Desserts Vape
Dessert e-liquids are the richest category in vaping and the one that rewards a bit of knowledge. This collection holds 235 dessert bottles covering custard, bakery, biscuit, cream, milkshake and confectionery profiles, in both 10ml nicotine salts and 100ml shortfills. Prices open at £2.19 for a 10ml bottle, with 100ml shortfills from £7.29.
Where a fruit liquid is bright and simple, a dessert is layered. There is usually a base note such as custard, pastry or cream, then a lead flavour like banana, vanilla, caramel or jam sitting on top. Those layers take longer to settle in the bottle and they behave differently on a coil, which is why format, VG ratio and steeping matter more here than anywhere else in the range.
Dessert flavour families
Custard and cream
The backbone of the category. Custard bases carry a heavy, eggy sweetness that coats the palate and lingers between draws. Banana Custard from Future Juice is a straightforward example. Cream bases are lighter and are often used to soften a fruit rather than lead on their own.
Bakery and pastry
Doughnut, waffle, pie and pudding profiles. Original Glazed Seriously Donuts from Doozy Vape and Banana Caramel Waffle from the Just Juice dessert salts line both sit here, as does Jam Roly Poly from IVG. Bakery flavours tend to be the most complex in the collection and the ones that change most with steeping.
Biscuit and shortbread
Drier and less sweet than bakery, with a buttery finish. Vanilla Shortbread from The Lancashire Creamery, Sugar Cookie from Twist and Strawberry Honey Biscuit from Twist show the range, from plain biscuit through to biscuit layered with fruit.
Milkshake and ice cream
Thick, cold tasting dessert profiles built on a dairy base. Banoffee Pie from the Kingston Silly Moo Moo Milkshakes line and Strawberry Vanilla Ice Cream from the OXVA OX Passion range are typical. These suit vapers who want dessert without the pastry element.
Coffee and tobacco desserts
Coffee Dunked Donut from Bear State Vapor is the classic combination of a coffee note against a sweet bakery base. Cream and custard blended into a tobacco base is the other established variation and tends to appeal to vapers who moved across from cigarettes and never took to fruit.
Formats and how nicotine works
10ml nicotine salts
Nicotine salt is smooth at high strength, which is why it is the standard for pod kits. Salts are blended around 50/50 PG to VG so they wick through the narrow ports of a mouth to lung coil. UK law caps nicotine e-liquid at 20mg per ml and limits any nicotine containing bottle to 10ml, so 10ml at 20mg is as strong as a legal bottle gets.
50/50 freebase
The traditional format, used by ranges such as the IVG 50/50 line. At the same strength freebase delivers a firmer throat hit than salt, which some ex smokers prefer. It also holds up better in higher wattage mouth to lung tanks.
100ml shortfills and nicotine shots
A shortfill is a nicotine free bottle with space left in it. Add two 10ml nicotine shots at 18mg to a 100ml shortfill and the finished 120ml lands at around 3mg. Most dessert shortfills are 70/30 VG to PG, which is aimed at sub ohm coils below 0.6 ohm. The thicker base is also what carries a heavy custard or cream note properly.
Steeping a dessert liquid
Dessert flavours are the one part of the range where steeping genuinely changes the result. Cream, custard and bakery notes need time to marry, particularly after a nicotine shot has been added to a shortfill.
Shake the bottle hard for thirty seconds, leave the cap off for an hour so the mix can breathe, then close it and store it upright somewhere dark at room temperature. Three days is enough for most bakery blends. A heavy custard is often better after a week or two, when the sharp edges soften and the base comes forward. Nicotine salts and 10ml freebase bottles are supplied ready to vape and need no steeping.
A liquid that has steeped will usually darken slightly. That is normal oxidation of the nicotine rather than a fault.
Desserts and coil life
This is the trade off with the category. Dessert liquids carry the heaviest sweetener load of any flavour type and sucralose caramelises onto hot wire, leaving a dark crust that dulls flavour. A coil that would give three weeks on an iced fruit may give five or six days on a thick custard.
