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Peanutty Pineapple Carrot Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

"This delicious carrot cake with pineapple, coconut and walnuts is topped with a peanutty cream cheese frosting and a pretty peanut butter design."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Peanutty Pineapple Carrot Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Why it works: Cinnamon and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 981 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Peanutty Pineapple Carrot Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

1 13x9-inch cake
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1532Calories
41 gProtein
82 gFat
167 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Toppingnot 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.

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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. Cinnamon + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + carrottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cinnamon, peanut, butter, sugar, egg, milk):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

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