Not sweet enough!!

[gilmourlaura]

hey for the past few months I've tried making the perfect strawberry and cream, I've tried a lot of people's recipes, I've bought a lot of juices but none have been my ideal juice! To me it's a strong fresh ripe strawberry and then a smooth cream on the exhale... At the moment I've made a recipe which I really like but to me it's just not sweet enough. It's 3mg, 70/30 mix and using 14% flavourings ... How much sweetner would be the most suited amount to use? Or any advice on making it sweeter without making it taste like candy would be great! Thanks

 

[Gravelthroat]

I use marshmallow to sweeten my juice, bout 1% maybe 2%

 

[Mr Numpty]

Have you used any sweetener in the mix already? What sweeteners do you have? I use Ethyl Maltol and/or stevia which are both very potent. I'll typically add 1 or 2 drops per 10ml, depending on the juice. Might be good to start with that, you can always add more if it still isn't sweet enough.

 

[davrog]

hey for the past few months I've tried making the perfect strawberry and cream, I've tried a lot of people's recipes, I've bought a lot of juices but none have been my ideal juice! To me it's a strong fresh ripe strawberry and then a smooth cream on the exhale... At the moment I've made a recipe which I really like but to me it's just not sweet enough. It's 3mg, 70/30 mix and using 14% flavourings ... How much sweetner would be the most suited amount to use? Or any advice on making it sweeter without making it taste like candy would be great! Thanks

Yes, Strawberry & Cream is a one that a lot of mixers claim to be an easy mix to do when your new to DIY, but I've found it hard to get a good one, and also found my finished results really lacking in sweetness, compared to what I was aiming for. Using The Perfumer's Apprentice Ripe Strawberry helps a little as it's sweeter than Capella's strawberry concentrates. I ended up mixing about 3% sucralose in, to get the sweetness up. The end result was quite nice but my Strawberry & Cream had definitely turned into a Strawberry Milkshake!

 

[gilmourlaura]

In the mix there's a few strawberry and a few cream concentrates with 2% Marshmellow ... I've got a bottle of FW sweetner and a bottle of ethyl Maltol sitting in the draw... I've added 2 drops of sweetner into a small 10 batch I've made fingers crossed in a weeks time when I taste it, it's sweet but the flavours haven't changed at all

 

[Ment]

Get some Strawberry Jam concentrate from Cupcake World and add it to your mix.

I've got 4 strawberries which I mix together, and also a cream base with around 10 ingredients. It seems the more concentrates you mix together, the better the overall flavour.