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Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes

"A delicious gluten free cupcake recipe using rice and millet flour. The millet lends a bit of a cornbread taste to it. This could also be made into a 8 or 9 inch cake, or without the cocoa powder for a white cake."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,354 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

24 cupcakes
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the white rice flour, millet flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, baking powder and xanthan gum until evenly combined.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and white sugar until smooth, then whisk in the sour cream, milk and vanilla extract.

  4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until no dry streaks remain. Do not overmix.

  5. Divide the batter evenly among the 24 liners, filling each about two-thirds full.

  6. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through, until a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean.

  7. Cool the cupcakes in the tins for 5 minutes, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rice + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Flour + millettop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Rice + millettop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cocoa powder + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together825 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the millet

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour, cocoa powder, egg, sugar, cream, milk):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  3. Cocoabetter flavor fit
  4. Milletthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, cocoa powder, egg, sugar, cream, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).