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Okay, one with Nonna's Cake, since 3 people who already have it twisted my arm!
This is my all-FA, no-diketone answer to all other brands' vanilla cake flavors.
New today at HIC's Mixes : Frosted Vanilla Cupcake
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"Classic vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting. All flavorings used are diketone-free, and this sweet vanilla cake will not clog your coils. A 2-3 day steep time is recommended. Includes a variation for Buttermint Cupcakes. This recipe uses only FlavourArt flavorings, including their new Nonna's Cake flavor - currently sold only through FA in Italy and the UK, estimated to arrive to American vendors later in March."
Purchased the recipe last night and just mixed up 60mL........I hope it's good (somehow I don't think I have to "hope")......lol I'll try it out on Saturday. I purposely left it in the shop so I wouldn't touch it. ;-)
Anyone looking to justify a $6 (or so) shipping charge on a fast-shipped bottle of Nonna's Cake: http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/product-p/fl-non-15.htm (currently shows 10 remaining) I'll be an enabler.
They have these great little (3ml and 6ml) bottles: http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/product-p/ldp-drp.htm. I have a huge supply of those from them, best price I've found for reasonable quantities. Those droppers make 33 drops per ml and they don't leak, so if you hate FA's new dropper bottles as much as I do (sorry FA, LOL) you can transfer some to those. I also use them for dilutions of super-strong flavorings.
Anyway, you can throw a bunch of those in to help justify spending the shipping money. That's what I did, since I'm running low on Nonna's myself.
They have these great little (3ml and 6ml) bottles: http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/product-p/ldp-drp.htm. I have a huge supply of those from them, best price I've found for reasonable quantities. Those droppers make 33 drops per ml and they don't leak, so if you hate FA's new dropper bottles as much as I do (sorry FA, LOL) you can transfer some to those. I also use them for dilutions of super-strong flavorings.
Anyway, you can throw a bunch of those in to help justify spending the shipping money. That's what I did, since I'm running low on Nonna's myself.
Make that 9 in stock. Nice looking out HIC
I had it in my cart. Twice. Ended up cheaping out. I have no doubt it's a good flavor, but I can't pay $10 for a bottle of flavoring. I'm cheap.
I ordered 3 other flavors I was short on and some pipets to make it worth it.
All this talk sucks me right in to wanting it strait away ....
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Thanks for the heads up!
Make that 6 in stock.
Now off to Gum Road for the Frosted Vanilla Cupcake recipe! Yay!!!
Make that 6 in stock.
Now off to Gum Road for the Frosted Vanilla Cupcake recipe! Yay!!!
All about cardamom, from an article I wrote a while back...
Do you like sweet spice flavors in your vapes? Perhaps you enjoy cinnamon, but you’re in the mood for something less conventional. Cardamom is one of the best-kept secrets of vape flavors.
Cardamom (cardamon is an alternate spelling) is a sweet spice common in Asian, Indian, and Scandinavian foods. Americans are most likely to encounter it in Indian chai, Dutch windmill cookies, or sweet Scandinavian breads. You’ll rarely find a vendor liquid that includes cardamom -- even their chai flavors usually omit this key spice! DIY vapers, put FlavourArt Cardamom on your shopping list and read on...
FA Cardamom bridges the gap between “warm” and “cool” spices. It includes warm, ginger-like notes, but with less heat and more sweetness than ginger flavorings. Cardamom also includes balsam-like “cool” notes that are harder to describe. If you can, imagine the camphor-like, resinous note that rosemary, lavender, eucalyptus, and FA White Peach all have in common. That is my best description of the “cool” notes in FA Cardamom. The flavor is sweet from inhale through exhale. Begin by adding just 0.25% FA Cardamom for exotic sweetness in a recipe. You might work up to 0.5% for definite cardamom flavor. You’ll rarely need 1% or more.
For a guaranteed tasty first encounter, try adding 0.25% FA Cardamom to a favorite vape recipe that features tea, citrus (especially orange), or apple flavor. If you have a cinnamon-bakery recipe you enjoy, add up to 0.5% FA Cardamom for an authentic Scandinavian flair and extra sweetness.
Cardamom also pairs well with almond and other nut flavors, peach and other stone fruit flavors, coconut, berries, creamy vanilla, and other spices. You can get even more adventurous. Gourmet chefs infuse chocolate desserts with sweet cardamom. In some Middle Eastern and Scandinavian countries, coffee is brewed with cardamom.
Cardamom trivia: The Vikings brought cardamom from Constantinople to Scandinavia.
Master DIY tip: Cardamom sweetens the end of an exhale, so it’s especially useful when you want other trailing flavors - like coconut! - to taste sweet. (I don't know why VU keeps making a link for the first couple words of this paragraph, but I can't make it stop! weird...)
