Combating Lemon in TFA Fruit Circles

[clamchoda]

So I've mixed a lot lately with TFA Fruit Circles. What have you guys added to dull out the strong lemon in TFA Fruit Circles. I'm thinking a nice, non-citrus based cream would be beautiful here. I don't really want the taste to change at all, I just want to dull out the lemon, maybe make it a little more milky and or sweet.

 

[Heabob]

So I've mixed a lot lately with TFA Fruit Circles. What have you guys added to dull out the strong lemon in TFA Fruit Circles. I'm thinking a nice, non-citrus based cream would be beautiful here. I don't really want the taste to change at all, I just want to dull out the lemon, maybe make it a little more milky and or sweet.

Have you been just using Fruit Circles alone?

I've seen some recipes using a bit of TFA Berry Crunch.
TFA Dairy Milk 2% for some sweet & creamy.
TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 4% (it's a bit sweeter than CAP VBIC but it would work too).
0.5% FA Coconut + 0.5% FA Marshmallow wouldn't hurt either.
But you may need to adjust the Fruit Circles accordingly.
I'd guess around 5% to start though as higher amounts seem to be more lemony IMO.

 

[Squonk]

Try a tad of FA Mandarin.

 

[lirruping]

Squonk's Mandarin idea sounds like it might help.

I can't remember where I picked this up, but I read somewhere about using 2% fa Orange + 1 cap Tangerine + 0.5 fa Bergamot + 2.5 fa Lemon, to approximate fruit circles ("froot loops") flavor.

I've never owned either tfa fruit circles OR cap sweet tangerine, so I use either an extra percentage of fa Orange or 0.75% fa Mandarin in this mix in its place. Either way, it tastes a lot like the real thing. (The "real thing", meaning the fro0t loops cereal flavor). This won't give you whatever grainy/corny or cereal-like component tfa fruit circles may have, but you can use something else for that if you want it, say fa cookie and/or tiny bit of acetyl pyrazine.

That probably seems like a lot of trouble, considering you already have the fruit circles flavor..
In case nobody's mentioned, lemon/lime flavors tend to fade out pretty significantly over a few weeks, so you could also try just waiting.

 

[clamchoda]

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I am going to give it some time as suggested. I'm on day 3, still very lemony... but it is settling. I imagine the creams will need a lot more time to beat down the high citrus notes in fruit circles. If not, we'll be making our own. Thank you all