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Cocoa-Carrot Cupcakes with White Chocolate Chips

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 dozen cupcakes

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Carrot + chocolatetop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

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

  3. Sugar + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + cocoa powdertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,177 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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