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Strawberry Dream Cake II

"A recipe from my coworker, Debra. A delicious cake that is better the second day."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Strawberry Dream Cake II

Why it works: Coconut and pecans work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 394 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Strawberry Dream Cake II

1 - 3 layer 9 inch cake
Prep10 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. Coconut + pecanstop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Pecans + cream cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together465 recipes

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

  5. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, milk, egg, coconut, cream cheese, butter, sugar):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, milk, egg, coconut, cream cheese, butter, sugar. 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).