1. **Caramel Butter**
I like the caramel butter quite a bit, itâs very creamy caramel. Itâs a bit âstickyâ which makes it less of a butter, but more of a caramel syrup you would drizzle over creams and pies, or as a part of something filled.
To me itâs more on the spectrum of medium colored caramels, not the light or golden ones. However itâs not âdarkâ as a lot of caramels out there and doesnât have that brown sugar or burnt aftertaste.
Itâs not thin but itâs also not fully rounded, however a bit butterscotch can fill in that gap. This flavor in my opinion does not need a second caramel for boosting.
2. **Almond Cookie**
Let me first start with saying that most cookie named flavors donât taste like cookie to me. This is not much different but itâs more towards cookie then other concentrates, that Iâve tried.
The almond note and nuances are very light here, it has a slight creaminess in the back, that could easily be mistaken as butter accents. Itâs not offending so, but hard to detect, depending on the flavors itâs paired with.
The cookie is a somewhat dry and stale shortbread.
I would say that this flavor canât stand on its own, and does need more support then the other ones.
But that can become a issue, adding too much bakery oriented flavors to it and especially anything AP based, turns this into a muddled nearly sand like texture, that is extremely dry . Adding more almond turns the included almond into artificial dry nut.
In my opinion, itâs a good accent or/and boosting flavor for other flavors or in bakery recipes, as long as almond cookie is not the main note. If thatâs what you wanted to do with it, I wouldnât recommend it, but as secondary itâs ok.
3. **Pistachio Cream**
Dry nut of some kind flavor. But if you pair it with other nuts, ice creams, tobacco, chocolate, coffee. It really stands out.
Still doesnât scream pistachio so, unless you add a second pistachio to that.
Thereâs not much actual cream, itâs more of a creamy pistachio if anything, yet unless paired as stated above its just dried out trail mix lol. You canât distinctly tell itâs pistachio and because itâs very light, itâs also harder to work with in mixes.
I would say if you plan on a light nutty flavor that can also add a bit of dryness then get it. If you wanted actual pistachio or a pistachio ice cream, then skip it.
as usual this of course is my opinion and subjective, but I hope it helps.