Fruits & bakery flavours

[Jen]

I've made a few mixes now like strawberry cheesecake and rhubarb shortcake, but every time the fruit seems to overpower the bakery. My strawberry cheesecake was 12% Capella NY Cheesecake and 8% CCW Strawberry. The shortcake was 10% Capella Rhubarb, 10% PA Bavarian Creme, 3% Capella Graham Cracker and 2% Capella VC (from a recipe on Vapebook) - it's nice, but it's mostly rhubarb! What percentages do you guys generally use that work for you?

[Perpetua]

Maybe make your base & fruit up separately Jen, at a concentration that suits you . . . then gradually add your fruit, so it doesn't overpower the base?

I probably go 2/3rds base and 1/3rd fruit to suit my tastes.

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

^^^^ what Perpy says

[esmecullen]

Ditto

[Jen]

LOL, I see there is consensus

If I make up and steep the fruit and bakery separately then mix them, would they then need time to steep together?

[kurotoshiro]

This is slightly off-topic, but on the subject of "bakery" type flavours, I was wondering if anyone had experimented at all with Capella Cappuccino. I've been using it in various combinations with other flavours to try and get a nice caramel coffee recipe, but after much experimentation, I cannot escape the fact that it doesn't really taste like cappuccino or coffee at all, it just has a kind of general cakey / bready taste. So I'm going to give up on trying to make a coffee recipe with it, and just use it as a "bakery" style background flavour instead. Has anyone else tried it and had similar thoughts?

[kruegerbait]

Apr 22, 2013 13:00:56 GMT Jen said:

I've made a few mixes now like strawberry cheesecake and rhubarb shortcake, but every time the fruit seems to overpower the bakery. My strawberry cheesecake was 12% Capella NY Cheesecake and 8% CCW Strawberry. The shortcake was 10% Capella Rhubarb, 10% PA Bavarian Creme, 3% Capella Graham Cracker and 2% Capella VC (from a recipe on Vapebook) - it's nice, but it's mostly rhubarb! What percentages do you guys generally use that work for you?

Ditto to Perps, Sandra and esme, also I find that the longer they steep the bakery flavours develop more and the fruits become little more subtle. A few drops of MTS Vape Wizard helps blend everything together as well.

[Jen]

Hm, the rhubarb is 4 weeks old - I would have thought that would have been long enough? I'll just try mixing with less fruit, I reckon

[Jockyspants]

A glass of whisky makes everything taste good, try that first Jen!

[Jen]

I need one tonight, Jocky!!

[Deleted]

Rhubarb shortcake sounds

[bryan123456]

Apr 22, 2013 17:40:53 GMT kruegerbait said:

Apr 22, 2013 13:00:56 GMT Jen said:

I've made a few mixes now like strawberry cheesecake and rhubarb shortcake, but every time the fruit seems to overpower the bakery. My strawberry cheesecake was 12% Capella NY Cheesecake and 8% CCW Strawberry. The shortcake was 10% Capella Rhubarb, 10% PA Bavarian Creme, 3% Capella Graham Cracker and 2% Capella VC (from a recipe on Vapebook) - it's nice, but it's mostly rhubarb! What percentages do you guys generally use that work for you?

Ditto to Perps, Sandra and esme, also I find that the longer they steep the bakery flavours develop more and the fruits become little more subtle. A few drops of MTS Vape Wizard helps blend everything together as well.

Another ditto from me. PA's pie crust and waffle would disappear completely until I pre-steeped them. Some fruits are also very strong and I would advise premixing these (diluting in base) and adding drop by drop until you find the right balance

[Jen]

Apr 23, 2013 0:00:31 GMT @simate said:

Rhubarb shortcake sounds

On second thoughts, there is certainly a creamy element to it, but it's serving to just tone down the rhubarb. On the second go at this one, I would definitely add some more graham cracker or even pie crust to up the pastry element, maybe reduce the rhubarb to 6 or 7% and see if that works. Also, the Bavarian creme doesn't really cut it, might go with some F'arts Fresh Cream or DDL instead. I'm still vaping the original though, heh!