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Baked Chocolate Coconut Cake Donuts

Chocolate cake in donut form! These donuts start with a chocolate cake recipe that contains no eggs. They’re dunked in glaze and rolled in sweetened coconut flakes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Baked Chocolate Coconut Cake Donuts

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 ↓

Baked Chocolate Coconut Cake Donuts

Serves 12
Prep15 min
Cook14 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1225Calories
25 gProtein
58 gFat
147 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 tastykitchen. 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. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cocoa powder + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, cocoa powder, vinegar, vanilla, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.