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Tie-Dye Fruity Cupcakes

"Yellow, green, and red-swirled cupcakes make dessert a party!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Tie-Dye Fruity Cupcakes

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Tie-Dye Fruity Cupcakes

24 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

107Calories
8 gProtein
1 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Gelatin1 envelope (7g)23
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cakenot 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. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Strawberry + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-vinylguaiacol (spicy, fruity).

  3. Lime + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together295 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lime + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Lemon + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, gelatin, strawberry, spread, vanilla):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Blackberryfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, gelatin, strawberry, spread, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.