Do you like sweet spice flavors in your vapes? Perhaps you enjoy cinnamon, but you’re in the mood for something less conventional. Cardamom is one of the best-kept secrets of vape flavors.
Cardamom (cardamon is an alternate spelling) is a sweet spice common in Asian, Indian, and Scandinavian foods. Americans are most likely to encounter it in Indian chai, Dutch windmill cookies, or sweet Scandinavian breads. You’ll rarely find a vendor liquid that includes cardamom -- even their chai flavors usually omit this key spice! DIY vapers, put FlavourArt Cardamom on your shopping list and read on...
FA Cardamom bridges the gap between “warm” and “cool” spices. It includes warm, ginger-like notes, but with less heat and more sweetness than ginger flavorings. Cardamom also includes balsam-like “cool” notes that are harder to describe. If you can, imagine the camphor-like, resinous note that rosemary, lavender, eucalyptus, and FA White Peach all have in common. That is my best description of the “cool” notes in FA Cardamom. The flavor is sweet from inhale through exhale. Begin by adding just 0.25% FA Cardamom for exotic sweetness in a recipe. You might work up to 0.5% for definite cardamom flavor. You’ll rarely need 1% or more.
For a guaranteed tasty first encounter, try adding 0.25% FA Cardamom to a favorite vape recipe that features tea, citrus (especially orange), or apple flavor. If you have a cinnamon-bakery recipe you enjoy, add up to 0.5% FA Cardamom for an authentic Scandinavian flair and extra sweetness.
Cardamom also pairs well with almond and other nut flavors, peach and other stone fruit flavors, coconut, berries, creamy vanilla, and other spices. You can get even more adventurous. Gourmet chefs infuse chocolate desserts with sweet cardamom. In some Middle Eastern and Scandinavian countries, coffee is brewed with cardamom.
Cardamom trivia: The Vikings brought cardamom from Constantinople to Scandinavia.
Master DIY tip: Cardamom sweetens the end of an exhale, so it’s especially useful when you want other trailing flavors - like coconut! - to taste sweet. (I don't know why VU keeps making a link for the first couple words of this paragraph, but I can't make it stop! weird...)
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You know those fancy bundt cakes with all the nooks and crannies? I'm one of those people who steals the buttery-baked, crusty edges when nobody is looking. Nonna's Cake does an impressive job with that kind of cake flavor.
New today at HIC's Mixes : Orange-Cardamom Bundt
"Rich bundt cake vape featuring a favorite Scandinavian flavor pairing, orange with sweet cardamom. This recipe captures all the details in vape form - from the buttery, caramelized crust to the tender interior of a homemade bundt cake - thanks to a new FlavourArt flavor. This recipe uses only diketone-free FlavourArt flavorings, including their new Nonna's Cake flavor - currently sold only through FA in Italy and the UK, estimated to arrive to American vendors later in March."
(didja know November 15 is National Bundt Day? lol)
Nonna's Cake does an impressive job with that kind of cake flavor.New today at HIC's Mixes : Orange-Cardamom Bundt
"Rich bundt cake vape featuring a favorite Scandinavian flavor pairing, orange with sweet cardamom. This recipe captures all the details in vape form - from the buttery, caramelized crust to the tender interior of a homemade bundt cake - thanks to a new FlavourArt flavor. This recipe uses only diketone-free FlavourArt flavorings, including their new Nonna's Cake flavor - currently sold only through FA in Italy and the UK, estimated to arrive to American vendors later in March."
(didja know November 15 is National Bundt Day? lol)
Nonna Cake, ok so mixed some up as a stand alone to see what it taste like. cant remember the % but prob 3 or 4. prob a bit on the high side but i do mix max VG. to me it had a weird anise or licorice after taste, didn't like it. tried it after 4 days and that after taste was still there. i thought mehh this stuff is so so, not that keen. Well another 4 days has gone by and that after taste is gone and it taste like an incredible vanilla cake!! like OMG this stuff is sick as tits!!! damm cant stop vaping it!! its deff a long steeper, a week I'd reckon at least. Vanilla cupcake from TPA had a weird chemical plastic taste to me until it steeped for a week then becomes OK, but this..THIS once steeped leaves it for dead. There sure is a shit load of potential in this flavor, gonna order a 100ml of it for sure!!!
Your avatar and description together crack me up!
I've also found some steep time brings out the cake-iness, but a couple days is all I've needed. I rarely mix over 20ml batches (but I'm using that size for a lot of Nonna's-based recipes lately, because I can't stop vaping them). Do you mix in larger batches?
