How to Make Fruit Danish eJuice - Recipes from the Flavorthon

Bill's Magic Vapor;14399405 said:

Bill's Magic Vapor;13908058 said:

It's the combination of flavors that does the trick, and in the right proportions. This takes experimentation, trial and error. Too much flavoring is often NOT the problem. Often times it is too little flavoring, or not having the right mix. Think about it this way. Sweet cream is cream and sweet flavor. Even if you use Sweet Cream, you may still have to add Sweetener or Cotton Candy (Ethyl Maltol). You need both to get sweet cream. I start with the fruit at recommended starting percentages and then add several creams and sweeteners in two, three or four steps to get it to work. Once you have a good fruit cream, you can use any fruit. Same with custards, meringues, etc. Here's a couple of examples:

Dutch Apple Pie ala mode:

Apple 12%
French Vanilla 4%
Sweetener 4%
Pie crust 4%
Graham cracker 3%
Brown sugar 2%
Butter 1%
Cinnamon .5%

Or, perhaps a custard - Mango Custard:

Mango 11%
Cotton Candy 7%
Vanilla Custard 6%
Bavarian Cream 6%

Or a Cream/Meringue Pie:

Lemon 12%
Marshmallow 6%
Bavarian Cream 4%
Cotton Candy 5%
Graham Cracker 3%

Or, how about a Peach Danish:

Peach 8%
Vanilla Custard 4%
Brown Sugar 2%
Butter 2%
Sweetener 2%
Waffle 1%
Sweet Cream 1%

Trust me, these are all very good, and you can sweeten and flavor to your taste. It's the combination of flavors that will get you where you're headed. Single flavors almost never get you what you want, so play around with them. Regards.

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Back in August I posted the above to explain how the combination of flavorings is what is required to get juices to pop, to bring out the full potential of the flavorings, and showed several examples. I remember posting my Peach Danish Recipe at that time and wanted to revisit this as part of my Danish contributions to our Flavorthon! This Peach Danish was my third ADV recipe, and is still a family favorite....I'm vaping it now.

The juicy peach is my favorite TFA fruit flavoring and I made a Peach Cobbler ADV just before this Danish recipe. For me, close seconds for favorite fruits are lemon, cherry, banana, lime (key lime), grape, raspberry and strawberry. I also have a mango custard that I like a lot. I think when I suggested that we use fruits at 10 - 15% with the Danish bases, the fruit percentage was too high. The Peach at 8% is just right to me and falls into what I call the Goldilocks zone, not too little, not too much, but just right.

Since the base I use with the Peach is so similar to Reni Danish Stone, I made the Stone and added Peach at 8%, and it worked really well, I thought. Sure, I taste mostly filling, and a little base, but that's how danishes taste to me anyway, so I think it's a pretty good Danish, at least for my taste sensibilities. Reni uses the same ingredients and changed the percentages slightly to match her taste sensibilities, and this is what we all have to do to get the flavorings to work with our individual taste preferences. A one percent change in an ingredient or two is all it really takes for me to adjust some recipes to match my preferences.

Using my Peach Danish Recipe above, I made several danishes, all very similar to my Peach Danish, but adjusted the fruit percentages for each. For example, using the Danish base above I changed the peach for:

Strawberry (sweet) - 10% (started to lose overall flavoring at 11/12%)
Juicy Peach - 8% (Perfect for me, you may need another % or two)
Lemon - 12% (lemon is right, but I had to add 2% more sweetener to base above)
Raspberry - 8% (I liked this one a lot as well)
Banana Cream - 10% bananan cream/3% ripe banana)
Apple - 12% (One of my favorites too)

FROSTING/ICING

Had good luck with the Cream Cheese Icing (CCI), as well (LA). On the stronger fruit flavorings, I used CCI at 1-2% and it worked very well transforming fruit danishes to cream cheese danishes with fruit filling. Here's what worked for me:

Strawberry - 1%
Juicy Peach - 1%
Lemon - 1%-2%
Raspberry - 1%-2%
Banana Cream - 0% (did not work right for me)
Apple - 1%

You may need to adjust the fruits by a percentage or two to match your taste sensibilities. So, if the mix seems weak, add 1% or 2% of the fruit flavoring, and see if that does the trick. Conversely, if the fruit is too strong, back it off 1% or 2%, and check. The CCI is a very strong flavoring, and a little goes a long way. At percentages higher than 1%-2%, the CCI dominates for me, so I backed it down. Keep in mind, that these flavorings are going to strengthen over a day or two, so the mix might seem light out of the can, but they may be perfect for you after flavor bonding and a short steep (24-48 hours). All of these danishes are going to fall in the 20 - 25% flavoring range. That is my sweet spot on these. I liked the danishes both ways too, i.e., with and without the CCI.

I love lemon and the mix with the CCI was one of my favorites. That's something special. Just adjust flavoring to your taste, but it's in the ballpark with the guidelines above. There's absolutely nothing wrong with adjusting any and all of the ingredients above to suit your tastes. Also, perfectly ok to add additional flavorings....just be careful as we already have a pretty good taste explosion with the vanilla creams, the fruits, and the CCI. For me, just the right amount of separation, DIY's toughest, and, perhaps, most sought after goal. Separation is where the juice provides separate and distinct flavorings with two or more different nuances. These danishes have at least 3 nuances, and you may easily be able to taste more than three.

I tried the danishes with 2% CCI and no fruits. That was very good as well. I did provide a pecan Danish recipe earlier, so you can use nuts, fruits, etc. to make these delicious eJuices. Good luck and happy vaping!

Anyway, that's my contribution to the Danish question(s) we've been talking about for the last two weeks.

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