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Mandarin Orange Cake II

"Yellow cake with mandarin oranges in the batter. Moist and memorable. Everyone will LOVE it. Fill with a nice Italian Meringue butter cream icing or whipped cream and layer drained mandarin oranges on top of filling. Frost cake with whatever you used for the filling."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Mandarin Orange Cake II

Why it works: Mandarin orange and orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Mandarin Orange Cake II

2 - 8 inch layers
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

370Calories
9 gProtein
19 gFat
43 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cakenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mandarin orange + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  4. Mandarin orange + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Egg + orangetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, orange):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.