Hello all! Yesterday I checked out a supply shop here in Houston and stumbled across a rack fo the Lorann flavorings. Reading through them filled my head with ideas. Here are what I am wondering:

1) How have you incorporated them? Batter? Icing? Filling? Other?
2) How many drops in 3 cups of icing? in 4 cups of batter?
3) What are some of your favorite flavor/cake/icing combinations?

I can't wait to hear!

Cheers!

PS-I passed a 20 bus convoy heading to the Astrodome yesterday. Very sobering sight. I drive by it on the way to work and saw this morning that they had opened the adjacent convention center and turned it into what appeared to be a medical type facility. I heard the Astrodome is already full.

Hi, I am going out today to buy more lorann oils. I bought the watermelon flavor for my 5yr old. Whenever I make pink frosting, then I add a couple of drops of the watermelon flavoring. It's great! I just slowly added drops until I achieved a good flavor. 2 drops to one cup??? I also tried the watermelon flavor on pink mmf. It was a big hit. Everyone agreed that the mmf tasted like pink taffy. Nothing you would want to eat a lot of, but perfect for mmf cutouts or buttercream decorations.

They oils are cheap. I intend to try a few more flavors that dd would like.

hth

I LOVE LOVE LOVE their bavarian cream oil. I add it to every batch of buttercream that I make, even chocolate.

I too would like to try other flavors, but I am so stuck on that one. I will just need to force myself to try something else! I am sure anything I try will be great.

Good info. Thanks! One more thing...how many drops of Creme Bouquet do you add to, let's say, 3 cups of icing? Thanks!

here is a link for you. Try the cheesecake. I bought a big bottle off ebay at a good price and the shipping was cheap

http://www.cakedecorators.com/lorann.html

I tried these for the first time last week. I used the Cheesecake flavor in the fondant for a wedding cake. I don't think I used enough, though, because the flavor was undetectable. Next time I'll use more!

I love the variety of flavors. And the price is great! I'm going to have fun experimenting with these in the future.

How much did you use and how much do you plan to use next time?

Hello,

the link I posted yesterday with the list of flavors say 10 eyedroppers drops per pound of everything.

any other questions just ask.

I have been wanting to try these as well! I plan on ordering this week to use on a cake coming up.

That bavarian cream sounds delish!!

Have any of you mixed flavors at all? Or is that over doing in with these?

I have yet to try them in my icing, but I do use them to flavor all my candy wafer treats. When I do my dz. rose lolipop bouquets each color has a different flavor. Its a great hit.

I didn't use nearly enough in my fondant. I only put about 5 or 6 drops in 2 lbs. of fondant.
Thanks for the info everybody!

I recently bought quite a few: Banana Cream, Champagne, Cheesecake, Amaretto, Keoke(coffe) and Strawberry. I will get Bavarian next time.

So far, I've tried the banana cream in a banana cake which was pretty tasty. I have added a little bit of cheesecake in a vanilla cake/icing.

As far as Creme Bouquet, I add about 4-6 drops per 3 cups of icing.

Perfecto. Thanks!

...but how much of a pound is 3 cups of icing?

Follow up questions...

1) How many cups in a pound of icing?

2) When using Lorann oils, do you also use vanilla or any other flavoring?

Thanks!

2) I don't add any other flavoring when using the lorann oil. It is a very strong flavoring.

hth

I've used bavarian creme in a pound cake. It was wonderful! I used 15 drops. I was lazy & used 2 Duncan Hines Pound cakes instead of homemade. I also used cherry in choc BCI. I used way too much in that one! My family said it took their breath away My son loves anything cherry & he liked it so I was happy! I made 2 batches on chocBCI & added 15 drops. Way too much. I've got champagne but haven't used it yet. Everyone I've talked to about Loran's oil said champagne is the best.

Just drop a little of the oil in your batter or icing. Mix & then taste. That's all I suggest to do. That's what I do. Everyone's tastebuds are different. I also added the normal amount of vanilla flavoring for my icing then added the oil.

Where do you find Lorann flavorings? in addition to the internet.

Your local cake supply store should stock them..not Michaels or JoAnns though! Local for me is about a 60 mile drive! LOL!

I just purchased 6 different oils in the small (1 dram) bottles and all 3 of the bakery flavorings in 4 oz. bottles:Creme Bouquet, Island Spice, Princess Cake & Cookie.

I found the best prices on the Lorann Oils website: lorannoils.com . The drams were 1.19 ea. and the 4oz bakery flavors were $3.00 ea. I can find limited small ones here at some shops for $1.69 ea. but I can't find the bakery flavors at all. Also, on the website, many of the oils come in larger bottles (and are much cheaper by the oz.), so if I find out that I have a clear preference I can order those. Shipping was very reasonable and they arrived here in no time. Right now, they have free shipping on orders of $60+.

I'm looking forward to experimenting!

Happy Baking!
Rae
BlakesCakes

I get the oils at my friends cake supply store. I think there under a $1 there.

I've been wanting to try these oils too. The party store where I get some of my supplies must have 40-60 different flavors of it. Everything imaginable. Now I'll have to give them a try.

KimAZ

I purchased several flavors recently. I've only tried one so far--cheesecake. I used it in MMF. I didn't really like the flavor--it was too artificial. Maybe I'd like it better in another type of icing.

tcturtleshell,
I have tried the champagne and it tasted like bananas to me. But I don't drink champagne, so I wouldn't know what it was supposed to taste like. LOL

Holly PJ, I didn't like the cheesecake either.

Maybe I just used too much. Are some of them stronger than others? Cause sometimes, I don't add much and it is too strong....then other times, I add more..and it isn't enough. Geesh! However, I went to Lorann's website today and they have a butter icing recipe and it tells you how much you should add in regards to your icing ingredient amounts. I think for a 4 cup sugar batch you add 4 drops.

I like the peanut butter flavor the best of all of them!!!! It is really subtle, and no one has been able to tell it is peanut butter. But I like it cause it is different.

One of my teachers told me that adding vanilla in conjunction with another flavor will kind of even out the flavors. Vanilla is a balancing flavor.

I usually use butter, vanilla and other flavor of choice combination in my icing.

Leslie