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Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

Good lemon drizzle cake tastes heaven sent and this particular version is worth its weight in sugary, lemony gold. I love to serve it on a warm afternoon with a pot of tea and lots of friends to ooh and ah over it.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 263 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

8 people
Prep20 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1216Calories
38 gProtein
40 gFat
176 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spreadnot in our table0
Waternot 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 lovefood. 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. Sunflower + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sunflower + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Spread + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, spread, sugar, egg, flour, rice, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

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