A few habits help. Prime new coils properly by wetting the wicking ports and leaving the device to stand for five minutes before the first draw. Run a couple of watts lower than you would on a fruit, since heat is what accelerates the caramelising. Keep a dedicated pod for desserts, because they ghost heavily into whatever you vape next. Buy coils in multipacks if dessert is your all day flavour.
Matching a dessert to your device
Pod kits with coils above 1.0 ohm should be fed a 50/50 dessert nic salt at 10mg or 20mg. Thick 70/30 shortfills will not wick through those coils and will produce dry hits. Sub ohm tanks and pod mods below 0.6 ohm want the shortfill instead, at 3mg or 6mg, where the extra vapour brings out the depth of a custard or a bakery base. The 2ml capacity limit applies only to tanks or pods sold pre filled with nicotine liquid, so refillable pods are not restricted to 2ml.
Buying dessert e-liquid in the UK
All nicotine containing e-liquid must be notified to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency before sale and must meet the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations on strength, bottle size and child resistant packaging. Sales are restricted to adults aged 18 and over and every order is age checked before dispatch. UK delivery is free on orders over £20, which is two 100ml shortfills. The team is on 07827 210361 between 8.30am and 4.00pm.
Dessert e-liquid questions answered
What counts as a dessert e-liquid?
Any liquid built on a sweet food profile rather than a fruit, drink or tobacco one. That covers custard, cream, bakery, doughnut, biscuit, milkshake, ice cream and pudding blends. Many desserts also carry a fruit element on top, such as strawberry over biscuit or banana over caramel. The base note is what puts them in this category.
Do dessert e-liquids need steeping?
Shortfills benefit from it, especially after a nicotine shot goes in. Shake the bottle for thirty seconds, leave the cap off for an hour, then store it upright in the dark. Three days suits most bakery blends and a heavy custard can improve over a week or two. Nicotine salts and 10ml freebase bottles are ready to vape straight away.
Why do dessert flavours ruin coils so quickly?
They carry more sweetener than any other category and sucralose caramelises on hot wire, forming a dark crust that blocks flavour. A coil that would last three weeks on an iced fruit can be finished in under a week on a thick custard. Running slightly lower wattage and priming carefully both extend coil life.
Can I vape a dessert shortfill in a pod kit?
Only if the coil suits it. Most dessert shortfills are 70/30 VG to PG and that is too thick for a mouth to lung coil above 1.0 ohm, which will struggle to wick and give dry hits. Pod kits are better served by a 50/50 dessert nic salt. If your pod takes a 0.6 ohm or lower coil and runs at 20W or more, a shortfill will work.
What nicotine strength suits a dessert e-liquid?
Use 10mg or 20mg nicotine salt in a pod kit or any mouth to lung coil above 1.0 ohm. Use 3mg or 6mg in a sub ohm setup, which normally means a shortfill with one or two nicotine shots added. UK law caps nicotine e-liquid at 20mg per ml and nicotine bottles at 10ml, so shortfills are sold nicotine free with headroom for a shot.
Which dessert flavour should I start with?
A biscuit or cookie profile is the easiest entry point because it is drier and less coating than custard. Sugar Cookie or Vanilla Shortbread give you the character of the category without the weight. If you already know you like rich flavours, a banana custard or a banoffee milkshake is a fuller experience.
Do desserts taste the same in every device?
No. Dessert layers need vapour volume to come through, so a custard that tastes thin in a low power pod kit can taste complete in a sub ohm tank at 40W. Mesh coils also read cleaner on complex flavours than round wire. If a dessert is falling flat, the device is often the reason rather than the liquid.
Will a dessert flavour affect the next liquid I vape?
Almost certainly. Dessert bases coat the wick and the coil, so the next liquid through that pod will carry a trace of it for a day or two. If you like switching between a dessert and a fruit, the simplest answer is to keep a separate pod or coil for each and swap between them.