Oh boy. Another recipe to add to my HICs cart! Come on BCV! We're waiting patiently over here for some Nonnas!
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Hey HIC, can you comment on another members observation of Nonna having flavor fade to coconut after a week or so. I'd be sad if you thought this was true also
The only time I taste anything like coconut is when it's freshly-mixed, standalone, 3% or higher. It's more subtle than the coconut in TFA Cheesecake Graham, but it can be used to your advantage the same way. Likewise you can easily eliminate it. Many will not taste that note at all (many can't in that TFA flavor, probably the same people) and will instead get "fluffier", less custard-y flavor as a standalone mix ages...more like cake than custard.
In recipes, depending on other ingredients, you can bring out a cheesecake-like or custard-like or vanilla-creamy or buttery or cake-like flavor in Nonna's Cake. If a mix with Nonna's is cake-like right after mixing, it changes very little over time (at least a couple weeks). If it's any of those others right after mixing, it wants to morph a little into a baked-cakey flavor in the presence of a few other FA flavors, or morph into vanilla-creamy with others. But you can control it with other FA flavors, very cool!
I've made well over 100 mixes with Nonna's by now. It's going to be complicated to describe all the different tricks and flavor effects this one can add to recipes -- it's a much more complex flavor than FA's other vanillas, creams, etc. The many cool tricks I've found are the tip of the iceberg, I think. I'm not exaggerating when I say this: IMO it's the single most useful and versatile FA flavor for the widest variety of recipes. This flavoring will keep me busy for a very long time!
My notes on mixing with Nonna's are ridiculously long. I hope to be able to condense them into good rules-of-thumb, then I'll add that to my "notes on FA flavorings" documents. It will take more time and lots more mixing before I can do that. This flavoring rocks!
Hi Stephanie! Which of Hic's recipes did you mix Tiramisu with? And how do you like it? Thanks!
I used one HIC posted. Here is the link: http://vapingunderground.com/index.php?threads/199816/
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Don't know how I missed that, uhm, strange... Thanks for providing the link!
Did you try it yet? What are your thoughts?
It's been my morning vape (at home and then on my commute to work) since making it. I actually have to make more! Love it!
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Thanks! Enjoy!
OH HELL YEAH!! That's one of the things I love about the CGC. If Nonna's enhances it... ohwow!
I agree! Try your favorite recipe that uses that TFA flavor with half Nonna's, half TFA. I haven't DISliked the results for any I've tried.
Don't be sorry....those damn things suck.
New today at HIC's Mixes : Strawberry Crown Cake
"This tastes similar to strawberry cheesecake made with ricotta. It is inspired by a German "Frankfurter Kranz" cake made with layers of strawberry jam, dense sponge cake, vanilla-pudding-based buttercream, and almond pralines. This recipe uses only diketone-free FlavourArt flavorings, including Marzipan, Jamaican Rum, and their new Nonna's Cake flavor."
Nonna's Cake is currently out of stock here http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/product-p/fl-non-15.htm
Someone else mentioned it's now offered here: http://www.diyvaporsupply.com/nonna-cake-fa/
FA of course has it at both the Italy and UK websites.
And I know our favorite US vendors have lots on the way.
hey, that diyvaporsupply site also has FA Cucumber. That's not always easy to find.
"This tastes similar to strawberry cheesecake made with ricotta. It is inspired by a German "Frankfurter Kranz" cake made with layers of strawberry jam, dense sponge cake, vanilla-pudding-based buttercream, and almond pralines. This recipe uses only diketone-free FlavourArt flavorings, including Marzipan, Jamaican Rum, and their new Nonna's Cake flavor."
Nonna's Cake is currently out of stock here http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/product-p/fl-non-15.htm
Someone else mentioned it's now offered here: http://www.diyvaporsupply.com/nonna-cake-fa/
FA of course has it at both the Italy and UK websites.
And I know our favorite US vendors have lots on the way.
hey, that diyvaporsupply site also has FA Cucumber. That's not always easy to find.
This sounds absolutely delicious
Off to Gumroad! Thanks HIC! Sounds scrumptious!
I wouldn't use brown sugar in this one. Almond would be less sweet than Marzipan, making strawberry a little less jammy.
Torrone has the sweetness and the almond, but also citrus. I'd pick it over Almond, just my personal preference.
100mL of Strawberry Crown Cake is now steeping and 20mL of Orange-Cardamom Bundt!!! I'll be set for quite awhile.......that is until HIC lists another awesome recipe that I'll just "have" to try......lol
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Just made this can't wait to try it, also made up HICs Homevape cheesecake and orange creamsicle too yummyOkay, one with Nonna's Cake, since 3 people who already have it twisted my arm!
