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Pumpkin Roll with Toffee Cream Filling and Caramel Sauce

"This a decadent a beautiful dessert to present at the end of a grand dinner. It's perfect for the holidays and not as difficult as it looks!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Pumpkin and cream work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 686 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Pumpkin + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together686 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + allspicetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,620 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Cinnamon + pumpkintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, cinnamon, ginger, egg, sugar, pumpkin, rum):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Allspicethe original
  4. Cloveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cinnamon, ginger, egg, sugar, pumpkin, rum. 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).