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Orange Date Frosting

"A wonderful orange icing studded with dates. Tastes great with spice cake or orange cake."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Orange Date Frosting

Why it works: Orange and dates work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Orange Date Frosting

2 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

428Calories
10 gProtein
20 gFat
58 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
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.

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. Orange + datestop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Condensed milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + datestop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together985 recipes

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

  5. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Orange and sugar 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 dates

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Datesthe original

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