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Orange Vegan Cake

"No eggs or milk on hand? This moist cake is great whether or not you're vegan."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Orange Vegan Cake

Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 92,116 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Orange Vegan Cake

1 8x8-inch pan
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

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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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Orange + flourtop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,821 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Orange and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 19,212 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