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Honey Cake I

"This is an old German recipe. The cake improves with aging, so bake several days ahead."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and clove work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 471 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

2 - 8 inch square cake

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Honey + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,711 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Egg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + coffeetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Clove + coffeetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together556 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-isoeugenol (clove, spicy).

Egg and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, honey, flour, clove, coffee):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, honey, flour, clove, coffee. 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).