Here is the recipe I submitted for the second round of the competition. Went with my vanilla custard recipe as I've been trying to perfect it since I've been mixing and felt it was pretty close to where I wanted it, and didn't have any other recipes near as close to finished as this one. I had to cut out a couple flavours in order to meet the 8 flavour maximum, but was able to do it in a way that, imo worked out very well as it turned out being my favourite revision yet. Once it has been perfected to my standards, I'll be posting that up as well.
Flavour Notes: Was trying to make a really thick and complex vanilla custard, based off my favourite custard juice here in Canada which is extremely popular. It was the reason I got into DIY. So I opened FW Butter Pecan, and instantly I felt like it was one of the missing main ingredients/profiles, but is worked in in a way that you can barely tell there is pecan in it. The vanillin was used mainly to thicken up the mouthfeel when I was cutting down on the amount of flavours I was using, felt it worked out well. The Graham Cracker/Sugar Cookie/Vanilla Cupcake/Yellow Cake combo gives the custard a thicker, slightly creamier, more complex base. Kind of agreed with the InTheMix hosts on the Brown Sugar, think I may try replacing it with a butterscotch because, after watching that and then tasting the store-bought custard I am obsessed with, I feel like the brown sugar taste I was getting was from a butterscotchy profile in the juice but didn't realize until now.
Let me know what you think if you mix this up, thanks!