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someone use cakebatter? I just used it and it taste like cardboard lol.... not really good i was thinking a nice sweet cake batter but its kinda just dull in flavor. i mixed it with some vanilla cupcake and yuck. 12% cake batter is no good.

someone just posted the Cap Cakebatter was spot on (to him) at 5%… try a little lower … i know lots of Cap flavors start around 10%, but maybe all don't.
 

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Cake Batter at 5-7% with a few days to a week steep/age is pretty spot on. It's a strong flavor and using too much will result in a chemical tasting vape (I started with 12% in a 5ml test batch - poured it down the drain).

As with any flavor, start low and work your way up, even if there's a recommended starting point. What works for some or most may not work for you or someone else. Start with a 5ml test bottle, get it where you like it, then make a larger bottle and enjoy :).
 

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A few months ago, vapers in Calif. tipped me off to a favorite vendor juice: Lychee (by Bamskilicious)… i got hooked on it and another from another maker.

I tried making it with TFA Lychee and it was a bust…. over 4% and it is downright nasty imo… but at 3% with some sweetner its still a little too sharp and dry.

Cap Sweet Lychee is much closer to spot on, but needs a bit of sweet, and to smooth it out i found that TFA Sweet Cream is pretty amazing.

(sorry about not mathematically condensing… i made mixes and added)

Uke's Lychee:
Sweet Lychee (12% to 15%) --- (your choice of vg/pg)
Sweet Cream TFA 10% mix 3 to 4% of total ---
Sweetener; I used a 10% mix of TFA Cotton Candy… 2 to 3% of total.

I never really scientifically measure but the general figures are close enough; you can +/- the Sweet Cream and Sweeteners to your liking. It's my favorite ADV now.

*be careful with TFA Sweet Cream; higher % or too much and it has a cafe latte like flavor, nice but not for fruit imo.
 

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A few months ago, vapers in Calif. tipped me off to a favorite vendor juice: Lychee (by Bamskilicious)… i got hooked on it and another from another maker.

I tried making it with TFA Lychee and it was a bust…. over 4% and it is downright nasty imo… but at 3% with some sweetner its still a little too sharp and dry.

Cap Sweet Lychee is much closer to spot on, but needs a bit of sweet, and to smooth it out i found that TFA Sweet Cream is pretty amazing.

(sorry about not mathematically condensing… i made mixes and added)

Uke's Lychee:
Sweet Lychee (12% to 15%) --- (your choice of vg/pg)
Sweet Cream TFA 10% mix 3 to 4% of total ---
Sweetener; I used a 10% mix of TFA Cotton Candy… 2 to 3% of total.

I never really scientifically measure but the general figures are close enough; you can +/- the Sweet Cream and Sweeteners to your liking. It's my favorite ADV now.

*be careful with TFA Sweet Cream; higher % or too much and it has a cafe latte like flavor, nice but not for fruit imo.

Question.. what do you mean 10% mix 3 to 4% total


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Thanks uke I was trying to make a good lychee and will def try this one out!

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i just got some Lychee from Activape, which is the other store bought brand i really like… to compare - not the same but close.
I hope you try it… its as close as i could get to what i've bought…
 

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Does anyone know if Capella's Caramel contains acetoin and/or acetyl propionyl? Their website doesn't say that it does, but they don't specify that any of their flavors contain or do not contain them. I sent them a message through their website inquiring about their caramel about two to three weeks ago, no response. I have even tried calling them, but can never get through to a live person...
 

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A few of the recipes on here refer to lemon juice - is this actually fresh squeezed (presumably filtered) lemon juice or one of the bottled lemon juices? Here in the UK we commonly have JIF lemon juice (for cooking/ pancakes etc) but when I checked the list of ingredients it said E223 preservative which (I checked) is sodium metabisulfite which is a well known irritant if inhaled (I used to use a solution of sodium metabisulfite to sterilise glassware and the fumes would really "bite" my throat/ chest!). I've also found a cake flavouring (well, it was with the baking ingredients in the supermarket and says use one teaspoon per 250g of icing/ buttercream) - the ingredients are listed as "alcohol, natural flavourings" - is this what I should use do you think?
 
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