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Caramelized Pineapple Upside Down Cake

This isn’t your usual canned pineapple and Maraschino cherry upside down cake. Fresh caramelized pineapple and vanilla infused caramel glaze soak into the inverted moist buttermilk cake with an elusive hint of tropical coconut flavor making this cake something that won’t be forgotten easily. The elusive coconut flavor comes from double hit of coconut oil and coconut flour, both of which imparting coconut flavor without any stringy coconut bits. If you don’t have access to either, just substitute melted butter for the coconut oil and all purpose flour for the coconut flour. You won’t get the coconut flavor, but you’ll still get a wonderfully moist rich cake.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Caramelized Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1075Calories
23 gProtein
45 gFat
145 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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.

By eatthelove. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Pineapple + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, flour, coconut):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

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