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Maraschino Cherry Pound Cake

"A wonderful pound cake full of maraschino cherries and a creamy cherry and cream cheese icing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,222 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

1 tube cake

Ingredients

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

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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. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butternut + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

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

  5. Butter + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,456 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butternut, sugar, flour, milk, cream cheese, butter):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butternut, sugar, flour, milk, cream cheese, butter. 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).