocktail was gin and lemonade with ginger syrup, lavender syrup, and a lavender garnish. I was expecting an abomination and instead got this amazing mix. I tried a few tweaks to fine tune what I liked about it, but other attempts were unsuccessful. So this was a v1 all the way!

FA Gin is used because gin was in the cocktail recipe I found online. It’s still the only gin I have, so if it needs gin, it gets FA.

FLV Lemonade is my favorite. I just love it. I would use it exclusively if it weren’t so prone to fading. It’s a Country Time type lemonade. Would love to find a fresh squeezed lemonade flavor that I like to mix with, but so far that hasn’t happened. For now, it remains my go to for all lemonade-based recipes.

CAP Hibiscus is in there because the cocktail recipe called for ginger and lavender syrups. Hibiscus is a great flavor for adding a syrupy sweet quality, especially when working with florals.

I chose HS for the ginger because I had had luck with it before when I was trying to get a syrupy kind of ginger you might find in candied ginger. Oddly enough, it also works for bakeries. But if I want candied ginger, I reach for the HS.

FA Lavender is my only lavender flavor, so it wins!

The only downside to this is how quickly the lemonade fades. I’ve been working on creating a lemonade base that can work with everything and stand up to a long steep. I have a really good one for plain lemonade but as soon as I start adding other ingredients, it starts getting weird. It’s not just this recipe. I have a watermelon mint lemonade profile I’ve been chasing for a while. I also want to do a ginger (surprise!) and a ginger-mint lemonade. But it sends my base out of whack when I add anything.

So, here is my compromise on unleashing this to the public: This is going to fade; it’s not a deep steeper. Give it three days to blend everything together and vape it all within about 2 weeks. You could probably push the FLV Lemonade to 3.5% and get a little more time out of it. But if you push it higher or add support, you are going to ruin that unique delicious quality that comes from combining some really weird ingredients.

I called it Soulsucker cuz that’s what gingers do, being soulless themselves!

[Strawberry Blonde](https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/117419#strawberry_blonde_by_loonicorn)

A gooey maple gingerbread blondie.

TFA Bavarian Cream @ 1.5%

TFA Brown Sugar @ 0.75%

TFA Butter @ 0.5%

CAP Cake Batter @ 0.75%

FA Cookie @ 1%

FLV Ginger Snap @ 0.5%

CAP Gingerbread @ 2%

FA Maple Syrup @ 1.5%

JF Yellow Cake @ 2%

HS Ginger @ 0.25% (Optional)

As I mentioned, I was a guest on Mixin’ Vixens when they mixed their Maple Nut Blondie recipes. I mixed [this](https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/113664#e_sploded_by_loonicorn) recipe for the show. It was a traditional blondie and pretty darn tasty for a v1. Emily and Rin were already privy to my ginger obsession (Emily from Noted and Rin from MC), so one of these geniuses suggested I do a gingerbread blondie! So the crazy ginger lady got right to work.

The blondie: A blondie is similar to a brownie except instead of cocoa or chocolate, it’s loaded with brown sugar, butter, and, often, maple. Nuts are optional. I included them in my E’Sploded recipe but thought it was too much for an already complex profile with the gingerbread added. Blondies and brownies are sort of half cake and half cookie. So, I used FA Cookie for the cookie, JF Yellow Cake for the cake, and CAP Cake Batter to blend them into a gooey concoction. TFA Brown Sugar and Butter were included to carry that true to blondie flavor. I probably could have left the maple out with the nuts but I really loved the FA Maple in E’Sploded so I kept it in there.

The Gingerbread: CAP Gingerbread is the star of the show here. It takes our traditional blondie profile and makes it more special. But I also wanted to include some of the dark molasses flavor common to a good gingerbread. Enter FLV Ginger Snap. I kept it low. It’s dark as sin and you have to shake the hell out of it. When you look at the bottom of the bottle before shaking, it looks like the bottle is black plastic! Anyway, it supports the Gingerbread and adds a nice molasses finish.

TFA Bavarian Cream is there to blend the two main profiles together, keep the mix from being too dry, and support the maple so it doesn’t disappear.

The recipe is excellent as it is. But much like Christopher Walken always wants more cowbell in the SNL Blue Oyster Cult skit, I think everything needs more ginger! Without it the cinnamon note from the gingerbread portion overpowers the ginger. And I can’t have that! I tried a few different gingers at a few different percentages and landed on HS at 0.25%. I also liked it at 0.5%, but unless you are obsessed with all things ginger, 0.25% is where it’s at.

So, there you have it, my gingerbread blondie recipe I call Strawberry Blonde despite the fact that it does not contain or taste like strawberry in any way shape or form. Give it about 10 days to lose the dryness.

So, do I deserve some ginger flair? Have I earned it yet? Do I need to finalize my ginger-mango candy recipe first? I dunno. Tell me what you think! Am I even a ginger? Hmmm. Am I? Technically I think I’m a golden blonde with a hint of strawberry. But in the right light, the right clothes, etc., I can totally pass for a ginger. Plus, the skin tone is ALL ginger…freckles, sunburn, and the whole nine yards. Do I have a soul? Have I ever sucked any souls? That is for the community and the Kingmaker to decide.