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Black Forest Cupcakes Recipe

Luxurious cupcakes from Will Torrent

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry brandy and vanilla share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

8 people
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

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. Cherry brandy + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cocoa powder + chocolatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Cherry + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,018 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, egg, milk, flour, cocoa powder, chocolate):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, milk, flour, cocoa powder, chocolate. 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).