FA Nonna's Cake-need help and recipes

[ChelsB]

Last week I mixed up the following recipe and it is no good. I'm wondering what I did wrong and if you have any successful recipes using this flavor?
FA Nonna's Cake 4%
INA Lemon Cake Concentrate 2%
INA Biscuit Concentrate 2.4%


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[mjag]

Right off the bat I would say too much lemon cake and biscuit, those are both real strong flavors. Cut for those down to about 0.50% each

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Edit: I haven't used Nonna cake for awhile but what I remember is it was good at about 3%

 

[EarnestAccord]

Last week I mixed up the following recipe and it is no good. I'm wondering what I did wrong and if you have any successful recipes using this flavor?
FA Nonna's Cake 4%
INA Lemon Cake Concentrate 2%
INA Biscuit Concentrate 2.4%


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Too much everything... Nonna's Cake definately goes awry above 2%. I never use it above 1%. To strike a middle ground here and to take into account different gear I'd start w/ NC @ 1.5%. maintain your layering ratios and drop everything by 62.5% or mutliple your values by (0.375).

FA Nonna's Cake 1.5%
INA Lemon Cake Concentrate .75%
INA Biscuit Concentrate .9%

Hope this helps

 

[ChelsB]

Too much everything... Nonna's Cake definately goes awry above 2%. I never use it above 1%. To strike a middle ground here and to take into account different gear I'd start w/ NC @ 1.5%. maintain your layering ratios and drop everything by 62.5% or mutliple your values by (0.375).

FA Nonna's Cake 1.5%
INA Lemon Cake Concentrate .75%
INA Biscuit Concentrate .9%

Hope this helps

Yes, that is very helpful, thanks![emoji4]


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[BlueMoods]

I'm not familiar with that lemon cake but, if it has a strong cake flavor with the lemon, you might need to lower the Nonna's cake even more.

 

[JCinFLA]

Another ECF member has what according to her...is a really good recipe she found online using FA Nonna's Cake. I know she's long ago asleep by now, but I'll see if I can get her to post it tomorrow for you.

 

[CagedSpam]

anyone else get anise/licorice flavor from Nonna? Did a 2% solo mix, this stuff is pretty interesting.

Was thinking it might good with pineapple?

 

[ChelsB]

anyone else get anise/licorice flavor from Nonna? Did a 2% solo mix, this stuff is pretty interesting.

Was thinking it might good with pineapple?

Using it with pineapple definitely sounds interesting! I didn't get the licorice but I've read that others have. Also, the mix I made was so bad I couldn't taste anything but old biscuit-y cake with a smidge of lemon


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[IDJoel]

Yes, that is very helpful, thanks![emoji4]

I don't recall if you keep unflavored base on hand (PG+VG+nic premixed to your preferred percentages). IF you do, AND you want to try @EarnestAccord 's suggestion to mix at much lower levels, AND you haven't dumped your first trial (I know; that's a lot of ifs and ands), you can try the following without having to use any further flavor concentrates:

Take a small amount (until you know how it will work for you) of your first recipe, say 0.5-1.0mL, and then mix it with twice the amount of your unflavored base. So if you start with 0.5mL first recipe; add to that 1.0mL of unflavored base. If you start with 1.0mL first effort; add to that 2.0mL of unflavored base. This ratio (1:2) will give you a 66.67% dilution. Not exactly what EarnestAccord suggested (62.5%) but it ought to be close enough to know if you are in the ballpark. I am guessing Earnest was trying to get you close to easily measurable amounts.

It the 1:2 ratio is too weak, then repeat the process with another 0.5-1.0mL batch, but this time do equal amounts. So, If you use 1mL of your initial recipe, add 1mL of unflavored base. This ratio (1:1) will give you a 50% dilution.

This is just a quick simple way to see if diluting will help with mixes you already have on hand. Do remember to keep the increments small; or you will have a lot of test juice in no time at all.

 

[ChelsB]

I don't recall if you keep unflavored base on hand (PG+VG+nic premixed to your preferred percentages). IF you do, AND you want to try @EarnestAccord 's suggestion to mix at much lower levels, AND you haven't dumped your first trial (I know; that's a lot of ifs and ands), you can try the following without having to use any further flavor concentrates:

Take a small amount (until you know how it will work for you) of your first recipe, say 0.5-1.0mL, and then mix it with twice the amount of your unflavored base. So if you start with 0.5mL first recipe; add to that 1.0mL of unflavored base. If you start with 1.0mL first effort; add to that 2.0mL of unflavored base. This ratio (1:2) will give you a 66.67% dilution. Not exactly what EarnestAccord suggested (62.5%) but it ought to be close enough to know if you are in the ballpark. I am guessing Earnest was trying to get you close to easily measurable amounts.

It the 1:2 ratio is too weak, then repeat the process with another 0.5-1.0mL batch, but this time do equal amounts. So, If you use 1mL of your initial recipe, add 1mL of unflavored base. This ratio (1:1) will give you a 50% dilution.

This is just a quick simple way to see if diluting will help with mixes you already have on hand. Do remember to keep the increments small; or you will have a lot of test juice in no time at all.

I haven't tossed it yet! I don't keep unflavored around so I'll mix some up


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[IDJoel]

I haven't tossed it yet! I don't keep unflavored around so I'll mix some up

If you have to mix the unflavored it may be just as easy to mix per @EarnestAccord's directions. I was only trying to make it easier for you and maybe re-purpose your original mix. Totally up to you.

 

[BrotherBob]

Last week I mixed up the following recipe and it is no good. I'm wondering what I did wrong and if you have any successful recipes using this flavor?
FA Nonna's Cake 4%
INA Lemon Cake Concentrate 2%
INA Biscuit Concentrate 2.4%
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Could look at:
Weekly Recipe: Strawberry Short Cake Showdown!

 

[EarnestAccord]

I am guessing Earnest was trying to get you close to easily measurable amounts.

I was actually just using my suggested Nonna's Cake's reduction, as she's been accutely problematic in my mixing, devided by its' initial value to get a percentage (1.5%/4%)=37%. I then applied that same reduction across the board by Flavor x .37 = new reduced value.

Edit:
Mistake in computation.

 

[IDJoel]

I was actually just using my suggested Nonna's Cake's reduction, as she's been accutely problematic in my mixing, devided by its' initial value to get a percentage (1.5%/4%)=37%. I then applied that same reduction across the board by using (1-.37)=.63 which allows me to easily shrink each flavor percentage to 63% of it's original strength.

Makes sense; thanks for the clarification.

 

[JCinFLA]

@VapeLuvr - This isn't the recipe I mentioned above, that my friend likes (she can't find it by the way). But I found this one that you might want to try with your Nonna's Cake:

FA Nonna's Cake - 3%
FA Tiramisu - 1%
FA Jamaican Rum - 1%

Comments on it - As soon as it's mixed, you taste a smooth sweet tiramisu, with a vanilla boost. Takes a few days for the cake flavor to be apparent. It's rich, and has lots of creaminess for coffee lovers. You don't need sweeteners.