Name: Raspberry Slabs
Ingredients: any of the mixtures except chocolate; Invicta Raspberry Flavour; cream filling or jam; pink icing; raspberry flavouring

Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Slabs

Ingredients

Directions

Color the mixture a delicate pink.
Add Invicta Raspberry Flavour.
Bake the mixture.
Sandwich with cream filling or jam.
Coat with pink icing flavored with raspberry.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,466 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Chocolate + raspberrytop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together457 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).