Picking out notes i enjoyed from recipes ive tried i put together my own recipe for a graham crust vanilla custard pie. Ended up tasting like a low sweetener O-rangz from 12m. Not at all what i was after. Ive been flavour hunting for a rich vanilla caramel/graham custard that has a dark smoky note without having unpleasant off notes above 100 watts and with no sucralose. Closest things ive found are dillinger from villain vapors and vct black from ripevapes, both are decent, vct is a bit too sweet, but they both have off notes at high wattage. Ive tried a few 5 star recipes off ATF but havent been happy with any of the results so i tried taking the notes that i did enjoy from those recipes and compiling them into a simple graham vanilla custard and i ended up with diet froot loops. If anyone has any suggestions for juice or recipes id love to be pointed in the right direction because diy has not yielded any enjoyable results so far.
The recipe i created is: TPA - Cheesecake (graham crust) 4% TPA - Graham Cracker (clear) 1.5% TPA - vanilla bean ice cream 2% CAP - vanilla custard v2 4% CAP - vanilla whipped cream 2%
(Edit) I can get cap Vanilla custard V1 if anyone has better recipes with that instead of v2
How long did you allow this to steep before trying? I’ve noticed before when using vanilla custard cap V2, that it takes a longer time to steep than usual. Last one I made using this flavor took every bit of 30 days to steep. Mix doesn’t look bad at all imo, so I’d try a 30-40 day steep with zero nic (add after steep) and see if the flavors mingle better
are you sure nothing fruity got in there? i just mixed this up to try(looks good) and it tastes good off the shake. maybe im crazy?
Its not a bad flavour its just not even close to what i was aiming for.
This is the Vanilla Custard recipe I used to make all the time. It goes back years and I never converted to a weight based recipe. I had slightly tweaked the recipe over the years. From this post 8 years ago. Original post Not sure if these flavors are still available, it was better with the original Cap Vanilla Custard but this rocked as well.
30 ml recipe, I use 48mg 70/30 nic base, premixed 70/30 VG/PG
3.75 ml Nic, target to 6 mg final.
3.6 ml Cap Vanilla Custard V2
1.5 ml homemade vanilla
.3 ml TFA Bavarian Cream
.15 ml TFA Sweet Cream
.15 ml TFA Malted Milk
.15 TFA Graham Cracker
6 18 gauge syringe drops TFA Cinnamon Sugar Cookie
6 18 gauge syringe drops MTS Vape Wizard
Homemade vanilla?
I forgot that was in that version of the recipe, it evolved over time. I had a jar of PG and I scraped and soaked many stalks and seeds of vanilla inside it and stored it in a cabinet for a few months. Not really necessary, just something I was trying at the time.
Silky is the custard master, just use this recipe here and sub in Shisha Vanilla for the discontinued Holy Vanilla
When I started DIY 7 or 8 years ago I never could get Holy Vanilla locally.
My flavor notes (from other people's notes) say:
- Vanilla Cream Extra SC (WF) is as good or better than DIYFS Holy Vanilla.
- Vanilla Overload (Gremlin) is the best vanilla bar none. Though DIYFS Holy Vanilla is very similar.
I really like them both, but when I want something a little less "dark" I reach for my favorite vanilla, Shisha Vanilla.