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Marie-Claude's Orange Cake

"This cake is the one my mother is preparing like a chef! It is really simple but excellent. You cannot fail it. Good luck and degustez avec bon! (The cake will look dark orange so if you use black decoration on it, it is a perfect Halloween dessert)."

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Marie-Claude's Orange Cake

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Marie-Claude's Orange Cake

12 servings
Prep1 hr 15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

863Calories
38 gProtein
21 gFat
129 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

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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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Yogurt + orangetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together561 recipes

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

  4. Egg + yogurttop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,368 recipes

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

  5. Yogurt + flourtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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 orange

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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