This is my all-FA, no-diketone answer to all other brands' vanilla cake flavors.
New today at HIC's Mixes : Frosted Vanilla Cupcake
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"Classic vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting. All flavorings used are diketone-free, and this sweet vanilla cake will not clog your coils. A 2-3 day steep time is recommended. Includes a variation for Buttermint Cupcakes. This recipe uses only FlavourArt flavorings, including their new Nonna's Cake flavor - currently sold only through FA in Italy and the UK, estimated to arrive to American vendors later in March."
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Can anyone tell me what happens if your FA flavorings reach their expiration date? Should I throw them away? Just use more because the flavor would be muted? Suggestions?
Those expiration dates are 'best used by' dates and are probably fairly conservative. You could probably most certainly use them for 2 or 3 months longer without noticing much if any difference. Maybe even longer than that depending on how they've been stored. I don't think they can actually spoil. Or at least the vast majority of them, but someone will correct me if I'm wrong
Those expiration dates are 'best used by' dates and are probably fairly conservative. You could probably most certainly use them for 2 or 3 months longer without noticing much if any difference. Maybe even longer than that depending on how they've been stored. I don't think they can actually spoil. Or at least the vast majority of them, but someone will correct me if I'm wrong
I just noticed yesterday that several expired June 2015.......They have all been in a dark filing cabinet in a finished basement and all smell good but I'm not sure of the potency.......Or if I should just bite the bullet and begin buying new.
I'm not sure of how the potency will hold up on them being that over expired. Probably somebody like @Teresa P could better answer since she's like a flavor expert or whatever
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I certainly wouldn't consider myself an expert, just a hoarder....lol! But in my experience, I've found flavors to be like some foods. Some will keep longer than others and a lot of that depends on storage and handling, and that not just on your end. I have flavorings that are over a year old that still taste just as good as the day I got them. I have had others that barely lasted six months. You store and care for them the best you can, but if they start to smell or taste "off," just toss them and replace them.I'm not sure of how the potency will hold up on them being that over expired. Probably somebody like @Teresa P could better answer since she's like a flavor expert or whatever
Great question! Haven't thought of that.
Even expired flavorings won't harm you. I agree with everything @Teresa P already wrote.
The worst FA flavoring that I had go bad was Tutti Fruitty. It just tasted disgusting - no doubt that I needed a new one. There was 1 other that tasted drastically off (I can't remember which, but not one I often use). Those were both really, really old. Other than those, I've had a few (from every brand) that seemed a little faded, but nothing else that prompted me to throw it out and buy a new one.
The worst FA flavoring that I had go bad was Tutti Fruitty.
It just tasted disgusting - no doubt that I needed a new one. There was 1 other that tasted drastically off (I can't remember which, but not one I often use). Those were both really, really old. Other than those, I've had a few (from every brand) that seemed a little faded, but nothing else that prompted me to throw it out and buy a new one.
Oh yes - my tutti frutti turned very funky too!Even expired flavorings won't harm you. I agree with everything @Teresa P already wrote.
The worst FA flavoring that I had go bad was Tutti Fruitty.
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I've been so tempted to order the tutti frutti, but never have. I'm of the personal opinion that some flavors just don't last as long as others perhaps due to chemical composition. I keep a rather large bottle of Joy in my freezer and only leave 5ml at a time out to mix with because that one seems to get funky to me if it sits out for long. Maybe it's just me. But I started doing that after I made HIC's Blueberry Muffin (one of my all time faves!) with a bad bottle of Joy and it ruined the whole mix. That recipe stays in my rotation, so it's worth the slight inconvenience of keeping a flavor fresh to make it.
Theresa, your comments on Joy I find interesting. Just yesterday I moved a stand alone 30 mls into the "I don't like it category". To me it tastes like a weak tobacco with a slightly sweet background. Contrary to HICs description, nothing like cotton candy. I'll probably avoid it's use from here on. And I bought 120 ml on all the original hype.
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I had to toss most of a 30ml bottle of that flavoring. Tasted like flat, sweet beer, it was disgusting. But since the new bottle has a home in the freezer, it's much better, always fresh.
Tasted like flat, sweet beer, it was disgusting. But since the new bottle has a home in the freezer, it's much better, always fresh.
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LOL! Hey, the only reason I don't is because we have a spare fridge in my office. No food whatsoever in the freezer, just pg, vg, nicotine, and flavors. Not everyone has that luxury, but I'd love to have one of those tall lab fridges!I'll probably end up in trouble with mine
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Nonna's Cake is available now at DIY Vapor Supply in Waterford, Michigan. Service was fast too, ordered Thursday and arrived today.Great will buy tomorrow
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