I've also been
vaping my Apricot Pie mix. It is tasty.
Apricot Pie:
FA Apricot 2%
SSA Apricot 1.25%
OOO Pie Crust 2%
FA Vanilla Tahity 1%
FA Whipped Cream 1%
The FA and SSA apricots combined create a very fresh, and ripe, apricot profile. The SSA leans more ripe (sweeter) compared to the FA. Together they make for a pleasing apricot with a light sweetness and a punch of sour flavor. Overall sweetness sits just below mid-level.
Alternatively, the SSA could be brought forward for a sweeter apricot profile, as in 1.5%-1.75%, while lowering the FA to 1.25%-1.5%. You will still get some sour notes apricots naturally have (just less of it).
FA Vanilla Tahity adds a light touch of a brighter vanilla along with barely noticeable cherry and almond notes. At 1% some will notice the cherry and almond notes while others won't experience them at all. FA Whipped Cream along with the Vanilla Tahity create a nice creamy topping for the pie. It will take some effort to tell the two apart (as intended).
Bumping up the Vanilla Tahity to 1.5%-2% will serve up a more forward, and vibrant, vanilla note while also slightly turning up its cherry and almond notes.
OOO Pie Crust just rocks! I covered it in previous posts today.
To make the recipe sweeter, simply add 0.5%-0.75% FA Pear. You will not taste the pear! It is an excellent alternative to Sucralose type sweeteners. FA Pear will also add a little more to the overall creaminess. Pear would also make a nice addition, as a fruit in its own right, to the pie mix at 1.5%-2.5%.
Other flavors that will work well with an apricot pie are: apple, almond, cherry, coconut, lemon, orange, walnut. Adding one or two of those will offer a more complex tasting pie.
If you like spices, adding "a very light touch" of FA Cinnamon Ceylon will do the trick at 0.10%-0.25%. Start low, you don't want to turn an apricot pie into candy Red Hots. Please note, Cinnamon Ceylon is not a sweet flavor. It is true to the real life spice.
Adding FA Custard Premium as an accent (0.5%-0.75%) would thicken the overall creamy notes and also add a little sweetness. Obviously, it would bring its delightful custard notes!
Don't like apricots? Fine. Yank them and add your own fruit(s).
This recipe could also be used Pie à la Mode using an ice cream (such as Fran's IC Base
).
